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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
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...careful to include that the automaton can be a human or it can be a machine. After all humans compute, we may not be as fast as machines but in fact there is some ways humans are much, much better computers, than machines. In other words there are still some tasks that humans can solve better than machines. Vision is one example. Speech, natural language processing. A lot...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...careful notes, and taking photographs or maybe even using a tape measure, make more recordings with your mics at different locations. You will probably have to wait until you get home to be able to listen to these recordings properly, so making accurate notes is vital. In this way you should be able to build up a sense of how your device works best, but this will also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...care for an elderly or disabled person, who has access to that person’s bank account, transferring funds to invest in a high-risk business venture or for any other unauthorised purpose a staff member offering cheap motor insurance premiums to a friend by deliberately not entering known driving convictions as part of the quotation process. A person holding a trusted...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 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
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...care of the web browser.) From the beginning, Brin and Page had a more technological approach and had been friends since their studies at Stanford, whereas Schmidt brought his business experience as he had been already a CEO of another large organisation in the IT (information technology) industry. Another way of looking at collective leadership is through the lens of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 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
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...careful consideration of where boundaries might most appropriately be placed. You would need to consider each element in relation to others in the context of a system of interest as a whole. In other words systems literacy – your ability to follow the rules of using systems maps – must be underpinned by your systemic sensibility – your capacity to think and act...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs