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Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...studying this course, you should be able to: select and justify a suitable risk-free rate and equity risk premium for use in determining the expected return for a share evaluate the different approaches to identifying a suitable equity risk premium use the dividend valuation model to calculate the return on a share and the return on a market use the return on a market to...
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...study of the relationship between points, lines, areas and volumes in shapes of two or three dimensions. * Grain: An individual crystal in the microstructure of a polycrystalline material. The structure and size of grains have an influence on the properties of a solid material. Can also be a single grain of powder or sand. In the structure of wood, ‘the grain’...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...study time accordingly.) This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course M140 Introducing statistics...Prices, location and spread: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: find the mean and median of a batch of data find the weighted mean of two or more numbers find the lower and upper quartiles, interquartile...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...studying this course, you should be able to: identify Woolf’s ideas about time, memory and identity understand the role of innovation and experimentation in prose fiction demonstrate a developed ability to read dense poetic prose analytically...Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts: 1 Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts - In 1936 Virginia Woolf wrote...
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the legal characteristics of limited companies and how these characteristics are different from those of sole traders and partnerships understand company financing through share capital and loan capital understand the interests and information needs of different company stakeholders identify and explain three...
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...studying a device called the phonoautograph. This apparatus inscribed sound vibrations as a lateral trace onto lamp-blacked paper using a diaphragm and stylus. Berliner thought that this lateral motion could offer superior recording quality to Edison’s vertical method. He also decided to use a disc, which he called a plate, which was rotated at a fixed speed, rather...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Ewch â’ch addysgu ar-lein

...Studies of Science, cyfrol 14, rhif 3, tud.(au) 399–441. Prensky, M. (2001) ‘Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1’, On the Horizon, cyfrol 9, rhif 5, tud.(au) 1–6. Scanlon, E., Sharples, M., Fenton-O’Creevy, M., Fleck, J., Cooban, C., Ferguson, R., Cross, S. a Waterhouse, P. (2013) Beyond Prototypes: Enabling innovation in technology-enhanced learning...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
White dwarfs and neutron stars
Science, Maths & Technology

White dwarfs and neutron stars

...studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate how stars end their lives understand how planetary nebulae and supernova remnants form calculate the physical properties of white dwarfs and neutron stars understand the properties of electron-degenerate and neutron-degenerate matter calculate the energetics of supernovae explosions...White dwarfs and neutron stars:...