SEGMENT REPORTING Many U.S. companies operate in several different industries or in different geographic area. When this occurs‚ the difficulties related to financial statement analysis are compounded. Investors who must evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of stock of a diversified company have a difficult task when analyzing such companies which report only the aggregate of their operations. Industry segments and geographic areas of operations can have different levels of
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Reporting verbs When introducing references[->0] into the text (citing) you should choose suitable ’reporting’ verbs as these can: · strengthen the arguments you are presenting · help the reader understand why the source is relevant. Some verbs are neutral: · Smith describes... · Jones states... · Green defines... Some verbs draw attention to the author’s viewpoint: · Harris argues... · O’Neill disputed... · Jackson conceded... Some verbs give information about the author’s work: · Holmes
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ACC00713 Corporate Reporting Assignment 1 SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET For use with online submission of assignments Please complete all of the following details and then make this sheet the first page of each file of your assignment – do not send it as a separate document. Your assignments must be submitted as either Word documents (with .doc extension‚ NOT.docx)‚ text documents with .rtf extension or as .pdf documents. If you wish to submit in any other file format
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ACADEMIC LEARNING AND LANGUAGE LEARNING GUIDE Reporting Verbs In academic writing‚ you will often need to refer to the research of others‚ also called secondary sources. A reporting verb is a word which is used to talk about or report on other people ’s work. Reporting verbs can be used to great effect‚ but the difficulty with using them is that there are many‚ and each of them has a slightly different and often subtle meaning. Introduction In academic writing‚ it is important to present
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the structure of families‚ the quality of life and even the very future of the planet. Significantly‚ most companies are still not reporting relevant Corporate Social responsibility (CSR) information. Some studies have found that most CSR reporting is of descriptive‚ self-congratulatory nature‚ alluding more to good intentions than actual CSR programs and rarely reporting any bad news about companies’ relationship with the environment”. Corporations have significant impacts on society‚ people’s life
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Investigative Reporting In the seventeenth century the puritans lived through relationships‚ religion‚ community‚ discipline and punishment in a way that would bring honor and glory to God. In The Scarlet Letter‚ the puritans of seventeenth century Boston society were a fate driven religious group that would not accept sin of any kind without punishment. The type of punishment they would use the most was that of public humiliation and to be taunted by the community around the one who committed the
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Analyzing and Interpreting Data ANALYZING AND INTERPRETING DATA Ballard Integrated Managed Services‚ Inc. (BIMS) is seeking to find the reasons why employees are in breach of the standards of quality and productivity. The company wants to find out the reasons why many employees have resigned and the causes of employee dissatisfaction. The initial survey that the company did had errors of design‚ and also had errors in the data entry of the results. BIMS executives decided
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Discuss the effect of the Statement of Principles for Financial Reporting on current UK financial reporting practice. The ASC was set up in the 1970’s‚ where at the time there was no clear statement of accounting principles‚ accept that the accounts should be prudent; consistent; follow the accrual accounting procedures and be based on the assumption that the entity would remain a going concern. Up until 1990 standards were set by the ASC; a body made up of six professional accounting bodies
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Running head: BEDSIDE REPORT Promoting Bedside Reporting Using Imogene King’s Goal Attainment Model and Change Theory University of Wisconsin Oshkosh April 13‚ 2012 Promoting Bedside Reporting Using Imogene King’s Goal Attainment Model and Change Theory Change of shift in the nursing profession is unique (Caruso‚ 2007). Information is transferred between nurses verbally and through written communication. In many facilities shift report from one shift to another involved sitting down and getting
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BMC-III PAPER-II (EDITING) CONTENT No. Lesson Writer Vetter 01 Editing- An Introduction Sh. M. R. Patra Sh. S. K. Singh 02 Principles of Editing Sh. M. R. Patra Sh. S. K. Singh 03 Qualities of Editorial Staff Sh. M. R. Patra Sh. S. K. Singh 04 Responsibilities of Editorial Staff Sh. M. R. Patra Sh. S. K. Singh 05 News Room & News Desk Sh. M. R. Patra Sh. S. K. Singh 06 Editing Process Sh. M. R. Patra Sh
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