Critical Analysis of Delta Air Lines‚ Inc. Financial Reporting and Disclosure Table of Contents Description of Delta Air Lines‚ Inc. Background‚ Industry‚ Market 3 Financial Reporting Similarities and Differences 4-5 Direction of Disclosure Three Year Comparison 5-6 Disclosure Techniques 7-8 Financial Derivatives 8-9 Financial Statement Analysis Three Year Ratio Analysis 10-13 Disclosure of Note Items Application of GAAP 13-18
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This project required and promoted critical thinking because it made me guide my thoughts and think to the highest level while trying to be objective. I believe that the prompt for the assignment should have a restriction on how objective we should be‚ that is how I would modify the assignment. This assignment made me think critically because I had to speak for a whole people not just myself‚ so I had to make sure I wasn’t just speaking my opinion. There being limited prompts that encouraged being
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Critical Time Line The critical time line is a sequence of moves i.e. actions and reactions performed by the company and its rivals within the time continuum. It helps us in understanding the expected pattern of sequence in t+1. While constructing the critical time for the action-reaction sequence between Sony and Microsoft‚ the time period considered is between 2000 and 2017. The events considered are the generally the product announcements and their release‚ the initial pricing and the price adjustment
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Comparing Direct and Indirect Utilitarianism British philosopher‚ John Stuart Mill‚ served many years as a member of parliament and worked diligently to bring forth liberal ideas. Amongst these ideas was the distinction of utilitarianism‚ or the act of doing what is right for the greatest number of people. Yet‚ just discussing the idea of right versus wrong for the masses was not enough‚ Mill’s determined there were two forms of utilitarianism; act‚ the direct form‚ or sanction‚ the indirect form
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Critical and Creative Thinking II Tamera Whalen-Blount PSY 103/ Introduction to Psychology December 10‚ 2014 Gloria Ringsby 1. Have you ever changed a strongly held attitude? What caused the change for you? I am fiercely afraid of large animals by nature‚ but “aggressive” dogs in particular‚ especially dogs associated with negative behaviors such as Rottweiler’s and Pit Bulls. I had this attitude for as long as I can remember growing up‚ until my father bought my brother and I a Rottweiler puppy
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Since embarking on this course‚ I have developed an understanding of the notion of critical reflection‚ in particular understanding how I have impacted upon a situation (Fook and Gardner‚ 2007:p27) through the unique perspectives and values which I bring to it. Understanding the diversity amongst service users and the complexity of applying theoretical knowledge to practice‚ has helped me to appreciate the processes involved in reflection and to make sense of my difficulties in past experience to
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access information‚ it provides people with a great deal of pleasure. It is vital that primary schools equip children with effective strategies for reading as well as foster a desire to read that will stay with them throughout their lives. This analysis of reading will firstly give a brief outline of the context of my school placement. It will analyse two pupils as readers and their strategies. The school’s policy indicates that the context of teaching reading is very important - suggesting a
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at the second half of the semester‚ utilitarianism‚ deontology‚ and virtue‚ I think the virtue theory is the most accurate of them all. The theory says a person is determined good or bad based on their character. I think that is most accurate because if a person is constantly acting badly‚ then they would be considered a bad person. If a person is constantly acting good‚ then they will be considered a good person. Looking at the other two theories‚ utilitarianism doesn’t seem wrong to me‚ but it isn’t
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A) Explain the main strengths of Mills Utilitarianism? With rule utilitarianism you first have to agree to the general rule then after you apply it to specific cases. Some people see Mill as a rule utilitarian‚ which means that you act in accordance with those rules which‚ if generally followed‚ would provide the greatest general balance of pleasure over pain. This rule is also in line with how society works in the way that most people would prefer to cause pleasure rather than pain. Mill separates
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the key features of utilitarianism The theory of utilitarianism was developed by and associated by Jeremy Bentham and utilitarianism is a teleological ethical theory where the moral value of an action can be judged by its consequences. Three main philosophers have come up with different types of utilitarianism. Jeremy Bentham introducing Act Utilitarianism and John Stuart Mill trying to improve the flaws that he encountered with Bentham’s theory with his Rule Utilitarianism and lastly‚ Peter Singer
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