...BOFIT Discussion Papers 19 • 2011 Zhichao Zhang, Nan Shi and Xiaoli Zhang China’s new exchange rate regime, optimal basket currency and currency diversification Bank of Finland, BOFIT Institute for Economies in Transition BOFIT Discussion Papers Editor-in-Chief Laura Solanko BOFIT Discussion Papers 19/2011 23.7.2011 Zhichao Zhang, Nan Shi and Xiaoli Zhang: China’s new exchange rate regime, optimal basket currency and currency diversification ISBN 978-952- 462-714-6 ISSN 1456-5889 (online) This paper can be downloaded without charge from http://www.bof.fi/bofit Suomen Pankki Helsinki 2011 BOFIT- Institute for Economies in Transition Bank of Finland BOFIT Discussion Papers 19/2011 Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................................ 3 Tiivistelmä ........................................................................................................................................... 4 1 2 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 5 Theoretical model ..................................................................................................................... 11 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 3 Policy goal .................................................................................................................... 12 Trade...
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...Schedule A Itemizing Deductions Takisha Locke Tlocke020@students.ecsu.edu Federal Taxation Dr. Xiaoli Yuan November 21, 2014 Table of Contents Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………….. Who files the schedule A with their return………………………………………………………… Itemizing deductions……………………………………………………………………………….. Schedule A Detail………………………………………………………………………………….. Allowable Deductions……………………………………………………………………………… Non allowable deductions………………………………………………………………………….. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………. Takisha Locke Dr. Xiaoli Yuan Federal Taxation October 25, 2014 An Understanding of Itemizing Deductions Some taxpayers can become misunderstood on the meaning of itemizing deductions. Itemizing deductions are for those that can exceed their standard deduction, which is done by a couple of different ways. One way is by having certain deductions, such as, home mortgage interest, real estate taxes, and other tax deductions. Another way may be through force, because one spouse that may file married filling separate from the other spouse; may itemize deductions which will default the other spouse to itemize deductions rather if there are deductions to itemize or not. Nevertheless, taxpayers are miss informed on exactly what can be itemized or what cannot. Having a clear understanding of these, deductions will not only maximize the taxpayer’s taxable deductions, but will also minimize the notion of being audited. Understanding the tax return, as the taxpayer...
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...An experiment was done by a few researchers that wanted to see what effect physical education taught by specialist would have on elementary school kids. The experiment also was aimed at finding out if physical education helped out in academic achievement. The name of the experiment is Physical Education, Obesity, and Academic Achievement: A 2-Year Longitudinal Investigation of Australian Elementary School Children. The authors behind this experiment are Richard D. Telford, Ross B. Cunningham, Robert Fitzgerald, Lisa S. Olive, Laurence Prosser, Xiaoli Jiang, Rohan M Telford. The basis of the experiment was to find out whether PE (Physical Education) taught by specialist contributed to development academically, along with prevention of obesity in elementary school children. They didn't choose a side, they were just trying to collect data to see the effects. There was no definite hypothesis statement. Prior information on the experiment says that schools have always had to work on increasing literacy and numeracy proficiency but now are faced with trying to prevent obesity too. Physical activity is implied at the obesity end directly but there is evidence that it may benefit cognitive development as well (Hillmam, Erickson, Kramer 2008). In Australia the government elementary schools have PE that is conducted by a general classroom teacher, with little or no physical education training. In the States less time is being put towards PE because of literacy and numeracy test issued...
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...动物化与自然回归 ——对《百种神秘感觉》的生态解读 Animalization and Return to Nature An Ecological Reading of The Hundred Secret Senses By QIN Yuanyuan A Thesis Submitted to the School of English and International Studies Beijing Foreign Studies University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Chinese American Literature Course Supervised by Professor Pan Zhiming June 2014 Animalization and Return to Nature A Ecological Reading of The Hundred Secret Senses I Introduction Amy Tan, born in 1952, is acclaimed for her lyrically written tales of sensibility and conflicts in Chinese-American mother-daughter relationship, in which generational and cultural divergence is highlighted. Themes of loss and reconciliation, hope and failure, friendship and familial conflict, added with mystic oriental flavor and healing power, have made Tan’s writing emblematic and well-received. Following the publication of The Joy Luck Club (1989), The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), Amy Tan’s third novel The Hundred Secret Senses (1995) again enjoys a high popularity and evokes strong responses from both readers and critics. Despite the fact that The Hundred Secret Senses still exhibits Tan’s trademarks of “a strong sense of place, a many-layered narrative, family secrets, generational conflict, Chinese lore and history”, unlike the previous two that are generally praised, this novel gets mixed opinions. Most reviewers receive the...
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...Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................................3 Problem Statement .........................................................................................................................5 Research Objectives .......................................................................................................................6 Research Questions ........................................................................................................................6 Research Contribution ..................................................................................................................6 Literature Review ..........................................................................................................................7 Theoretical Framework .................................................................................................................8 Hypotheses Development ...............................................................................................................8 1.Improve the understanding of output importance of labor .....................................................8 2.Strengthen labor service personnel abroad for training, improve their overall quality and international competitiveness ...........................................................................................................9 3.Establishment...
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...American Journal of Scientific Research ISSN 1450-223X Issue 27(2011), pp. 68-83 © EuroJournals Publishing, Inc. 2011 http://www.eurojournals.com/ajsr.htm Banking Service Quality Provided by Commercial Banks and Customer Satisfaction Sulieman Ibraheem Shelash Al-Hawary Associate professor of Business Management, Department of Business Administration College of Financial and Business Administration Al al-Bayt University, Jordan Rashid M. Alhamali Associate professor of Industrial Management, Department of Qualitative Methods College of Business Administration, King Saud University Saudi Arabia Saad Abdullah Alghanim Associate professor of Health and Hospital Administration Department of Management, College of Business Administration King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the constructs of service quality and customer satisfaction in commercial banks operating in Jordan. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses qualitative methodology, a face to face survey was conducted to test the hypothesis, thirteen banks were chosen randomly in Jordan with their customers acting as respondents to survey, a sample includes 453 customers of Jordanian commercial banks. Findings – The study finds that the order of importance of the dimensions of service quality tested here is: Assurance; Reliability; tangibles; Empathy; and Responsiveness. customers satisfaction are mostly influenced by the service quality. customers indicated...
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...BUSM 1162 Management 1- Managing People Assignment 2 Individual Report Analysis and Critical Discussion of Competencies Based on CVF Framework Student ID: 3472503 Student Name: Xiaoli Sun Lecturer: Dr. Margaret Heffernan, O. A. M Tutor: Ashkan Khalili Due Date: 7th June 2015 Executive Summary As the Competing Values Framework (CVF) has been considered as an important construct for management in a business, managers use CVF to guide and examine employees’ performance. This report will take advantage of three tools: First, CVF Instrument, to examine current competencies like communicating and leading teams and competencies require further development like setting goals; the next two are Communication Styles Survey and Situational Leadership Style Questionnaire to find out strong skills like driver style and delegating style, and weak style like amiable style and coaching style. Then, related theories and concepts will be applied and interpreted to analyse the examined current competencies and skills and how to develop them further based on academic researches and articles. In this report, face negotiation theory, transformational theory and goal-setting theory are mainly used to have a detailed explanation about the competencies. Finally, a personal action plan will be made aimed to...
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...See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274097848 Energy management based on Internet of Things: practices and framework for adoption in production management ARTICLE in JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION · MARCH 2015 Impact Factor: 3.84 · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.03.055 CITATIONS READS 2 200 2 AUTHORS: Fadi Shrouf Giovanni Miragliotta Politecnico di Milano Politecnico di Milano 4 PUBLICATIONS 26 CITATIONS 28 PUBLICATIONS 308 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Available from: Fadi Shrouf Retrieved on: 26 January 2016 Journal of Cleaner Production 100 (2015) 235e246 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Cleaner Production journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jclepro Energy management based on Internet of Things: practices and framework for adoption in production management Fadi Shrouf a, b, *, Giovanni Miragliotta a a b Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Italy Department of Industrial Engineering, Business Administration and Statistics, ETSII, Universidad Politcnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain e a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Received 6 November 2014 Received in revised form 5 March 2015 Accepted 18 March 2015 Available online 27 March 2015 In today's manufacturing scenario, rising energy prices, increasing ecological...
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...Journal of Retailing 87 (3, 2011) 253–268 Franchising Research Frontiers for the Twenty-First Century Rajiv P. Dant a,∗ , Marko Grünhagen b,1 , Josef Windsperger c,2 a Michael F. Price College of Business, The University of Oklahoma, 307 West Brooks, Norman, OK 73019-4001, USA b Eastern Illinois University, School of Business, 4002 Lumpkin Hall, Charleston, IL 61920, USA c Center of Business Studies, University of Vienna, Brünner Strasse 72, A-1210 Vienna, Austria Abstract About four decades ago, during the formative years of the franchising industry, visionary authors like Oxenfeldt and Kelly (1968) and Ozanne and Hunt (1971) proposed a rich slate of research agenda which still continues to guide some of the contemporary scholarship in the franchising domain. This article (1) explicates some of the unique features of the franchising context that presumably inspired these pioneering authors, (2) discusses four established elements of ontology unique to franchising and isolates the remaining research gaps therein, (3) specifies a new slate of more contemporary research agenda for future scholarship, and (4) concludes with a brief discussion of the ten articles featured in this Special Issue of the Journal of Retailing dedicated to the theme of Franchising and Retailing. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Inc on behalf of New York University. Keywords: Franchising Research Agenda; Research Frontiers; Mixed Motives Context; Asymmetrical Power Setting; Twenty-First Century ...
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...datWorld Bank Office, Beijing www.worldbank.org.cn www.worldbank.org/china CHINA QUARTERLY UPDATE SUSTAINING GROWTH April 2012 The China Quarterly Update reviews recent economic developments in China, updates the economic outlook and lays out key policy challenges. This issue was produced by Philip Schellekens (task team leader) and Xiaoli Wan, in collaboration with Xiaofan Liu, Philip O’Keefe, Dewen Wang and Min Zhao, and under the overall guidance of Klaus Rohland, Sudhir Shetty, Bert Hofman and Ardo Hansson. Comments are gratefully acknowledged from country economists in the East Asia and Pacific Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit. The team would also like to thank Jianqing Chen, Tianshu Chen, Li Li, Li Ouyang and Yan Wang for support in the production and dissemination of this report. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or governments they represent. This report takes into account information available up to end of March 2012. Questions and feedback can be addressed to Philip Schellekens (pschellekens@worldbank.org). EXECUTIVE SUMMARY RECENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS The Chinese economy is in the midst of a gradual slowdown. A weaker global economic environment and tighter domestic policies combined to slow GDP growth from 10.4 percent in 2010 to 9.2 percent in 2011. Slow growth in the Euro area and sluggish recovery in the US limited...
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...Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal Corporate social reporting and reputation risk management Jan Bebbington Carlos Larrinaga Jose M. Moneva Article information: Downloaded by University of Strathclyde At 07:57 17 October 2014 (PT) To cite this document: Jan Bebbington Carlos Larrinaga Jose M. Moneva, (2008),"Corporate social reporting and reputation risk management", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 21 Iss 3 pp. 337 - 361 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513570810863932 Downloaded on: 17 October 2014, At: 07:57 (PT) References: this document contains references to 70 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 10839 times since 2008* Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Jeffrey Unerman, (2008),"Strategic reputation risk management and corporate social responsibility reporting", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 21 Iss 3 pp. 362-364 Carol A. Adams, (2008),"A commentary on: corporate social responsibility reporting and reputation risk management", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 21 Iss 3 pp. 365-370 Pekka Aula, (2010),"Social media, reputation risk and ambient publicity management", Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 38 Iss 6 pp. 43-49 Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by 117974 [] For Authors If you would like to...
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