Peterson's Four-Year Colleges 2012 is the trusted guide of high school guidance counselors, parents, and students. This valuable resource includes information on accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the United States and Canada (and many international schools)-more than 2,500 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions, written by admissions personnel, for more than 400 colleges and universities. Inside you'll find: Detailed profile information including campus setting, enrollment, academic programs, entrance difficulty, expenses, student-faculty ratio, application deadlines, and contact information. The Advice Center provides insider info on specialized college options, such as Honors Programs and Colleges, Online Learning, Women's Colleges, and Public vs. Private institutions. Helful articles offer advice on making a list of your "Top-Ten" colleges, surviving standardized tests, preparing to get into college, paying for college, scholarship guidance and more. Indexes include Majors or Fields of Study, Entrance Difficulty, Cost Ranges, and geographic and alphabetical listings of all schools.
On 22 May 2009 the Office of Communications (Ofcom) published a statement concerning local loop unbundling entitled 'A new pricing framework for Openreach'. The statement contained decisions to impose charge controls on British Telecommunications (BT) in relation to various services supplied by BT in the market for wholesale local access services in the UK (excluding Hull). The services in question are all rental services meaning that a communications provider acquires the right to provide voice and broadband internet services to customers. Appeals were brought by the Carphone Warehouse Group plc against the decision in the statement before the Competition Appeal Tribunal. British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) and BT both intervened. This report explains the determinations made in the appeal.
With decentralization and urbanization, the debts of state and local governments and of quasi-public agencies have grown in importance. Rapid urbanization in developing countries requires large-scale infrastructure financing to help absorb influxes of rural populations. Borrowing enables state and local governments to capture the benefits of major capital investments immediately and to finance infrastructure more equitably across multiple generations of service users. With debt comes the risk of insolvency. Subnational debt crises have reoccurred in both developed and developing countries. Restructuring debt and ensuring its sustainability confront moral hazard and fiscal incentives in a multilevel government system; individual subnational governments might free-ride common resources, and public officials at all levels might shift the cost of excessive borrowing to future generations. This book brings together the reform experiences of emerging economies and developed countries. Written by leading practitioners and experts in public finance in the context of multilevel government systems, the book examines the interaction of markets, regulators, subnational borrowers, creditors, national governments, taxpayers, ex-ante rules, and ex-post insolvency systems in the quest for subnational fiscal discipline. Such a quest is intertwined with a country s historical, political, and economic context. The formal legal framework interacts with political reality to influence the dynamics of and incentives for reform. Often, the resolution of a subnational debt crisis unfolds in the context of macroeconomic stabilization and structural reforms. The book includes reforms that have not been covered by previous literature, such as those of China, Colombia, France, Hungary, Mexico, and South Africa. The book also presents a comprehensive review of how the United States developed its debt market for state and local governments, through a series of reforms that are path dependent, including the reforms and lessons learned following state defaults in the 1840s and the debates that shaped the enactment of Chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code in 1937. Looking forward, pressures on subnational finance are likely to continue from the fragility of global recovery, the potentially higher cost of capital, refinancing risks, and sovereign risks. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to know the challenges and reform options in debt restructuring, insolvency frameworks, and public debt market development.
Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency which is an equally weighed section in many competitive examinations tests the thinking power and mind applicability skills of the candidates. The questions asked in various competitive examinations are not easy to solve without having enough practice. The Accredited Guide to Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency will help aspirants master the ‘Tricks of the Trade’. This book has been divided into nine chapters namely Analysis of Data, Data Table, Bar Chart, Line Graph, Pie Chart or Circle Graph, Mixed Graph, Case Studies, Miscellaneous Charts & Data Sufficiency, each sub-divided into number of chapters with different types of questions of multiple patterns asked in various exams. Ample numbers of solved problems have been covered in each chapter followed by practice exercises at the end to help aspirants revised and practice the concepts discussed in each chapter. Also the book contains previous years’ solved questions of different competitive examinations like CAT, MAT, CMAT, Bank (PO/Clerk), UPSC, SSC and other state PSC Exams, etc to help aspirants get an insight into the types of reasoning questions asked. The book will be highly useful for aspirants preparing for Management (CAT, XAT, CMAT, IIFT, SNAP & other), Bank (PO & Clerk), SSC (CGL/CPO), UPSC & other state PSC Exams, etc. As the book covers Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency both in detail with ample number of solved problems, it for sure will help aspirants prepare both the types in a thorough manner and will act as a Accredited Guide to Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency.
As the great Ben Hogan once said, what if your life was like a round of golf? What would that round be like? What might the unfinished scorecard of your life look like? The quest for answers to these hypothetical questions led author Andre Huu to the fundamental concepts behind his book, The Round of Your Life. In his memoir, Huu likens his life to a game of golf, offering a scoring method to help him evaluate his experiences, responses, and lessons learned. Throughout this journeyfrom his birth in Vietnam to the present dayhe shares his stories and the scores he has assigned himself for each hole hes played. He invites you to apply his unique scoring method to come up with a scorecard for your own life. Filled with life stories, insights, advice, and inspirational quotes, The Round of Your Life encourages you to worry less about the score of the game and focus more on getting the most enjoyment possible out of the rest of your round.
Tax law is a daunting subject for many law students. It requires a firm grasp of the Internal Revenue Code provisions, the reasoning behind them, the way they interact, and the way courts have interpreted them. Students must also acquire a brand new vocabulary of tax terms. For the first time, Oxford University Press equips students with an accessible guide to acing this most challenging of law school tests. In Federal Income Taxation: Model Problems and Outstanding Answers, Camilla E. Watson helps students demonstrate their knowledge of federal income tax law in the structured and sophisticated manner that professors expect on law school exams. This book includes clear introductions to the major topics in tax law, provides hypothetical's similar to those that students can expect to see on an exam, and offers model answers to those hypothetical's. Professor Watson then gives students the opportunity to evaluate their own work with a comprehensive self-analysis section. This book prepares students by challenging them to use the law they learn in class while also explaining the best way to express an answer on law school exams.
This title provides the latest techniques for building and conserving wealth through proactive tax-planning and investment strategies. Completely updated for tax law changes, this book will bring you up-to-date on the latest strategies that will keep more money in the hands of clients and make their accountant look like a hero! This book will help: Determine when selling capital assets, business assets, and real estate are to a client’s advantage Apply like-kind exchange rules under Section 1031 Identify ways to advise clients on how to minimize taxes on employer stock options and employer stock held in qualified retirement plan accounts Differentiate between incentive stock options (ISOs) and nonqualified stock options (NQSOs) Determine ways to help clients obtain maximum tax savings from vacation home and timeshare properties Differentiate between the rules for “regular” vacation homes, timeshares, and co-ownership deals Determine appropriate federal income tax advice for clients who are separated, divorcing, or divorced Recall ways to help middle-class clients identify college financing tax breaks Identify tax-saving college financing manoeuvres for higher-income clients who are ineligible for the well-known education tax breaks Identify strategies of husband-wife businesses that will reduce Social Security and Medicare taxes Identify strategies for how parents can employ their children through their closely held business
This is the first of its kind in its topical coverage of the developments and prospects of Islamic finance education at Western higher education. Intended to establish itself as a unique reference for academics and researchers this book gives an insight into ethics and values in curricula development at business schools and in finance departments.
