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    Medium of Exchange

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    Medium of exchange is what a buyer uses to purchase either a good or service from a seller‚ in most cases this is going to be money. Money is an accepted medium of exchange because we know that we will be able to obtain goods and services if we have the money to purchase them. Unit of account is used to measure and record economic value. This means that we use this when the amounts will be measured in dollars and not the quantity of goods. The store of value is when someone will keep the money that

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    The Columbian Exchange

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    The Columbian Exchange is a term that titles the atlantic trade routes and the trading between the “Old World” and the “New World” from the 1500s to the 1700s. The Columbian Exchange connected Europe with Africa and the New World. Food‚ animals‚ people and weapons‚ and crops like tobacco were traded across the atlantic‚ as was diseases. With the recent discovery of the new world the Europeans took advantage of the new resources amongst the New World‚ and the New World begin benefiting from the Columbian

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    productive efforts instead of trying to produce everything it needs. Exchange is the process of trading surplus quantities of specialized products to others for other goods or services. Productivity determines output‚ output determines income‚ and income deter¬mines a society’s standard of living. Therefore‚ each individual or nation should try to increase its productivity. One way of doing this is through specialization and exchange. Specialization occurs when an economic unit limits the scope of its

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    Gift Tax in Bangladesh

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    practical experience of mechanism of collection of gift tax by National Board of Revenue (NBR). To complete the report successfully‚ we tried to gather information from News Paper‚ web sites. But the NBR does not provide information in the web site directly and even it does not publish total process to collect taxes from different sector. For this reason we had to visit NBR several times and thus we were successful to collect information about gift tax in Bangladesh. To complete this report‚ we

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    Foreign Exchange

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    Foreign trade financing is an integral part of banking business. Documentary Credit (also called letters of credit or “L/Cs”) is the key player in the foreign exchange business. With the globalization of economies international trade has become quite competitive. Timely payment for exports and quicker delivery of goods is‚ therefore‚ a pre-requisite for successful international trade operations. Growing complexity of international trade‚ separation of commercial parties across the globe and operating

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    The Ethics of Business Gifts

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    The Ethics of Business Gifts Introduction Gift is a thing that is connected with different emotions and it is a common action nowadays. It is nice to receive positive attention from others‚ to get know that someone cares about you and that someone has thought about you. Also it is pleasant to say thank you to someone who did something good to you or just show your affection‚ gratitude to someone by giving something. In both case to receive gratitude and giving it to others‚ people for many centuries

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    Hiba Gift In Islam

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    Definition of Hiba (Gift) and its Significance in Sharia By Ahmed Shahir Usmani 1-Definition of Gift (Hiba): To give some amount of wealth or goods (in self consent) by a mature or sane person is called Gift. Just like giving a house‚ money or clothes to a Muslim brother without any compensation. 2-The word Hiba falls under both Gift and Charity. Words like gift‚ charity‚ ransom and donation all has similar meanings. If the giver wishes to earn Allah’s mercy by giving to needy or dependant is

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    exchange student

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    Minnesota soil. Maybe I should back up and explain who Jocelyn is first. Over the summer my family got a call asking if we would host a foreign exchange student for three months. It was a no brainer my family all agreed it would be a great opportunity plus my friend had done it the year before and we instantly became best friends with her foreign exchange student Paloma. My parents thought it would be good for my sister and I to learn about another culture first hand. While I had imagined Jocelyn

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    Columbian Exchange

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    The Columbian Exchange has been one of the significant events in the history of world ecology‚ agriculture‚ and culture. The term is used to describe the enormous widespread exchange of agricultural goods‚ livestock‚ slave labor‚ communicable diseases‚ and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres that occurred after 1492. That year‚ Christopher Columbus’ first voyage launched an era of large-scale contact between the Old and the New World that resulted in this ecological revolution. This

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    us to understand what the theme of a story actually is. The theme of “The gift of Magi” is selflessness. Symbolism and Plot are two literary elements in this story that contribute to the theme. The theme in a story is associated with an idea that lies behind the story (R.W. Clugston‚ 2010) To understand what the theme of the story is we have to figure out what the literary symbols are and what they stand for. “The Gift of Magi” tells a story of what lengths Della and Jim would go to make each

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