Explain what you think “restructuring and asset impairment charges are.” In Millions of $ 2014 2013 2012 Operating Expense 20262 19230 18513 Trend 105% 103% 100% The trend of operating expense for the three years is constant; it went up in 2013 by 3% and in went up another 2% in 2014. Restructuring and assets impairment charges are nil in 2012. It is recorded when there is decline in the value of an investment made by the company and the investment is recorded under equity method. Question
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Level 3 worksheet to be included in your portfolio Assignment – Understand child and young person development The opportunity for children and young people to develop in a loving caring environment is vital to their development. It is important that professional practitioners know the expected aspects and rate of development to ensure that individuals in their care are given the best opportunity to thrive. The following tasks will help you to understand the support that each child or young
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denote end results. This unit is about providing direction to people in the organisation and enabling‚ inspiring‚ motivating and supporting them to achieve what the organisation has set out to do. It is expected to apply different styles of leadership appropriate to different people and situations. For the purposes of this unit‚ an organisation can mean a self-contained entity such as a private sector company‚ a charity or a local authority‚ or a significant operating unit‚ with a relative degree
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M4 & P6 In a business‚ there are several different types of budgets that has different department/area the business has to make. For example‚ in a business‚ you can find the sales and revenue budget (a financial document that set out the business expected sales and revenue from selling its products or services)‚ the expenditure budget (financial document that sets out the expected expenditures of a monthly basis on those items) and the profit budget (financial documents that sets out the predicted
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Every business needs to follow all the employment legislation which is set by the government. It helps employees to be treated fairly. Some of the legislation are; employment relations Act 2000‚ the minimum wage Act 1983‚ health and safety at work act 2015‚ etc. The health and safety act is twin duties because for employee’s health and safety are combined within one act. Businesses follow the legislation as it changes and they train their staffs as follows. It is essential for the business to follow
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Unit 3 Wider Professional Practice 1. Understand the concept of professionalism and core professional values in the lifelong learning sector 1.1 Analyse key aspects of professionalism in the lifelong sector . Define professionalism min 2 definition and compare them Webster’s Dictionary defines professionalism as the conduct‚ aims or qualities that characterize or mark a professional person (1). Meanwhile Oxford dictionary defines it as the practising of an activity‚ especially a sport‚ by professional
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to in writing by the setting complaints are dealt with promptly‚ fairly and sensitively with due regard to the upset and worry that they cause to both staff and service users. The setting believes that complaints are best dealt with on a local level between the complainant and the home‚ but if either of the parties is not satisfied by a local process the case should be referred to the Care Quality Commission. Legal requirements for dealing with complaints Legal requirement for dealing with
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LEVEL 5 LEADER In every way Ambassador Barrett proved herself to be a level 5 leader i.e. an individual with not only personal humility but a strong professional will. Her childhood may be the first example of such a combination. Her father passed away when she was a young child leaving her as a partial bread win of the household. She grew up on a farm where she could sell pony rides and do other menial tasks to help support the family. From these very humble
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Impacts of Cruising There are both positive and negative impacts to cruising on different countries. Some can have a great affect on the ship and the area where the ship docks‚ others can have a negative affect on the cruise area itself and the people who live in and around the ports of call. The first positive impact which I am going to talk about is there are more jobs created by having a port where a big cruise ship comes into. Jobs will be available: • Servicing the port and ship
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after replication a velocity vs time graph is created below. The graph showed that‚ though the position raises‚ evens out‚ and then returns to initial position; the velocity spiked positively‚ dropped negatively‚ and then evened out. During activity 3 we discussed the terms average value‚ random errors‚ systematic errors‚ accuracy‚ precision‚ and standard deviation. Using the equations provided in the text‚ we are able to calculate the average value and the standard deviation using the average value
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