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Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...world, the assumption is that we use calculators to save the tedious process of working out calculations by hand or mentally. The danger, of course, is that you may use a calculator without understanding what an answer means or how it relates to the numbers operated upon. For example, if you calculate that 8% of £20 is £160 (which can easily happen if either you forget...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...world to ennoble them with a title of its own choosing. Now and then when Ealer had to stop to cough, I pulled my induction-talents together and hove the controversial lead myself: always getting eight feet, eight and a half, often nine, sometimes even quarter-less-twain--as _I_ believed; but always "no bottom," as HE said. I got the best of him only once. I prepared...
Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...world?’ What technology would enable valuable archive to be made available to the public? A digital water-marker, a very discreet digital water-marker would allow anyone to know who shot what, where, when. So basically it would be embedded in the picture no matter how you use the picture, it would still be part of the picture, because then you’d have that, I don’t...
Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic

...World It is anticipated that it may take many years for the railway industry to recover from the effects of COVID-19. There may never be a return to the normal peak morning and afternoon travelling numbers. Many companies may choose to continue to have at least a proportion of their employees work from home, so the normal sight of commuters flooding the stations and...
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...world. However, we also perform simulations with a continuous culture set up that uses flowing water to replenish nutrients and remove waste materials, cells, and so on. This is much closer to what we observe in lake systems in nature. We use a range of media that are each suitable for slightly different microbes, working towards isolating interesting microbes into a pure...
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. George, S. (2014) ‘“Expect the unexpected”: starting successful partnerships in fragile states’, Guardian, 2 October [Online]. Available at www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/oct/02/successful-partnerships-in-fragile-states (Accessed 10 March 2015). Thomas, A. (1996) ‘What is...
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...world, producer companies have increasingly learned to keep a careful watch on emerging consumer requirements and changing user needs and wishes. They have not only learned to listen to what consumers say, but to watch what they do. Techniques used in market research to gather consumers’ views on products include both quantitative methods (collecting numerical data),...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...world. You can have several organisational types, but you will have only one legal form. There are several legal options available for your business structure. Here are some brief definitions: Sole trader – the simplest way to operate. However, there are implications for how you raise finance and your personal liability for debts and tax. As a sole trader you are not...