extent to which practical issues are the most important influence when selecting research methods and a research topic. (20 marks) When choosing research methods and topics sociologists must take into consideration a range of different factors‚ practicality certainy being an influential one. Other factors impacting on choice of research methods or topics include ethnical and theoretical issues. Firstly time and money is a practical issue took into consideraton because different methods requre different
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Determining Effective Orientation and Training Methods Wendy Harms MGT/210 Supervision and Leadership Instructor: Nicole Dinan Aug. 1‚ 2010 Test Your Leadership Style Results My results after taking the leadership style questionnaire were: 17 A x 4% = 0.68% 8 B x 4% = 0.32% The kind of leader that I fell under after the final results was: The Leader Your idea of fulfilling work is to motivate and guide co-workers to achieve their best and to reach common
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Determining Effective Orientation and Training Methods When one thinks of the word “training‚” what comes to mind? [Writing suggestion: Unless in a quote or a title‚ avoid rhetorical questions in academic writing. A good idea is to provide answers‚ not questions] Teaching‚ conditioning‚ practicing‚ and building are a few words to explain it. It goes much deeper than that though‚ and it is necessary during the life of employment
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the equity method of accounting for investments Chapter Outline I. Three methods are principally used to account for an investment in equity securities. A. Fair-value method: applied by an investor when only a small percentage of a company’s voting stock is held. 1. Income is recognized when dividends are declared. 2. Portfolios are reported at market value. If market values are unavailable‚ investment is reported at cost. B. Consolidation: when one firm controls
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Literal meaning is “measurement in economics”. Definition of financial econometrics: The application of statistical and mathematical techniques to problems in finance and accounting. Continuous data can take on any value and are not confined to take specific numbers. Discrete data can only take on certain values‚ which are usually integers Types of Data Dummy variable A dummy variable (also known as indicator variable or just dummy) is one that takes the values 0 or 1 to indicate the
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1. Which of the following entities may not use the cash method of accounting? Answer: A C corporation that is substantially owned by its employees and whose business is selling goods with annual gross receipts in excess of $5 million for all tax years since its inception. Explain your answer! The corporation in this question could not apply the cash method due to the fact they have in excess of $5 million average in gross receipts annually. The exception to this would be if it was a personal service
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Memorandum to file Date: From: Re: Determining the Accounting for Receivables from Officers and Directors. Facts Philadelphia Communications Inc. (“Philly”) is a public company that completed an initial public offering (IPO) a few months ago. John Sigar is the current CEO and member of the board of directors. He is the only family member involved in the business and owns significant amount of the company’s stock. While‚ we were doing audit testing for accounts receivable we came across
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travel to the outskirts for other important things like‚ office‚ market‚ etc. Easy transportation is not available and therefore people often buy new or used cars and drive them daily. Therefore‚ driving becomes a necessary thing for the people of Guelph. It is not simply enough to know how to drive but there are other factors that might influence driving on the road. In order to know how to drive you have to make sure that you take training from a good school which can give a thorough training regarding
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is no general principle that prevents the creation of an economic theory based on other hypotheses than that of rationality” Kenneth Arrow (1986) Behavioural Finance relaxes the neoclassical assumption that investors consistently apply Bayes Rule when updating their expectations‚ and identifies the behavioural attributes that affect asset prices. This thesis extends this literature by examining deviations from the Bayesian model that arise due to i) ambiguity aversion‚ ii) investor sentiment and
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Chapter 01 The Equity Method of Accounting for Investments Multiple Choice Questions 1. Gaw Company owns 15% of the common stock of Trace Corporation and used the fair-value method to account for this investment. Trace reported net income of $110‚000 for 2011 and paid dividends of $60‚000 on October 1‚ 2011. How much income should Gaw recognize on this investment in 2011? A. $16‚500. B. $9‚000. C. $25‚500. D. $7‚500. E. $50‚000. 2. Yaro Company owns 30% of the common stock
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