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Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...become as proficient in ratio analysis as, say, a banking loan analyst, but an ability to use its basic tools will benefit managers in their day-to-day work. For example, it is likely that a manager will at some time need to provide financial data to a bank, perhaps as part of a proposal for project funding. A basic understanding of how the bank will use the information...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...become more complicated, so the identifications become more difficult to visualise. For example, what happens if we try to identify the edges of an octagon in pairs, as indicated by the edge labels and arrowheads in Figure 34? Figure 35 shows that identifying, in the directions indicated, the edges labelled a and the edges labelled c results, after some bending and...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...become the largest category. The two smallest categories in 1981 were thefts from the person and bicycle thefts, and this remained the case in 1997 even though the number of bicycle thefts had increased by over 150%...Interpreting data: boxplots and tables: 3.6 Summary of Section 3 - In this section, you have learned about appropriate ways of interpreting data in tables....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...become more uncertain. Evidence The next step involves looking for some information against which these kinds of claims can be tested. John Greaves's autobiographical account offers one type of evidence about the importance of work and identity. This piece suggests that structural changes in the economy can have significant impacts upon identities. [Please read the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...become fixed in form and content by being written down, which is why they have survived and other epic poems have not. With the advent of writing, there was an information explosion in the Greek world, as a new wave of thinkers took to recording in prose all kinds of things: how the natural world worked; how and why people got ill; what different lands and peoples looked...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...become a global industry. Before sound recording was possible, few people had the opportunity to hear music in the way we take for granted today. Apart from expensive musical boxes and mechanical music players, the only way music could be heard was in live performances. Take a moment to think how your life would be without being able to listen to music through a sound...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...becomes increasingly animated, I notice a musicality to her voice that I’m sure wasn’t there earlier. The lines in her forehead seem to be softening, and the pursing and stretching of her lips and the crinkling of her eyes tell me as much about her mental state as any interpreter could. Angelina is coming to life, precisely as my body is beginning to shut down. It’s...
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Article 15 mins
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...become an occupational therapist. As high as you can, stretch your legs out, Ryan. Whoops! Where are you going? Excellent. That is fantastic. I left school at 16 and went and did A levels, sort of sixth-form education. And then went to university for a few months, to study Law and Spanish. Found that wasn’t for me, didn’t enjoy it at all. So that I went into NatWest...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs