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"The worked examples and guided questions are invaluable, and are a
particular strength of this text, as they help to prepare the
students to tackle the practice questions. Having exam-style
questions (at the end) is another very good feature of this book.
All of the examples and questions use appropriate and relevant
business-related scenarios... I am confident that this book will
achieve the aim of helping A/AS Business students develop their
maths skills and enhance their understanding of the subject."
Michaela Cottee, Principal Lecturer in Statistics, Hertfordshire
Business School. If you struggle with calculating profit or working
out unit costs, this is the book for you. This textbook companion
will help improve your essential maths skills for business,
whichever awarding body specification you're following. You can use
it throughout your course, whenever you feel you need some extra
help. - Develop your understanding of both maths and business with
all worked examples and questions within a business context -
Improve your confidence with a step-by-step approach to every maths
skill - Measure your progress with guided and non-guided questions
to see how you're improving - Understand where you're going wrong
with full worked solutions to every question - Feel confident in
expert guidance from experienced teacher Charlotte Wright and
Principal Examiner Mike Pickerden; reviewed by Dr Michaela Cottee,
Principal Lecturer in Statistics at Hertfordshire Business School
This long-awaited text explains, examines, and discusses various
aspects of accounting in international petroleum operations. The
authors discuss and illustrate international petroleum contracts
and related contract accounting issues that arise and contrast U.S.
accounting standards with those of other countries which are likely
to be applicable to companies operating in international settings.
Also included are discussions of petroleum tax regimes encountered
around the world.
Readers everywhere fell for Elizabeth Corey, the irrepressible,
independent, and fearless Bachelor Bess, whose letters home to Iowa
gave us a firsthand account of her adventures on a South Dakota
homestead from 1909 to 1919. Now, through the letters she wrote
home between 1904 and 1908, readers can make the acquaintance of a
younger Bess facing the realities of life in an Iowa country school
system with energy, enthusiasm, and ambition. Sixteen-year-old Bess
wrote her early letters when she was away from the family farm,
trying to complete the ninth grade so she could become a teacher.
That schooling was cut short in 1905, when her father died and she
returned home to help her mother. Later that year, she received a
provisional certificate allowing her to teach, which she did from
1905 to 1909 in a succession of rural schools across Shelby and
Cass counties in Iowa. Initially a reluctant teacher, she had an
infinite capacity for productive work that propelled her toward
success in the classroom. A determinedly lighthearted attitude
toward life, a talent for making congenial friends and for making
herself at home as she boarded with one family after another, a
relentless devotion to her own family, and a drive to communicate
all combine to animate her letters home. Always colorful and
colloquial, unusually detailed and frank, Bess's letters are
authentic documents of a discrete American time and place. Full of
puns, hyperbole, drama, and above all else honesty and
authenticity, the eighty-three letters describe barefooted pupils,
cantankerous and cooperative parents and school board members,
classroom activities, and school picnics against a frugal
background of early twentieth-century chores, social occasions,
party lines for telephones, chautauquas, church suppers and
revivals, new ribbons for second-hand clothes, and buggy and train
rides--all seen through the eyes of this talented teenage farm girl
not much older than some of her students. Of notable value is the
light Bess casts upon the teaching profession as it was practiced
in isolated midwestern areas at the moment when our nation
determined that, come what may, every American child was going to
have access to a basic grammar-school education. Beyond the
pleasure of listening to a straight-talker who pulls no punches,
one who expects to receive ""some" of the praise "most" of the work
and "all" of the cussing" in return for her efforts, Bess's letters
create a veritable concordance of teaching in a one-room rural
schoolhouse, a chapter of daily American life all but lost.
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