the company is being managed and to highlight areas for further investigation. Limitations to ratios? • Although ratios are useful as starting point in financial analysis‚ they are not at end in themselves. • Ratios can be used as indicators of what to pursue in a more detailed analysis. • Difficulties can arise in making average comparisons; • Different companies could use different accounting methods (FIFO vs LIFO) •
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Economics Notes 2011-2012 Contents SECTION 1 – MICROECONOMICS Chapter 1 : page 2 Chapter 2 : page 6 Chapter 3 : page 10 Chapter 4 : page Chapter 5 : page 11 Chapter 6 : page Chapter 7 : page Chapter 8 : page Chapter 9 : page Chapter 10 : page Chapter 11 : page Chapter 12 : page SECTION 1 – MICROECONOMICS 1. The foundations of economics Economics – Social science‚ a study of people in society and how they interact with each other. A study of rationing systems‚ the
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IRHR1001 – What is organisational behaviour? Chapter 1 summary Organisational behaviour: The study of individuals and groups in organisations. A contingency approach is the attempt by organisational behaviour scholars to identify how situations can be understood and managed in ways that appropriately respond to their unique characteristics. The performance equation: Job performance = attributes + work effort + organisational support (All three factors must be present to gain high level
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Lecture Notes: Statistics A note on basic statistics Statistics is the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities. So there are two parts1. Collection of Data 2. Analysis of Data- understanding what the data says. Steps in Statistics To carry out any statistical operation‚ the following steps need to be followed‚ in the given order: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Sampling Estimation Hypothesis Generation Testing Regression Prediction Collection of Data: Sampling
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brute force. * All peasants who owned any property at all were hostile to the plan‚ and had to be forced to join by armies of party members‚ who urged poorer peasants to seize cattle and machinery from the kulaks (prosperous peasants) to be handed over to the collectives. * Peasants who refused to join collective farms were arrested and taken to labour camps‚ or shot. * Many peasants were demoralized after the seizure of their land and property. With all the arrests and deportations‚ there
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If there are senior shares‚ the numerator is reduced by: 1. The current year’s dividend declared on non-cumulative senior shares‚ and 2. The current year’s dividend entitlement (whether declared or not) on cumulative senior shares Note: participating shares are not considered to be senior shares for purposes of EPS calculations. CICA REPORTING REQUIREMENTS For companies that have common shares only‚ or common shares and non-convertible preferred shares‚ basic EPS presentation
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The Balance of Payments is a summarized recording of all transactions between Australia and the rest of the world of a given period of time‚ essentially it illustrates the trade and money flows in and out of Australia’s economy. For ease of identification and analysis‚ the Balance of Payments is separated into two separate components namely the‚ Current Account and the Capital and Financial account which deal separately with certain aspects of Australia’s international public and private sector interactions
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Department of Lifelong Learning: Study Skills Series Note taking skills - from lectures and readings Introduction When you are at university‚ the sheer amount of information that is delivered to you can be daunting and confusing. You may even think that you have to copy down everything you hear or read. When you are at a face-to -face lecture it is sometimes difficult to tell what is important and what is not. Distance learning students might feel the need to copy out fact after fact from
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important elements in the syllabus and the key skills you will need We signpost how each chapter links to the syllabus and the study guide We provide lots of exam focus points demonstrating what the examiner will want you to do We emphasise key points in regular fast forward summaries We test your knowledge of what you’ve studied in quick quizzes We examine your understanding in our exam question bank We reference all the important topics in our full index BPP’s i-Pass product also supports this
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Abraham Lincoln did not truly believe that races were equal. At a speech in Springfield‚ Illinois‚ he openly says that in some respects‚ a black woman is “certainly not my equal” (3). Here he is focusing more on the fact that she is black rather than that she is a woman‚ but either way‚ he sees himself as more superior that her. But in respect to human rights‚ he believes that she does have her‚ for example‚ “natural right to eat bread [that] she earns with her own hands” (3). She is his equal and
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