“Did you know?” Some interesting facts about the environment This is a News item written on July 30‚ 2007 by admin This week’s blog will be a little different than the rest‚ to keep you (and myself) entertained. Here are some things that you may or may not have known about the environment—ok‚ some of them are fun but some of them are scary. What did you expect?? 1. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours. 2. During the time it takes you to read this
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Task 1 Internal system unit components: Processor The processor is the brain of the computer. It handles all instructions in programs loaded into RAM and gets information from the HDD or SSD. It handles data in binary. Motherboard This is a circuit board that connects the CPU with the RAM and the hard drive BIOS It stands for basic input/output system and it is is the program a computer’s processor uses to get the computer system started after it is switched on. It also controls data flow between
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stair up” was written by a Scottish novelist Campbell Nairne in 1934 and describes the life of a working-class family from Edinburgh. The great advantage of this novel is that it shows the life with great realism‚ fine style and good sense of humour. It the short fragment of this novel the scene takes place in one of the Broadway cinemas. Two young people – Andrew and Rosa – decided to watch some movie. Andrew supposed some comedy‚ not a big film‚ but very fun‚ in his opinion. It was some kind
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The United Nations was established in 1945. According to John T. Rourke‚ “…the UN was founded mainly to maintain peace‚ but it was also charged with improving humankind’s social and economic situation.” (171). Now we can already conclude that the United Nations‚ like the United States‚ plays a very important role in our current international system. While the international system has predominately been controlled by several large world powers‚ the United Nation has continued to hold fast on the major
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7 Transfer Pricing LEARNING OBJECTIVES : After studying this chapter students will understand. * Purpose of transfer pricing * Responsibility of a division as responsibility centre * Conflicts between the divisions * Setting of transfer price where the profit of the organisation can be higher. 7.1 Introduction The whole organisation can be divided into a number of divisions‚ the performance of each division can be measured in terms of both the income earned and the
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1. Why was Dakota’s existing pricing system inadequate for its current operating environment? DOP’s has chosen to use a traditional cost pricing system where direct and indirect costs are assigned and allocated to products and services delivered to clients. This system has proven beneficial for companies where production operations are high labor intensive and overhead costs are smaller part of total costs. Nowadays‚ when automation and technology are ubiquitous overhead costs make up much higher
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Resource) and its subsidiary‚ TransCanada Pipelines Limited has a seven billion dollar plan to create jobs by extending the already existing Keystone Pipeline. The Keystone pipeline harvests oil from the tar sands in Hardesty‚ Alberta then runs the crude oil to Patoka‚ Illinois. The plan is to extend the pipeline from Hardesty to run through Montana‚ South Dakota‚ Nebraska‚ Kansas‚ and Oklahoma to finally end in Port Arthur‚ Texas where it can be refined. According to TransCanada‚ this can potentially
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weapon which you can use to change the world.” –Nelson Mandela Our Indian education system rewards ability to memorize rather than ability to think critically and analytically. School education system must encourage learning of concepts‚ and for that examination system should be re-designed on the pattern of concept-oriented system. One is the setting of objective-type questions‚ instead of the present system in which the questions require long‚ essay-type answers. In this way‚ it becomes possible
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1. Why was Dakota’s existing pricing system inadequate for its current operating environment? - profits only when clients placed large orders for cartons - real drop of profit if many clients place small orders - wrong cost determination for individual customers - wrong cost determination for new services provided by DOP (to small charges for the “desktop” delivery‚ then the actual cost of it) 2. Develop an activity-base cost system for Dakota Office Products based on
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Narrative Flow of the Current System GW Computers opens at 8:00 AM until 7:30 PM and is open from Monday to Sunday. The persons that are involved in the company are the Manager‚ Technician/s and the Cashier. The Manager is responsible for the overall operation of the business. He is responsible for overseeing and supervising the company’s activities and employees. He hires‚ train and evaluate new employees. He drives the work of employees in order to run the business efficiently and make a large
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