Unit 1: Going Global Revision Guide Keywords Birth rate – the number of births per 1‚000 people per year in a region Branch plant – a factory built in a country by a TNC that has its headquarters elsewhere Core- the most developed and highly populated region of a country Death rate – the number of deaths per 1‚000 people per year in a region Deindustrialisation – the decline of regionally important manufacturing industries Dependency – when a nation relies for income on outside
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GEOGRAPHY AS LEVEL REVISION NOTES: Population Change All Definitions: Population structure: the breakdown of a country’s population into groups defined by age and sex. Death Rate: the number of deaths per thousand population per year‚ expressed as deaths per thousand Age specific Death Rate: this shows death rates per thousand population by sex or age groups. Birth Rate: the number of live births per thousand population per year‚ expressed as births per thousand Infant Mortality: a measure
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tackling questions We show you how you can build your own exams We provide you with three mock exams including the December 2009 exam We provide the ACCA examiner ’s answers as well as our own to the June and December 2009 exams as an additional revision aid Our i-Pass product also supports this paper. FOR EXAMS IN 2010 First edition 2008 Fourth edition January 2010 ISBN 9780 7517 8052 9 (previous ISBN 9780 7517 6658 5) British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record
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[pic] Education and Methods in Context The Education specification 1 The role and purpose of education‚ including vocational education and training‚ in contemporary society • Functionalist and New Right views of the role and purpose of education: transmission of values‚ training workforce • Marxist and other conflict views of the role and purpose of education: social control‚ ideology‚ hegemony; ‘deschoolers’ (Illich‚ Friere): socialisation into conformity by coercion • Vocational
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International Journal of Trade‚ Economics and Finance‚ Vol. 1‚ No. 2‚ August‚ 2010 2010-023X Factors Influencing Activity-Based Costing Success: A Research Framework Zhang Yi Fei and Che Ruhana Isa becoming more and more popular [3-7] ABC aims to provide accurate costing information to managers to allocate activity costs to products and services by applying cost drivers [8]. Academics who advocate ABC‚ such as‚ Cooper and Kaplan [9]‚ and Swenson [10] argue that it provides more accurate cost
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OB Revision Sheet 1) How can a manager become a supportive communicator? 2) Discuss four ways to reduce misinterpretations when communicating with people from a different culture. 3) Describe the communication process. Explain the parts of this process. Case 1 Your company’s HR director is a believer in trait theories of leadership. He believes that he can differentiate leaders from non-leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. He asks for your expertise in helping
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What is a rights issue? Distinguish between a renounceable and a non-renounceable rights issue. How would a company account for such issues? A rights issue is an issue of new shares to existing shareholders whereby they are given the right to purchase additional shares in proportion to their current shareholdings. Usually the issue price is set below the current market price of the company’s shares. A renounceable rights issue allows the shareholder to take up the rights issue‚ let it lapse
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League of Nations set the treaties called the Paris Peace Treaties. Set by the Allies from War‚ not allowed membership! Memorize: GA NB TH ST L Treaty of Germain 1919 (with Austria) Recognized the spilt of 1918 AH. Austria wanted to be treated as a new state rather than successor of AH‚ this was denied war guilt still had to be paid‚ reparations‚ limit of 30‚000 forces. Old AH empire areas rewarded to Italy disputes. Italy received what they had been promised in Treaty of London 1915‚ South
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International Biodiversity Conference 2010 VCAA EXAM With increasing prevalence of environmental issues on a global scale‚ controversy has risen from whether ‘we’ as humanitarians are taking responsibility for our actions. A transcript of Professor Chris Lee’s speech at the 2010 International Biodiversity Conference asserts that‚ ‘the time to talk is over‚’ and that now “is the time for serious action” to be taken towards making amends for the environmental damage and economical imbalance in
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Chapter 13: Multiple Choice Questions 1. The typical time horizon for aggregate planning is a. less than a month b. up to 3 months c. 3 to 18 months d. over one year 2. Which of the following is the term used for medium range capacity planning with a time horizon of three to eighteen months? a. material requirements planning b. short-range planning c. strategic planning d. aggregate planning 3. Aggregate planning is capacity planning for
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