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The shift in tax accounting following Sarbanes-Oxley and regulatory reform

The role of the tax professional has changed substantially in the past decade. Previously, the focus was on tax planning and the marketing of tax products. The focus today is more on the corporation's tax provision and compliance work.

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Socialist Zionism as a movement of liberation and Jewish nationalism

Colin Shindler observed in What do Zionists Believe? that "Zionism is seen in pejorative terms today…At worst, 'Zionist' is used as a term of abuse, an epithet to be hurled at anyone who does not see the Israel-Palestine conflict in monochrome.

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Collaborative new product development adoption in small and medium businesses

For small and medium businesses (SMB) product introductions are one of the most significant sources of new customer, revenue and profit growth. As a result, the new product development strategies, tools, techniques and processes they rely on of a strategic importance.

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Municipal bankruptcy under Chapter 9: history and legal framework

Chapter 9 is the section of the bankruptcy code dealing with municipal reorganization. It is intended to provide relief for municipalities from their creditors while they try to renegotiate their debt. This may be in the form of refinancing, extending maturities, or reducing principal or interest.

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Brand building through service-dominant logic and co-creation

The purpose of this paper is to explore brand building in the context of service-dominant logic. Brands are the sum of experiences a customer has with a firm, the firm's products and the firm's service.

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Amiri Baraka's writing on race, freedom, and universal human experience

"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom," wrote Amiri Baraka whose life work has been a series of attacks on what he has felt to be the constraints -- the chains -- of mainstream American society.

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Ruddiman's hypothesis that humans prevented an ice age through early agriculture

The scientific arguments for humans affecting climate change seem to be all around us today in the news and in conversations.

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Pension funding crises at not-for-profit organizations after 2008

The unprecedented economic crisis of 2008 and 2009, increased salaries of not-for-profit workers, and the implementation of certain funding provisions of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 ("PPA") created a "perfect storm" for not-for-profit organizations that maintain defined benefit pension plans.

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Religion's influence on voting behavior and Catholic conservatism

Religion has continued to play an important role in the politics and society in the contemporary world which is characterized by ideas that are interconnected. In fact secularization theories have been found to be wanting in comparison to the influence of religion in politics.

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Arctic climate change and global environmental consequences

Global warming has reached alarming levels and the effects of the event are felt throughout the world.

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