OFFSHORE ACCOUNTING - PROSPECT FOR BANGLADESH Introduction Global compaGlobalisation, stakeholder pressures, firm re-organisation, and changes in the political and regulatory environment present challenges and opportunities to firm finance and accounting functions to improve their value-add contributions to the business. One such opportunity is the offshore outsourcing of finance and accounting services. The business process outsourcing (BPO) market has grown substantially over the last decade
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such a large, heterogeneous grouping. An east-Asian or a pan-Asian FTA, by discriminating against third countries, would compromise regional production networks linked to global supply chains. Moreover, huge economic gaps and enduring political differences will stymie Asian regional integration for some time to come. As for regional monetary and financial cooperation, it is embryonic, very soft and confined to east Asia. Asian regional integration is not likely to come about through top-down regional
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ON ISLAM and INEQUALITY Introduction Fish (2011) in his book named “Are Muslims Distinctive: A Look at the Evidence.” discusses whether Muslims show any systematic differences on individual and country levels in various issues such as democracy, large scale violence, corruption, tolerance and social inequality. In terms of inequality, Fish compares Muslim and non- Muslim countries in relation to gender and income inequality. As a result of his data analyses he concludes: “On gender based inequality
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Inequality in health will be explored by focussing on child mortality in two countries; Nigeria and UK. This paper will examine the influence of social class, race, culture, gender and age. It will also examine and try to explain the difference in mortality and mortality rates in UK and in Nigeria with the focus on analysing why health is socially determined. For example in Nigeria the life expectancy at birth is 51years whereas in UK is 80 (UNICEF 2010). Infant mortality (death) rate refer
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Strengthening the Ombudsman Institution in Asia Improving Accountability in Public Service Delivery through the Ombudsman About the Asian Development Bank ADB’s vision is an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty. Its mission is to help its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people. Despite the region’s many successes, it remains home to two-thirds of the world’s poor: 1.8 billion people who live on less than $2 a day, with 903 million struggling
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We will look further into the LGBT community between Asian and Western countries. Homosexuality has been a characteristic of human culture since the course of the 19th century. After the modern gay rights movement that began in 1969, in America, more people around the world started to change their mindset of seeing gay rights as “a mental illness to cure” to having more people trying to understand LGBT through biology, psychology, history and cultural variations of sexual practices and identity
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distance? 11 7. Make an analysis of India based on the article of Ghemawat. 12 8. Make an analysis of Russia based on the article of Lovett/ Simons & Kali. 13 9. What would be your advice if your group was the management team and had to decide between entering Russia or China? What will be your group’s primal basis for choosing? 15 Conclusion 17 Sources 18 1. Why does Dell think it should expand globally? The company’s decision whether to enter international markets or not cannot be
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Hypothesized Model Rehman Safdar, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Pakistan Ajmal Waheed, Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan Khattak Hamid Rafiq, National University of Modern Languages, Pakistan ABSTRACT Researchers have developed a relationship between HRM practices and organizational performance, but the relationship between HRM practice like job analysis – employee Job performance remains unexplored. This paper, based on a study of employees of Pakistan Public sector regulatory
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9-204-109 REV: OCTOBER 23, 2006 MIHIR DESAI Globalizing the Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES In June 2003, Rob Venerus, director of the newly created Corporate Analysis & Planning group at The AES Corporation, thumbed through the five-inch stack of financial results from subsidiaries and considered the breadth and scale of AES. In the 12 years since it had gone public, AES had become a leading independent supplier of electricity in the world with more than $33 billion in assets
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values and knowledge, changing the roles of students and teachers, and producing a shift in society from industrialisation towards an information-based society. It reflects the effect on culture and brings about a new form of cultural imperialism. The rise of new cultural imperialism is shaping children, the future citizens of the world into ‘global citizens’, intelligent people with a broad range of skills and knowledge to apply to a competitive, information based society. Globalisation and technological
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