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Combining global perspectives and knowledge of different disciplines, Being a Child in a Global World is a truly ground-breaking and comprehensive multidisciplinary study, answering urgent challenges of our time - a must-read for scholars interested in the global condition of childhood.
This collection of essays explores educational issues confronting educators and researchers from various disciplines. They are grouped into four sections, with the first, Business Economics and Management, discussing concepts such as contemporary urban theories, multiculturalism and the informal economy. The second section, Linguistics and Literature, encompasses topics such as Russian-Chinese bilingualism and training in Russian phraseology for foreigners. The third section, Education considers issues such as language teaching and use of learning cycle model and the Socratic Seminar Technique. The fourth section, History and Geography, looks at history education, historical consciousness, and cultural geography. This book will mainly appeal to educators, researchers, and students involved in social sciences.
New costing procedures for a new economic age Increasing global competition is causing upheaval in every area ofindustry and commerce. An explosion in the use of advancedtechnologies is continuing to fundamentally revolutionize the waywe go about doing business. These factors are in turn drivingdramatic reductions in product life cycles (the average productlife cycle is now well under five years) and exerting tremendouspressure on profit margins. The effect has been to substantiallychange cost structures with their traditional focus on direct laborand arbitrary allocation of overhead. Yet we continue to measurecost in the old way. Now, here's a book that shows you how to update your accounti...
Four questions determine whether a company is using interorganizational cost management. Does your firm set specific cost-reduction objectives for its suppliers? Does your firm help its customers and/or suppliers find ways to achieve their cost-education objectives? Does your firm take into account the profitability of its suppliers when negotiating component pricing with them? Is your firm continuously making its buyer-supplier interfaces more efficient? If the answer to any of these questions is ""no"", your firm risks introducing products that cost too much or are not competitive. The full potential of the supply network can be realized only when the entire supply chain adopts interorgani...