Accounting‚ Organizations and Society 34 (2009) 770–786 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Accounting‚ Organizations and Society journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/aos Making imaginary worlds real: The case of expensing employee stock options Sue Ravenscroft a‚*‚ Paul F. Williams b‚1 a b Department of Accounting‚ Iowa State University‚ 2330 Gerdin Building‚ Ames‚ IA 50011-1350‚ United States Department of Accounting‚ North Carolina State University‚ Box 8113‚ Raleigh
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1. Allegory (寓言)– The word derives from the Greek allegoria ( “speaking other-wise” ). It loosely describes any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. This fictional literary narrative acts as an extended metaphor in which persons‚ abstract ideas‚ or events represent not only themselves on the literal level‚ but also stand for something else on the symbolic level. An allegorical reading usually involves moral or spiritual concepts that may be more significant than the actual‚ literal
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Understanding Business Research Terms and Concepts: Part 2 SGT Jose M Rincon RES 351 7/25/2013 Facilitator: Kenneth Miller Understanding Business Research Terms and Concepts: Part 2 Which type of research design— exploratory‚ descriptive‚ or causal—is appropriate for the following examples? Explain why. A manufacturer investigates whether consumers will buy a new pill th * The goal of this research is to discover the real nature of the problem and to suggest new possible solutions
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We will often hear of people’s desire to solve world hunger‚ or to help feed and alleviate the suffering associated with it. However‚ meaningful long-term alleviation is rooted in the alleviation of poverty‚ as poverty has always led to hunger. As our efforts have only been directed at providing food‚ and improving food production or distribution‚ we then generate the structural root causes that create hunger‚ poverty and dependency to still remain. Along with this; continuous effort‚ recourses
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A Topic: Scarcity Skill: Recognition AACSB: Reflective Thinking 1 Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education‚ Inc. 5) The most fundamental economic problem is A) security. B) scarcity. C) health. D) the fact the United States buys more goods from foreigners than we sell to foreigners. Answer: B Topic: Scarcity Skill: Recognition AACSB: Reflective Thinking 6) Economics is best defined as the study of how people‚ businesses‚ governments‚ and societies A) choose abundance over scarcity.
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Real Games Essay As a very young child‚ I often desired to have everything that I found amusing; obviously‚ my parents couldn’t always afford my wish lists or everything I set my eyes on. This always got me frustrated because I thought that “money grew on trees” and my parents had no reason for not getting me what I wanted or “needed”. Don’t get me wrong or anything‚ when I behaved and did well in school my parents got me what I wanted to a certain extent. When I grew a little older I realized‚
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very clear when they work with respondents about how they will use the data and give respondents full disclosure on their options for confidentiality and anonymity. -it is unethical to collect data under the guise of marketing research when your real objective is to develop a database of potential customers for direct marketing. The marketing information system (MIS) Firms us it to collect information it is a process that first determines what info marketing managers need then gathers it
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b. Group/ pg. 100: People who interact with one another and who believe that what they have in common is significant; also called a social group. The way the definition group is portrayed in The Real Slumdogs to me is the groups that work together to rag pick. They are groups of men and women that come together in the slum and go to the dumps to sort through trash and waste. All of the trash‚ they sort through everything‚ saying it all has a purpose. Especially all of the plastic. They break it
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Should human reproductive cloning be accepted? Based from Human Genome Project Information (n.d.)‚ “Cloning is a term traditionally used by scientists to describe different processes for duplicating biological material.” It means creating a genetically identical copy of an organism. Scientists attempted to clone animals for many years. In fact‚ there are hundreds of cloned animals existing today. It started in 1952 when a tadpole was cloned. But worldwide attention and concerns only aroused in
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Dear Father‚ The situation in Ithaca is not one that I am proud of. I wish as prince of this beautiful country I could do something about it‚ but I am still a boy and cannot accomplish the great things that you have. Suitors have invaded our palace. Mother and I have tried our hardest to show hospitality but it is starting to become quite difficult. They continue to eat our food and drink our wine. They all want Mother as there wife. I do not believe it is because those vile creatures love
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