Organization Presentation The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is an incorporated not-for-profit organization under the Law of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. ... The auditor's report for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is addressed to its members. ... Major Accounting Choices The MMFA made the decision to prepare its 2011 financial statements in accordance with the Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. ... The museums long term debt balance dropped by $3.4 M, to reach $16.4 in 2011. ... This change is mainly due to the use of two lines of credits specially set up for the...

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Also, 660 were founded in Britain and Ireland, 156 in Canada, and a handful of libraries were also scattered in New Zealand, the West Indies, and even Fiji (PBS Online). ... Chartered by Carnegie in 1905 with $15 million, the foundation established the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association in 1918, and currently provides retirement pensions for teachers of colleges, technical schools, and universities in the United States and Canada. ... Also benefiting from Carnegie's charity include various Carnegie museums of history, science, and art, Carnegie Hall in New York, and other public s...

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Being informed on the various types of tax fraud is the best protection against this type of crime. Tax fraud comes in many different forms and has serious legal consequences. We will begin by defining the various types of tax fraud as well as the facilitators. The impact of tax fraud varies, theref...

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Being informed on the various types of tax fraud is the best protection against this type of crime. Tax fraud comes in many different forms and has serious legal consequences. We will begin by defining the various types of tax fraud as well as the facilitators. The impact of tax fraud varies, theref...

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It is estimated that about 1.1 million Americans are legally blind; about 54,000 of these individuals are under the age of nineteen, and about 370,000 are eighty-five years of age or older ("Statistics about the Blind-). This leaves about 676,000 working-age people who cannot see well enough to dri...

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History The first European explorer to encounter Costa Rica was the Great Navigator himself, Christopher Columbus. The day was September 18, 1502, and Columbus was making his fourth and final voyage to the New World. As he was setting anchor off shore, a crowd of local Carib Indians paddled out in canoes and greeted his crew warmly. Later, the golden bands that the region's inhabitants wore in their noses and ears would inspire the Spaniard Gil Gonzalez Davila to name the country Costa Rica, or Rich Coast. Many people give the credit of naming Costa Rica to Christopher Columbus because ...

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