...v XACC/280Week-Seven CheckPoint Ratio, Vertical, and Horizontal Analyses Financial statement analysis is the process of examining relationships among financialstatement elements and making comparisons with relevant information. There are a variety of toolsused to evaluate the significance of financial statement data. Three of the commonly used tools are the ratio analysis, horizontal analysis, andvertical analysis. Ratio analysis is a method of analyzing data to determine the overall financial strength of a business. These ratios are most useful when compared to other ratios such as the comparable ratios of similar businesses or the historical trend of a single business over several business cycles.Horizontal analysis is a type of fundamental analysis in which certain financial data is used toasses a company's performance over a period of time. Horizontal analysis can be assessed on a singlecompany over a period of time, comparing the same items or ratios, or it can be performed on multiplecompanies in the same industry to assess a company's performance relative to competitors.Vertical analysis is a method of analyzing financial statements in which each item in thestatement is represented as a percentage of a single larger item. Vertical analysis makes comparisons between two or more companies in the same industry easier. It also allows a company to weigh currentreports...
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...Hey friends, We know there is a lot of excitement in the community surrounding the Lollipop updates for the One, and for good reason. We are just as excited as you are. We never intended to keep you waiting. Unfortunately, we ran into some unexpected roadblocks. First, there was an unforeseen OS signing issue, which has recently been resolved. Our camera module had stability issues on Lollipop, and we had to rebuild it for compatibility. Several other crucial drivers, including our Wi-Fi drivers, also needed to be updated to work flawlessly with the upgrade. Admittedly, it took a little more time than we had planned, but we only release updates that we are proud of; that means refusing to take shortcuts or deliver sub-par experiences. With all of that in mind, here are the official release dates for Android Lollipop on the OnePlus One: CM 12S: The official OTA update for the OnePlus One will be released on or before March 30, 2015 OxygenOS: The official release of our own Lollipop-based ROM will be available for download on or before March 27, 2015 To show you how serious we are about this commitment to our community, we are prepared to put our money where our mouth is. If we miss either one of these deadlines, we will give away five (5) 64GB OnePlus One devices to our fans. Reply to this thread to be eligible. It’s our little way of saying thank you for being patient and for joining us on our journey to create amazing, user-driven experiences. Never...
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...Practice make perfect, as the saying goes. In math, since perfection cannot be really achieved, the best we can do is be proficient and confident in the subject matter. Solve ... solve ... solve. Math is not a spectator sport. It has to be hands on. ) If you don't understand something, focus on mastering that topic before moving on to the next topic. It sounds simple, but it is absolutely essential. Lets say a student is learning Algebra, for example. Further, lets say he or she is having a hard time understanding how to add and subtract negative and positive numbers. All of us struggle with this in the beginning as it is a sticky point for most students. Some students in this situation, out of frustration that they "can't" learn this topic, will move on to the next lesson in the hope that they will be able to understand that one. This is a recipe for disaster. Math is very much like learning to read. If you don't know your letter sounds then you have no hope of being able to sound out words of course there is no way possible that you could read a book. All math courses are taught in a specific sequence because the every topic builds on the previous topic. If you are having a problem with a topic, continue working with that one until you understand it and can work problems successfully. Watch the DVD section over again, attend tutoring, read the book and examples a second time, or even get a totally different book to have it explained a different way...but whatever you...
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...Stereotyping The Hobbit Stereotypes are qualities given to a group of people based on their race, or the qualities they have. They take something that is partly true about someone and believe it is true about the whole race. For example, in Asia they hold education very highly and Asian people typically do very well in school. The stereotype regarding Asians is that they are all very good at math. This is not true. I have some Asian friends and they struggle with math just as much as I do. Many stereotypes exist today. They are bad because we just assume we what the person is like without getting to know them. The stereotyped image I brought into class was a picture of an Italian man. He had his hair spiked up, his skin spray tanned orange, and was wearing a wife-beater. This image is how we perceive Italian men to be. We view them this way because that is how we see them on the show Jersey Shore. All of the people on the show are dressed, and look like the picture I brought in. In reality only some Italians look that way. The majority of them look and act like ordinary people. Just because someone is Italian does not mean that they dress and act like what we think they should. You cannot judge someone based on how they look. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, this proves very true. There are a few characters throughout this story that break the stereotypes of themselves. The biggest example of this is with Mr. Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo is a hobbit. Hobbits are described as tiny,...
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...Class of 2016, Congratulations, we've made it! Today is our first, “big first”, our step in the real world, adulthood, and that time when all the dreaded college loan debt comes back to haunt us. It seems like just yesterday, we were starting the best adventure of our lives. Now, as we sit here pondering how to pay that debt and thinking about what the future has in store, I can’t help but be proud that we have made it. Having survived the core, our exams, essays, endless nights up studying, the miserable hangovers, and the shots fired on State St., I think we all should be proud to have made it here in one piece. In all seriousness, today is a milestone for each us as well as our families, and it is to our loved ones that we owe our deepest thanks. I think I can speak for most of us here ready to receive our diplomas, that we would not be here if it wasn’t for the endless support we had every step of the way, the shoulders we had to lean on when things got rough, and the days we thought we couldn’t make it, but we did with a quick pep talk... or a shot or two of tequila. After today, we leave the protection of the College, the community of our friends, roommates, and teachers, to find and forge new communities of our own. I want to spend our final moments together reflecting on the distinctive kind of education that has shaped the way in which we think about the opportunities and challenges we have faced. AIC prides itself on dedication, intellectual and personal...
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...discuss point. In where computer games have been fault for the numerous demonstrations of brutal that has been happening everywhere throughout the world. In where numerous adoration to censure everything on the way that a considerable lot of them have been playing computer games. one can discover computer games wherever these days; they are in...
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...Essay om krimiens popularitet _______________________________ A crime is in many ways one of the most important genres. It's usually about a man or woman who is on quest to find the truth of an event or an issue. In the thriller it will be good almost always lined up against evil.In the beginning when the first crime novels were written around the beginning of 1800, they were mostly written for sheer entertainment without having put special types of criticism up, or a particular message. There is and has always been a kind of crime to be solved by the given detective. This criminal is, thus committing the crime, is almost always first get to know who is towards the end of the thriller. It is one of the elements that appear in a crime, like tightening torque, which helps to build a mood for the reader.In crime fiction is typically a lot of social criticism involved. It may be because the author clean'd like to build a social explanatory framework. All this because the perpetrator often breach the rules. There are the novels used a lot of different investigators, for example, an anti-bureaucratic detective who themselves often and often break the law to solve a case. Some crime genre looks and you experience the story from the detective's point of view, which one follows his investigation of the crime. However, there are a few crime novels, which instead follows the perpetrator's point of view, and thus it is an entirely different view of history you...
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...productions until now! I was pleasantly surprised by both plays and did thoroughly enjoy them, as I was a theatre student myself in middle and high school. In The Next Room was the first play I ever saw by FIU theatre and I really believe that the director did a great job executing the play. I was happy to see one of my own sorority sisters up on stage, Michelle Antelo as Mrs. Givings. She was able to project herself very well and kept me engaged with the play throughout the entire show. Antelo greatly contributed to the success of the show. Her acting made it easy for me to suspend my disbelief in order to successfully get involved with the given circumstances of the play. It was clearly noticeable the extra time she put into her character and there was much evidence of preparation. The blocking the actors used on stage was very well thought out and it was also noticeable that all involved equally did their part to make the show a success. Antelo’s character, Mrs. Givings was an emotional one in the play. Antelo’s fascinating was of embodying these emotions are what kept me engaged throughout. I bring up her projection again because to me, it was powerful and it was one of the main things that stood out about her as an actress. She made her character believable and the chemistry her and her husband, Dr. Givings, had on set was a recipe for success in this production. Antelo’s beats were clearly evident and her changes were effective. Again, it was her vocal tension that kept...
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...A Comparison of the tale of “Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp” and the Disney Movie Aladdin: A Cultural Study According to N. J. Dawood, the translator of The Thousand and One Nights, “Aladdin has been retold or presented to so many different generations all over the world that it can perhaps be rightly described as the most renowned story invented by man”. Interestingly enough, “Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp” was not part of the original collection of stories that composed The Arabian Nights. No one knows exactly when a given story is originated, but it is obvious that some stories circulated orally for centuries before they actually were collected or written down. The story of Aladdin appeared for the first time in Antoine Galland’s (1646-1715) translation of the Thousand and One Nights, the first major European version. Before Galland, there was no known Arabic version of Aladdin and his lamp. The first Arabic version showed up after Galland’s version and very well could have been translations of Galland’s French version. One of the more recent and most popular versions of “Aladdin” was an animated feature produced in 1992 by Walt Disney Pictures. Aladdin made over $217 million in revenue in the United States, and over $504 million worldwide. Even though the American film and the medieval Arabian tale share common elements and are both plotted around a young impoverished boy named Aladdin, the moral lessons they offer differ in ways that can be described through the values...
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...herself from the rest of her village after her father’s death, the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper having to spend all her time in the a room she hates because of her disease, or the narrator of Acquainted with the Night strolling through the nightly city all by herself in solitude. All of these stories contain the very popular theme of loneliness and isolation,which are shown using various literary devices of each author’s choosing. Throughout the whole story of A Rose for Emily, the setting seemed to be very eerie and unnatural; the author gave the readers a feeling that made them almost sense the loneliness emanating from the protagonist, Miss Emily:“That was two years after her father’s death and a short time after her sweetheart-the one we believed would marry her-had deserted her. After her father’s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all” (53 Faulkner). This made it known right...
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...John Green and David Levithan use foreshadowing to give away portions of the plot in Will Grayson, Will Grayson. In the text, two boys by the name of Will Grayson - One going by Will solely while the other prefers Grayson - meet under unfortunate circumstances. Will had been tricked into a relationship under false pretenses. He was dating a boy online by the name of Isaac only to have it revealed on the day of their planned face-to-face date that it had been Will’s friend Maura all along. She had used the name Isaac and had orchestrated the entire thing, puppeteering with Will’s emotions, to out him as gay. Green and Levithan foreshadow this exchange through Maura's speech. During the high point in Isaac's and and Will’s relationship, Maura comes in several times confronting him on topics that, originally, seem odd for her to even...
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...the thieves find him there, and kill him. When his brother does not come back, Ali Baba goes to the cave to look for him, and finds the body, bringing it home. With the help of Morgiana, a clever slave-girl in Kasim's household, they are able to give Kasim a proper burial without arousing any suspicions about his death. The thieves, finding the body gone, realize that somebody else must know their secret, and set out to track him down. The first several times they are foiled by Morgiana, who is now a member of Ali Baba's household, but eventually they are able to ascertain the location of Ali Baba's house. The lead thief pretends to be an oil merchant in need of Ali Baba's hospitality, bringing with him mules loaded with 40 oil jars, one filled with oil, the other 39 with the other thieves. Once Ali Baba is asleep, the thieves plan to kill him. Again, Morgiana discovers and foils the plan, killing the 39 thieves in their oil jars by pouring boiling oil on them. When their leader comes to rouse his men, he discovers that they are dead, and escapes. The lead thief, disguised as a merchant, befriends Ali Baba's nephew (who is now in charge of the late Kasim's business), and is invited to dinner at Ali...
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...when it comes to stealing. They start to think things through instead of just going at it. The striking thing about that scene is that it shows the children enjoying the scene and having fun, while Antoine and his friend are in the corner plotting with evil thoughts, not enjoying the show. 2) One street scene that I found that interested me was at 24 minutes into the movie, after Antoine had left the carnival. While walking with his friend through the streets, he saw the once beautiful place of what was known as Paris (it’s still beautiful, just not as much as before), as well as his mother, while she was making out with a man who wasn’t her husband. Just this scene alone portrays that in the 1950s, Paris wasn’t the best place to be. Although it was pretty, it was also very busy and crowded on the streets. Anything could happen. 3) One scene I found visually stunning was the carnival scene where he was in the spinning ride. Although I may be wrong, but I feel as if the director included that scene to give an insight of how Antoine’s mind is and he's foreshadowing the rest of the film. The spinning of the ride refers to how Antoine is a confused kid just trying to get through. At one point of the ride, he is completely upside down. That is when his life turns for the worse when he’s sent off to boot camp/military school. The end of the ride is him banging on the door with excitement and walking out with a huge smile on his face. That’s foreshadowing how he escapes the camp...
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...Core Huamnities 201 Arabian Nights Universal Themes Images and Techniques Used Arabian Nights, also known as One Thousand and One Nights is a story which revolves around a Persian king who just married a new bride. However, he discovers that his wife was unfaithful and has her executed. As a result, all the women in the kingdom are declared unfaithful. Shahryar (the king) begins to marry a sequence of virgins from the kingdom and has them executed the next morning. In due course, the vizier, who is entitled with the responsibility of providing the virgins, can no longer find any more virgins in the kingdom other than his daughter Scheherazade. She offers herself to be a bride to the king despite objections from her father. On the night of their consummation Scheherazade starts to tell the king a story but does not get to finish it. The king is therefore forced to delay her execution in order to hear the conclusion. On the next night, she tells the king another story and this turns into a series of stories that go on for one thousand and one nights (Haddawy 16). Universal Theme Immortality The Arabian Nights comprises of a sequence of stories which do not have an ending. The passing on of the tales is universally seen as a means of preservation. Scheherazade used the narration of stories as a way to preserve her life she further interwove the endings of the stories with the beginnings of the new stories thus giving them a sense of infinity. She told the stories night after...
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...personify this idea. To better understand the close relationship between his characters, also his major ideas or a theme which appears throughout his stories is Bradbury's imagery. One example of literary devices is personification, which gives non-human things human-like qualities. An example of this is in Bradbury's story The Veldt when Bradbury writes , "Until this day, how well the house had kept its peace. How carefully it had inquired, "who goes there?...
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