INSTITUTIONALISING THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATION/PUBLIC RELATIONS THROUGH ITS CONTRIBUTION TO ENTERPRISE STRATEGY AND ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE Paper submitted to the 10th Annual EUPRERA Conference‚ to be held in Milan from 16-18 October 2008 by Benita Steyn Cape Peninsula University of Technology SOUTH AFRICA b.steyn@lantic.net and Lynne Niemann Cape Peninsula University of Technology SOUTH AFRICA lynne@boomtown.co.za Key words: Enterprise strategy‚ corporate governance
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Why are accounts important To begin by why accounts are important‚ a person should first know what accounts actually mean. Accounts are financial records of an organization that register all financial transactions‚ and must be kept at its principal office or place of business. The purpose of these records is to enable anyone to appraise the organization’s current financial position with reasonable accuracy. Firms present their annual accounts in two main parts: the balance sheet‚ and the income
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Goods/Stock purchased or sold being returned is quite a common practice in business. This may be on account of a number of reasons like defects in goods‚ quality not matching the requirement for which the buyer purchased it‚ the buyer not needing the stock‚ etc. This happens both in case of goods purchased as well as goods sold by the organisation. Where the goods sold are being returned we call it "Sales Returns" and where goods purchased are being returned we call it "Purchase Returns"
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What Diversity means to me… Diversity to me is the balance of different cultures‚ races‚ sexes‚ religion‚ appearance‚ sexual orientation‚ disabilities‚ and many more things. It’s the ability to look at someone else and to realize they are different but not treat as they are. The way you look at others and judge them could be the same way others look at you and judge you and make decisions based on what they do and do not like about you. You would not want someone to do this to you or to treat you
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1. What is meant by diversity? Diversity literally means difference. Diversity recognises that though people have things in common with each other‚ they are also different and unique in many ways. Diversity is about recognising and valuing those differences. 2. Describe the community you live in. Highlight some of the variations you may observe in terms of: • Interests • Beliefs • Ages • Lifestyles • Personal‚ social and cultural identities. I live in a town called Braintree in
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Accounting Assignment -1 Question1: What is Whole Foods Market’s strategy for success in the marketplace? Does the company rely primarily on a customer intimacy‚ operational excellence‚ or product leadership customer value proposition? What evidence supports your conclusion? Answer1: Whole Foods Market’s strategy for success in the marketplace seems to be product leadership. Evidence of this can be seen throughout the documents. The first boldface heading in the company’s Declaration of Interdependence
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deals with things like machinery 6. the accumulated profit is also known as the retained earnings‚ retained profit and unappropriated profit. what is the accumulated profit and why do accountants and bookkeepers use different names for the same thing? (6 marks) Accumulated profits is profits that are not paid as dividend but is transfered over to the accounts for the next year. Also can be used to reinvest in the core of the business to help pay off debts or to purchase a capital asset. The reasons
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others as an end and not as means to an end.” People need to value others for themselves rather than for what they can achieve by the means of them. The idea of selecting an embryo‚ conceived by IVF‚ which will become a child that can donate for an older sibling suffering from a genetic disease‚ has created a difficult moral dilemma. Concerns over the creation of what are called “savoir siblings” are specifically created to help an existing child. In the novel “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult there
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bank‚ potential vendors‚ or other interested parties. An account system is also important to process sales‚ purchase orders‚ invoices‚ payroll‚ and other business functions manually. The accounting system must be scalable‚ secure and gather data feed from other business systems to collect up-to-date business finances. The installed REMS came with the following Finance and Accounting Financial Modules: General Ledger Module‚ Accounts Payable Module‚ POS module‚ Bank Reconciliation Module‚
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1. What is meant by diversity? Diversity is the word used to describe how people vary and differ. Some personal differences may be: age‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ race‚ religion‚ interests‚ social class and values and beliefs. 2. Describe the community you live in. Highlight some of the variations you may observe in terms of: Birmingham is the most culturally diverse city in the UK. In the local community there are people of both genders and of all ages. People come from all over the
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