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Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...economic value as £1 received or paid at some point in the future. We will discuss the causes of the time value of money. Discounted cash flow techniques such as net present value and internal rate of return require us not only to take account of the time value of money, but to estimate what it is by using a discount rate. We show how the weighted average cost of...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...Economic Area (EEA), or listed on the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ. Private and public limited companies must have at least one shareholder. Small companies may have only a few shareholders. Large companies, and especially quoted companies, can have thousands or even hundreds of thousands of shareholders...Companies and financial accounting: 1.3.2 A note on...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...economic and monetary system economic development immigration and nationality tourism energy: electricity, coal, gas and nuclear energy criminal law common markets civil law trade and industry, including competition and customer protection agriculture and food railways, transport safety and regulation sport and the arts employment legislation planning social security and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...economic and political implications. The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century are often compared to other historical periods of great technological change such as the Industrial Revolution. This is because of the huge changes that are happening in many aspects of life. The terms information society and network society have been used...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...economic power in its own right. Yet there were strong local traditions, rooted in Punic culture, that told of a long history of rivalry, and resistance to Rome’s might. Was it possible for these cultural and political differences to be worked out? How far could the peoples of North Africa come to identify with a Roman life-style? And in Judaea, Jewish religious...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...economic model, how demand and supply affect house prices and discuss the consequences for different types of household understand, with the aid of the household financial balance sheet, why housing may be viewed as a store of wealth...Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing: 1 Buy or rent? - Attitudes to buying or renting vary a good deal across countries. A few...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...economic and social security has allowed Germans to forget the safe conditions that made this development possible. Read: Germany faces one of its greatest political challenges since World War II What, then, is to be done? Dennis Shen, writing for the LSE's EUROPP blog, suggests that what Europe has tried so far hasn't worked well, and calls for a new approach: One fact...
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Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...Economic & Social Research Council blog, suggests that in half a century's time, we may have made those desicions: I argue that this case perfectly illustrates the importance of feminist sociology and of incorporating its research findings and theoretical concepts into a wider scientific and social context. If this incorporation will continue to take place over the next...
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