company. It has employed over 96‚000 people. Strategic decisions are usually long term decisions which are often risky and speculative. A strategic decision made by British Petroleum was to make redundancies of up to 620 from their solar power business to make the cost of solar power cheaper. ‘…part of the strategy to “reduce the cost of solar power to that of conventional electricity’. ‘BP blamed the cutbacks on the credit crunch and lower-cost competition saying its global manufacturing capacity
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How to Complete Your IOSH Project Assignment Silicon Beach Training Silicon Beach Training · 86 Gloucester Road‚ Brighton‚ BN1 4AP +44 (0)1273 622272 - info@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk Follow Silicon Beach Training Completing your IOSH Project Assignment PAGE 1 Introduction Part of achieving your IOSH Managing Safely accreditation involves completing a project assessment about your workplace. Here we’ve put together our IOSH Project Assignment guide to help you complete your assessment. Each
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Basic Accounting Concepts and Business Structures Shannon Goshert ACC 537 July 25‚ 2010 Angela Rose Abstract Basic accounting concepts and business structures go hand-in-hand. Usually the business structure will determine the type of accounting concepts it will use. Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) are needed for effective accounting information. Basic Accounting Concepts and Business Structures Basic accounting concepts and business structures are important to a business’s
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BUSINESS FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING Unit short code : BUSFINACC REFERRAL CW1 ‚ JULY 2012 QUESTION 1 Adjustments | | | | | | | Closing stock = £111 317 | | | | | | Ordinary shares = 300 000 | | Preference shares = 50 000 | | nominal value = £0.5 | | | nominal value = £1 | | | share capital = 300 000* 0.5 = £150 000 | | share capital = £ 50 000 | | ordinary share dividend = 18% | | preference share dividend = 12% | | ordinary dividend = 150 000 * 0
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a) Explain six assessment methods identifying how and when they can be used. Here is my explanation of the six assessment methods that I would choose that work well in my own specialism. Having watch these being delivered on our employability courses I feel these are the ones that work the best with our range of learners. A well written project will help the learner provide evidence of knowledge and skills” Ann Gravells 2008 On the employability courses we find observation is a good way to
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subsidiary Lab126. This places Amazon squarely in the hardware and software development business‚ a further diversification of its interests. 2. Amazon is competing with Google and Microsoft because Google and Microsoft offer their customers rival computing solutions‚ including database management‚ storage‚ and running programs on remote servers. In short‚ Amazon‚ Google and Microsoft are all offering business solutions to companies. These solutions include Software as a Service (SaaS) and Hardware
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Describe how groups can influence people in positive and negative ways. We as people have many different roles within our life‚ these roles serve many different purposes. We also we find we belong to different groups in which we play our different roles‚ this makes up our social identity. It is these groups that can have a negative or a positive effect on ourselves. We can be part of the “in group” or the “out group” depending on somebody’s experience of the membership of that group‚ sometimes
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Unit 201 – Manage own performance in a business environment Planning work and being accountable to others (1.1-1.10) The purpose of guidelines and procedures is so that I know what has to be done and how it has to be done. Then there is no chance of me going wrong and making mistakes. The purpose of this Code of Practice is to establish clear and mutual expectations. This helps to minimise the risks and problems of personal difficulties‚ problems with supervision‚ or bad performance. Planning
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Unit 3 P1 P1 – describe how marketing techniques are used to market products in two organisations. Overall concept: The main thing behind marketing in a business is finding the customer’s needs and produce the product/ services to satisfy their needs‚ this way the customer can choose what they would want included in their product/ service. A business that follows this rule is market-orientated. There is alternatives orientation for businesses‚ these are; The production concept: This is where
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Organic food is defined as produce (animal and plant) that is grown without the aid of any chemicals or pesticides‚ this means the animals are fed organic feed and the plants are grown in a very different way to most foods we see at the supermarket. Many people purchase organic food because they think that the nutritional benefits will make up for the extra money that you spend. Lots of people say that the manufacturers of organic food lie to us when selling these products‚ they say that there aren’t
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