1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460894003321

Autore

Bettivia Rhiannon

Titolo

The middle schoolers' debatabase : 75 current controversies for debaters / / Rhiannon Bettivia and National Forensic League

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : International Debate Education Association, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-932716-80-7

1-61770-076-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

808.53

Soggetti

Debates and debating - Study and teaching (Middle school)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction to Debate""; ""Debate Topics""; ""Adoptions, International""; ""Airline Passengers, Pay by Weight""; ""Animal Testing""; ""Art Subsidies, Government""; ""Cell Phones in Schools""; ""Cell Phones while Driving""; ""Charter Schools""; ""Cigarettes, Ban""; ""Cloning""; ""Contraceptives in Schools""; ""Copenhagen Accord""; ""Death Penalty""; ""Defense Spending, Cut""; ""Die with Dignity, Right to""; ""Draft, Military""; ""Dress Codes in Schools""; ""Drilling for Oil in Parks and Preserves""; ""Driving Age""; ""Drug Testing in Schools""

""Electoral College""""Environmental Standards, Differing""; ""Factory Farming, Banning""; ""Farm Subsidies""; ""Fashion Models, Size Zero""; ""Federal Student Aid""; ""Felon Disenfranchisement""; ""Gas Guzzlers, Ban""; ""Genetically Modified Foods""; ""Gentrification""; ""Health Care, Universal""; ""Health Courses for Students""; ""International Baccalaureate""; ""Junk Food Tax""; ""Juvenile Offenders in Adult Courts""; ""Letter Grades""; ""Martin Luther King, Jr. Day""; ""Meat, Eating""; ""Metric System, Adopting""; ""Minimum Wage""; ""Movie Rating System""

""National High School Graduation Exam""""No Child Left Behind""; ""Non-standard English in Schools""; ""Nuclear Power, U.S. Switch to""; ""Official Language, English as""; ""Oil Dependency, Ending Foreign"";



""Penny, Abolish the""; ""Physical Education, Mandatory""; ""Plastic Bags, Banning""; ""Pledge of Allegiance in Schools""; ""Presidents, Non-native""; ""Puerto Rican Statehood""; ""Rap Music""; ""Restaurants, Ban All-you-can-eat Establishments""; ""Right to Know""; ""School Day, Length of""; ""Schools, Year-round""; ""Second Amendment""; ""Single-sex Schools""

""Smokers, Government Benefits and""""Space Program""; ""Spanish Mandatory in Schools""; ""Sports in Schools""; ""Swimming Pools, Private""; ""Term Limits""; ""Terrorists, Negotiate with""; ""Torture""; ""Trans Fats, Ban""; ""U.N. Headquarters""; ""U.N. Security Council""; ""Video Games""; ""Voting, Mandatory""; ""Wiretaps, Warrantless""; ""Zero Tolerance in Schools""; ""Zoos""; ""Index""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777350903321

Titolo

2004: the year in balance [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bradford, England], : Emerald Group Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-280-51492-2

9786610514922

1-84544-348-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (32 p.)

Collana

Balance sheet ; ; v. 12, no. 2, 2004, special issue

Disciplina

338.9

338.94

Soggetti

Corporate governance

Accounting - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Table of contents; Editor's page; Looking ahead at 2004: a global standard-setter's perspective; Hopes and fears for financial reporting and corporate governance; 2004: the year of the truth; Corporate regulation: dead hand or safeguard in the year 2004; Disclosure, litigation and regulation: the challenges of the year ahead; How prospective financial information will transform 2004; Caught in the middle: the treasury view of 2004; A seven-point prediction for 2004



Sommario/riassunto

One of the key issues of the year is a simple one. Across Europe all listed companies will have to carry out their financial reporting under the rules promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Board by the year 2005. This means that 2004, given that comparative figures will have to be shown in 2005, is the crunch time. But it is not only Europe. Countries right around the world have latched onto the initiative and are following suit. The question is how far this movement towards harmonizing global financial reporting can move. The stumbling block, like so much in the business world