administration refers to systems, structures, processes, resources, and the policy, environment, government, the inter-governmental and inter-local fiscal relations, affecting among others, the following: * the giving of allotments and grants by the national government (NG) to local government units (LGUs); * sharing of taxing powers between the NG and the LGUs, and among LGUs units; * policy on tax rates and structure; * revenue and expenditure planning;
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thoughtlessly uses to describe its aspirations. Is there anything transformational about the 2012 Budget proposals? In the course of presenting the Draft Budget, President Jonathan in paragraph 1 of 81 of his address states “this budget is a stepping stone to the transformation of our economy and country in our walk to economic freedom” and concludes in paragraph 76 thereof that “Mr. Senate President……the Proposal I lay before you this day seeks to sustain sound micro-economic growth that will translate to
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Opportunities: conditions that may help firm achieve strategic competitiveness Threats: hinders or constrains firm’s pursuit of strategic competitiveness Two types of environment Macro environment Micro environment (industry) Source: Robert M. Grant, Contemporary Strategy Analysis: Concepts, Techniques, Applications (5th edition, Blackwell, 2004) © 2007 Prof. Dr. Bernd Venohr 5 General environment (macro environment) Demographic – Population size, age structure, geographic mix, ethnicity
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Grant Proposal Introduction Statement: The We Care Foundation is a private charitable organization, dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in poverty in North Carolina. It also serve as a direct-service child abuse prevention and treatment program as well. Every day, children across the country are subjected to abuse or neglect by the very people they rely upon for safety and security--their parents or caregivers. Because no
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IBM REINVENTING EDUCATION: Research Summary and Perspective Introduction People all over the world are obsessed with improving public education. During the last US election, Americans split historically over who would be the next president. But they were passionately united on the highest priority of the new administration: Fix education. In poll after poll, people listed poor student performance as the nation's greatest liability and its most critical need. Despite years of debate and scrutiny
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directors named in the proxy statement for the coming year; • to approve our named executives’ compensation in an advisory vote; • to ratify the selection of our independent registered public accounting firm for 2013; and • on the shareowner proposals set forth on pages 44 through 49, if properly presented at the meeting. Shareowners also will transact any other business that may properly come before the meeting. You are eligible to vote if you were a shareowner of record at the close of business
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CHAPTER 9 SOURCES OF CAPITAL: OWNERS’ EQUITY Changes from Eleventh Edition Updated from Eleventh Edition Approach By comparison with Chapter 8, this chapter’s equity topics are relatively straightforward. I try to downplay the differences between equity accounting for unincorporated and incorporated businesses. As a consultant to the former, I urge them to impute market salaries for their employee-owners, so that their income can be compared with the pretax earnings of incorporated firms. Cases
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work at is a federal grant program, with about three hundred employees. The problem that we are experiencing is lack of communication with the employees from the administration department that the whole program is suffering and causing a decrease in production. Today companies are trying to make the most of every dollar to increase their competitive edge. Even a small decrease in overhead costs or increase in productivity can make big difference. Because our grant is allocated and ear
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STUDY NOTES FOR GFOA BUDGETING EXAM A. SOURCE: LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE – CONCEPTS & PRACTICES Chapter 4 – Operating Budgets: A budget can be a process, a document, an accounting ledger, a plan, or a system. Local gov’t budgeting process unique – product of geographical, historical, economic, political and social factors peculiar to that jurisdiction. Budgeting is a unified series of steps to line and implement four functions: ❑ policy development – as policy instrument
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RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENT DRUG ABUSE NIH GUIDE, Volume 25, Number 37, November 1, 1996 PA NUMBER: PA-97-005 P.T. 34, AA Keywords: Drugs/Drug Abuse National Institute on Drug Abuse PURPOSE The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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