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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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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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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Ways to Slash the Cost of Back to School Shopping A flurry of day trips‚ sand castles and ice cream may make school a distant memory for the little people in your life. Parents‚ on the other hand‚ know that the next few weeks will pass all too quickly and it will soon be time to wave the kids off at the school gate (lumps in throat optional). According to the National Retail Federation‚ you can expect to lay out upwards of $600 to ensure each child arrives at school looking smart and packing
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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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“Green Technologies; Changing Life As We Know It” “Going green” has been a helpful way to try and put a stop to climate change‚ but the start of many of our headaches for the past 50 years. The term “Global Warming” has been pounded into Americans everyday lives more than they have wanted it to. Even though some people have their doubts‚ they are forced to follow the Governments rules and regulations. The threat of global warming on the other hand has benefited in saving what we have left of this
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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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Zhang 1 Bingmiao Zhang Wendy Perniciaro ENC1101 January 16‚ 2013 An unforgettable trip When I was a junior student in high school‚ I got a chance to travel to Canada for a month. This trip was so unforgettable and also interfered with my study later on. The city I went to is Vancouver. This place is an easy and comfortable place to live. The weather is as warm as spring. I left my parents and lived alone for the first time. I lived with a local homestay. They were
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Porter’s model highly focuses on rivalry and profitability but has some major limitations that have many organizations consistently reevaluating their strategic plans. Porter indirectly rebutted the assertions of other forces‚ by referring to innovation‚ government‚ and complementary products and services as "factors" that affect the five forces (Porter‚ 2008). He assumed that his model will allow markets to stay fairly stable‚ not taking into account brisk technological advances or increasing competition
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