"Hocus-Pocus Accounting" by Douglas R. Carmichael‚ Journal of Accountancy‚ October 1999; Vol. 188‚ Iss. 4; pg. 59‚ 5 pgs Abstract: SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt decried what he termed "accounting hocus-pocus" and called for coordinated efforts to uncover it. He targeted the practice by some companies of improperly boosting reported earnings by manipulating the recognition of revenue. Among the most common methods of doing this are the bill-and-hold transaction and a long list of sham transaction involving
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LEXICOLOGY. Interpreters’ Department Lecture I. Lexical units: their properties and specific features 1. Lexicology; a myth or reality. The object and the subject matter of lexicology. 2. Lexical units: their properties and specific features. 3. The description of the lexicon in generative grammar. 4. The function of lexical units. Nomination (verbalization) processes: causes‚ ways‚ types and results. 5. Motivated versus non-motivated lexical units. 6. The word – why? Why is the
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S A F E T Y A D V I S O R Operations & Proficiency No. 5 Fuel Awareness Almost home You’re almost home. Through your headset the engine beats louder as you wait for the sound of silence‚ and the knot in your stomach grows larger as time seems to slow down. Your last refueling opportunity is well behind now. It will surely take longer to turn around than to press on‚ and you wonder if backing off on the power will make a difference. But the airplane’s going
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There’s something in all of us: the desire to do something with our lives. Unfortunately‚ most of has have learned to suppress that desire so much that we’re not even aware of it anymore. We fill our lives with so many activities that there’s just no time anymore to do something meaningful and there are good reasons for doing this. The first is that we often don’t even know what we’re supposed to do with our lives. While we have a clear idea as children we often get discouraged because what we
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How do you define happiness? Prepared for: Mr. Rotella as a requirement for Composition I Prepared by: Kaitlyn Stewart 10/06/2014 Webster’s Dictionary defines happiness as “feeling pleasure and enjoyment because of your life‚ or situation”‚ when in reality it is much more. Happiness can be achieved in many ways‚ but once one a person fails they cease to try again. That failure holds them back from achieving the happiness that they deserve. Achieving happiness can be an easy task if you look
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"Do you believe in fate Neo‚" Morpheus asks. "No‚" Neo responds. "Why not?" "Because I don ’t like the idea that I ’m not in control of my life‚" Neo explains. In this scene (from the blockbuster smash hit The Matrix) a parallel can be drawn between Neo and Bigger Thomas (the protagonist in Richard Wright ’s novel Native Son) because Bigger shares Neo ’s feelings about fate. Bigger Thomas‚ a boy who has grown up with the chains of white society holding him back from opportunity‚ has only one solution
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28‚800 dollars‚ (www.bls.gov). I am sure that being employed somewhere for a very long time you salary might rise a little. I am not sure at this moment if I will be living in Indiana after I graduate‚ I have Tennessee on my mind. So I looked up both states. Indiana has a job demand for Medical Assistants as of 2012 was 11‚910. As for Tennessee as of 2012 it was 13‚090. I have some serious thinking to do. Medical Assisting does not require any other certification other than the one I am doing
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1. What do you learn from working in a group? I learnt that by working in a group‚ we work towards a shared purpose and common goals in doing so shared our varied experiences and skills and in the cooperation with each other. Students are much likely to perform well when they work effectively in a group. This is because good group work creates synergy – where it combine effect of the group is greater than the sum of individual effort. Working together as a group can apply individual perspectives
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The place I feel content isn’t the place I ever expected it to be. The very place I think of when I think to where I feel perfectly content is a fire pit behind my house. In my opinion it is in the perfect location. It is surrounded by trees and the pit is made of stones that were found in the woods. There are 3 benches surrounding it that sit perfectly into the earth around them. It looks like a picture cut out from a magazine. I could sit there for literally hours. The first time I realized
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Program Activities The program will have a workshop format to be located physically in WCTC’s School of Health. This format places an emphasis on the hygienist’s ability to apply the learned knowledge to the real-life practice of smoking cessation patient counseling (Caffarella & Daffron‚ 2013‚ p. 263). Hygienists are required to complete twelve credits of CE every two year period and of those credits‚ four are mandated as sterilization and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (Wis. Admin. Code
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