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Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...accounting...Financial statement analysis and interpretation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain why is it important to analyse and interpret financial statements explain how different stakeholder groups might be interested in different ratios carry out financial statement analysis using a number of key techniques interpret...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale
History & The Arts

Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale

...account for the die-hard quality of fans’ devotion. Fairy tales are about conflicts with parents; about growing up. Male protagonists often undertake a quest, while female protagonists are abused at home, or driven out by hostile older women (in the main). Some tales employ both male and female lead characters. In Hansel and Gretel, say, a brother and sister are exiled...
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Article 10 mins
Negotiating trade deals
Money & Business

Negotiating trade deals

...are negotiated without democratic scrutiny or accountability. Just as worrying, these deals are reached by unelected figures, further putting into question their ability to be publicly debated and influenced. Alvaro Guzman Bastida discusses these concerns in his article for Al Jazeera America “History’s largest trade agreements are being negotiated in secret”....
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Article 5 mins
Sound Systems: Listening to music together
History & The Arts

Sound Systems: Listening to music together

...account includes reflections on the technology, some of the social factors around sound systems, the physical sensations of listening to loud bass sounds, spiritual and cultural elements, ideas about the value of music, and more. Transcript Clive demonstrates just some of the ways in which music can have an impact both on the individual and also within society in general....
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Article 5 mins
Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...account for over half of medium-sized firms in the manufacturing sector. In particular, dynastic family firms – that is, where the founding family owns a controlling share and have appointed a second-generation (or later) family member as the CEO – account for a quarter of these firms. Since supporting such firms as the “backbone of the economy” is politically...
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Article 5 mins
Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...account of every text we engage with, or reference all of those whose ideas have propelled us along a particular line of flight. We can never acknowledge in their fullness all the allusions, resonances and hauntings that stride through our work. Thus, citation is a deliberate political act – it is a decision to accept particular authors as foundational to our work, or...
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Article 20 mins
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...accounts, before moving on to look at bonds and shares. We’ll then focus on the way that personal investments can be made in various types of investment funds and how these funds enable even small amounts of money to be spread over a range of individual investments. We’ll examine investing in property too – and the UK has experienced a marked increase in recent...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
'Good' food destroying biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

'Good' food destroying biodiversity?

...account ecosystem services have been developed. This coupled with increased environmental awareness of business/government/public has resulted in improved appreciation of the value of ecosystem services. There have been many examples of initiatives that attempt to value ecosystems services. From the famous applied example of the Catskills Watershed Corporation supplying...
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Article 5 mins