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Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...become possible for management to consider revising its pricing, production levels and cost plans. Such individual unit cost information is vital for internal decision making (e.g. pricing) in the normal multi-product firm or in a services firm where different types of service offering are provided...Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...becomes increasingly like a short circuit, and the output voltage decreases as frequency increases. Therefore low frequencies are passed and high frequencies are (to some extent) blocked. Low-pass and high-pass filters can be first-order, second-order, third-order, and so on. However, band-pass filters and band-stop filters must be second-order or higher, although it is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...OU module B207 Shaping business opportunities, so please ignore any reference to the module. INSTRUCTOR In the first part of this session, the tasks associated with Operations Management were represented by a simple input process output framework. This model has been extended by Nigel Slack and his team in his operations management text. The basic structure of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...OU Systems Group for animations in ‘2.1: When to use each diagram.’ These animations form part of T552 Systems thinking and practice: Diagramming from which much of the diagramming source material for this unit was derived. T552 is a diagramming pack which supported modules in the undergraduate Systems Diploma and Systems Residential School and supports modules in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...becomes problematic. With TQM, an objective could be ‘zero defects’, which is relatively easy to define and measure. However, the only agreement about an objective of ‘zero environmental impacts’ may be its impossibility. We could consider breaches of environmental regulations as a possible objective. Starting with this as the comparison and widening the scope to...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...students producing no rubbish for three weeks at a time then 15 sacks once a month? And how would they compare to a family of four producing 2 sacks a week? What is our basis of comparison? Rubbish per household, per person, per week, per month, per year? In the video, Professor Hans Rosling demonstrates how development in terms of average income and lifespan has changed...
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Video 45 mins
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...becomes clear that the social world cannot be understood in separation from the natural world’ (2016, p. 7). Potter’s argument addresses one of the challenges of exploring environmental harms, which is that from a humanocentric perspective, they can seem rather abstract and remote from the suffering of specific individuals. This means that the exploration of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...become empowered by access to key players, media attention, etc. [Figure 4] Source: adapted from Johnson and Scholes (1999) Figure 4 Stakeholder mapping: The power/interest matrix (Mendelow) Activity 5 Read the case study entitled ‘The challenges of using social marketing in India: The case of HIV/AIDS prevention’, linked below. If you were developing this social...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs