...given to an artist or architect to produce a new work, these commissions laid out the scope of their duties and their responsibilities in the specific office or position they were appointed to. And they served at the pleasure of the king (or queen), meaning they could be dismissed by the monarch at any time. These traditions applied throughout the Royal Navy, including in ships stationed in Britain’s North American colonies. During the War for Independence, the Continental Navy maintained these traditions. And after the U.S. achieved its independence from Britain, both the Revenue Marine (starting in 1790) and Navy (beginning in 1798) carried them forward. Foreword CONTENTS i Overview 1 Application Format & Contents 9 Narrative Memo 13 CO’s Endorsement 21 Interview 31 Conclusion 41 Appendix A (Officer & Enlisted Careers) 43 49 OCS, CSPI, DCE, AVCAD APPLICATION PREPARATION HANDBOOK OCS, CSPI, DCE, AVCAD APPLICATION PREPARATION HANDBOOK FOREWORD president”. That means they can be dismissed at any time without any reason. These terms of service date back centuries, and are the source of the words we still use to describe the status of the people within the military hierarchy: “enlist”, “warrant”, and “commission”. Starting over 500 years ago, ranks in Britain’s Royal Navy paralleled the distinctions that existed in civilian society, when a rigid class system existed. As today, crews were made up of seamen (there were no...
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...CLRC Writing Center Structure of a Personal Narrative Essay “Narrative” is a term more commonly known as “story.” Narratives written for college or personal narratives, tell a story, usually to some point, to illustrate some truth or insight. Following are some tools to help you structure your personal narrative, breaking it down into parts. The “Hook” Start your paper with a statement about your story that catches the reader’s attention, for example: a relevant quotation, question, fact, or definition. Introduction Set the Scene Provide the information the reader will need to understand the story: Who are the major characters? When and where is it taking place? Is it a story about something that happened to you, the writer, or is it fiction? Thesis Statement The thesis of a narrative essay plays a slightly different role than that of an argument or expository essay. A narrative thesis can begin the events of the story: “It was sunny and warm out when I started down the path”; offer a moral or lesson learned: “I’ll never hike alone again”; or identify a theme that connects the story to a universal experience: “Journeys bring both joy and hardship.” “Show, Don’t Tell” Good story telling includes details and descriptions that help the reader understand what the writer experienced. Think about using all five senses—not just the sense of sight—to add details about what you heard, saw, and felt during the event. For example, “My heart jumped as the dark ...
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...CLRC Writing Center Structure of a Personal Narrative Essay “Narrative” is a term more commonly known as “story.” Narratives written for college or personal narratives, tell a story, usually to some point, to illustrate some truth or insight. Following are some tools to help you structure your personal narrative, breaking it down into parts. The “Hook” Start your paper with a statement about your story that catches the reader’s attention, for example: a relevant quotation, question, fact, or definition. Set the Scene Provide the information the reader will need to understand the story: Who are the major characters? When and where is it taking place? Is it a story about something that happened to you, the writer, or is it fiction? Thesis Statement The thesis of a narrative essay plays a slightly different role than that of an argument or expository essay. A narrative thesis can begin the events of the story: “It was sunny and warm out when I started down the path”; offer a moral or lesson learned: “I’ll never hike alone again”; or identify a theme that connects the story to a universal experience: “Journeys bring both joy and hardship.” “Show, Don’t Tell” Good story telling includes details and descriptions that help the reader understand what the writer experienced. Think about using all five senses—not just the sense of sight—to add details about what you heard, saw, and felt during the event. For example, “My heart jumped as the dark shape of the brown grizzly lurched...
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... | | | | | |Vendor #: | | | | | | |Vendor: | | | | | | | | | | | Date of report: | | | | |Serio| Serious Criteria | Death | |us |Check all that apply |Disability | | | |Life-Threatening | |Initi| Initial Reporter: Consumer Physician Specialization: Pharmacist Nurse Lawyer Anonymous | |al |Other (Dentist, etc.) Language: English Other...
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...|Title of Unit: Narrative writing - (Controlled Assessment 7.5%) | |Term: 1 | |Year: 10 | |Duration: 3/4 weeks | |Overview: | |WJEC provides a list of narrative tasks from which the candidates must choose one. These tasks are replaced each year. The tasks for 2015 are: | | | |(a) Write a story beginning: ‘I’m not coming and that’s the end of it.’ | | | |(b) Happy Days | | ...
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...The System Design Project ACG3401 – Spring 2013 You have been assigned to a team that is responsible for the complete design of an accounting information subsystem to support the business cycle (e.g. revenue, expenditure, production, human resource management and payroll, or financial reporting system) assigned to your team by the professor for a hypothetical company of your choice. Points will be awarded for a presentation to the class as well as a final report that will include a business process narrative, document flowchart that coincides with document narrative, and a risk and controls matrix. PowerPoint presentation files must be emailed to the instructor 24 hours in advance of the scheduled presentation date. Attire for the presentation is business casual. If you are unsure what is appropriate business casual attire, please refer to the following website for tips: http://www.career.vt.edu/jobsearc/buscasual.htm. All team members will receive the SAME grade for these project requirements. However, students absent from any of the presentations will automatically receive zero credit unless pre-approved by the instructor. In addition to the presentation and final report, each team member will submit peer evaluations for the other members and average score will be calculated. Each individual will rate the helpfulness of all of the other members of their team at the end of the term and submit the peer evaluation form to the instructor on the assigned date...
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...strategy, that is, to try to sell more products at a lower price. (a) What are the implications of this strategy change for the revenue cycle? (LO1). This strategy change will have big implications for the revenue cycle, which is fundamentally driven by the level of sales. All existing policies and procedures will be geared around volume, pricing and quality targets flowing from the product differentiation (high price / high quality) strategy. To move to a cost leadership (high volume / low price) strategy requires revisiting and realigning existing policies and procedures. (b) What changes would you expect to see in the revenue cycle? (LO4). Assessing changes in the order of the processes in the revenue cycle: 1.1 The inventory check would be performed as described however the policy relating to tolerances on inventory decisions may alter, allowing Brisbane Ltd to accept orders that they may previously have not processed. The logic behind this is that a product differentiation strategy promotes a desire to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction and service, however under a cost leadership strategy customer service, while still important, may be overridden by desire to maintain sales volume. Risking offending a customer by promising to supply and...
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...ACCOUNTING AND INTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEM (ISA 400) Definitions Accounting systems Refers to the systems and procedures that management has put in place to ensure that the company maintains proper books of accounts. The auditor should ascertain the client’s system of recording and processing transactions and assess its adequacy as a basis for the preparation of financial statements. An accounting system provides for the orderly assembly of accounting information and appropriate analysis to facilitate the preparation of financial statements. The management of an organisation requires complete and accurate accounting and other records to assist in: a) Controlling the business b) Safeguarding the assets c) Preparation of the financial statements d) Complying with legislation Internal controls If the auditor wishes to place reliance on any internal controls he should ascertain and evaluate those controls and perform compliance tests on their operation. If the clients system is evaluating as being effective, the auditor can rely on these controls and reduce the level of detailed substantive work. Definition An internal control systems consists of all the policies and procedures (internal controls) adopted by management of an entity to assist in achieving management’s objective of ensuring, as far as practicable the orderly and efficient conduct of its business, including adherence to management policies, safeguarding of assets, the prevention and detection of fraud and...
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...Revenue Cycle (Ch11 Hurt) 92% of Public Companies’ Revenue Processes at Risk for Compliance Failures and Restatements New study by RevenueRecognition.com and IDC reveals widespread reliance on spreadsheets, which greatly increases the likelihood of control weakness and accounting errors. A recent survey of 685 senior financial executives from a broad range of companies, revealed that revenue recognition and reporting activities are not automated within Financial/ERP systems. As a result, 92% of public companies are forced to rely on spreadsheets to fill vital gaps in their revenue reporting processes—despite the fact that spreadsheets are prone to errors, lack audit capabilities, and resist internal controls. This, and other findings, is from a new report by www.RevenueRecognition.com and IDC, “Enterprise Systems and Revenue Recognition: The Missing Link”. Revenue Spreadsheets: The Compliance Killers These results should be alarming for corporate finance departments, executives, and investors alike, because: 1. The risks introduced by spreadsheets violate basic compliance principles. 2. Revenue accounting problems are the leading cause of financial restatements. 3. The number of restatements is on the rise. As a result, compliance managers should be addressing the issue of having spreadsheets in the revenue reporting process. Executives should be extremely cautious about the integrity of the numbers they are attesting to under Sarbanes-Oxley requirements...
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...required to cite the source of quotations and references within the text of your work. You do this by placing the author’s name and the publication date in parentheses at the appropriate point in the text. You are also required to have a bibliography at the end of the paper that lists the references in alphabetical order by the author’s surname. The titles of books, journals, and newspapers must be italicised. We advise that students read all three pages carefully and refer back to them as required. A final check before submitting work is also strongly advised. In-Text Citations If you quote from a book, journal article, or other source, indicate the page number in addition to the author and publication date. For example: (Bradley 2012:10) where 10 is the page number. Short quotations of less than 20 words can be included in the text enclosed by quotation marks. For example: Bradley (2012:10) notes ‘law arises from perceived norms within society’. Long quotations of more than 20 words should be indented from the left and enclosed and quotation marks. You should also leave a line above and below the quote. Example: ‘The nature of law as narrative construct relies on the imagination to align narrative sources with identities. The imagination is not, therefore, only a literary phenomenon.’ (Bradley 2012:6) If you are using more than one source from the same...
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... |Date Last Updated: 8/23/2014 | |CAUSE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS |SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT OBJECTIVES | |Problem or Opportunity |Causes and Effects |System Objective |System Constraint | |The current system does not provide good service|Cause (s): |Create a system that will record employee |Computer hardware must be purchased and network | |to users who submit check-in and check-out |Caused by using independent and manual systems. |information and equipment they’re checking in or |established to support new system. | |equipment as there tends to be a rush during the|Effect(s): |out. |System must be able to process data for multiple | |start and end of every shift. |Long delays, which leads to employees clocking | |scenarios. | | |in early and clocking out later,...
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...Grant Writing FOR DUMmIES 3RD ‰ EDITION by Dr. Beverly A. Browning, MPA, DBA Grant Writing For Dummies® 3rd Edition , Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River St. Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should e addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201)748-6008, or online at http:// www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies.com, Making Everything Easier, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/ or its affiliates in the United States and other countries, and...
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...Summary Themes Characters Analysis More ▻ Typhoon Summary Summary (Comprehensive Guide to Short Stories, Critical Edition) print Print document PDF list Cite link Link The protagonist of Joseph Conrad’s narrative of a typhoon in the China Seas is Captain Tom MacWhirr. Recommended by the builders of the Nan-Shan to Sigg and Sons, who want a competent and dependable master for their vessel, MacWhirr is gruff, empirical, without imagination. Although his reputation as a mariner is impeccable, his manner does not inspire confidence; yet, when he is first shown around the Nan-Shan by the builders, he immediately notes that its locks are poorly made. Young Mr. Jukes, MacWhirr’s first mate, full of himself, curious about others, always rushing off to meet trouble before it comes, is satiric concerning MacWhirr’s limitations, especially his literal-mindedness, his inability to communicate with others in ordinary terms, and his taciturnity. For his part, MacWhirr is amazed at Jukes’s capacity for small talk and his use of metaphorical language, for MacWhirr himself notes only the facts by which he lives. However, he is astute enough to respect in others the ability to perform their tasks ably. Having just enough imagination to carry him through each day, tranquilly certain of his competence—although it has never been fully tested—MacWhirr communicates the essential details of his voyages to his wife and children in monthly letters that they read perfunctorily. These same letters...
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...FXT2 Task 2 Follow-Up re: Human Resources Data Modification 1. Identify areas that were not addressed by the IT staff’s response to the incident. Based on the narrative, the only corrective measure the company implemented was PKI. As noted in the original evaluation, several areas need to be addressed: * Climate/culture of the organization * Employee training for social engineering attacks * Positive identification of employees when granting role-based access * Vulnerabilities within and without the network, specifically to sniffers and eavesdropping * The ease with which the employee changed his pay rate, indicating a single system used for HR profiles rather than segregated duties & systems * The PKI that was installed only addressed the HR system, rather than the entire organization Honestly, the whole environment at this company needs a complete evaluation and overhaul! 2. Outline the other attacks mentioned in the scenario that were not noticed by the organization. * Social Engineering * Sniffing/Eavesdropping * Unauthorized Privilege Escalation * Network Penetration * Spoofing a. Describe the nature of the attacks not noticed by the organization. By “the nature of the attacks” I interpret this to mean the source of the attacks, or the skillset required to carry out the attacks. I believe this employee was tenured based on their ability to: * Hack into the HR system * Successfully intercept the email from...
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...terms is included. 4. All questions are compulsory and carry 10 marks each. Glossary Compare Examine qualities or characteristics that resemble each other. Emphasize similarities, although differences may be mentioned. Contrast Compare by observing differences. Stress the dissimilarities of qualities or characteristics. (Also Distinguish between) Criticize Express your own judgment concerning the topic or viewpoint in question. Discuss both pros and cons. Define Clearly state the meaning of the word or term. Relate the meaning specifically to the way it is used in the subject area under discussion. Perhaps also show how the item defined differs from items in other classes with an example. Describe Tell the whole story in narrative form. Diagram Give a drawing, chart, plan or graphic answer. Usually you should label a diagram. In some cases, add a brief explanation or description. Discuss This calls for the most complete and detailed answer. Examine and analyze carefully and present both pros and cons. To discuss briefly requires you to state in a few sentences the critical factors. Evaluate This requires making an informed judgment. Your judgment must be shown to be based on knowledge and information...
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