...Oldbury Academy is via the gateway. This is almost comparable to a portal between teachers and students. It allows for pupils to access work in the case of a teacher being absent, teachers may also display messages about extra curriculums on the gateway and any other relevant information. Oldbury Academy also uses a system called SIMS (School Information Management System) which allows teachers to track the whereabouts of any given student via giving them a present mark and electronically noting down their timetabled lessons. Here is an example of Student Announcements which are placed onto the gateway by teachers, to communicate information to students. Here is an example of Student Announcements which are placed onto the gateway by teachers, to communicate information to students. E-mail Oldbury Academy uses e-mails to send messages across to staff in regards to information such as assemblies or student’s absences. Teachers may also use e-mails to inform pupils of any homework, and students may e-mail back teachers for help and guidance. Oldbury Academy may also e-mail parents who have opted for this and send them things such as the School Newsletter, or any other important information a parent may need to know about their child’s education. Here is an example of a teacher e-mailing a student some homework. Here is an example of a teacher e-mailing a student some homework. Fax Facsimile or Fax is the transmission of scanned printed material to a telephone number...
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...Dear Mom and Dad, I’d like to say something cute and catchy here…but instead, I’ll just get to the point of why I’m sending you this message. Danielle and I will be going on our 1st mission trip that will travel to Ecuador on November 2nd, 2013 to invest into the lives of children and families living in abject poverty. God has touched our hearts and opened our eyes to the harsh realities and living conditions that no child should ever have to endure. Yet, they do. The children that we will be caring for ‘endure’ in the most heinous and dire circumstances. On this trip, we will be partnering with two organizations that are on the front lines caring for children and families in need. The first half of our trip will be spent at Nuevos Amigos. Our church, RiverTree Christian Church, has recently assumed the operational responsibilities of Nuevos Amigos, a school located just outside of the capital city of Quito, Ecuador. It's mission is to operate a school that seeks to walk hand in hand with families to ensure that children receive spiritual guidance, quality education, and loving care that complement a healthy home environment. The other half of our time will be spent serving one of the churches and child development projects that our church helped start through Stadia Church Planting and Compassion International. This church is located on Pampanal Island, located off the northern most coastline of Ecuador. There are roughly 250 chlidren on the...
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...Chapter One Introdution: Fundamentals of Business Writing I. The major differences between school writing and business writing School writing, typically in the form of essays, is aimed at impressing the audience, i.e. examiners. To score high, student writers have to use fairly complicated vocabulary and sentences in their written work. Business writers, however, mainly aim to communicate information to their colleagues, clients, and other associated parties. They are relatively free to use what language that can get the business done efficiently and effectively. II. Seven steps in the process of wring 1. clarifying your aim 2. identifying your readers 3. making a general plan 4. sketching a synopsis (大纲) 5. drafting your text 6. putting the draft aside 7. revising and editing ★ Writing is a recursive and creative process. The detailed plan is not adhered to in actual writing. Writers frequently come up with ideas that are activated in the process of writing. Writers read the text they have already produced to help generate more ideas. In effect, the writing process is no linear at all but is characterized by recursive ness and creativeness. III. Three principles of business writing 1. Clarity – means setting your message across clearly. (See detailed information on page 4) 2. Consideration – good business writers take their readers’ needs, problems, and reactions to the writing into consideration. And they...
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...Tax Research – Expensing versus capitalization of business expenditures Sally Jones - McIntire School of Commerce University of Virginia smj7q@virginia.edu Memo to the tax file In 2003, Connor Inc. (a calendar year C corporation) announced its intention to construct a manufacturing facility in the Shenendoah Valley. In order to convince the corporation to locate the facility in Augusta County, the county contributed a six-acre tract of undeveloped municipal land to Connor Inc. The appraised value of the land at date of contribution (December 6, 2003) was $475,000. During 2004, Connor Inc. paid $9,300 to an attorney to do a title search to make sure that the corporation had uncontested ownership of the land. The corporation also paid $3,850 2004 real property tax on the land, $16,400 for a complete survey and detailed site map of the six acres, and $7,900 for two water wells drilled on the land. In January 2005, the attorney discovered that the Estate of Elsa Reynolds claimed title to the six acres and was preparing to file suit in Virginia state court to regain ownership and possession. The attorney advised Connor Inc. that the estate’s claim appeared valid and would be upheld by the court. Consequently, the corporation informed Augusta County that it was renouncing all claim to the land and would build its new manufacturing facility in Rockingham County. In August 2003, Connor Inc. purchased 115 acres of land in the Tidewater area of Virginia for a total...
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...CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Sara Ahmed Shareef Khouri Nationality: Emirati Address: P O Box 69666, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates Telephone Number: 050- 3337555 Email: al_5yalah@hotmail.com Objective: Employment with an organization that provides me the opportunity to apply the skills which I have learned in the Applied Business program. EDUCATION :( 2003-2007) 2007 Diploma in Business at the Higher Colleges of Technology- Al Ain Women's College. 2003 Graduated 12th Grade, Al Dhafra Private School for Boys and Girls, Science Stream. WORK EXPERIENCE 2007 Intercontinental Al Ain Resort ( 22nd April-14th June) Front Office • Up dating data • How to take messages • Putting messages in the system • Use the telephone management • Update the VIP guests by entering data in excell • How to answer internal and external calls • How to transfer calls • CID information entry and reports Guest Relations • Guests reports • Room inspection procedure • How to check the guests profile, history • How to check the arrivals and departures • The group check in Reservation • How to take reservations • Types of reservation • The telephone...
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...TELEMACHUS TECHNOLOGY A NEGOTIATION EXERCISE George P. Maxe and Ellen J. Waxman Sloan School of Management, MIT December 1994 SECRET INSTRUCTIONS FOR JACK YOUNGBLOOD - THE MANAGER You are dead tired. It is March 16th. You have been on an exhausting trip that lasted over a week (since last Thursday, the 8th). Before you left, you were in the office until the wee hours on the 7th clearing your desk and leaving instructions for your staff. You sent a number of E-mails, but did not get one out to Shataya before the system went down for maintenance at midnight. So, you left your secretary, Lucy Fine, a handwritten memo for Shataya along with the following note that you scribbled on a sticky note: 3/7 Lucy: Computer went down for maintenance at midnight. Couldn't get this message to Shataya. Please send her this E- mail first thing in the a.m. Thx. J. The E-mail read as follows: Re: Presentation to Boston First Financial Investment Corp. I would like to include you as part of the team making our presentation to Boston First on Wednesday, March 21st. Your part is to talk about the benefits of a networked, client-server system over a mainframe system, technology issues regarding the banking industry, some of the technology requirements peculiar to banking, and regulations, including international and European regulations, about information exchange. The meeting will be at 10:00 a.m. at the client's Boston headquarters. Start getting ready this week and we'll talk as soon as I get...
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...ADMN 233 Assignment 2 Template Assignment 2 Instructions Assignment 2 is worth 15% of your final mark. It should be completed and submitted after you finish Chapter 7 in your textbook. This assignment is divided into three parts, corresponding to the 3-x-3 writing process described in Unit 2 (Chapters 5 to 7) of your textbook. You will complete three activities in each part of this assignment. Part 1: Prewriting (30 marks) Activity A – Analyze a task Activity B – Anticipate an audience’s needs Activity C – Adapt your message to your audience and its needs Part 2: Writing (30 marks) Activity A – Research a topic and generate ideas Activity B – Organize ideas into a coherent text structure Activity C – Compose a first draft Part 3: Revising (40 marks) Activity A – Evaluate a text Activity B – Organize a text Activity C – Revise a text General Instructions The writing tasks you will complete in this assignment are based on real-world scenarios that describe a variety of situations. 1. Read every activity and scenario carefully in order to understand the problems that the characters encounter and the actions that they take. 2. Complete all three activities for each part in sequence. Limit your answers to a maximum of one sentence per mark, unless otherwise instructed. For example, if a question is worth three marks, ensure that you write three complete sentences. 3. Decide what information...
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...Employment Law Compliance Plan --------- HRM/531 July 27, 2014 Professor ------- To: Traci Goldeman From: -------- Date: July 27, 2014 Subject: Employment Law Compliance Plan This memo will describe the employment law compliance plan I made for Bradley Stonefield. He’s going to open a limousine service company named Landslide Limousine in Austin, Texas. He plans to hire twenty-five employees in the first year. This Employment law compliance plan will make him aware of most relevant employment laws and consequences of noncompliance with said laws. All employment laws federal, state and city level are designed to protect employees legal rights. They make sure employees are treated well and provide guidelines to the employers on how to treat their employees. So, it’s extremely important for an entrepreneur to be aware of laws and consequences for noncompliance. Following are some most relevant Federal, state, as well as Austin city employment laws very organization must follow: * The Equal Pay Act of 1963 * The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) * Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) * The Civil Right Act of 1964 * The Texas Labor Code Anti-Discrimination Provisions * Austin City Ordinance No. 20120426-063 The Equal Pay Act Of 1963 This act was signed into law by President John F Kennedy on June 10, 1963. This act made it illegal to pay men and women working in the same place different salaries for similar work National...
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...to each should be different. A manager should also be aware of ethics and personal privacy when writing. It is easy for a manager to inadvertently create a problem for the company by doing something considered unethical by some or by invading an employee’s privacy. This course helped to understand how a manager should consider ethics and privacy when writing. This course also covered the considerations a manager must give an audience when deciding how much the audience knows about the subject matter. A manager does not need to assume the audience knows more information than it does, but he must also not bore an audience with subject matter the audience already knows. Lastly, a manager must keep in mind formality of documentation. A memo should be a more formal document than an e-mail. An e-mail to a fellow employee can be more informal than an e-mail to someone outside the company or to a customer. All of these points covered in the class will help to create more appropriate documents for every business occasion. [pic] ABC Apparel “Clothing that fits every need…..” 373 Apparel Drive...
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...UVA-OB-0167 Rev. Aug.16, 2011 JOHN WOLFORD (A) John Wolford, a vice president and general manager for Eurotech-USA, awoke with a start and looked at his iPhone. “Damn it!” he exclaimed angrily. He had carefully set its alarm for 5:00 a.m., and it was now well past 6:00 a.m. It was Wednesday morning, and Wolford’s mind raced as he thought about all the details he had to attend to that day: a meeting with his boss, a funeral, a briefing from the CFO, and preparation for a three-day trip to London, which required packing bags, confirming plane reservations, and paying personal bills. To complicate matters, he would be attending a six-week residential management-development program almost immediately after his return. He was overwhelmed. Wolford’s Background Wolford was 41 years old. He had been born and raised in Los Angeles. After graduating from the California Institute of Technology with a degree in mechanical engineering, Wolford accepted a position with Hewlett-Packard, a technology company in Silicon Valley. After working for Hewlett-Packard in design engineering for five years, Wolford got married, bought a house in Los Altos Hills, California, and began attending management courses in the evening. Shortly thereafter, he accepted an engineering management position with Precision Instruments, Inc., (PI). During the next 10 years, he held various engineering management positions at PI, and when the company was acquired by Eurotech, Ltd., a European multinational, he...
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...ISSN: 0730-5748 JOURNAL OF UFO STUDIES New Series, Vol. 6 1995/1996 CONTENTS ARTICLES Editorial ..................... ......................... ............................................................ Stuart Appelle Psychotherapy for the UFO Abduction Experience ..... ..... .......... ........ David A. Gotlib The Abduction Experience: A Critical Evaluation of Theory and Evidence ............... .. .............................. ........... ............ ...... ............... ........................ Stuart Appelle Anomalous Images on Videotape from Space Shuttle Flight STS-48: Examination of the Ice-Particle Explanation ................... ............. ......... Jack Kasher The University of Colorado UFO Project: The "Scientific Study of UFOs" ... .......................................................... ....... .......... Michael D. Swords A Reference Guide for the Condon Report ..... .. ... ............... ......................... Willy Smith Donald E. Keyhoe and the Pentagon: The Rise of Interest in the UFO Phenomenon and What the Government Really Knew .............. ................... ........ .......... .. .... ... ........... ....... ..... Michael D. Swords Fewer Sightings in the National Press: A Content Analysis of UFO News Coverage in The New York Times, 1947-1995 .......... ................ John C. Hickman, E. Dale McConkey II, and Matthew A. Barrett COMMENTS AND RESPONSES Robert R. Young, John S. Carpenter ...... ............... ... ......... .......
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...the company what the case against them will entail. You have gleaned the facts from your investigations into the situation to date. You have never talked with Virginia Pollard. The case is currently in the appeals stage and the company executives have some questions for you. Answer them using the most recent legal information you can find. [pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic][pic] |1. Teddy's Supplies' CEO has asked you to advise him on the facts of the case and your opinion of their potential liability. He wants to | |settle the case. Write a memo to him that states your view of whether the company is exposed to liability on all issues you feel are in | |play. Include in your memo any laws that apply and any precedent cases either for or against Teddy's case that impact liability. Include in | |the memo your suggested "offer of settlement" to Virginia. Back up your offer using your analysis of the case against Teddy's. (Points : 30)| | | | | To Teddy’s Supplies’ CEO: The facts of the case of the exposed potential liabilities against Teddy’s Supplies Inc.: 1. Teddy transferred Virginia Pollard to guard film equipment where...
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...Types of Information used by Biddenham Upper School Verbal - The sharing of information between individuals by using speech. Individuals working within a business need to effectively use verbal communication that employs readily understood spoken words, as well as ensuring that the enunciation, stress and tone of voice with which the words are expressed is appropriate. There are many types of verbal communication, for example; telephone and face-to-face. Telephone communication happens when people want to book holidays with hotels over a phone. The advantages of doing this is that the customer knows exactly what they are getting and their special requests can be taken on board and accepted. An example could be, Biddenham informing parents of concerns about their child. Whilst on the phone the staff needs to have a positive and friendly tone of voice and to be helpful making sure everything the customer’s need is catered for. A skill required when communicating via telephone is being able to use the phonetic alphabet. This clears things up between the customer and staff so there is less chance of confusion of names and addresses. Face-to-face is when the communicator transmits his message in person to the receiver in person verbally and even non-verbally. Thus, face to face communication is both verbal and non-verbal. Involves all of the ways people can communicate when they are interacting face to face, for example Biddenham Upper School may use face-to-face communication when they...
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...NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN ELECTRICITY & ENERGY DEPARTMENT A CASE STUDY It was an “Initiation” management committee meeting for Jack Simons, the newly appointed General Manager (GM) for the Electricity & Energy Department at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. He was recruited from Eskom just over three months ago. He was replacing Piet Volsoo who opted for an early retirement after 17 years with the Municipality. Management committee meetings are known for heated exchanges between various divisional heads, GMs, city manager and the mayoral committee members. Having worked for a corporate giant as Eskom, the challenges at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality (NMMM) were not insurmountable he thought to himself. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality came into existence after 2000. It is the amalgamation of the Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage and Dispatch Municipalities. It supplies electricity to an area of 1959,9 square kilometres. It receives its supply at the Chatty main 132kV intake substation from Eskom and distributes it at primarily 22kV, 11kV and 400 V to 225 large industrial customers, 41 081 medium businesses and 155 758 domestic consumers. The Electricity department has also initiated a major drive to electrify the informal areas within the Metropole. This was a “strategic priority” according to the recently approved Integrated Development Plan of the Metropole for 2002 – 2006. It has electrified 62 600 erven at a cost of R63 million since 1995...
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...Global Environment of Business Practice Exam (A) Question Difficulty: Average to Basic ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- The following practice exam, designed by the undersigned, is to be used solely for educational purposes. It is required that any use of this exam (whether upon receipt from the undersigned, or by receipt from a third party) be in strict accordance with the ANY and ALL codes of Honor and/or Academic Integrity that are prescribed by TCU and the Neeley School of Business. In accordance with the Honor Code of the Neeley School of Business, you are agreeing to contribute work to each question of this exam before asking to see a sample response. By continuing, you agree to use this practice exam both legally and ethically. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Signed: Bryan W. Redd (11/29/13) User Disclosures 1. IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THE QUESTIONS ON THIS EXAM HAVE BEEN COMPILED BY ONE OF YOUR CLASSMATES AND AS SUCH ARE NOT QUESTIONS THAT: a. Were used by the Professor in past-courses; NOR b. That one should necessarily expect to see included on the final exam 2. IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE SAMPLE RESPONSES TO THIS EXAM, YOU MUST: c. Contribute work (either individually or as a member...
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