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Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...Write some notes explaining why traditional cost and management accounting systems may not provide adequate support for customer relationship marketing and what the likely adverse consequences of this failure might be. Discussion Customer relationship marketing (CRM) requires knowledge/understanding of customer profitability, rather than just turnover/revenue, since the...
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Course image: Katrina Br*?#*!@nd in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Figure 1 John Watson/Open University; Figure 3a–c T.H. Torsvik...
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence The author of this course is Peter Sheldon. Course image: Ryan Somma in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Figures 1 and 2 Peter Sheldon;...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Advanced German: Regional landscapes
Languages

Advanced German: Regional landscapes

...write a short piece about the three-nations region around Lake Constance...German regions and landscapes, local traditions and the notion of Heimat are at the centre of this free course, Advanced German: Regional landscapes. You will describe images, make notes from a variety of sources, and write a short piece about the three-nations region around Lake...
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...writing (2003), giving rise to the term ‘drive-by hacking’, although many instances have occurred quite simply because basic security features have not been activated. As a result, all the attacks on the LAN that I have described so far can be performed by someone who does not even have physical access to the site, but could be on the street nearby, for example in a...
Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...writing (2003) the threat is considered to be so low that vaccination has only been reintroduced in the UK and USA for health workers who would be in the ‘front line’ of any response to an outbreak...Vaccination: 1.5 Summary of Section 1 - Smallpox, caused by the variola virus, was one of the great pandemic infectious diseases for more than 10,000 years, killing a...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...creative new ways to get across the problems as well as just the pretties. And I think that there has been an imbalance. I think the public has been and is ready to take more honest, balanced views about some of the big issues, and they don’t have to be sugar-coated or not dealt with at all. What would I like to work on now? I would love to make a film about some of the...
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...write a short description of the kinds of features you can see on Europa's surface, noting for example relative brightness and characteristic shapes or textures. Concentrate on a simple description of appearance; we do not expect you to explain the origin or precise nature of what you can see. (b) Try to deduce the relative ages of the features you have described. Answer...
Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs