For example, a farmer wanting to measure his wealth might have simply counted the number of his cows and sheep. ... Financial accounting is concerned with classifying and measuring the transactions of a business and recording them. ... In 1961 the AICPA, or American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, defined accounting as "the art of recording, classifying and summarising in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of a financial character, and interpreting the result thereof". ... In 1966 the American Accounting Association defin...

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No longer can comedy characters like "Minders" Arthur Daily drive away in the flash jaguar after a few too many vodkas in the Winchester Club. ... I would however stress that the dangerous binge drinking that has become apparent among British youths be curbed with measures like tighter control on the sale of alcohol to underage children, heavy bans on outlets who sell it to under 18's and a curb on pub happy hours. ...

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The means adopted by the West for achieving this in the 1980s was to develop a new breed of policy-based loans, "structural adjustment lending" as it came to be known, which involved a high degree of conditionality. 2.Structural Adjustment is the generic term used to describe a package of measures which the IMF, the World Bank and individual Western aid donors persuaded many developing countries to adopt during the 1980s, in return for a new wave of loans. ... Along with formal economic steps, neoliberal policy also brought about socio-cultural changes of a more diffuse, but equally important...

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Smith believes that labour is "the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities" (Smith 68). ... To Smith nature is many things, including "nature is the essential quality and character of something, it is the inherent force which directs either the world or human beings or both, thirdly, it is the material world itself, taken as including or not including human beings" (Smith 392). ...

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