AFF5230 Questions for Workshop 4 Ratings- Week 5: Syndicate 1 1. Identify the key reasons why did the rating agencies fail? 2. CRA assign sovereign ratings to countries. Why is sovereign risk important? Why should countries care about their sovereign debt rating? Included in your description must be a definition of sovereign risk and a list of the determining factors that affect sovereign risk 3. Summarise the recent changes implemented by the Dodd Frank Act‚ with regards to CRA
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Chao-Hsuan Tang Professor McKennon Eng68 winter 2013 23 January 2013 The Rating System Movie‚ film or motion pictures‚ “a sequence of images of moving objects photographed by a camera and providing the optical illusion of continuous movement when projected onto a screen.” (Dictionary.com). A movie is an entertainment that was invented in the mid-19th century and was slowly developed in the early 1900s. At the beginning‚ a movie was just a simple entertainment without any sound‚ but as technology
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The Internet does more harm than Good Chairperson adjudicators‚ ladies and Gentlemen‚ welcome. The motion before the house this evening is that the internet does more harm than good‚ as a social media using teenager‚ the stereotypical opinion I would have on this matter would be that this statement is false‚ however ladies and gentleman‚ I am not a stereotypical teenager and I am of the opinion that the internet does indeed do more harm than good. The year is 2014‚ and the internet has seemingly
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definition of a Mature rating according to the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is "Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence‚ blood and gore‚ sexual content‚ and/or strong language." The ESRB states that the "ratings are designed to provide information about video and computer game content‚ so you can make informed purchase decisions." The ratings consist two parts one is the ratings symbol which
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Group Interaction. Basic Details/Work Context. It is important to be able to communicate effectively in a health and social context‚ in order to transmit the appropriate care values appropriate to people’s specific needs. Just like my one to one interaction‚ I had to demonstrate my communication skills. I undertook an interaction with a group of young children that were at a primary school. But before undertaking this interaction I had to do some research on group interactions in order for me to
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Economy of scale refers to the benefits of producing on a large scale. When firms and industries increase the scale of their operation there can be advantages which reduce the average (unit) cost of their output. Internal economy of scale is the benefit‚ in the form of lower average costs‚ which a firm can gain from increasing its size. Internal economies of scale arise from the growth of the firm itself. One internal economy of scale can be marketing economies. For food retail industry‚ large
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ECONOMIES OF SCALE When a firm moves from small scale to large scale production‚ the average cost of production of each unit falls. The reasons for which this happens are known as economies of scale – they are the benefits which result in the cost savings of large scale operations which come about when a firm expands. In other words‚ economies of scale are advantages reaped by firms engaging in large scale production. There are two types of economies of scale. They are: * Internal economies
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ECONOMIES OF SCALE Economies of scale are an important aspect of efficiency in production .Economies of can henceforth be define as ‘the reduction in average costs of production‚ that occur as a firm increases in size’. As businesses grow and their outputs increases‚they commonly benefit from a reduction in average costs of production.Total costs will increase with the increase in output‚but the cost of producing each unit falls as output increases .The reduction
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1 9/7/2012 English 101 On a scale from 1 to 10 "The Pain Scale" by Eula Biss is a very controversial and interesting piece of writing in which Bliss attempts to determine a scale to measure her pain. However‚ the writer begins to realize that the duty of associating pain with a number and measurement is much harder than it appears due to the fact that she is unsure what it truly means to "measure things". The practice of giving pain a set of numbers was introduced by the hospice
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Likert Scale Page 1 of 3 Likert Scale The following choices may help you when you design an attitude instrument. The bold face sets are the most popular. AGREEMENT z z z z z z z Strongly Agree Agree Undecided Disagree Strongly Disagree z z z z z z z z z z Agree Strongly Agree Moderately Agree Slightly Disagree Slightly Disagree Moderately Disagree Strongly z z z Agree Very Strongly Agree Strongly Agree Disagree Disagree Strongly Disagree Very Strongly z z z z Yes No z z z z Agree
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