contributed to the financial crisis and intensified its severity for financial institutions around the world. Also proponent’s views that FVA merely played the role of the proverbial messenger. This article’s objectives are to make sense of the current fair value debate and discuss whether many of the arguments in this debate hold up to further scrutiny. The authors have achieved their objectives by explaining what FVA is and discussing the key arguments for and against FVA. It also considers
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Global Warming is an Ethical Issue By Alan AtKisson "Ethics" is a word that does not usually get the blood flowing. It calls up images of Aristotle‚ schoolteachers‚ hearings where political leaders weakly defend their honor after having done something foolish that everyone else understands to be wrong. "Ethical issues‚" as a phrase‚ is even worse. Ethical issues are often precisely the ones we prefer to avoid‚ because they force us to confront the sometimes muddy difference between doing right
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AirAsia current issues The leading low fare airline in the Asia – AirAsia has been expanding rapidly since 2001‚ to become an award winning and the largest low cost carrier in Asia. With a fleet of 72 aircrafts‚ AirAsia flies to over 61 domestic and international destinations with 108 routes‚ and operates over 400 flights daily from hubs located in Malaysia‚ Thailand and Indonesia. To date‚ AirAsia has flown over 55 million guests across the region and continues to spread its wings to create more
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A current issue involving the Native Americans and the federal government is the settling of Cobell vs. Salazar Lawsuit filed in 1996. The lawsuit alleged illegal conduct in the management of Native American money held in trust accounts and managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The trust was established to allow nontribal groups to use Native American lands. The trust contains money from oil and gas production‚ coal production‚ grazing leases‚ and timber sales. Elouise Cobell was the treasurer
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In their CSR release in 2013‚ Telus says that 100% of their team members have taken an integrity course in regards too‚ ethics‚ privacy‚ security‚ respect and bribery. Telus goes on to address their strict ethics policy‚ how ethical complaints are handled and the actions taken after the complaint has been filed. Even though there was a high of 183 complaints in 2012‚ all was handled accordingly. Upon speaking with an employee in a corporate branch in Telus I was informed that
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the nursing practice begun‚ there have been many issues affecting this practice some of the issues are negative while others are positive. Current issues provide opportunities for debates about matters affecting nurses currently. The current issues help in providing forums to examine the contradicting views on the demands and difficulties that the nursing field is facing which affect the delivery of healthcare. The debating of current critical issues encourages independent thinking whereby it helps
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Current Issue in Aging Celia Langlinais University of the Rockies Abstract The difference between aging with Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease was the main reason to worry‚ and kindle gerontological curiosity into this field. Unexpectedly‚ the majority of the people have issues involving risk factors‚ screening‚ and evaluation of dementia with Intellectual Disability (ID) and or‚ with or without Down syndrome (Perkins‚ Friedman‚ 2012). The American Journal on Intellectual
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Coke Ethical Issues Our product is quite healthy. Fluid replenishment is a key to health. Coke does a great service because it encourages people to take in more and more liquids. - Michael Douglas Ivester‚ Coke’s Chairman and CEO. Public schools are funded by the public to educate the children as provided by state law. It is totally inappropriate that its facilities and employees are being used by corporations to increase their own profits on public time and with public dollars
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Current Issues in US Foreign Policy Within the term of each and every presidency‚ both the President and his staff make several crucial decisions regarding the the United States and its relationship with other nations. On the surface‚ such decisions may seem simple to make. However‚ this is not so. Many variables must be taken into account before each accord. Currently‚ several conflicts exist‚ ultimately which will need to be dealt with by President Obama and his administration in the coming months
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The mark of a despicable institution is when a dollar sign is put over a person’s head. In 1641‚ the colony of Massachusetts became the first place in America to legalize the slavery of Africans. From then on the slave market boomed across America‚ and over 12 million Africans were shipped through the middle passage to become American slaves. They worked hard on the southern plantations with no pay and barely enough food or shelter to get by. Disrespect their owner‚ and they could be tortured or
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