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Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...paradox of strategic management accounting is that, while the need for it is clear, exactly what it is, is not! It is not uncommon, however, for service functions like management accounting to evolve with the changes in organisations, just as the organisations are changing in response to the pressures they face. Not defining SMA too closely allows the flexibility that is...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...Paradoxically, his words are from a press conference in Iran, following the nation’s diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia. This session will pull together themes from throughout the course to show how the World Cup often reflects some of the current and historical political issues at play during matches. Through the session you will be drawing on what was explored in...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...paradox: they both warm and cool the Earth. The balance between these two opposing effects is a delicate one - dependent on factors such as the type and thickness of the clouds, their altitude, whether they consist of water droplets or ice crystals, and so on (Figure 10). Averaged over time and around the world, satellite data indicate that the net effect of clouds in our...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...paradoxically) from a position of solitude. (Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder had a similar insistence on the separation of aesthetic experience from everyday life.) Effective expression of one’s inner being is dependent on the adequate understanding of others...Delacroix: 4.5 The soul and sensitivity - In another journal entry of 1824, Delacroix speaks of the fact that the...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...paradoxical ways of looking at the relationship between resilience and adversity. One way is to accept that people develop resilience through successfully coping with challenges. Another way is to recognise that people can be rendered less resilient through adverse experience and circumstances that have made them more vulnerable. Young people who are rendered more...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...paradox is resolved. This video is part of the Open University course DD209, Running the economy, so there will be references to Block 1 of the course, which you should ignore. NARRATOR The familiar circular flow diagram shows the flows of incomes, consumer expenditure, saving and investment. Suppose households decide to save more and, therefore, to consume less. How can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...paradoxically, of localisation (promotion of distinctive community, local and regional activities and identities). Both of these opposing tendencies are reflected in consumers increasing identification with global brands but also by the resurgence of consumer interest in local products and locally sourced foods. Rural areas are increasingly woven into the national and...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...paradoxical, but it is quite simple really. For example, if you commission an architect, you generally do not know what is possible within your budget. Some of your desires may be impossible dreams while some may be absolute necessities. Part of the architect's job is to help you, as a lay person, understand these things, explain what is possible, and to help you...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs