Going Concern in a Credit Crisis – Call for Your Views Steve Priddy Director of Technical Policy and Research October 2008 You can comment on this piece at http://discuss.accaglobal.com/view_topic.php?id=49&forum_id=62 One of the fundamental accounting concepts is that financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis – that is that there is an underlying assumption that the entity will continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and that the entity has neither the intention
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Introduction Problem solving and decision-making are important skills for business and life. Problem-solving often involves decision-making‚ and decision-making is especially important for management and leadership. There are processes and techniques to improve decision-making and the quality of decisions. Decision-making is more natural to certain personalities‚ so these people should focus more on improving the quality of their decisions. People that are less natural decision-makers are often
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Going for the Look In Marshal Cohen argument responding to Steve Greenhouse article‚ “Going for the Look‚ but Risking Discrimination‚” Greenhouse argues that companies only hire people for their looks and not for their experience. This has been going on for a long time‚ but some people never really realized it. Companies like Abercrombie & Fitch and L’ Oreal that hire based on looks and not on the experience of the person‚ reminds me of a bully who does things and doesn’t get caught‚ but when
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Introduction Hook: Every time you turn around you hear something else about going green. The message is played often and loudly on TV’s‚ radios‚ advertisements‚ and much more. They all ask…What are you doing to go green? What changes to your life have you made to go green? Need: With gas and food prices going up at a amazing rate‚ we need to think of ways to help out our economy and environment. Credibility: I have been going green for the past couple of years. Although it might seem like a big
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Helen Corne Going the Distance Life is full of hard knocks. I was raised in a broken down apartment‚ by my single mother. She tried her best to support my sister and me. There were five apartments in each complex. There must have been at least ten trashy buildings pushed together by government funding. Each apartment had up to ten people hiding away in it. There were enough people to create our own city. The walls were so thin that I could smell the fried foods‚ and hear the neighbors yelling
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disagree with this part Cohen’s argument‚ because not everyone goes into a store just to see a “good-looking gal”. Another argument Cohen brings up is that retailers hire based on looks because it is smart and necessary. In the article “Going for the Look‚ but Risking Discrimination” by Steven Green gives a great example about Elizabeth Nill. She walks into Abercrombie stores and almost every time managers walk up to her and offer her a job. This proves that retailers hire only attractive
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Going for the Look In today’s younger‚ trendy‚ fashion stores‚ people are being hired for their looks and less because of their brains. Marshal Cohen‚ a senior industry analyst‚ argues about why hiring better looking people helps a store’s environment. Making a certain brand more desirable to buy‚ meaning the company shall make more money. Stores such as Abercrombie and Fitch have already set their image using this technique and have become quite successful. Hiring attractive people is not
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Quotes Quote 1: "And those who were standing watched‚ and walked Carefully near him‚ not knowing what he’d do - They’d all seen wonders‚ but nothing like this. And some said he was witchcraft‚ a phantom‚ And were afraid to answer him‚ then gasped at his voice And trembled‚ sitting motionless in that noble Hall‚ silent as stones‚ as corpses; All speech was swept away as if sleep Had dropped From the sky - but some Surely stopped Their tongues in courtesy
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Going for the Look Times continue to change and today people tend to judge a person on how they look. Companies are becoming more competitive and are looking for ways to attract customers. More retailers and companies are using the approach to hire based on appearance rather than work capability. Hiring should be based on work ethic‚ rather than appearance which can be discriminating. Companies all over the United States are denying people employment based on their physical appearance. In the
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Going with The Flow Katha Pollitt is a well-known writer and is most known for being a liberal essayist for The Nation. In 1985‚ she wrote an article titled “Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls”. Pollitt mentions that parents find it a lot easier to go along with those preconceived notions of boys and girls that society has set than it is to go against the norm. Society has set its own criteria for how we should raise children. Genders and gender-roles play a large part in molding a child to fit
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