...ACCT504 Week 1 Objectives (JAN15) 1 of 2 https://devry.equella.ecollege.com/file/c3a70b64-5599-41cb-be31-a270... Print Given an annual report, the student should be able to read, understand, analyze, and explain a A company’s Balance Sheet to other decision makers and use the knowledge and skills to make business decisions. Key Concepts Understand the environment of financial reporting in the United States and explain the importance of generally accepted accounting principles. Explain the meaning and purpose of a balance sheet and the items that appear in the balance sheet. Determine the interrelationship among the basic financial statements. Analyze the relationship between certain items in the balance sheet and the income statement with the help of ratio analysis. Evaluate the way that different assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity items are presented in a balance sheet. Given an annual report, the student should be able to read, understand, analyze, and explain a B company’s Income Statement to other decision makers and use the knowledge and skills to make business decisions. Key Concepts Explain the meaning and purpose of an income statement and the items that appear in the income statement. Determine the interrelationship among the basic financial statements. Analyze the relationship between certain items in the balance sheet and the income statement with the help of ratio analysis. Evaluate the way that different revenues, expenses...
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...Teaching Critical Thinking with Electronic Discussion Steven A. Greenlaw and Stephen B. DeLoach Abstract: One of the products of a liberal undergraduate education is the ability to think critically. In practice, critical thinking is a skill that economics students are supposed to master as they complete their studies. However, exactly what critical thinking means is generally not well defined. Building on the literature on critical thinking, the authors examine how electronic discussion can be used effectively to teach this skill. Because of the multiplicity of views expressed, the asynchronous nature of the technology, and the inherent positive spillovers that are created, electronic discussion appears to provide a natural framework for teaching critical thinking. Key words: class discussion, critical thinking, distance learning, electronic discussion JEL code; A2 One of the products of a liberal undergraduate education is the ability to think critically. This should be particularly true for economics students who. after all, are ostensibly taught the discipline's version of critical thinking—the economic way of thinking. It is ironic then, that relatively little has been published on effective strategies for teaching critical thinking in economics.' This is not an original criticism. In his seminal article on research in pedagogy, Fels (1969) identified critical thinking as an area ripe for teaching and exploration by economists, Fels's critique, "rarely is a concerted effort...
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...culliford@herts.ac.ukV.1.Amin@herts.ac.ukP.Mason3@herts.ac.uk | Office & Feedback hours. The module leader has two office hours per week commencing 5th October 2015. Keith Seed’s office hours are Monday 2.30pm-3.30pm and Friday 2.30pm-3.30pm. | 2a Module aims Appreciate a range of issues and challenges confronting strategic leaders of public, private and third sector organisations in a turbulent global environment. 2b Learning Outcomes Knowledge and understanding Successful students will typically have a knowledge and understanding of: 1. the risks and opportunities confronting strategic leaders in a changing world; 2. the challenges facing organisations in times of economic growth and recession; 3. theoretical approaches to the evaluation of an organisation's strategic position, choices and implementation of options for change; 4. the distinctions between differing change contexts and styles of leadership. Skills and attributes Successful students will typically be able to: 5. research, diagnose and analyse a complex range of strategic problems 6. critically evaluate strategic concepts and theory, decision-making and planning, using practical examples of strategic leadership and change processes; 7. develop the ability to work as part of a team on a group project 3 Format of delivery-nature of contact hours per week The module is delivered through a one hour’s lecture every week and A SEMINAR OF TWO HOURS DURATION EVERY TWO WEEKS. Students...
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...GUIDE TO WRITING A CRITICAL ACADEMIC ESSAY Contributions by Drs Yvonne Brunetto and Ashlea Troth and University of Tasmania [Homepage of University of Tasmania], [Online]. (2001, September 11 - last update). Available: www.utas.edu.au [2002, February 4]. Introduction It is important to note that an academic essay is structured as an argument. This means you cannot just list facts or points, rather you must use them as essential parts of an overall argument. An academic essay also requires you to produce reasons/evidence for any arguments you make. Therefore, essay assessment allows you to come to grips with complex ideas and concepts and to display your knowledge of them. A critical essay both displays and extends your analytical skills. Most students find it difficult to write an assignment. If you feel confident in your ability, you still need to use this guide to check you have the techniques required for a university level assignment. If you do not know how to write an assignment, read through this guide carefully. Keep it by you as you prepare for and write each assignment. However, remember this is just one recipe for 'How to Write'. Many students will still need personal help in writing. Your tutors will be ready to discuss ideas, plans or other matters with you. LAS (the Learning Assistance Service) is also available to give students free assistance. LAS is situated on the second floor of the library. What is critical thinking? "Little evidence...
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...responses. Collapse All | Print View | Show Options | Responses Responses are listed below in the following order: response, author and the date and time the response is posted. | | Sort by Response | Sort by Author | Sort by Date/Time* | (an instructor response) | | Question 1 ..Stakeholder Identification ?? | Professor Hiegel | 1/10/2015 3:46:03 PM | | | How does a project manager identify stakeholders for a project?orHow does a project manager know which stakeholders are more important to a project? | | | | RE: Question 1 ..Stakeholder Identification ?? | Phillip Murray | 1/11/2015 7:26:56 AM | | | If a stakeholder register has been executed as part of the initial plan then this will simplify this step greatly. I would revisit the register and "scrub" it for a comprehensive list of internal and external stakeholders. PMBOK chapter 13 on pgs 395-396, para 13.1.2.1 Stakeholder Analysis, describes several classification models that can be used to identify stakeholders. I also found a small article that says some of the same things in a simpler manner. http://www.projectmanager.com/identify-project-stakeholders.php | | | | RE: Question 1 ..Stakeholder Identification ?? | David Brazauskas | 1/11/2015 8:02:45 AM | | | To expand upon Phillip’s post, it is critical for a project to identify the stakeholders at the beginning of a project. Stakeholders are the people that are identified that could impact or be impacted...
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...particular exam that you will receive is assembled from an exam question pool, so that no two students in the course will take exactly the same exam. There are separate question pools for the 30 objective questions (multiple choice, multiple answer, and matching—worth 5 points each and broken down by TCO), and the 7 essay questions (worth 20 points each and broken down by topic). The essay questions are all located at the end of the exam, so be sure to allow approximately one-half of your time for the essay questions. The essay questions can each be answered in 1-2 paragraphs. To prepare for the exam, review the following materials from each week’s material 1. Re-read the “Lecture” page, including the examples. 2. Read the instructor’s “wrap-up” to the two threaded discussion questions. 3. Review your graded answers to the weekly chapter-end homework problems. 4. Review your graded quizzes (Weeks 1-7). The objective questions are drawn largely from weekly quiz questions and chapter-end homework questions. In reviewing weekly quiz and homework answers, make sure you understand why the correct answers are correct. Re-read the relevant page(s) in the text, if necessary. The essay questions are drawn from issues raised in the threaded discussions, chapter-end homework questions, and material in the weekly “lectures.” Specifically, review the following topics in order to prepare the essay questions you might receive: * TCO 1—Negligence. The elements of...
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...College, Poondi, Thanjavur – 613 503, Tamilnadu, India V. Chinnathambi Department of Physics, AKGS Arts College, Srivaikundam – 628 619, Tamilnadu, India In this manuscript various components of research are listed and briefly discussed. The topics considered in this write-up cover a part of the research methodology paper of Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) course and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) course. The manuscript is intended for students and research scholars of science subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, statistics, biology and computer science. Various stages of research are discussed in detail. Special care has been taken to motivate the young researchers to take up challenging problems. Ten assignment works are given. For the benefit of young researchers a short interview with three eminent scientists is included at the end of the manuscript. I. WHAT IS RESEARCH? Research is a logical and systematic search for new and useful information on a particular topic. It is an investigation of finding solutions to scientific and social problems through objective and systematic analysis. It is a search for knowledge, that is, a discovery of hidden truths. Here knowledge means information about mat- ters. The information might be collected from different sources like experience, human beings, books...
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...| | |QNT/351 | | | |Quantitative Analysis for Business | | | |Dr. Jacquelyn B. Frausto | | Copyright © 2013, 2012, 2011 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course integrates applied business research and descriptive statistics. Students will learn to apply business research and descriptive statistics in making better business decisions. Other topics include examination of the role of statistics in research, statistical terminology, the appropriate use of statistical techniques, and interpretation of statistical findings in business and research. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged...
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...Fin345 Session 2 Why Study Real Estate? Part 1 – Present Economic Considerations Demographics shaping your future and the future of real estate 2 Housekeeping Items 1. Seating Charts 2. Finance 336 and WA. State R.E. licensure • RE Fundamentals 60 hrs. (FIN 345=60 + FIN 346=15) • RE Practices 30 hours available on line from: • Rockwell ceshop proSchools and many more • Cost for proschools $199 • Exam prep. tests usually run around $99 • Pass broker exam • Fingerprinting 3 Monday’s Homework Assignment BOOK - Read Chapter 1 Question – Labor Stats. 1. Define U-3 and U-6 - One or two sentence hint: (http://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm) 2. Find the U-3 and U-6 Percentages for Washington State 4 Today’s Topics The Economy – effects upon, and from, R.E. – Demographics (for whom) – Employment (why is this important to R.E.?) – Age cohorts (what effect could this have upon R.E.?) – The R.E. market changes -- but -- it never goes away – R.E. related investing -- knowing where to look and what to look for (for you and your clients) 5 Unemployment Figures A Closer Look 6 Employment Changes Over Time Animated Unemployment Map – Used with permission of LaToya Egwuekwe 7 Discussion of U-3 and U-6 figures • • • • • • • What figure do we hear about on the news? How does the BLS obtain these numbers? As students, are you in the labor force? What does U-3 represent? What does U-6 represent? Is U-6 all the unemployed...
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...Resource These vocationally contextualised materials are designed to support Essential Skills tutors and trainers who are delivering Essential Skills Communication to Health / Social Care workers and students. They are not intended to be used as a set programme, rather as a resource for tutors, to support the planning and delivery of programmes suited to the needs of their own particular groups of learners. This resource should not be the sole source of task materials, since part of the ethos of essential skills is that the learner should have some choice in their materials for reading, writing and speaking/listening. Tutors can adapt the materials to suit the specific needs of their groups. The resource is suitable for use up to Level 2 Essential Skills Communication. Appendix 1 contains some information on how the use of these materials can generate evidence for some specific units in QCF Health and Social Care qualifications. Acknowledgements Thanks are due to the North West Regional College and Belfast Metropolitan College for the development of these resources and also for piloting the resources in their respective courses. They have proven to be successful with feedback...
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...written and the fact that events and ideas are open to interpretation. Within History 420 (Readings in History), students then move into another level of explanation, where they read intensively on a topic and provide their own historiographical explanations for a series of events/ideas. Therefore, historiography can be described as “the history of history.” What this means in practice is an exploration of a specific topic, and how historians have explained events or people over time, i.e. how their explanations have changed due to their own worldview and/or ideological bent, due to re-interpretation of previously-viewed sources, due to the availability of new sources, previously unexplored, and/or due to the application of different questions and/or methodologies to sources. Revision of prior interpretations of the past is an implicit and important element of historiography. It requires students to not only be able to explain the different schools of thought or interpretations but also potentially to develop their own explanations, based on their assigned readings. The focus of a historiographical essay is not on the event or person itself; rather, it is on the interpretations of the event or person. Process: 1. Read and analyze multiple works independently on the same topic (assigned on weekly or...
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...Science Institute Research Generation Conference and 2004 AMA Doctoral Consortium for helpful feedback and suggestions. BRANDS AND BRANDING: RESEARCH FINDINGS AND FUTURE PRIORITIES ABSTRACT Branding has emerged as a top management priority in the last decade due to the growing realization that brands are one of the most valuable intangible assets that firms have. Driven in part by this intense industry interest, academic researchers have explored a number of different brand-related topics in recent years, generating scores of papers, articles, research reports, and books. This paper identifies some of the influential work in the branding area, highlighting what has been learned from an academic perspective on important topics such as brand positioning, brand integration, brand equity measurement, brand growth, and brand management. The paper also outlines some gaps that exist in the research of branding and brand equity and formulates a series of related research questions. Choice modeling implications of the branding concept and the challenges of incorporating main and interaction effects of branding as well as the impact of competition are discussed. One sentence abstract Much research...
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...current contract is due to expire next year. Last week the Managing Director of Leasdille and Simmons met with Tesco’s chief sunglasses buyer in order to negotiate a new contract. At the end of a heated discussion Tesco announced that they would only re-new their contract with Leasdille and Simmons provided that they could get a price cut of 10% next year. Yesterday Meqele, the Managing Director met with Gemma, the Production Manager to discuss the implications of the new Tesco contract. “Look Gemma at present 60% of our turnover comes from Tesco. We might not like what they are offering but there are plenty of our competitors out there who would gladly accept Tesco’s new contract. Accepting a 10% price cut need not reduce our profits, so long as we can cut our costs by a similar amount. There’s no other solution, as Production Manager you have got to increase efficiency” Meqele went away from the meeting with an idea in her mind. She thought that the best way of decreasing costs inside the factory was by reducing wastage. The company had always operated with a traditional quality control system. The sunglasses were checked once for quality at the end of the production line by a specialist team of quality control inspectors. The same inspectors were also responsible for trying to re-work any poor quality...
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...School of Management MGMT101 Introduction to Management Trimester 2, 2014 COURSE OUTLINE ------------------------------------------------- Names and Contact Details COURSE COORDINATOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME MANAGER Sashi Meanger Garry Tansley Room: RH919, Rutherford House Room: EA105 Phone: 463-6942 Phone: 463-6968 Email: Sashi.Meanger@vuw.ac.nz Email: Garry.Tansley@vuw.ac.nzpaul.singh@vuw.ac.nz ADMINISTRATOR Misa Ito Room: RH1022, Rutherford House Phone: 463-5397 Email: Misa.Ito@vuw.ac.nz Trimester Dates Teaching Period: Monday 14th July – Friday 17th October Study Period: Monday 20th October – Thursday 23rd October Examination Period: Friday 24th October – Saturday 15th November (inclusive) Withdrawal from Course 1. Your fees will be refunded if you withdraw from this course on or before Friday 25th July 2014. 2. The standard last date for withdrawal from this course is Friday 26th September. After this date, students forced to withdraw by circumstances beyond their control must apply for permission on an ‘Application for Associate Dean’s Permission to Withdraw Late’ including supporting documentation. The application form is available from either of the Faculty’s Student Customer Service Desks. Class times and room numbers Lectures: | 10048 | Monday & Wednesday | 8.00 – 8.50am | New Kirk KKLT303 | | 10049 | Monday & Wednesday | 10.00 – 10.50am | McLaurin...
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...ETT4/5 - Effective Teaching Practices: Instructional Presentation and Follow-Up Course of Study Your competence for this course of study will be assessed as you complete the 10 tasks that make up the ETT4/5 performance assessment and the EIO4/5 objective assessment. Introduction Welcome to Effective Teaching Practices. Effective teaching depends on effective planning. Teachers need to devote systematic thought to what they want students to learn and to how students will best acquire knowledge and skills. You will learn how to select, develop, and evaluate instructional materials as well as strategies to use to accomplish specific learning goals. You will plan for effective instruction, and then implement those plans. Interactive teaching includes appropriately responding to all of the details that emerge during the presentation of lessons. Teaching is a process. Teachers plan lessons and then present them. They use information about the lesson presentation to make appropriate changes to improve both student achievement and lesson presentation. Outcomes and Evaluations There are 10 competencies covered by this course of study; they are listed in the "Competencies for Effective Teaching Practices: Instructional Presentation and Follow-Up (ETT4/5)" page. The list of competencies is a good overview of precisely what you will know and be able to do at the conclusion of this course of study and demonstrate through assessment. Teaching Dispositions Statement Please review the...
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