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Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...care is misdirected and costing us an arm and a leg. (Financial Controller of a US software company). (1998, p. 11) They cite this (p. 12) and numerous similar comments extracted from their research, as reinforcing the assertion that effective KAM needs to be underpinned by sound financial data and the use of appropriate decision-support tools. These comments raise the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...Adult career progression & advancement: a five year study of the effectiveness of guidance. Available at: https://warwick.ac.uk/ fac/ soc/ ier/ publications/ 2008/ eg_report_4_years_on_final.pdf (Accessed: 21 March 2020). Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) (2015) Internships that work: a guide for employers. Available at: https://www.cipd.co.uk/...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...Careful examination of the map reveals that these rocks occur in Anglesey, north-west Wales (SH(23)48). The units labelled 29 and 30 near the Lizard (SW(10)71) and Start Point (SX(20)83) are now known not to be Precambrian; they are in fact associated with the Variscan Orogeny. There are, however, Precambrian rocks in England that are not distinguished on the key, because...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...careful, close reading; but such are the repetitions, rhymes and rhythms of the prose, that even less attentive reading cannot fail to notice connections between the most disparate aspects of the text. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A335 Literature in transition: from 1800 to the present. ...Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...careful in one's own choice of research techniques. Some social researchers attempt to keep their distance from the object in question in order to remain objective or to gain an overall picture. Nevertheless, this does not prevent cultural values and even moral judgements from entering the research process in fundamental ways. A great deal of policy-oriented research on...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...careful to involve members of your team in making decisions about matters that affect them, they will be more likely to cooperate with you and with each other. Creating ‘stability zones’. These are areas of work over which you and members of your work group have some control, or a measure of control. Being alert to the actual demands being made on you and those in...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...careful bonding. I And the whole idea is to give the plant strength so that it's able to remain upright. AK Strength and resistance. The cell wall is actually a very clever structure. But for us it's difficult because it means that we have a complex series of fibres which are all kind of interlaced and locked together. And in order to get the one fibre we want, we have to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...Careful management of trade payables can result in suppliers funding the business in the short term. After startup, a business uses its existing cash to support future growth by increasing its investment in non-current assets. Further sources of finance may be necessary to supplement equity finance. This process increases the size of a company's balance sheet. Debt...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs