Memo Date: July 15‚ 2015 To: M International From: Team 17 Re: Accounting for a Loss Contingency for a Verdict Overturned on Appeal M International and W Inc. have been engaged in long-standing litigation over a specific patent infringement matter. Pertains to the accounting for this contingency loss‚ this memo has made the following conclusions: 1. For the year-end December 31‚ 2007‚ financial statements‚ M should record $17 million as a liability. 2. M should adjust its liability for the year-end
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for Pending Litigation and a Verdict Overturned on Appeal Our team is given the task to account for a pending litigation. We are to determine how pending litigation should be reported on the current and future financial statements. M Corporation was sued for patent infringement and we will present whether M Corporation should accrue a liability‚ disclose a liability‚ do both‚ or do nothing. The case accounting for the litigation and the subsequent overturned verdict was ongoing for four years
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Native title was not recognised in Australia until 1992 when the High Court in the Mabo decision overturned the doctrine of terra nullius. This led to the legislation of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) and the establishment of the National Native Title Tribunal. Now Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders had the right to make native title claims but this was a very expensive‚ slow and time-consuming process making it ineffective for Indigenous people to regain ownership of their traditional land
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1. The "public comment" period closes on an OSHA proposed regulation‚ and your business had filed a public comment against the proposed regulation explaining that the regulation would not fix the problem that OSHA was trying to remedy‚ that the regulation would cost more than the problem itself‚ and that the regulation was a tax‚ not a safety change. List two arguments available to your company that may succeed in overturning the regulation. Answer: The proposed regulation would not fix the problem
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i) What is the state of nature and what is a social contract? Where the Spelunceans really in a state of nature? Rousseau It should also be noted that the third great contributor to ’social contract theory’ was Jean Jacques Rousseau. Although a champion of democracy‚ Rousseau wrote against the idea of rule by popular assembly. Rousseau wrote The Social Contract in 1762. He saw the Social Contract as the solution to the problem of how man may obey
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“States are at this moment of history‚ Still at the heart of the International Legal System.” ….Higgins The concept of Statehood can be traced back to the 15th-16TH Century in Europe where a system of Centralized Rule succeeded in subordinating all other institutions band groups‚ temporal and spiritual. The modern notion of Statehood was formalized at the peace of Westphalia(1648)________________. States were
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we cannot be triumphant in. If the Bible is an absolute in all of these theories‚ so is Jesus Christ. The first ethical theory is Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is the ethical theory that describes how the moral value or worth of an action is determined by how much benefit is gained from that action. It is measured by not only the amount of benefit gained but also the amount of people with benefits in the process. This theory hopes to provide guidance when choosing a course of action. Utilitarianism
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involves an attempt to develop a means of determining what values ought to be. 2. Ethics involves an attempt to formulate and apply rules to enforce values. C. Natural Law Theory （自然法理论） 1. Morality and the law are united in a common bond. 2. Law originates from an objective‚ superior force. D. Positive Law Theory （实在法理论） 1. Law comes from social institutions. （社会制度） 2. Law originates from an outside source that has emerged from within society. E. Ethical Decision Making （伦理道德决策）
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Chapter 5 – Motor Control Theories Concept: theories about how we control coordinated movement differ in terms of the roles of central and environmental features of a control system Theory and Professional Practice * What is a theory? * Accurately describes a large class of observations * Make definite predictions about results of future observations * Theories of motor learning and control focus on: * Explaining human movement behavior * Providing explanations
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claim. “Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment is granted.” The legal principles The plaintiff filed a charge against the defendant under Title VII and U.S. Code Section 1981. Title VII protects individuals against employment discrimination on the basis of race and color as well as national origin‚ sex‚ or religion. Section 1981 prohibits racial discrimination in the making and enforcement of private contracts. There are two theories of discrimination recognized under Title VII. Disparate treatment
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