Time Line 30‚000 B.C. -- 2001 B.C. circa 30‚000 B.C.: Paleolithic peoples in Europe etch markings on bones to represent numbers. circa 5‚000 B.C.: The Egyptians use a decimal number system‚ a precursor to modern number systems which are also based on the number 10. The Ancient Egyptians also made use of a multiplication system that relied on successive doublings and additions in order to find the products of relatively large numbers. For example‚ 176 x 313 might be calculated by first finding
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Review Sheet Results 1. Explain why increasing extracellular K+ reduces the net diffusion of K+ out of the neuron through the K+ leak channels. Your answer: Because outside a typical cell‚ the concentration of K+ is about 5mM and the concentration of Na+ is about 150 mM. When you increase the concentration of K+ from 5 to 25 mM and reduce concentration of Na+ from 150 to 130 mM‚ the outside has more concentration of K+. The membrane is permeable to a particular ion‚ that ion will diffuse down
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Chunking Practice Activity APUSH DBQ – 2005 To what extent did the American Revolution fundamentally change American Society? IN your answer be sure to address the political‚ social‚ and economic effects of the Revolution in the period from 1775-1800. Essay 1 Intro – The American Revolution spurred a dramatic shift in American Society which spawned numerous changes to the status quo‚ though in some cases this idealistic outpouring of principles was tempered with the harsh contradictions of colonial
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Explain the differences in culturally-based value systems relative to the amount of control a person feels he or she has over future outcomes? How does this belief influence the decision-making process? We all come from different backgrounds and each culture has different values and we must understand that things we practice may be offensive to individuals from a different culture and vice versa. Wise intercultural managers will try take into consideration the differences in verbal and nonverbal
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eurojournals.com/finance.htm Costing the Banking Services: A Management Accounting Approach Jordi Carenys Professor at the Management Control Department. EADA Business School EADA‚ c/o Aragó 204‚ 08011 Barcelona‚ Spain E-mail: jcarenys@eada.edu Tel: 934 520 844; Fax: 933 237 317 Web: www.eada.edu Xavier Sales Professor at the Management Control Department. EADA Business School E-mail: xsales@eada.edu Abstract The present study aims to outline the characteristics of the cost systems used in banking institutions
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that businesses use to determine the merits of an investment project. The decision of whether to accept or deny an investment project as part of a company’s growth initiatives‚ involves determining the investment rate of return that such a project will generate. However‚ what rate of return is deemed acceptable or unacceptable is influenced by other factors that are specific to the company as well as the project. For example‚ a social or charitable project is often not approved based on rate of return
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COMPUTER BASED CENSUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A CASESTUDY OF NATIONAL POPULATION COMMISSION (NPC) BY UGWU VALENTINE .C. A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE/ INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF NATURAL SCIENCES CARITAS UNIVERSITY AMORJI NIKE‚ EMENE ENUGU. IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF (B.SC) BACHELOR‚ OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. AUGUST‚ 2013 i APPROVAL PAGE This is to certify that this work carried out under the supervision
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Master Budget Master Budget Definition The master budget is the aggregation of all lower-level budgets produced by a company’s various functional areas‚ and also includes budgeted financial statements‚ a cash forecast‚ and a financing plan. The master budget is typically presented in either a monthly or quarterly format‚ and usually covers a company’s entire fiscal year. An explanatory text may be included with the master budget‚ which explains the company’s strategic direction‚ how the master
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“Describe how Enron could have been structured differently to avoid such activities” Enron consisted of a Board of Directors‚ Chief Executive Officer (CEO)‚ Chief Operating Officer (COO)‚ Chief Financial Officer (CFO)‚ Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) and a plethora of other officers. The upper level structure of Enron was normal compared to many other large businesses. The Board of Directors is charged with making policies for the company and the CEO and other officers are responsible for carrying
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Question 1: The WHS legislation provides a clause that the employer needs to do everything reasonably practical to ensure that safety of workers. The concept of reasonably practical requires employers to consider factors such as the severity of the risk‚ knowledge of the risk‚ ease of / cost of removing / mitigating the hazard and the information that the employer ought to have known about the risk. In this case scenario‚ the severity of the risk is that employees can get injured if not trained
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