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Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...energy cost or fuel cost due to greater efficiency cash flow from the disposal of old equipment working capital released at the end of a project (note this may be lower than the working capital required at the beginning of the project). Box 3 The fallacy of sunk costs The logic of ignoring sunk costs is clear; and taking them into account is called a fallacy – a faulty...
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...energy knocking on doors, handing out leaflets, and finding tiny babies to kiss. They need to persuade us that they’re the best person for the job of representing us in Parliament. BYSTANDER: Vote for Danny, yeah? WOMAN ON BENCH: Who’s Danny? DANNY: Parliament comes from the French word for Parliament. You’ve not researched this hugely, have you? Leave it, I’m...
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...energy to it, you did. But till then, don't worry. I've got my cup of tea. It gives me an immediate kick. A sugar high guaranteed. Right now. Right here. It's a clean deal. Yeah? Would you like to have some? [LAUGHTER] And by the way, thank you for asking. It's rare that someone has asked me what a cup of tea means in my life. And so this man is actually a barefoot hedge...
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...energy and then good rhythm. And then at the same time, we have to listen to each other-- and of course, melody and then piano part as well. NAOMI BARKER: The final layer, of course, is in the piano. Now, Jeremy, you've got lots of fireworks there. How does that relate to the rest of the piece? JEREMY YOUNG: Yeah, within the context of the whole piece, this is the real...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...energy, but high levels of enrichment are forbidden to all but a handful of countries. As a consequence, centrifuge technology is tightly controlled, but still, centrifuges have gradually spread around the world. Most recently they have been developed by Iran, ostensibly for that country’s legal civil nuclear programme; but it is sometimes suspected it might possibly be...
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Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...energy of what we’re trying to do. Craig Pemblington I would hazard a guess that we have a diversity and inclusion conversation in maybe half, if not more than half, of every conversation I have about any work involving any kind of recruitment and selection at the moment. So I feel like I’m constantly being kept on my toes and learning new things from other people....
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Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...energy, enthusiasm and commitment come into the evaluation? Comment Activity 1 is the first of several such activities. It is an example of a pattern of activities that constitute reflective practice or reflective learning. This style of learning is based on the notion that the understandings most useful to us, and that most readily become part of us, are learned by...
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Money & Business

Risk management

...energy and commodity trading work. And the common theme through each of those things was that where good risk management was done, the outcomes were better. The businesses performed better, the projects performed better. The chemical plants I designed were safer, were better places to work. The projects I delivered came in on time and delivered the promised benefits. The...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs