... to the problem ofindependenceof audits and suggests a focus on audit, not auditor, independence Independent Accounts: ThePossibilitiesforAuditorIndependenceintheAgeofFinancialScandal ... work for different investor groups Since British investors forbade auditors from investing or working inthe businesses that they audited, the prevailing concept ofauditorindependencein this ... theauditorInthe language of economics, theauditor will perform audit work until the cost of undertaking more work is equal to the benefit theauditor derives in terms ofthe reduction in the...
... consumers ofthe product can reduce the value ofthe product to the customer 50 The “image” of a brand is therefore an integral part ofthe product, and determines the willingness to pay of consumers ... value forthe buyer, the greater the retailer effort Again, a retailer will not capture the full value of increasing the likelihood of a sale, leading to too little effort in matching the customer ... conform to the luxury image ofthe product in one location will tend to diminish the value ofthe product to the consumer also at another – better – location Ensuring consistency inthe “image”...
... to the payee forthe principal sum ofthe bill, interest from the date of protest, the costs of protest, and, for foreign bills, a surcharge of up to percent ofthe principal as damages for ... by giving them other people to sue if their debtors failed to repay them The value ofthe security thus rested on the creditworthiness ofthe sureties and ofthe makers ofthe notes given in pledge ... relation retained an underlying indeterminacy even as the formal legal system was elevating uniformity and certainty as values The growing formalism ofthe relation merely defined the general framework...
... to our necks inthe stream of information, we are inthe crossfire ofthe battle for our attention, and we are engaged in a harrying blur of multitasking activity When we’re working, we have ... once or broken into 2-3 parts) for focus Let yourself email and other communicating during the others parts of your day »» Work in intervals Focus for 10-15 minutes, then 2-5 minutes of distraction, ... distractions coming from every direction In front of us is the computer, with email notifications and other notifications of all kinds Then there’s the addicting lure ofthe browser, which contains not...
... programme management office within the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance (in the Cabinet Office) to oversee, priortise and coordinate the centralised funding and implementation of this ... vital national interests Context 2.2 Afghanistan remains the main effort of Defence We have inthe region of 9,500 members ofthe Armed Forces operating in Afghanistan as part of a UN-mandated, ... 2.A.12 Members ofthe reserve forces are performing outstandingly well in Afghanistan There is a strong case for reviewing whether our reserve forces are properly structured forthe type of conflict...
... services bearing in mind the increasing number of uncoordinated national tax measures being put in place- with the consequent possibilitiesof distortions of competition between financial instruments, ... to the Council to that end EN EN 4.3 Furthering the objectives ofthe Union, protecting its interests and reinforcing its integration process The establishment of an internal market is one of ... States join it Moreover, the advantages forthe internal market, in terms of reducing costs due complexity, will also accrue to institutions of Member States not participating initially Their financial...
... Evidence [there was] no contradiction I directed the Jury from the Injustice ofthe Demand upon the State of it to find against the Plaintiff, but they found forthe wages, & then named the sum There ... make cases forthe opinion ofthe Court; not only forthe greater satisfaction ofthe parties inthe particular cause, but to prevent other disputes, by making the rules ofthe law and the ground ... array of services Principally these included the giving of legal opinions on questions of domestic and international law, decisions about initiating and handling litigation, and the drafting of...
... people The introduction of savings accounts at post offices followed the rise ofthe savings bank movement in Scotland and thrift movements elsewhere inthe beginning ofthe 19th century In 1861, the ... postal infrastructure in Asia: 1) the national savings organization, as in Bangladesh and India; 2) the postal savings bureau, as in China, Japan and the Republic of Korea; 3) the linkage of savings ... Originally organized during British rule in 1883, since India’s independencein 1947 the Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) has offered an extensive array of postal savings schemes and other financial...
... way in which we navigate the Web, the home page of a site may not be the entry point for 10 MARKETING INTHEAGEOF GOOGLE a visitor Any page can be the entry page, which makes it increasingly ... the order in which the ads appear is based on a number of factors including the amount the advertiser is willing to pay for each click, the relevance ofthe ad to the query, and the quality of ... noted in its blog: Having predictable trends for a search query or for a group of queries could have interesting ramifications One could forecast the trends 36 MARKETING INTHEAGEOF GOOGLE into the...
... fighting and dying for At the point where they confront the need to kill the traitor in their midst, one ofthe teens asks: "what's the difference between us and them," and the teen fascist Jed offers ... @+{1 }In Studies inthe Theories of Ideology, John Thompson examines many recent theories of ideology and finds that many of them sever the link between ideology and domination, and therefore ... valorization of nonconformity and individualistic heroism inthe new ageof entrepreneurial glory A more multi-dimensional reading ofthe film, however, would have to bring inthe dimensions of race...
... lightly In that it is like marriage; I was going to say that it does not last as long, but with the increase inthe length ofthe average trial and the decrease inthe length ofthe average marriage, ... deeply, as for instance Professor Richard Susskind does in his recent book, The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services3, about the ways in which technology could transform legal ... branch ofthe state, and educates and informs us all Nothing is perfect of course Inthe light of events over the past couple of years, only Dr Pangloss would suggest that all is forthe best in...
... Renaissance, the fifteenth century saw the continuation ofthe fourteenth-century chanson inthe formes fixes and the birth ofthe new genre ofthe Mass Ordinary cycle Inthe motet – the genre that ... The Motet intheAgeof Du Fay During the lifetime of Guillaume Du Fay (c 1400–1474) the motet underwent a profound transformation Because ofthe protean nature ofthe motet during this ... selection In thinking about categories, and their role in creation and recognition, we have been concentrating on the function ofthe genre inside the mind With Darwin we look as well at the fate of the...
... existing node The links would show up as a numbered list at the bottom of each page, and the only way of finding information was by browsing the links, starting from the start page The links between ... change the visibility of relationships in an ecology of communities At the level of ecology of communities of practice, the speed of recombination has therefore increased The space of recombination ... proxies forthe community These translation mechanisms link existing communities, and therefore they reveal the inner structure ofthe black boxes in a way that is appropriate forthe given interrelationship...
... What prevents the galaxies from speeding away from one another? The motions ofthe individual galaxies lead to an estimate ofthe total mass ofthe cluster The sum ofthe masses ofthe individual ... remnant, the grave marker of an exploded star.8 The light from the explosion reached Earth inthe year Thethe left, to indicate the size ofthe object The scale is usually in minutes of arc ... , after the investigation ofthe gas detection sensors, after the replacement ofthe ignitors,5 and after the refilling ofthe propellants, the shuttle again stood bathed in spotlights The second...
... function, we must take into account the symbolic forms of their information, the source of their information, the quantity and speed of their information, the context in which their information is experienced ... business ofthe Gospel is driven forward.” Of course, the business ofthe Gospel may be driven forward in books other than the Bible, as for example inthe famous Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1640 ... the photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea For even the simplest act of naming a thing is an act of thinking of comparing one thing with others, selecting certain...
... of cases, although it fail inthe minority"; and knowledge in terms of affinity and sympathy, of interest forthe entire nature of human being In spite ofthe fact that it is not systematic in ... anything significant (let alone classic texts), one is already engaged inthe business of taking up a stance toward the future inthe light ofthe past Reading, then, is a matter of anticipating ... into an epistemology ofthe positive sciences; instead of being the handmaiden of theology, it became the servant ofthe so-called modern sciences During the late nineteenth century and within...
... extermination ofthe Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 But this was not Lemkin’s definition ofthe term The mass killings of all members of a nation, or the implementation of plans with the intent of mass ... Lemkin During the 1930s, Lemkin lobbied the United Nations’ predecessor, the League of Nations, for passage of international laws against the destruction of a people and its culture Lemkin, in ... foundations ofthe life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration ofthe political and social institutions, of culture,...
... on the foreign doctors certified for practice in Spain, whether or not inthe regional health systems In spite ofthe wealth of information forthe public health system, the total number of doctors, ... supply of health professionals in Spain In Spain there is an intense debate within the medical profession and in society in general about whether to adjust the enrolment of medical students [20], in ... specialists, their full-time equivalents, the demographic pyramid, the ratio for 100 000 inhabitants, the percentage of women, and the percentage of those under 51 years ofage Results Inthe scenario of...
... the Janiculum, and looked down on the river and the city, and across the Latin plain to the Alban mountain and the long line of hills the last spurs ofthe Apennines— enclosing the plain to the ... Aeneas finds Evander sacrificing at the Ara maxima of Hercules, of all spots the best starting-point for a walk through the heart ofthe ancient city To the right was the Aventine, rising to about ... nearest point ofthe river forthe conveyance of that ill-gotten gain to the treasury under the Capitol.[3] Virgil imagines the bank clothed with wood, and inthe wood—where afterwards was the Forum...