than expected in the budget‚ or * Revenue/profits were higher than expected By contrast‚ an adverse variance might arise because: * Costs were higher than expected * Revenue/profits were lower than expected What causes budget variance? There are four key reasons and it is important that good managers recognise the differences‚ because the action required is may be completely different in each case. The four reasons are: 1. Faulty Arithmetic in the Budget Figures 2. Errors in
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Austin Hitchcock 10/16/13 Com 202 FF What do we gain or lose when languages go extinct? Language is the most important aspect of language for humans. Because languages are alive and always changing‚ they are intertwined with identity and culture. As people migrate and move to different areas‚ some languages split and converge to create new languages‚ while others die out and adopt more common and popular languages. According to Park’s lecture‚ half of the world’s languages are considered endangered
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19th October 2010 Wilkinson Gabi Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Read Section 17 and discuss how this relates to Woolf’s methods and concerns. Revolting against the Victorian and Edwardian writing methods which concentrate on the outside world‚ Virginia Woolf’s modernist technique collapses the boundaries between the external and internal‚ oscillating creatively from mind to memory in an abstract kaleidoscope of images and words. Woolf introduces the reader to a completely new narrational
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Drama Essay – Section 1 Our task was to dramatise and perform an extract from the play text ‘Blood Brothers’. The performance had to take into consideration the intentions of the playwright and use an appropriate style. My group chose to perform seven scenes from the play. The beginning scene for our piece is looking at how the lack of money affected the children at that time‚ with children that were complaining they were hungry and that they didn’t have all they wanted and showing that the
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6 CHAPTER Process Synchronization Practice Exercises 6.1 In Section 6.4‚ we mentioned that disabling interrupts frequently can affect the system’s clock. Explain why this can occur and how such effects can be minimized. Answer: The system clock is updated at every clock interrupt. If interrupts were disabled —particularly for a long period of time —it is possible the system clock could easily lose the correct time. The system clock is also used for scheduling purposes. For example‚ the time quantum
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Section 4 Study Questions (12.0 points) Answer each question fully. Complete sentences are not necessary. Lesson 1 (3.0 points) 1.What is a money market account? (0.5 points) An account that invests your money in low risk investments with predictable interest rates. 2.What is a liquidation policy? (0.5 points) A policy that tells you when and how you can remove money from an account. 3.What is simple interest? (0.5 points) Interest gained only on the principle amount of an account.
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Section 1 Study Questions (9.0 points) Answer each question fully. Complete sentences are not necessary. Lesson 1 (3.0 points) 1. Name at least two things financial planning could help you do. (0.5 points) Fund personal education and education of children. Purchase items at low prices. 2. What is trade? (0.5 points) The exchange of things of value. 3. What is a service? (0.5 points) Something of value that a person can do for other people. 4. Name one of the three functions
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recognizes no gain or loss if t distributes its own stock rights to its shareholders. Code Sec. (a). The character of the recognized gain depends on the property distributed; thus it may be ordinary income‚ capital gain‚ or Section 1231 gain. An example illustrating this section was the Tax Court‚ deciding in favor of the IRS‚ held in Pope & Talbot‚ Inc.‚ v. Com‚ 104 TC __‚ No. 29‚ that a corporation which distributed discrete partnership units of property composed of timber and resort interests in
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ACT NO. 2031 February 03‚ 1911 THE NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS LAW I. FORM AND INTERPRETATION Section 1. Form of negotiable instruments. - An instrument to be negotiable must conform to the following requirements: (a) It must be in writing and signed by the maker or drawer; (b) Must contain an unconditional promise or order to pay a sum certain in money; (c) Must be payable on demand‚ or at a fixed or determinable future time; (d) Must be payable to order or to bearer; and
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Section 2.3 Basic Differentiation Formulas 2010 Kiryl Tsishchanka Basic Differentiation Formulas DERIVATIVE OF A CONSTANT FUNCTION: d (c) = 0 dx c′ = 0 or Proof: Suppose f (x) = c‚ then f (x + h) − f (x) c−c 0 = lim = lim = lim 0 = 0 h→0 h→0 h→0 h h→0 h h f ′ (x) = lim EXAMPLES: ′ 1 = 0‚ ′ 5 = 0‚ ′ 0 = 0‚ ′ (−7/9) = 0‚ √ 1+ 5 2 ′ π = 0‚ ′ = 0‚ √ (x 3 x + 1 − x4/3 )′ = 0 THE POWER RULE: If n is a positive integer‚ then d n (x ) = nxn−1 dx or (xn )′ = nxn−1 Proof: Before we prove
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