... of assets nor the amounts of hidden losses of some large banks were disclosed The comeback of trust into the business models of the banking sector would most likely be undermined Finally, the ... operative decisions 4.3 Proposed Models for the Current Crisis The gray boxes designate proposed models for the current crisis As the Table shows, the proposals under discussion are often of a “mixed” ... Liabilities 900 990 Table 1d: Bad bank balance sheet prior to expiration (selling) date of toxic assets Assets Liabilities Toxic Assets Debt Total Assets Assets Selling price of Toxic Assets Total Assets...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
... Porter The Role of Business in Social Issues • Business cannot solve all of society s problems, nor bear the cost of doing so – There are many worthy causes • Business must approach its social agenda ... and strategically • Business must address society and social issues where it can add the most value • Where is a company able to have the greatest impact on social issues versus other institutions? ... competitiveness • Successful economic development is a process of successive upgrading, in which the business environment improves to enable increasingly sophisticated ways of competing 20081201 – PACE strategy.ppt...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20
Tài liệu THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN -GRIMM''''S FAIRY TALE ppt
... company So, to make a sort of drawn battle of the matter, it was settled that Heinel should be put into an open boat, that lay on the sea-shore hard by; that the father should push him off with his ... saying he set out and travelled till he came to a hill, where three giants were sharing their father s goods; and as they saw him pass they cried out and said, ‘Little men have sharp wits; he shall ... pleased; and a pair of boots that carried the wearer wherever he wished Heinel said they must first let him try these wonderful things, then he might know how to set a value upon them Then they...
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu Why Has The Cost of Navy Ships Risen - A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Naval Ship Costs Over the Past Several Decades doc
... comparisons across specific classes also allows greater transparency of the contribution of individual components to ship cost escalation The ship types and pairs (and fiscal years) of comparison classes ... varying sectors of the civilian economy or other defense sectors? • How does this escalation compare with other weapon systems, such as aircraft and missiles? Cost Escalation for Navy Ships The form ... Navy and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as well as congressional planners involved in ship acquisition This research was sponsored by the Assessment Division, Office of the Chief of Naval...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu Why Has the Cost of Fixed-Wing Aircraft Risen - A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Military Aircraft Costs over the Past Several Decades pptx
... comprises all systems such as avionics (electronics to control the aircraft), sensors (such as radar), other mission systems (such as electronic countermeasures, communications, targeting systems, ... aircraft The issues we address are: How does escalation in aircraft costs compare with cost escalation in other sectors of the economy? What are the sources of any escalation in these costs? Can cost ... characteristics have contributed to aircraft cost escalation We present views of some industry representatives on the sources of cost escalation in Chapter Six Next, we discuss some options for addressing...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20
Tài liệu Cleaner Water in China? The Implications of the Amendments to China’s Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution pptx
... local standards for items not covered.84 The development of these standards is similar to the standards in the United States The EPA sets treatment standards by regulation according to industry.85 ... these numbers may seem promising, the number of permits issued lags behind the number of polluting industries In some places, only twenty percent of polluting enterprises had permits.54 In other ... Discharge Permit Systems.51 Under these different systems, permits have been issued in increasing numbers In 1996, over forty thousand permits were issued in the cities that implemented a system.52...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: The effects of ring-size analogs of the antimicrobial peptide gramicidin S on phospholipid bilayer model membranes and on the growth of Acholeplasma laidlawii B ppt
... increase the water solubility of these compounds and the latter to decrease the cost of chemical synthesis [4–7] Note that these conservative amino acid substitutions not by themselves significantly ... As discussed earlier, GS10 and GS14 both exist in aqueous solution as antiparallel b-sheet structures separated by type II¢ turns, as does GS itself, although GS14 has a somewhat less rigid structure ... discussion of the thermotropic phase behavior of Myr2Gro-PGro and other members of the homologous series of linear saturated PGs, see Zhang et al [24] The addition of mol percent of one of the...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21
Tài liệu The Wealth of the People: Your Neighbor''''s Wealth potx
... make The rest of the titles of the "Wealth of the People" series are listed at the end of this book Introduction The second book of the series "The Wealth of the People" is about the relationship ... function of the business enterprise to produce wealth for its customers, its owners, and its employees The Wealth of the State The fifth book discusses what happens when we remove the assumption ... his obligations to the satisfaction of the other When trade stops, there will be the loss of income associated with the advantage of the trade relationship The specialization of labor occurs...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo " Characteristics of the voi mep massif’s altitudinal belt differentiation " doc
... peculiarity of the top surface Currently this surface is modified by surface washout process - Slopes on granites: there are many steep slopes on the west of the massive, developed along fissures, tectonic ... slope and less than 800m on the western slope Generally, the area topography has large slopes and is strongly dissected The results of soil profile analyses show a mechanical composition of medium ... faults cutting into granites The origin of these surfaces are rapid gravity processes, including falls and collapses, the slope of this surface is greater than 25o, vertical in places Straight profiled,...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The N-terminal region of the bacterial DNA polymerase PolC features a pair of domains, both distantly related to domain V of the DNA polymerase III s subunit ppt
... approaches (see Materials and methods), with the strongest consensus spanning residues 194–214 These data suggest that the linker connecting the N-terminal two-domain structure to the OB domain of ... templates used in modeling PROSA2003 Z-score represents the estimated energy of the structure (the range of Z-scores is for the five additional models) A more negative PROSA2003 energy Z-score suggests ... Lys36 and Lys41 In addition, species of the class Bacilli often have one to four Lys or Arg residues in variable positions of the N-terminal part of the a1 helix These residues also contribute...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20
Audit of the Veterans Health Administration''''s Outpatient Waiting Times pot
... contained in the VistA scheduling package to the dates of the appointments Schedulers must enter the correct desired dates of care in the system to ensure the accuracy of this measurement The desired ... a comparison between the results of the patient satisfaction survey and the results of the OIG audit The purpose of the audit was to determine whether established scheduling procedures were followed ... scheduling process, he plans to obtain the services of a contractor who will thoroughly assess the factors that contribute to the complexity of the scheduling process and offer suggestions on ways that...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20
Daughters of the Cross: or Woman''''s Mission doc
... It was a noble design, one full of grandeur and glory, as far surpassing the crusade of Peter the Hermit as the noonday Daughters of the Cross: or Woman 's Mission sun surpasses the dim star of ... Mediterranean; the Azore Islands; the long coast of Africa; the Straits of Gibraltar; the stay at Malta; the visits to convents, temples, and other places of Daughters of the Cross: or Woman 's Mission ... of the love she felt towards the people of God She was affected to tears at the kindness of her physicians and others who attended her She addressed the members of the mission who called to see...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20
Economic Contribution of the Oceans Sector in British Columbia doc
... activity Industry Sectors Table identifies the various ocean sectors addressed in the study The sectors include the main sectors addressed in other studies, and comprise the sectors for which ... Reports Annual Reports Stats Can Stats Can BC Stats Satellite " DFO Survey Annual Reports Secondary Sources BC Stats Satellite Secondary Sources " " Existing Public Sectors NAICS /Sector Data Source ... subsectors should use BC Stats/Statistics Canada data and concepts to the extent possible (this confers consistency with procedures used for measuring the economic contribution of other sectors...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20
ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF THE PLANTATION SECTOR IN KERALA pdf
... significance of this sector Table 4.5 shows the details of the Centre-State break up of the various I taxes from the Plantation sector to the State Govenunent ,A varlety of taxes ;inti duties ... 4.1 Small Growers in the Plantation Sector 4.8 There is predominance of small growers in the plantation sector Table 4.12 reveals the share of small growers in the production of plantation crops ... reveals the importance of this sector in Kerala Table 4.7 shows the sibpificance of this sector to the state 's economy Table 4.7 Plantation Crops in Kerala 's Economy (1995-'96) Type of crop Share...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:21
Management and Financial Audit of the Hawaii Tourism Authority’s Major Contracts A Report _part1 ppt
... The Office of the Auditor The missions of the Office of the Auditor are assigned by the Hawaii State Constitution (Article VII, Section 10) The primary mission is to conduct post audits of the ... Legislature Under its assigned missions, the office conducts the following types of examinations: Financial audits attest to the fairness of the financial statements of agencies They examine the ... benefits Such bills cannot be enacted unless they are referred to the Office of the Auditor for an assessment of the social and financial impact of the proposed measure Analyses of proposed special...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 20:20
Management and Financial Audit of the Hawaii Tourism Authority’s Major Contracts A Report _part2 ppt
... the Audit Assess whether the Hawai`i Tourism Authority adequately manages its major contracts Assess the compliance of major contractors with contract provisions and the propriety of contract ... contract is $23.75 million For purposes of this audit, we focused exclusively on the authority s two contracts with HVCB The Hawai`i Visitors & Convention Bureau is the State s official tourism marketing ... their advertisements to the insert The insert, which may have grown to four pages, will then strengthen the message of Hawai`i as a travel destination An example of an in-kind contribution is...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 20:20
Management and Financial Audit of the Hawaii Tourism Authority’s Major Contracts A Report _part3 pptx
... employees received individual annual bonuses in excess of $25,000 The authority did not assess the appropriateness of the salary levels or the incentive program bonus amounts The authority s non-involvement ... violated its own policies for reimbursable expenditures In other cases HVCB did not exercise adequate controls over expenditures that resulted in the misuse of state funds We also found several instances ... expenses Expenditures by HVCB s Kaua‘i Visitors Bureau and its China and Japan offices indicate varying degrees of improper management of state funds The Kaua‘i Visitor s Bureau has a staff of...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 20:20
Management and Financial Audit of the Hawaii Tourism Authority’s Major Contracts A Report _part4 doc
... role was to pay invoices it received from the governor s office for services the special advisor procured The arrangement between the university and HVCB was also suspect for other reasons First, ... Bennet and Associates two separate amounts under two separate agreements leads us to question whether use of HVCB as the pass-through entity for payment was designed to evade the State Procurement ... relations company Moreover, the circumstances surrounding the awarding of this contract suggest selfdealing or at least a conflict of interest Specifically, on the same day that the Wish Company...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 20:20
Management and Financial Audit of the Hawaii Tourism Authority’s Major Contracts A Report _part5 pdf
... authority s contract procurement methods and assigns responsibility of overseeing the procurement steps to various sections It also specifies that overall responsibility for a contract rests with the section ... 2002, and the related statements of activities and cash flows for the year then ended These financial statements are the responsibility of HVCB s management Our responsibility is to express an opinion ... reporting and its operations that the firm considered to be reportable conditions Nishihama & Kishida, CPA 's, Inc also noted that the results of its tests disclosed no instances of noncompliance...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 20:20