information about an entity to permit informed judgements and decisions by users of the information.’ If we extract the suffix of the word‚ we are left with the word ‘account’. To account for something is to take something into consideration. In terms of finance‚ accounting for something can be seen as baring it in mind when compiling financial information. Synony mously‚ taking something into account implies that you are mindful of something especially when you are about to make a decision.
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MODULE IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT (Created by the Institute for Development Management‚ Botswana for the NGO Institute‚ STF. (Some materials in this module have been extracted from “A Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge‚ 3rd. edition‚ 2004) What is a project? “A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service.” The Three P’s [pic] Working definition of project management Project management is the application of knowledge‚ skills‚ tools‚ and techniques
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What Makes Interstellar a Good Movie. With genres varying from horror and comedy‚ romance and sci-fi‚ everyone has his or her favorite movie. Their favorite movie is the one they think was so good and entertaining that they would watch it time and time again. However‚ other people may view the same movie as horrible. So what makes a movie truly good? How can philosophers help us come to a universal meaning “good” in the movie industry? Philosophers such as Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and Socrates can give
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In trying to define exactly what post-modernism is I shall firstly briefly consider some of the events and thinking that led up to the development of this particular school of social theory. I shall then consider some of the common strands of thinking in postmodernism concentrating mainly on the writings of Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard. I shall then consider the view of David Harvey‚ a Marxist many consider to be writing in the postmodern tradition‚ who argues that post-modernism
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What is ethics and how should we approach it? Ethics is defined as moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity. This definition on its own does not tell us much about what ethics really is. If you try asking people what they think ethics is‚ you would also get many different answers. Just as in our ethics classes where different scenarios were put forward and we were required to evaluate the situation and take a stand based on what we believed‚ there were always
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What is personality? And what relevance has this concept to understanding behaviour in the workplace? I will be researching about personalities and the relevance that they have in regards to behaviour in the workplace. I will be discussing many factors ranging from trait and type theories to the nature-nurture debate. A personality is a combination of natural traits‚ combined with life experiences which determine our individual characteristics and set us out in a distinctive persona. The
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What Is Rickettsia? Rickettsia are bacteria‚ which are obligate intracellular parasites many disease-causing‚ that live in vertebrates and are transmitted by bloodsucking parasitic arthropods such as fleas ‚ lice and ticks. Rickettsias are named after their discoverer‚ the American pathologist Harold Taylor Ricketts‚ who died of typhus in Mexico after confirming the infectious agent of that rickettsial disease. Rickettsias unlike other bacteria‚ but like viruses‚ they require a living host (a living
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What is Hypnosis? Describe the psychological and physical aspects of hypnosis and discuss the role of relaxation in Hypnotherapy. I shall be looking and exploring what hypnosis is‚ the role of relaxation in it and the connections between the mind and body in hypnotherapy. Hypnosis has been used in every culture in some form. People who used hypnosis were often referred to as ‘witch doctors’‚ ‘medicine men’ or ‘healers’. The earliest evidence has been found among shamans. They avoided chemicals
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characterized by a variety of different symptoms‚ many of which can dramatically affect a person’s way of thinking and ability to function. People with schizophrenia have trouble distinguishing what is real from what is not. They are not able to fully control their emotions or think logically‚ and they usually have trouble relating to other people. They often suffer from hallucinations‚ lack of motivation‚ and impairments in memory‚ learning‚ concentration‚ and their ability to make sound decisions; much
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On hearing the word politics‚ what usually springs to mind are images of government‚ politicians and their policies or more negatively the idea of corruption and dirty tricks. The actual definition seems to have been obscured and almost lost by such representations and clichés that tend not to pinpoint the true essence‚ which defines this thing‚ called politics. In order to make an attempt at a definition of politics a systematic approach is required. To begin with‚ a brief historical
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