Tutorial – week 5 Review Questions 1. What ethical‚ social‚ and political issues are raised by information systems? Explain how ethical‚ social‚ and political issues are connected and give some examples. Figure 4.1 can be used to answer this question. Information technology has raised new possibilities for behavior for which laws and rules of acceptable conduct have not yet been developed. The introduction of new information technology has a ripple effect‚ raising new ethical‚
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CHAPTER 21 PARTNERSHIPS TRUE/FALSE 1. Unlike a subchapter C corporation‚ a partnership is subject to only one level of taxation and can often liquidate in a tax-deferred manner. ANS: T A partnership is a flow-through entity subject to only one level of taxation. Liquidation of the partnership is generally tax-deferred. PTS: 1 REF: p. 21-2 | p. 21-3 2. Section 721 provides that no gain or loss is recognized on contribution of property to a partnership in exchange for an interest in
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Chapter 8 – Systems oriented theories 1. Introduction Rationale: Why corporate management might elect to voluntarily provide particular information to parties outside the organisation. (Page 250 & 251) Gray‚ Owen and Adams (1996): Legitimacy Theory and Stakeholder Theory are two theorietical perspectives that have been adopted by a number of researchers in recent years. The theories are sometimes referred to as “systems-oriented theories”. Within a systems-based perspective‚ the entity is assumed
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Chapter 8 IT WAS STRANGE‚ DIANORA THOUGHT‚ STILL MOVING THROUGH the crowded Audience Chamber as spring sunlight filtered down on Brandins court from the stained- glass windows above‚ how the so clear portents of youth were alchemized by time into the many-layered ambiguities of adult life. Sipping from her jeweled cup she considered the alternative. That she had simply allowed things to become nuanced and difficult. That the real truths were exactly the same as they had been on the day she arrived
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Peter Quarelli Cisco Chapter 1 1. B. Companies can use a WAN connect remote locations‚ and a LAN can make a local connection in a building. D. Only WANs require a CSU/DSU to be used on the ends of the cable. 2. A. IEFT‚ C. ISO‚ D.EAI‚ F.ITU 3. A. Routers enable different IP networks or IP subnets to communicate with each other C. Path selection is one of the main functions of a router. E. Routers have a central processing unit and memory. 4. A.ROM‚ B Flash Memory
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BUSI K4003 Corporate Finance Syllabus Summer 2012‚ (Summer Q) Instructor: Brendan Mallee bm2115@columbia.edu Class Time/Location: July 2nd – August 8th MW 6:10-9:30pm / Hamilton Hall 516 Course Description: This course examines important issues in corporate finance from the perspective of financial managers who are responsible for making significant investment and financing decisions. The course is designed to develop critical corporate finance skills including: financial statement
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1. What determines demand for any given currency in the foreign-exchange market? Supply and demand for currencies establishes prices in the foreign-exchange market. Demand for a country’s currency increases when foreigners buy that country’s products. Supply of a country’s currency increases when the residents of a country buy foreign products. 2. What determines supply of any given currency in the foreign-exchange market? The means by which equilibrium is reached in a fixed exchange
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Chapter 7 Corporate Strategy 1. Corporate strategy is concerned with ’where’ a firm competes (in which industries it competes)‚ while business strategy is concerned with ‘how’ a firm competes in a specific industry. @Pages and References: Pages 308-310 *a. T b. F 2. Product scope‚ international scope‚ and vertical scope are part of corporate level strategy decisions. @Pages and References: Pages 308-310 *a. T b. F 3. "How profitable do we want to be?" is the starting-point of corporate strategy
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Mercantilism – colony exists to benefit mother country; Brit gave naval protection Indirect tax – you don’t know you’re taxed Colonies haphazardly placed Prime Minister George Grenville enforced Nav Laws: 1. Imperial trade done on Brit ships w/ ¾ crew British; 2. Only certain goods exported to foreign countries unless they go through Britain; 3. Economic diversification; 4. Colonies a protected market for low price consumer goods Sugar Act- raise tax on molasses; Woolen Act- banned export of
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8.1 Skeletal problems of defining states- Antarctica is the only land mass that is not part of a state. Although‚ argentina‚ austrialia‚ chile‚ france‚ uk‚ new Zealand‚ and Norway have all claimed pieces of antartica. Korea: one state or two? – Once a colony of Japan and divided into two occupation zones by the united states and the former soviet union in WW II. Then in 1950‚ came about a south and north korea. Then in 2000 the two governments (north and south) decided to let the familes
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