Proportional representation

As taxes are one of the largest expenses on both Adidas and Under Armour’s financials, it is important to identify the differences in both reporting and application of the deferred asset and liability that are created. Income tax expense for Adidas and Under Armour were 353M Euro and 154M Dollars (34% and 40% of EBIT respectively). This large expense and its corresponding balance sheet complements have a major impact on key ratios. One major difference is the classification of the Deferred Tax…

1. What is a progressive tax system? How does it differ from a regressive tax system? A progressive tax system makes the richer people pay more taxes than the people with less money, but in a regressive tax system, everyone pays the same amount no matter what their income rate is. 2. What is gross income? What types of income are included in gross income? Gross income is what you get when you combine all your sources of income together. When calculating your gross income, things you should…

By applying Cox proportional hazards model with time-varying covariates and stratifying by race/ethnic groups, we use depressive symptom onset to predict alcohol initiation and conduct parallel analyses using alcohol initiation to predict DSO. AI and DSO related risk factors…

Growing up poor in the 1700 's meant being exposed to the callous discriminations among people and their rank in the social system. For George Hewes, who was forced into the occupation of being a shoemaker, life did not treat him kindly. No matter how hard he tried, whether it was before or after the war, Hewes was never able to catch a break or be treated equally. "Where you ended up in life depended much on where one started out" (15). The Revolutionary War was a call to action for those who…

Colonial Period; The Best Period 1776 is known as the year we were granted freedom from Great Britain, but it is also known as the year congress renamed the nation. Traveling back to the colonial period and getting to experience the making of the United States of America would be a wonderful opportunity. Many things made the year 1776 so important. One important thing that happened was the signing and passing of the Declaration of Independence. If it wasn’t for that we could still be under…

Due to mercantilistic views and extreme financial deficits from multiple wars, Britain was scrambling to increase their revenues around the 1750s and 60s. England was in major debt from over 80 years of various conflicts and by the end of the French and Indian War, thought it made sense to have the colonies help pay for a war that was fought to protect their homes. Britain also valued the concept of mercantilism, which stated there was a fixed amount of wealth in the world and the more one…

America and England had intertwined economies that supported each other with things such as land expansion, but separated due to their conflicting ideas on the American value of economic freedom of the taxation of the colonies. During the French and Indian War, England expanded American land by seizing French and Indian territory. A map of territorial change shows the difference in land owned before and after the French and Indian War and the Treaty of Paris. England claimed much more land past…

A player in both abolitionist movements and the feminist movement was Englishwoman Francis Wright. She used the utopian ideas of Charles Fourier and Mary Wollstonecraft’s equality thoughts towards anti-slavery. “Wright published A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States without Danger of Loss to the Citizens of the South, a pamphlet in which she proposed that the U.S government create Owenite slave plantations where profits would go to the purchase of the slaves’ freedom”…

There are two types of popular pressure which may have brought improved representation and greater democracy. The Marxist historians argued that violence improved representation. The meritocratic or moral force argument was the idea that the unfranchised proved that they would not undermine the constitution through their interest in property initially, but World War One led to the reformation of this idea. In addition, the different party political interests may have also led to the Reform Acts…

British government, including setting up a base for the further reforms. “The first Reform Bill was necessitated chiefly by glaring inequalities in representation between traditionally enfranchised rural areas and the rapidly growing cities of newly industrial England”(Encyclopedia Britannica, Reform Bill) . It brought up the need for the proper representation of boroughs to keep foul play out of politics. The boroughs were not as equally represented as they could be due in fact to the disparity…