2. Assessment components & expectations 3. Administrative matters B. Conceptual overview 1. Purpose of accounting & its role in contracting 2. Concepts of recognition, measurement & disclosure in accounting Low Kin Yew Associate Professor Nanyang Business School Semester 1 2012-13 2 Course Contents Overview Contents 1 Fundamental concepts & issues in accounting Assets: a. Leases b.Investment property c. Financial assets Liabilities: a. Financial liabilities b. Deferred tax liabilities
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Article 1. ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL MARKET OUTLOOK (June 2012) No replay of 2011 in the cards for Canadian and US economies Part 1. Summary of the Article First article that I chose is the outlook for advanced economic and financial market particularly US, European union, Canadian and Chinese market that are strongly influence to the world market. Source of the Information and analysis are IMF World Economic outlook and RBC Economic research for year 2012 and forecast for year 2013. This
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still, colonists were willing to risk their lives for the opportunities the new land promised. These privileges included land, religious freedom, and a political voice. Ideas of individualism and reason from the Enlightenment movement became the fundamental basis and driving factor for
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ECO 372 Course Syllabus Course Description This course provides students with the basic theories, concepts, terminology, and uses of macroeconomics. Students learn practical applications for macroeconomics in their personal and professional lives through assimilation of fundamental concepts and analysis of actual economic events. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University
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their fundamental functions from a sociological perspective, and their connections to equality and inequality. One concept in the chapter that I found interesting was the social reproduction theory which explores how schools reproduce and reinforce inequalities. The chapter continues to state that “theorists argue that social and economic inequalities are built into the experience of schooling” (pg. 333) due to unequal access to resource and opportunities. Primarily the focus was on the economic inequality
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Nowadays, the concept of human rights has shaped up quite well, aiming to secure at least the very basic moral standards by which a living person should be respected. Even so, there are far too many breaches in them for us to call them finished and refined. There is still a lot of tyranny in the world, a lot of shady practices and even in the strongest upholding countries for human rights. Be it because of a complicated political or moral situation or pure savagery or tyranny, let’s look at the list
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Battle of the Ideas: A review of economic concepts ECON-101 Amara Henderson-Graham Grandview University Professor David W. Hannum October 9th, 2012 Commanding Heights: Battle of Ideas The neoclassical counterrevolution was a response to the interventionist dependence revolution of the 1970’s which has diagnosed the problem of underdevelopment to be due to the predatory behavior of the developed world. The neoliberal school of thought redefined underdevelopment instead to
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are agent and fiduciary and ethical decision making that consists of seven basic principles. In economic view of marketing decisions is to seeking maximum profits while sociological view adds other elements such as organizational ethical climates, organizational justice, and organizational harms that could be produced by managers. The main justification of a market system over other forms of economic organization is its promotion of efficiency and welfare. Definition of efficiency is obtaining the
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OIM 310 Intro to Management Science - The most frequently used methods in modeling and analyzing business and economic problems. The process of abstracting and model building, and the role of various types of models in description and decision making. OIM 320 Quality Management - Quality control concepts including: fundamental computer and statistical concepts: Statistical Process Control (SPC) using control charts; methods for quality improvement; acceptance sampling; industrial experimentation
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descriptive methods. The range and quantity of business ethical issues reflects the interaction of profit-maximizing behavior with non-economic concerns. Interest in business ethics accelerated dramatically during the 1980s and 1990s, both within major corporations and within academia. For example, today most major corporations promote their commitment to non-economic values under headings such as ethics codes and social responsibility charters. Adam Smith said, "People of the same trade seldom meet
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