Technology Through innovative e-learning participate from your home, office or facility WHAT YOU WILL GAIN: • Skills and know-how in the latest technologies in mechanical engineering technology • Hard hitting know-how in pumps, compressors, piping, seals and machinery safety • Guidance from experts in the field of mechanical engineering technology • Networking contacts in the industry • Improved career prospects and income • A world recognised IDC Advanced Diploma in Mechanical Engineering Technology
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interest rates, or its currency's value, as classical economics insists. A nation's competitiveness depends on the capacity of its industry to innovate and upgrade. Companies gain advantage against the world's best competitors because of pressure and challenge. They benefit from having strong domestic rivals, aggressive home-based suppliers, and demanding local customers. In a world of increasingly global competition, nations have become more, not less, important. As the basis of competition has shifted
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for socioeconomic and cultural development of Bangladesh through a concerted grassroots approach.It is an innovative non-profit research organization of resourceful professionals working in the arena of research and development. It is engaged in quantitative and qualitative research work, training, communication and advocacy, cultural learning and developmental activities. The organization was incorporated in July 1994 under the Companies Act, 1913 (section 26) with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies
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Quotations, 9th ed. 1901. IN THE MUDDLED DAYS BEFORE THE RISE of modern finance, some otherwisereputable economists, such as Adam Smith, Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, and Harry Markowitz, thought that individual psychology affects prices.1 What if the creators of asset-pricing theory had followed this thread? Picture a school of sociologists at the University of Chicago proposing the Deficient Markets Hypothesis: that prices inaccurately ref lect all available information. A brilliant
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Foundations and Trends R in Finance Vol. 3, No. 1 (2008) 1–93 c 2009 C. Parsons and S. Titman DOI: 10.1561/0500000018 Empirical Capital Structure: A Review Christopher Parsons1 and Sheridan Titman2 1 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Chris Parsons@kenan-flagler.unc.edu University of Texas at Austin, USA, Sheridan.Titman@mccombs.utexas.edu Abstract This survey provides a synthesis of the empirical capital structure literature. Our synthesis is divided into three parts
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Disclosures of methodologies of rating 6. Rating of complex products like structured obligation 7. Uniformity or otherwise in definition and rating nomenclature of CRAs in India 8. Consistency of rating data with accounting data 9. Overall evaluation of what CRAs have done in terms of value addition or the Indian economy NISM constituted a two-man Project Team to carry out the Study. The Team used an array of approaches, including a Literature Survey, Structured Questionnaires with CRAs, Unstructured Interviews
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Ethical and Professional Standards The candidate should be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct, familiarity with the Global Investment Performance Standards, and familiarity with corporate governance issues and risks affecting companies. Study Session 1 Ethical and Professional Standards Reading Assignments 1.* “Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct” Standards of Practice Handbook, 9th edition
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Project Management Achieving Competitive Advantage Chapter One • Introduction: – Why Project Management? What is a Project • Two definitions of project: – A project is a unique venture with a beginning and end, conducted by people to meet established goals within parameters of cost, schedule, and quality – Projects are goal-oriented, involve the coordinated undertaking of interrelated activities, are of finite duration, and are all, to a degree, unique • Difference between process
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12:36 PM Page 1 CHAPTER 1 Introducing human resource management Objectives By the end of this chapter you will be able to: ● define what is meant by the term ‘human resource management’ ● understand the roles of line managers and human resource managers in managing people ● outline the range of activities with which practitioners of human resource management are likely to be involved ● demonstrate how human resource management can make a difference by adding value to an organisation
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University of Sri Jayewardenepura Faculty of Graduate Studies Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Finance 2012/2013 FIN 5105 – Bank Management Evaluating the Performance of Commercial Bank of Ceylon and Hatton National Bank Lecturer Mr. S.N.B.M.W.Narayana Group Assignment Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Finance P age |2 Group Members 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Hiranya Disanayake Inoka Sanjeewani Kirani Perera D.D Kulathunga Nilusha Peiris -GS/PGD/APF/65
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