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Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...2 Advanced management accounting...Challenges in advanced management accounting: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand and describe strategic management accounting make decisions based on customer profitability using activity costing incorporate risk and uncertainty in project appraisal...Challenges in advanced management...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...2 The Stellarium main screen, showing the two menu bars which can be made to appear by moving the cursor to the left side or bottom edge of the screen at the lower left corner. Credit: https://stellarium.org Stellarium is produced by an independent team of developers and is free to install on most types of desktop and laptop computers. Versions are available for most...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...2 Let us take a familiar object: a telephone. Mine has a handset plus a base unit with buttons for dialling (note that the term 'dialling' is a hangover from the days when the design featured a rotating dial; see Figure 1). Using any telephone of your own as an example, write a list of those broad factors which you think the design team had to consider when they came up...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...2 Global literacy and ‘literacy for all’ - A global agenda of education for all has long been seen as the means of enabling social, economic and human development. This has been particularly evident in the work of the United Nations (UN), for example, the 1960 Convention Against Discrimination in Education, and the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, which...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...2 Dietary choices and preferences - As much as the affordability of food, what people eat is also strongly influenced by their dietary preferences, which are in turn closely connected to behavioural, cultural, religious and social factors (Mintz and Du Bois, 2002). These factors add other dimensions to food security. To fulfil these dimensions, emphasis on production...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...2. Here we have added two more tiers on the server side: a data tier and another tier that handles interactions with the data tier, such as retrieving requested information or validating data that is put into the data stores. This tier, between the data tier and the server tier, is sometimes termed the ‘middle tier’ or middleware. An application that uses middleware...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...2 Discussion Vivian and Anita each describe very different change processes. Anita reflects on her experiences of trying to manage a large-scale organisational change, which she eventually came to oppose, while Vivian discusses the changes she experienced when she moved into a senior management position. The experiences they describe highlight that managing change is both...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...other positions, to try to explore the organisation afresh...Commercial awareness: 2 The value of identifying value - In an important sense, an organisation is a machine for adding value. In its simplest form this means it takes an input at one value and, if successful, converts it to an output at a higher value. The concept is seen most clearly in manufacturing, where raw materials are worked on to produce finished goods ......
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs