not only to directors but to officers more broadly (directors‚ company secretaries and certain others). The NSW Court of Appeal found that Mr Shafron was an officer on two distinct bases. Firstly‚ because Mr Shafron was the company secretary of James Hardie Industries Ltd (JHIL)‚ and secondly‚ because Mr Shafron was a person who makes‚ or participates in making decisions that affect the whole‚ or a substantial part‚ of the business of the corporation. On appeal‚ Mr Shafron argued that the duties
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CBU Case Study Accounting today is much more complex and difficult to understand than it has been in the past. Due to the increasing complexity Accounting Information Systems have been created to alleviate some of the pressures facing accountants. According to Frederick Jones and Dasaratha Rama (2006)‚ Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are moving businesses from the functional approach to an integrated approach for managing transactions (p.684). Having knowledge and experience with the
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Case study If you were James Pruitt‚ how would you go about finding what the local business customs in Saudi Arabia are? What other environmental factors would you look for? How would you respond to them? Working practices in Saudi Arabia are heavily influenced by culture‚ so it is essential for Westerners doing business in the Kingdom to understand Saudi the personal manner in which they conduct their business. Preparation‚ and some basic knowledge of Saudi business culture‚ can make the difference
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Esophageal cancer in a young woman with bulimia nervosa: a case report Eric T Shinohara‚ Samuel Swisher-McClure‚ Michael Husson‚ Weijing Sun and James M Metz Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007‚ 1:160 doi:10.1186/1752-1947-1-160 Received: 27 July 2007 Accepted: 29 November 2007 Published: 29 November 2007 Introduction In the past twenty-five years‚ the prevalence of esophageal adenocarcinoma has increased dramatically within the United States and it is now the most common histological type
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dynamic working environment. There may be some built – in biases in the minds of the rater ‚ based upon his own perception of things‚ people and performances. A person maybe rated higher because he is a “nice” person or because of his seniority. The study limits its scope within the Butuan Branch ULDI and focuses on the ongoing system employed by the real state firm. Introduction One of the essential and crucial HumanResources Management functions is the performance evaluation. Other than hiring
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Case Study NUPATH FOODS‚ INC. James Ornath read the latest sales figures with a great deal of satisfaction. The vice president of marketing at Nupath Foods‚ Inc.‚ was pleased to see that the marketing campaign to improve sagging sales of Prowess cat food was working. Sales volume of the product had increased 20 percent in the past quarter compared with the previous year and market share was up. The improved sales of Prowess could be credited to Denise Washington‚ the brand manager responsible
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CASE STUDIES Submitted for course SSC 130 Essentials of Psychology February 20‚ 2013 Assignment number 05020600 THE CASE STUDY OF: THE FALLEN ATHLETE (P.79) 1. In the story‚” The right side of Tim’s body was paralyzed and he was having great difficulty trying to talk”. Thus‚ it suggests that the left hemisphere of Tim’s brain suffered during his stroke‚ because language processing occur more in the left side if the brain. In general‚ the left hemisphere concentrates
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James Lawson and Nonviolent Direct Action Despite efforts to garner legislative equality for African Americans after the Civil War‚ the actual implementation of change did not occur for some time later. The 13th and 14th Amendments‚ which ended slavery and granted the rights of citizenship to black Americans‚ were often ineffectual in promoting racial justice. Throughout the following decades‚ race relations struggled against the remnants of Jim Crow to the forefront of American social issues‚ but
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2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly
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CASE STUDY #1 A Job Search Dilemma Eric‚ a second-semester senior‚ is looking for a job. Anxious about finding work in the worst economy in decades‚ he sends out scores of resumes for a wide variety of positions. The first call he gets is for a position that doesn’t really interest him‚ but he figures he should be open to every opportunity. He schedules an interview‚ which he aces. In fact‚ the recruiter offers Eric the job on the spot. He would like Eric to start as soon as possible. Should Eric
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