...Meeting the Challenges of Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Lessons From Teacher Incentive Fund Grantees The Harvesting Project Julia E. Koppich J. Koppich & Associates Meeting the Challenges of Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Lessons From Teacher Incentive Fund Grantees As of August 2010, a total of 33 states, school districts, charter school coalitions, and other education organizations¹ had received Teacher Incentive Funds (TIF) to redesign compensation programs for teachers and principals. The U.S. Department of Education named a new cohort of TIF grantees on September 23, 2010. TIF grantees have faced a number of challenges as they have worked to design and implement new educator pay programs. Among the most demanding challenges has been developing a targeted set of metrics around available and manageable data. Grantees use these metrics to measure teacher or principal effectiveness and assign pay. Recently, grantees have made it a priority to sustain operation programs once their federal funding expires. TIF grantees have also found, often belatedly and unexpectedly, that effective stakeholder engagement and communication are challenging and essential to the success of their pay programs. Stakeholder engagement helps to create buy-in and initial acceptance of the TIF plan. It allows different voices and perspectives to be heard and recognized as new approaches to compensation develop. Communication provides the synergy to broaden buy-in and...
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...AnnCONTENTS Chairman’s Message Financial Highlights and Review Board of Directors and Executive Officers Corporate Governance Directors’ Report Statement by Directors Independent Auditor’s Report Consolidated Income Statement Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income Balance Sheets Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows Notes to the Financial Statements SGX-ST Listing Manual Requirements 2 4 6 7 12 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 62 1 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LTD AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE Dear Shareholders, Fiscal 2013 was another difficult year for Creative. We had continued to focus on the development and introduction of new products in the key product categories, and had launched a series of new exciting products that provide good potential growth opportunities. However, our financial performance continued to be adversely affected by the difficult and uncertain market conditions for our products, which impacted sales across all regions and resulted in lower revenues. Nevertheless, despite the lower level of sales, with a lower operating cost structure from the cost cutting actions in the previous years, we were able to achieve an improvement in operating results in fiscal 2013. Sales for fiscal year 2013 were US$165 million, a reduction of 14% compared to US$192 million for fiscal year 2012. Gross profit as a percentage of sales was 33% in fiscal 2013, up from 19% in fiscal 2012. Net profit for fiscal 2013 was...
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...What must accountants do to regain the trust they once enjoyed? The mistakes of the past must not be repeated. Indeed, fundamental changes are needed. The Government will certainly be an intervening factor, and its influence is now inevitable. Some would say that misleading practices contributed to the hyper growth of the stock market during the 1990's. (1) What actually happened is that the grand expectations of the stock market put great pressure on management to continuously outperform from year to year. Companies routinely presented analysts with 15% growth annually. "Making the numbers" depended on it. With such a mindset, it's no wonder that management was compelled to manipulate the numbers. There is tremendous pressure to find creative ways to inflate revenue when a salary bonus depends on making or exceeding a number. Consequently, the auditor invariably gets swept in the wave of reporting mayhem. Unequivocally, management is the first line of defense against fraud. A strong system of internal control serves to minimize fraud. However, no system of internal control, no matter how strong, will guard against fraud in the event of collusion. Indeed, when management engages in misconception and deceit, it makes the financial information repor ted that...
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...Financial Reporting and Disclosure Corporate governance framework should ensure that timely and accurate disclosure is made on all material matters regarding the corporation, including the financial situation, performance, ownership, and governance of the company Importance of Corporate Governance Disclosures * Stakeholders are paying more attention to what is reported * The global financial crisis has sharpened the lens through which corporate governance structures are held to account and expectations around transparency. * To drive improvements in reputation * Public understanding of structure and activities * Relationships with the communities * Environmental issues Public disclosure is typically required, at a minimum, on an annual basis though some countries require periodic disclosure on a semi-annual or quarterly basis, or even more frequently in the case of material developments affecting the company. Companies often make voluntary disclosure that goes beyond minimum disclosure requirements in response to market demand. A strong disclosure regime that promotes real transparency is a pivotal feature of market-based monitoring of companies and is central to shareholders’ ability to exercise their ownership rights on an informed basis. Experience in countries with large and active equity markets shows that disclosure can also be a powerful tool for influencing the behaviour of companies and for protecting investors. A strong disclosure regime...
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...junior year, I haven't written any narrative pieces, in any classes. The focus throughout my high school curriculum has been toward argumentative, analysis, and informative writings. Only in my junior year did I write my first creative writings in the form of a short story and a poem. The first creative writing I had to write a "Vomit" Draft. A vomit draft was the very first draft of a paper with little to no guidelines. "Bring two minutes to life" was the only instruction. We had to throw down 500 words without paying any real attention to punctuation or grammar. This kind of freedom associated with such creative writing was an alien concept to me. Getting used to writing without a structure that we had to follow, without a set of guidelines we had to abide by took a while. But, this kind of writing really helped me learn and improve, not just my writings, my organization and my time management skills as well. Knowing that I had to write such a demanding paper (it turned out to be fourteen pages longs), I had to improve my time management skills, which, up till junior year, hadn’t really been a challenge. Forcing myself then, to distribute time wisely has really helped me now, with the terrific pressures and burdens of college applications. This creative writing segment in my junior year helped my prepare, in a way, for these college essays. It gave me the free thinking approach I needed to hammer down my narrative essays this year. I only wish that there was more of such assignments...
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...My experience as a writer as another individual in society and being student in school writing is a part of life. Living in another state and being so far away from family I write my love ones back home because a letter can mean more than a phone call sometimes. Going to school writing is everyday thing between assignments and taken notes every time you write your writing skills get better. Certain jobs require written answer on their application in order to get hired. I’m pretty sure in the career I’m choosing ill encounter question that require writhing answer. Writing to me is a valuable ability. It plays s a major role in communication. Under certain circumstance an individual may person could be in the military away to basic training or overseas and don’t have access to electrical devices. To be honest I really don’t like writing because I had bad experience about not staying on topic or not making complete sentence. I have a hard time by you use punctuation in the right way. I don’t know how to grab people attention when I’m writing. I have a hard time staying on one topic. I love to learn more about it and have better experiences as a writer. My 10th grade year in high school, my English teacher gave us an writing assignment which was an essay before Christmas break the last day of school and to start Christmas break my teacher gave us our grad and mines was below passing. Focuses an advancing my writing in skills in which I did passed my English class for the year...
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...RUNNING HEAD: Thematic Unit Plan Grand Canyon University RDG 512 Thematic Unit Study Melinda Chemin Abstract The following thematic unit all about plants incorporates reading and writing strategies along with science standards. The unit includes text suggestions as well as projects for reading and writing to enhance student learning. Culminating projects provide opportunities for students to display their learning as well as record their thinking during reading. Thematic units provide students with fiction and non-fiction selections to read and respond to. There is also a detailed description of the reading and writing activities to be included with each text selection and whether the selection is to be used as a read-aloud, independent reading, or in a listening center. Writing projects give students practice with the writing process culminating with collaborative group projects and published pieces. Rationale This thematic unit plan demonstrates the ability to create a unit study including literacy components in content areas. This plan also reflects the teacher understanding of how students learn and must be provided opportunities to read and write in authentic ways in order to demonstrate learning. This meets the requirements for course standards through the completion of the thematic unit demonstrating the understanding of literacy standards that must be addressed in a comprehensive literacy classroom through writing, reading, as well as the understanding...
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...Creative Technology Ltd. is a global company based in Singapore. It specializes in the consumer electronics industry, and is a world leader in digital entertainment products, famous for its Sound Blaster audio cards and for starting the multimedia revolution worldwide. Creative Technology Ltd. has its headquarters located in Jurong East. Creative Technology is founded by Mr Sim Wong Hoo. Creative Technology Ltd. began as a computer repair shop in 1981. During this time, Mr Sim was successful in selling add-on memory boxes for the Apple II computer, which encouraged him to create a customized PC in the Chinese language. Creative Technology became known for its audio aspects, and when Creative came up with the first Sound Blaster card, Creative started to dominate the PC audio market. Creative Technology will go on to dominate this market throughout the 1990s and was rarely challenged, with the Sound Blasters representing 70% of revenue at one point. Growth in MP3 player sales has since helped to level the revenue field. Modifications over the years to the Sound Blaster card have also helped it to remain competitive. In 1999, Creative launched the NOMAD line of digital audio players, propelling itself as a serious competitor in the portable audio player market, a market which they were able to dominate until the entry of the Apple iPod. Creative Technology Ltd. was awarded the ZEN patent on August 9, 2005. On Sept 4, 2007, Creative Technology announced that it has voluntarily delisted...
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...Randi Dierlam 1750 W. Boston St. #1122 Chandler, AZ 85224 Ket00001@byui.edu ------------------------------------------------- 602.578.7129 Ms. Kate Reschke Remote Adjunct Faculty Brigham Young University—Idaho Dear Ms. Reschke: I am applying for the position of Editor in Chief at Spori Communications. I am currently a senior at Brigham Young University—Idaho working toward my B.A. in English with an emphasis in Literary Studies. I will be graduating in December of this year. My experience in leadership positions has prepared me to be successful in an Editor in Chief position. In my educational experience, I have taken many editing and literature classes which have prepared to be an asset to your magazine. Please consider educational qualifications: Advanced Writing Skills: Before entering my college career I also successfully passed the Advanced Placement test in English and reading which allowed me to skip English 111 and English 120 and move immediately on to more advanced writing classes. Lastly, I was accepted into the National Undergraduate Literature Conference for my original poetry where I read my work in front of hundreds of college students from around the country. In my employment background, I have experience in managing and have moved up corporate ladders at a fast pace. Please consider these career qualifications: Pool Manager/Head Lifeguard: I successfully managed a team of 10 lifeguards underneath me, writing schedules and...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix A Communication Styles Worksheet You spent the past few days exploring the resources available to students at University of Phoenix, and you want to share what you learned with a friend who is interested in enrolling. * Write a 150- to 200-word e-mail to your friend summarizing the resources available to students. * * Hey girl, waz up??? U know im enrolled in university of phoenix online now right? Girl let me tell you bout all the stuff that we can use to help us with our homework. Girl there is a library that is available to us 24/7, we can go on there and look up anything that we need to find, it is so easy to use. Then we have the center for writing excellence and what that is, it’s like a workshop to help you with your English spelling and grammar. I know that you suck at math so there is another workshop like thing to help you with math and it helps you if you have math anxiety and how to deal with it. OHH I almost forgot to mention the write point if you summit your paper it will correct all your mistakes and then you can go back later and fix it before you turn it in. But yeah this is a good school you should enroll the teachers are great well the ones that I have and all my classmates are friendly and not only that girlfriend it is super easy. LOL!!! * * * * * You asked your facilitator to review your e-mail draft. She liked what you wrote and asked you to write a summary to post...
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...MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING WORLDCOM How did it cook the books? Nguyen Bao Khanh Student ID: FB60162 Class: FB0662 May 19th, 2012 APENDIX 1. WorldCom’s accounting scandal 2. How did WORLDCOM cook its books? 3. Conclusion WORLDCOM headquarter in Virginia, USA. WORLDCOM’S ACCOUNTING SCANDAL WorldCom, established in 1983, whose CEO was Bernard Ebbers, was the second largest long distance phone company in the US after AT&T. It could be seen as a pride of America until it got into one of the biggest accounting scandals in the American history which finally led to its bankruptcy in 2002. On July 21st, 2012, WorldCom filed for bankruptcy, which was worth 103.9 billion USD and became the largest filing at its time. Its CEO, Bernard Ebbers, was found totally guilty and sentenced to 25-year imprisonment regarding the crime of stock and accounting fraud. Before WorldCom, the world had seen several cases of famous, or infamous, financial and accounting frauds, including Enron, Tyco, Aldelphia, Global Crossing and HealthSouth. Such cases, we can say, were quite complicated to trace, but WorldCom used a simple recipe to cook the book, which will be illustrated below. HOW DID WORLDCOM COOK ITS BOOKS? To understand the fraud occurring at WorldCom, we should basically understand the difference between operating and capital expenditures first, and then we would move on to the details on how the books were adjusted to cause problems. To begin with, what are operating and capital...
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...Assignment: You are to decide what amount of damages, if any, Bobby Bandleader owes for singing the song in the past, and whether or not he can continue to do so in the future, absent of reaching a licensing agreement with Johnny Singstealer. Please write a one-page ruling that details your answer and explains how and why you reached the conclusion that you did. The issue on the fact pattern of the assignment deals with copyright laws of the United States. For purposes of the one-page ruling that you have to write, I am providing you with the legal background and possible arguments in order for you to arrive at your own conclusion and complete the assignment. Summary of the Facts of the Case: Bobby Bandleader has been singing his own version of Happy Birthday To You for over twenty years at his restaurant. In Bobby's version of the song, he uses the same tune, but has different wordings of the song. Bobby's version of singing Happy Birthday To You became very popular and has contributed to the success of his restaurant. Johnny Singstealer is the copyright holder of Happy Birthday To You. The copyright has not expired and is still valid. Johnny discovered the use of his song by Bobby Bandleader and has sued Bobby for copyright infringement. Bobby is seeking $1million for damages and an injunction against any further performances by Bobby. Copyright Laws: The copyright laws of the United States is encoded in Title 17 of the United States Code. The website to...
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...|Creative technology ltd | |[pic] | |Creative Zii Egg Plaszma | | | | | Table of Contents 1. Executive summary 4 2. Introduction 5 3. External Environment 6 3.1 Market Demographic Environment 6 3.2 Market Economics Environment 7 3.3 Market Technological Environment 8 4. Internal Environment 8 4.1 Internal Resources 8 4.2 Potential Market 9 4.3 Competitors 9 5. Internal Analysis 11 5.1 SWOT Analysis 11 5.1.1 Strength 12 5.1.2 Weaknesses 12 5.1.3 Opportunities 12 5.1.4 Threats 12 6. Mission Statement and Objectives 13 6.1 Mission Statement 13 6.2 Objectives 13 6.2.1 Quantitative Objectives 13 6.2.2 Qualitative Objectives 13 7. Selection and Measuring of Target Market 13 7.1 Outline of Marketing Research 13 7.2 Assessment of Potential Market 14 7.3 Market Segmentation (in relation...
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...|3740 |dhiaashamki@uum.edu.my | 1.0 SYNOPSIS This course is an advanced level course focusing on financial accounting theory; and as such, it differs from other accounting courses learnt previously. It is designed to further enhance students’ understanding of the concepts and issues in accounting theory and practices. This course involves the study of the practical and theoretical issues involved in the development, implementation and changes in accounting theories and regulatory framework. As this course will be seminal-like, this course will provide students with some generic skills required in the accounting profession such as team working, interaction, leadership, follower-ship, critical and creative thinking skills, decision making skills, analytical skills, communication skills as well as professional demeanor. 2.0 OBJECTIVES Upon completion of this course, students are expected: 2.1 to understand the principles, concepts and issues in accounting theory, financial accounting theory and reporting practices, 2.2 to critically evaluate the development in theoretical and regulatory framework of accounting reporting practices, 2.3 to appreciate the importance of research in understanding accounting practices in relation to accounting theory, and 2.4 to be aware...
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