...School of Business Management International Trade Management BM0472 ICA 2 – WEIGHTAGE 25% (BASE MARKS 100) A. Introduction This is a group assignment. Students are to work in groups to research, analyse, and present a report to propose how a company can set up an operation in a new country. Students will deepen understanding of the various logistics processes to be considered when a company expands overseas. B. Objectives The objectives of the group assignment are to test students’ ability in: 1. Presenting a proposal on how an operation in a new country should be, focusing on areas of international transportation modes, inventory and distribution, production, outsourcing and reverse logistics. 2. Identifying the risks the company is exposed to in such international operations, and recommending ways to avoid or overcome them. C. Assessment Schedule Component ICA 2 – Group Project Wt 25% Base Marks 100 Date of Presentation & Debate Week 15 (beginning 20 Jan ‘14) Penalty (Marks/ day) 10 marks D. Description of ICA 1. Students to be grouped into teams of four to six per team. 2. Each team will have to register their desired company and country (one where the company has not established any operations yet) to research on, with their respective tutors by the end of week 3. No two teams from the same class can work on the same company and/ or country. 3. Each team will research on the selected company to understand its business model; and on the selected country to gather information...
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...CV Template: non-graduate first job CV YOUR NAME CORE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE This is your chance to write about you as a person. Why do you want this job and why would you be good at it? Don’t just talk about your good points – show them off with examples. If you’re a punctual person talk about how good your punctuality record was at school. If you work well in a team then write about a time when you worked well with others to achieve a good result… Use the job advert to pick out what skills the job needs and then use examples to show how you are the perfect person for the job. You can either write this as a short paragraph or as bullet points. PERSONAL DETAILS ADDRESS Current address EMAIL Best email to reach you on TELEPHONE Mobile and/or home phone NOTE: You do not need to include information on your gender or date of birth but you may want to state your nationality in this section if you are British or your right to work in the UK if not. EDUCATION College/Sixth Form dates (if you went to college): COLLEGE NAME QUALIFICATIONS: List qualifications gained. School dates: SCHOOL NAME QUALIFICATIONS: List qualifications gained. (NOTE: if you have no qualifications, include details of your school attended but leave out the qualifications section. If asked in interview it’s easier to explain then if they ask) EMPLOYMENT Although this is your first job, if you’ve had any experience, whether it’s babysitting, work experience or volunteering...
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...AP EUROPEAN HISTORY NOTES- Filled with silliness and inside jokes, enjoy at your leisure :) If something is in [] brackets, it is only written in there for our pleasure, ignore it if you are looking for actual information. Key: • 7: The Renaissance and Reformation- 1350-1600 UMSUniversal o Georgio Vasari- Rinascita=rebirth (like Renaissance) painter/architect Male Suffrage o Individualism: People sought to receive personal credit for achievements, unlike medieval ideal of “all glory goes to god” Names Ideas o Renaissance: Began in Italian city-states, a cause de invention of the printing press, laid way for Protestant Reformation Events Books/Texts Italy: City states, under HRE (Holy Roman Empire) o For alliances: old nobility vs. wealthy merchants FIGHT P-Prussia Popolo: third class, “the people”, wanted own share of wealth/power R-Russia A-Austria Ciompi Revolts: 1378 Florence, Popolo were revolting [eew], brief period of control over government B-Britain Milan taken over by signor (which is a tyrant) • o Under control of the Condottiero (mercenary) Sforza- Significant because after this, a few wealthy families dominated Venice (e.g. Medici) Humanism: Francesco Petrarch (Sonnets), came up with term “Dark Ages”, began to study classical world of rhetoric and literature Cicero: Important Roman, provided account of collapse of Roman Republic [like Edward Gibbon], invented Ciceronian style: Latin style of writing...
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...Аббревиатура в словообразовательной системе английского языка Оглавление Введение Глава 1. Сокращение и его место в системе английского языка 1.1 Понятие сокращения в современной лексикологии 1.2 Типы аббревиатур Глава 2. Аббревиатура в словообразовательной системе английского языка 2.1 Структурно-семантические классификации английских сокращений и их место в словообразовательной системе английского языка 2.2 Аббревиация как один из способов категоризации специальных понятий Глава 3. Основные способы перевода и переноса аббревиатур с английского языка на русский 3.1 Перевод аббревиатурой и перевод развернутой формой 3.2 Транскрипция сокращений Заключение Библиография Введение В наше время в языке научной, технической, экономической литературы, как английской, так и русской, встречается большое количество разного рода сокращений. Рост числа сокращений, находящих применение в современном английском языке, совершенно закономерен. Следствием развития науки и техники, международных интеграционных процессов в области экономики и народного хозяйства является появление все новых и новых понятий, которые нуждаются в терминировании. Большинство новых понятий и в русском, и в английском языках выражается при помощи словосочетаний или сложных слов, так как именно эти виды терминов дают возможность отразить необходимые и достаточные признаки того или иного понятия с наибольшей полнотой и точностью. Но термины - сложные слова и словосочетания - громоздки. Поэтому и появляется...
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