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Corporate Sustainability Indexes: FTSE 4 Good Index Report on Nestle
Get PDFCorporate sustainability and economic business activities are focused on the social and environmental impacts. In this sense, the economic activity created by the businesses is to pursue social and environmental impacts, and producing information related to these effects is essential for the formation of structure for a sustainable business.
Sustainability indices are structures edited on first generation sustainability indicators, which are structures constructed in order to share information with consumers and businesses. The most important benefits are improvements in transparency without the need for regulation of the sustainability index, better understanding of the social and environmental impact of companies and the guidance for arrangements to minimize the negative side effects of company activities.
FTSE4Good is a responsible investment index designed to help investors identify companies that meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards. It is the only index of its kind since it includes specific criteria on the responsible marketing of breast milk substitutes.
Key Words: Corporate sustainability, FTSE4 Good, Index, Nestle
Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Development Policy Based on Economic Society in East Java
Get PDFSMEs have a great role in the national economy, as well as in employment absorption and distribution results, through the law No. 5 of 1999 government give the limit on SME for small businesses is a business that: a. Owns 200 million assets, excluding land and office building, b. Annual sales proceeds at most 1 billion, c. Owned by Indonesian citizens.
With these limits, it is expected that the role of government and society needs to give great attention to encourage its development. Development of SME through business empowerment approach, need to pay attention to social and cultural aspects of each region
The existence of regulations both in the form of laws and government regulations relating to SME in terms of production and banking side, will spur the role of SME in the economy. For the government, licensing is necessary to maintain public order and provide protection to the public.
Key words: Policy, SME Program, SME Development, Community Econom
The Investigation of Investor Behaviors in Terms of Behavioral Finance and Investor Psychology: The Case of Sultanhisar District
Get PDFToday, one way of understanding the activity and inactivity of the world of finance passes through understanding human because the investment decisions that individuals make or not are completely related to human, that is to say, to themselves. In this sense, the investment decisions that individuals have made or not are available for research in the field of behavioral finance and striking results have been revealed. Within this context, the aim of this study was to reveal the investor profiles of the farmers working in Sultanhisar district of Aydın province, the distinguished province of Aegean Region and to try to determine which psychological factors they were influenced by while making investment decisions. As a result of the study, investor profiles were revealed and of investor psychological bias, acquaintance delusion, overconfidence delusion, attribution delusion, representation heuristic, predisposition effect, and over-optimism delusion was used. At the end of the research, it was determined that there were differences among the sub-dimensions used and suggestions were presented.
Key words: Investor Behavior, Behavioral Finance, Investor, Delusion
Financial Decisions, Tax Effect and Investment Performance
Get PDFThe aim of the study is to measure influence of taxation while making financial decisions and predict it with the general application in Turkey. Except for equity returns of financial and negative capital institutions registered in Borsa Istanbul between 2000 and 2012, those of all other businesses were calculated. In order to measure cost of capital, Capital Assets Pricing Model(CAPM) was employed. Businesses were divided into for regions as stated in Tax Incentive Law according to the study. As stated in Tax Incentive Law, the businesses whose costs of capital were divided into six regions where statistical analysis was made to determine whether taxation influenced financial decisions of the related businesses based on Tax Incentive Law or not. Assessment of the findings within the study determined that businesses in 1 st, 2 nd and 3 rd regions were affected by taxation 5,69, 2,75 and 1,39 as means between 2007 and 2012, respectively. Accordingly taxation load of businesses in 1 st region provinces was found to be heavier than those of businesses in other regions. Considering the Tax Incentive Law, it was found to be statistically important that taxation load of the related region should be taken into account in making any financial decisions. In this respect, there is an impact of tax when one makes financial decisions. However, other relevant factors should also be considered.
Key words: Financial Decision, The Kinds Of Financial Decisions, Tax, Tax Incentive Law, Borsa Ä°stanbul
Database Creation Through If, Vlookup, Sum and Sumif Functions of Microsoft Excel
Get PDFUsing databases is a fundamental matter for every business and non-business related activities. Their creation is more important than their usage, because creating a software through which we could track stock status in a enterprise’s warehouse is a huge burden for a newly founded enterprise. Microsoft Excel, a part of Microsoft Office packet, is a suitable program as it contains the needed tools and fuctions to create a database. We are going to practically show you how to create a database using Excel functions such as if, sum, sumif and vlookup and also using other tools such as condictional formatting and freeze panes. First of, you create a table with the warehouse articles; then you create an invoice for sale articles, and lastly the made sales will substract the article in the warehouse.
The result of this worksheet gives us a practical software which calculates what the warehouse has left after the sales. This is important because a beginner enterpreneur doesn’t have to pay lots of money to create a database, but this worksheet will help them create one without being an expert in Microsoft Excel.
In conclusion, we can say it is very important to be innovative in the activities we conduct, because the enterprenur spirit will not let their work be affected by someone else, including a software of advanced technology.
Key words: Software, Microsoft Excel, Database, Warehouse Etc
Life Contribution of Academic Prof. Dr. Gjovalin Shkurtaj to the Albanian Language University Texts
Get PDFThis paper includes the contribution of prof. Gjovalin Shkurtaj to the Albanian language university textbooks, who is known as a dialectologist and a researcher of language culture issues, sociolinguistics and Albanian onomastics. This paper also covers his contribution to the collection of the dialectal Albanian language to better understand the spoken Albanian language system: in phonetics, morphology, syntax and in its lexicon.
Gjovalin Shkurtaj is well-known for writing university textbooks such as "Sociolinguistics", "Dialectology", "Language Culture", "How to write Albanian", which are related to:
Dialectological studies, one of the basic requirements to achieve standardization and enrichment of the Albanian literary language;
Sociolinguistic studies, based on the study of language in relation to society;
Language culture, based on the standardized language norm as an issue of today's sociolinguistics;
Academic writing, based on language culture and using literary norms accurately
Key words: Contribution, Texts, University, Sociolinguistics, Language Culture, Academic Writing
Investigation of the Solutions of Prizren-Kosovo Education Faculty Teachers Mathematics Problems
No full textThe aim of the study was to examination of mathematical problem-solving skills and to determine the relationship of between problem posing and problem-solving skills of teacher trainees in Prizren “Ukshin Hoti†University, Faculty of Education in Kosovo. The results of this study are important because there is no a similar work in teacher training in Kosovo. For this aim, the case studies, qualitative research (case study), model was used. The research at the state Prizren “Ukshin Hoti†University has been established by Turkish Teacher trainers. These teachers’ group was selected as a working group. The classroom teacher department NCT=26, Pre-school teacher department NPST=27 and physics-chemistry teacher department NPCT=12 teacher trainees were participated. The total number of trainers was 65. The data were collected by semi-structured interview form and worksheets in this study. Rubrik and descriptive statistics were used as an analyzing instrument. In conclusion, the levels of problem-solving skills of teacher trainees have been determined and recommendations for the development of these levels have been included.
Key words: Worksheets, Teacher Trainees, Problem Solving, Problem-Solving Skills, Problem Posing
Whose Identity? Rethinking Islam in Contemporary Southeast Europe: Rethinking Islam in Contemporary Southeast Europe
No full textThe socio-political heredity of the long-term presence of Islam in Southeast Europe deserves to be questioned in the light of today’s climate of suspicion and heightened tensions toward autochthonous Muslims within the region and beyond. This brief paper focuses on Max Weber’s neologism “sultanism†related to the religious legacy that Ottoman rules left behind in the Balkan Peninsula, which symbolises a counter-narrative in academia, in order to address a yet another issue regarding the interfaith coexistence among Balkan populations and history-related aspects. This paper then, too, seeks to unravel contemporary shades of Balkan Islam by pointing out how such religious identity has come to represent a communitarian set of everyday rules of practices rather than a pristine faith. Lastly, the employment of the term “idiosyncratic identity†will serve to shed light on volatility of Balkan Islam over which a hostile language toward Muslim communities is nowadays winning ground.
Key words: Sultanism, Balkan Islam, Minority Groups, Identity, Manipulation
Indigenous Tourism Ventures in Malaysia: Exploring its Potentials and Limitations
Get PDFAgro and ecotourism activities in Cameron Highlands Malaysia play a vital role in promoting growth to its surrounding region. Tourism activities generate income to the local residents including the indigenous community that lives in settlements scattered within this tourism hub. Although previous studies have highlighted the economic needs to also introduce indigenous tourism to this area, limited studies have actually evaluated its potentials and limitations as a tourism product. Hence this study embarks on appraising indigenous tourism potentials and developing strategies for its successful implementation. SWOT analysis was performed to detail its internal strengths and weaknesses and its external opportunities and threats. TOWS matrix was used as a situational analysis in developing strategies for the implementation of the proposed indigenous tourism product. The SWOT analysis shows this product has 13 strengths, 10 weaknesses, 13 opportunities and 9 threats. These points are used in the TOWS matrix and relevant strategies were proposed. This study concludes that indigenous tourism has great potential to be explored in this region but appropriate measures must be considered in its development and implementation.
Key words: Tourism Economics, Indigenous Tourism, Cultural, SWOT/TOWS Analysi
A Women in The Labour Market and Decision Making in Kosovo
No full textGender equality is defined as a prerequisite for European integration and as such the Action Plan for European Partnership is listed on Political Criteria. The Government of Kosovo in April 2008 approved the Kosovo Program for Gender Equality GENERAL six goals and eight specific objectives. With this objective case for women in the labor market and decision-making requires a greater commitment of all stakeholders.
This study provides an overview of the rough that evaluates the legal framework and cross-sectoral policies and positioning of women in conformity with their school preparation in decision-making positions. Economic independence remains as one of the main key to the realization of the equal right to decision-making positions. Although Kosovo with gender representation in decision-making level of the seventeenth in the world counted in the labor market situation remains a challenge that requires a great commitment to the local factor and even international.
Therefore, the research enables the opening of discussions, improving the working environment and the implementation of the Action Plan for Empowering Women in Economy as a key factor of the welfare of family and society.
Key words: Women, Labor Market, Decision Making, Kosov