Faculty of Business Studies BE-210 TMA-1 DUE DATE 26th December Part A: Essay Questions (25) 1. Define accounting. Accounting is the information system that measures business activity‚ progress the data into reports and communicates the results to decision makers. And accounting is the language of business. The better you understand the language of business the better you can manage your own business. For example‚ how will you decide whether or not to borrow money? You
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Can We Really Hide From Failure? Does success and failure go hand in hand? Success gives people satisfaction and delight‚ where failure can discourage and exhaust them. But what people can tend to forget is that in life‚ everyone comes across failure every once in a while. What everyone should remember is that no one is perfect and they should not lose hope and give up. Winston Churchill once said “Success is not final‚ failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts” (Winston
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By definition a sweatshop is a “negatively connoted term for any working environment considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous. Sweatshop workers often work long hours for very low pay in horrible conditions‚ regardless of laws mandating overtime pay and or minimum wage”. Many corporations in the United States use sweatshop labor in countries over seas such as China to produce their products at a lower cost. As entailed in the letter from a man born in China‚ many citizens on these countries
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theory of ethics Kant was born in 1724-1804‚ he was a German thinker from East Prussia (now Russia)‚ and he spent his whole life in his hometown. Kant wanted to create a logical‚ stand-alone theory that wasn’t just based on assumptions‚ he believed in an objective right or wrong that is decided on reason and that we shouldn’t do the right thing just because it’s right and not to fulfil our desires. Can we lead a life following his ideals are there not some situations where a perfect moral decision cannot
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windows... Horrified and shocked‚ even life scarred‚ I witnessed the murder of not a human being‚ but of a horse...my horse. I couldn’t bear to hear that deafening sound of my horse‚ Jaden‚ crying in pain. I didn’t know what to do. There were only two thoughts in my head. I could quickly but quietly sneak into my parent’s room‚ raid their closet to find the hidden gun they didn’t know I knew about‚ and run outside maybe even murder whoever is torturing my horse! Or I could wake up my parents and they
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will become a universal law for everyone and to treat people as ends‚ not as a means. Alternatively‚ Spelman’s theories take more into consideration. Deontological Ethics is the theory‚ or
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German philosopher Immanuel Kant‚ father of the categorical imperative‚ seems to have found me in the right season of life. German philosopher‚ Immanuel Kant‚ is considered by many to be a central figure in modern philosophy due to his contributions made to ethics‚ epistemology‚ metaphysics and aesthetics. Arguably‚ his most notable contribution is fathering the categorical imperative‚ a command of reason not based upon the desires of any one person. Kant also comments on various topics including
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"Our acceptance of lies becomes a cultural cancer that eventually shrouds and reorders reality until moral garbage becomes as invisible to us as water is to a fish." - Stephanie Ericsson I know a friend whose biggest pet peeve is lying. And I had to ask him‚ "Do you think honest is always the best policy?" His response: "I try to be as honest as possible. Very rarely do I think lying’s the best [for any situation]." But what if he knew how lying is inevitable in our everyday lives and how
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Augustine’s theodicy is mostly influenced by the creation stories found in the Genesis. Augustine had a traditional view of God and thought God was omnipotent and good. The genesis mentions that everything God made was good‚ therefore the universe that God created is good. Augustine believed there were higher and lower goods but everything was good in its own way. Augustine called evil the privation of good and not a substance. It comes from the sins that Adam and Eve had done in the Garden of
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9 April‚ 2014 Technology: Is it Damaging the Way we Think? Senior fellow at the Annenberg Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California and the author of Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination‚ Neal Gabler‚ in his article “The Elusive Big Idea‚” published by The New York Times (2011)‚ argues that due to technology the development of new ideas and thought are of little value to society. He supports his claim by doing the following: first; introducing the idea that society
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