Management of accounting: the case for an active role
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Recent research has focused on the possibilities for active participation by managers in determining the direction of accounting regulations. It has considered a range of cases which show how managers who actively seek constructive changes in accounting regulations can have a positive impact on their businesses. Opportunities for bringing about changes exist in relation to both the internal, management accounting, system and to the external, financial accounting, climate.
Publication Name: European Management Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0263-2373
Year: 1995
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Montreal struggles out of a modern-day ice age
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There are signs that life is beginning to return to normal in Montreal, where severe weather conditions brought many challenges. At one stage, 3 million people were without power, and still 350,000 households in Quebec, along with many more in Eastern Ontario and New Brunswick, have no water, light or heat. Many people have had to leave their homes and seek temporary shelter, and there are still no indications about when they will be able to return home.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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El Nino: the heartbeat of climates
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An examination of El Nino shows how warming waters in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean can disturb world-wide weather patterns. Weather forecasters indicate this year's El Nino and La Nina, which began in 1997 and may continue for a number of years, are capable of causing catastrophic rainfall or drought conditions unseen during the last 150 years.
Publication Name: The World Today
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0043-9134
Year: 1997
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