on 16 April 2013 a proposal for a directive enhancing the transparency of certain large companies on social and environmental matters. This Directive amends the Accounting Directives (Fourth and Seventh Accounting Directives on Annual and Consolidated Accounts‚ 78/660/EEC and 83/349/EEC‚ respectively). The objective is to increase EU companies’ transparency and performance on environmental and social matters‚ and‚ therefore‚ to contribute effectively to long-term economic growth and employment. Companies
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Political‚ economic and legal aspects in European integration issues. Communities. The first step in post-war integration was the European Coal and Steel Community (EC&SC)‚ the treaty signed in Paris on 18th April 1951 (entered into force on 23 July 1952. It expired in 2002. Another two fundamental treaties were signed in Rome in 1957 by the six original member states in order to form the European Economic Community - EEC and EURATOM Treaty (European Atomic Energy Community). These treaties
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Ethical and Legal Obligations in Accounting Background Accounting is the “process of identifying‚ measuring‚ and communicating economic information about an organization for the purpose of making decisions and informed judgments.” (Marshall et al‚ 2003) The use of this information has widespread application to company managers‚ investors‚ creditors‚ employees and government agencies. For sound decisions to be made based on this information‚ the profession of accounting has created several
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1950’s Social and Political issues The 1950’s has been portrayed as the decade of prosperity. Throughout the 1950’s there were many Political issues like a cold war‚ a war against Korea. There was also a big step in segregation between The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education. The events that the United States went through during the 1950’s is what made The United States today. The 1950’s just wasn’t peace and comfort‚ there were a lot of problems like the war against Korea. In 1950‚ just five years
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Title | Ethical and Legal Issues on the Internet | Assessment A‚ Part 1: MBC News Interview | Do you think the Internet has made students less ethical? | The Internet doesn’t make people unethical; it only enables unethical people to do what they were always going to do - cheat‚ plagiarize‚ infringe on copyrights - easier and faster. | | What can colleges do today to help encourage academic integrity and deter unethical behavior? | By establishing a code of ethics that clearly defines
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This paper describes some of the ways in which social‚ cultural‚ economic‚ legal and political differences among nations affect international business. Specific real world examples of the described differences are also provided. Doing business in the international marketplace mandates taking into account some very hard to overlook social differences between countries. For instance‚ if trying to market and sell a product in a country other than where the company is based‚ the company must take into
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what ways has the ‘new media’ and the changing technology of political reporting affected its quality and availability? Over the last decade there has been a significant change in the way in which the media industry reports political news to their audience. With newspaper popularity decreasing‚ the computer and television industry are gaining larger audiences at a fast rate. Therefore‚ this rise of new media has made news reporting quicker and more accessible to readers through the use of technology
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1. State the administrative agency‚ which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so‚ how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox:
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P6 & M3: Political‚ legal and social factors impacting the business There is a range of influences that can affect the business in the business environment. Usually these influences cannot be controlled by the business itself. In P5 and M2 tasks I have presented the different economic impacts‚ and now I will present the political‚ legal and social factors in my P6‚ M3 and D2 tasks. Political factors There are 3 types of government that affect the country and these are Local‚ National Government
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Sheffield Hallam University Academy of Sport & Physical Activity ------------------------------------------------- BSc (Hons) Sport Business Management Hong Kong Undergraduate Sport Programme ------------------------------------------------- Title: Contemporary Issues in Sport CODE: 66-6958-00S Name: WU Ho Nam SHU Student No: 91207381 SHAPE Student No: I1207381 Topic: LONDON 2012 Olympics legacy INTRODUCTION Olympic Games‚ the biggest sports event in the world‚ every athlete
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