Management accounting is concerned with future events and its main function is to provide financial information to managers. ... Social welfare accounting is an entirely new phase in accounting development. It is concerned with the social effects of business decisions. ... Glautier & Underdown (1991) bring our attention to the fact that accounting was defined the following way by Littleton (1953): "The central purpose of accounting is to make possible the periodic matching of costs (efforts) and revenues (accomplishments). ... This definition is very similar to the definition made in 1953,...

• Word Count: 1977
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

King then enrolled in a graduate program at Boston University, completing his coursework in 1953 and earning a doctorate in systematic theology two years later. ... The couple wed in 1953 and settled in Montgomery, Alabama, where King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. ... During a month-long trip to India in 1959, he had the opportunity to meet family members and followers of Gandhi, the man he described in his autobiography as "the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change.... Held on August 28 and attended by some 200,000 to 300,000 participants, the ev...

• Word Count: 1675
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay aims to explain the economic, political, and social struggles of a Post-WWII Philippines. ... Such events were the rising into power of the United States of America and the success of its Marshall Plan or the European Recovery Program which was an effort to rebuild Europe from the ravages of war. ... There was political and social unrest in the form of the Huk guerilla rebellion and the PKM (National Peasant Union). ... In 1953, Ramon Magsaysay was elected as president. ... He claimed that Martial Law was a prelude to a "New Society", one which was based on new and social ...

• Word Count: 1456
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout its history Colombia has had a democratic elected government; and has suffered from two civil wars: one from 1899 - 1902, and the second from 1948 - 1953. ... However, what most civilians of any social background want is peace; an end to this social war that has already claimed so many lives. ... SOURCES  Amnesty International Report 2001 on Colombia, covering events from January to December 2000.  Federation of American scientists, Arm Sales Monitoring Project.  The Global Corruption Report 2001, launched on 15 October 2001, a publication of Transparen...

• Word Count: 1312
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It also eliminated the possibility of a more peaceful process and revealed the Supreme Court's inability to instill social change. ... It also shows how social change can't be achieved with just a Supreme Court ruling. ... However after years of continuous protest and demonstrations the movement finally received governmental assistance in 1953 after peaceful demonstration led to violent reactions by white southerners. The events were televised throughout the world, such as Martin Luther King marching in Birmingham where the demonstrators met heavy resistance by Birmingham fire and p...

• Word Count: 1400
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union was more than just a political event. ... After Stalin's death in 1953, Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party. ... This emphasized openness with regard to discussion of social problems and shortcomings. ... The goals that it outlined were: deregulation, a balanced budget, privatization, demilitarization, structural change, an "active social policy,"" and the creation of a competitive market environment (White, 123). ...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A History of the Study of Dreams We live in two worlds, the waking world with it's laws of science, logic, and social behavior, and the elusive world of dreaming, still shrouded in a mystery behind the veil of sleep. ... The identification of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep in 1953 brought technology to bear on dream research, in order to explore the physiology of dreaming and the relationship between dreams and sleep. ... Findings even indicate that the eye movements that take place in REM sleep may be synchronized with dream events, suggesting that the brain does not distinguish b...

• Word Count: 2340
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1953, the Education Act banned black Africans from attending mission schools. ... Other achievements of South Africa include the creation of five million new jobs in the past twenty years, new social welfare and services for the needy, and wage increases. ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate