liability: liable without being negligent, i.e. faulty products -Absolute liability: conduct caused damage Types of damages: -Compensatory Damages: compensate injured parties for damages -Special damages: monetary losses: medical exp, lost wages, repair, etc. -General damages: nonmonetary losses like emotional distress precedence -Punitive Damages: punish or deter the defendant, most liability coverages doesn’t cover this -Joint and Several Liability: many defendants causing loss. Plantiff
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| Walt Disney Company in Shanghai & Tokyo | Operation in Asia II Region | | | Joanne JohnsonEnes TastanLucia ValadezStanley WoodardKeller Graduate School of ManagementHR584 Managing International Human Resources Instructor: Jack HuddlestonJune 17, 2012 | Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 LAWS AND REGULATIONS 3 DEMOGRAPHICS 5 CULTURE AND LANGUAGE 8 ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND CURRENCY FACTORS 13 LABOR RELATIONS 15 HRM POLICIES, PRACTICES, AND TRENDS 17 CONCLUSION 24 REFERENCES
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Chapter 1 The Government and Not-For-Profit Environment ------------------------------------------------- Questions for Review and Discussion 1. The critical distinction between for-profit businesses and not-for-profits including governments is that businesses have profit as their main motive whereas the others have service. A primary purpose of financial reporting is to report on an entity’s accomplishments — how well it achieved its objectives. Accordingly, the financial statements
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type of accounting process. Becoming knowledgeable about the various methods of cost accounting and how they are used will enable the company to operate the process appropriately. Understanding how an operating budget works to discipline a firm’s management is also useful information when running a company. To do so, one needs to know the actual elements of the budget and how they are constructed. Lastly, one more beneficial piece of information to comprehend would be what a variance analysis is
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income statement. b) Use in managerial accounting: In managerial accounting, product costs are needed for planning, for cost control, and for decision making. c) Use in cost management: In order to manage, control, or reduce the costs of manufacturing products or providing services, management needs a clear idea of what those costs are. (d) Use in reporting to interested organizations: Product cost information is used in reporting on relationships between firms and various
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property tax abatement on the increase on facility improvements. These funds can be used as security to help pay the 108 loan. Also future Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds received can be used as a guarantee for loan payments. Kava will benefit by having updated
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ABSTRACT Human Resource is the most important asset for any organization and it is the source of achieving competitive advantage. Managing human resources is very challenging as compared to managing technology or capital and for its effective management, organization requires effective HRM system. HRM system should be backed up by sound HRM practices. HRM practices refer to organizational activities directed at managing the pool of human resources and ensuring that the resources are employed towards
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PROSPECTS FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN HOSPITALS IN INDIA 1.4.2.2 CONSTRAINTS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN HOSPITALS IN INDIA 1.4.2.3 FOREIGN PRESENCE IN HOSPITALS IN INDIA 1.4.2.4 SUMMARY OF PROS AND CONS FOR FINANCING SOURCES OF HOSPITALS OBJECTIVES 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 3. ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF PRIVATIZATION IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR 3.1 QUALITY AND PRIVATE HEALTHCARE SERVICES 3.2 IMPACT OF FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN HOSPITALS IN INDIA 3.3 CONSUMER PERCEPTION
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with these and other stakeholders as required, should define the process of decision-making from beginning to end” (http://www.betterpharmacare.org/about-corevalues.cfm). Pharmacies stakeholders include patients and patient groups, community and hospital pharmacists, physicians, the College of Pharmacists of B.C., the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C., the B.C. Pharmacy Association, B.C. Medical Association, brand and generic pharmaceutical companies, wholesale distributors, and private
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Table of contents Contents Summary ................................................................................................................................................. 2 The benefits of the “big4” ....................................................................................................................... 3 Kraft..................................................................................................................................................... 3 Nestlé
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