Understanding Financial Accounting: Assets, Liabilities, and Equity
Return on Assets: A Key Profitability Metric
A crucial measure of profitability is the return on assets (ROA). It helps stakeholders determine if a company is using its assets effectively. Asset turnover indicates how efficiently a company utilizes its assets to generate sales—specifically, how many dollars of sales are generated for each dollar invested in assets. Profit margin reveals how effectively a company converts sales into income.
To increase its return on assets, a company can:
- Increase
Philosophical Evolution: From Idealism to Postmodernism
The Dawn of Modern Philosophy
German Idealism, as a first step of optimism and confidence in the game, in their freedom and their reason, offers the ideal reflection of the optimism that the emerging bourgeois society felt for their main values: freedom, from the French Revolution, and reason, from the 18th-century Enlightenment. It has, as its central theme, the expression in the world of infinite reason. In the central part of the 19th century, the problems and injustices within the proletariat
Read MoreSpanish Constitutional Court: Structure and Powers
The Constitutional Court (Supreme Court)
The Constitutional Court is a constitutional body set up directly by the Constitution, as one of the essential parts of the established political system. Its function is to ensure the supremacy of the Constitution through the concentrated control of the constitutionality of laws, making it the supreme interpreter of the Constitution. It is a court that has jurisdiction throughout the Spanish territory. The Constitution excludes any other government body from
Read MoreSteel Transformations and Heat Treatments: Properties and Applications
Transforming Hypoeutectoid Steel
Annealing is performed to regenerate a hypoeutectoid steel with a carbon percentage of C. Explain the transformation of austenite on cooling, showing the microstructure at ambient temperature and the percentage of constituents.
In that steel undergoes a standardized and appears before the same constituents as differences with the characteristics present for treatment earlier? Why?
Perlite is obtained with finer ferritic grain and less ferrite. We increased resistant
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence Course Schedule Fall 2024
Important Dates and Topics
| Date | Topic | Reading | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Tue 10/1, Thu 10/3 | YG: More About Training A Network (Updated) Introduction to Natural Language Processing Part 1, Part 2 | The Matrix Cookbook The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks | |
| 2024 Tue 10/8 | Midterm Exam Last day to drop class without a “W”: Tuesday, 10/8/2024 | ||
| 2024 Thu 10/10 | MB: Introduction to Computer Vision. 1st Lecture on Computer Vision. | Russell: Perception. | |
| 2024 Tu 10/15 | No class. Monday schedule. | Talk review 1 due | |
| 2024 Thu |
Key Concepts in Marxist Theory: Class, Labor, and Revolution
Part 1: Key Concepts in Marxist Theory
Social Class
A social class is a group of people with the same material conditions of existence and an awareness of these common elements. The division of society into social classes arises from the division of labor and private property. The class struggle begins when the exploited class becomes the antithesis of the ruling class and will cause a revolution.
Communism
Communism is a socio-economic system in which there is no private ownership of the means of production;
Read MoreKey Business Concepts and Terms for Professionals
What is Gross Income (Profit)?
Gross income (or gross profit) is the total revenue a company earns from sales minus the direct costs of producing the goods or services sold (Cost of Goods Sold).
Common Expense Accounts of a Company
- Salaries and wages
- Rent or lease expenses
- Utilities (electricity, water, etc.)
- Office supplies
- Insurance
Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable (AP): The amount a company owes to suppliers for goods and services purchased with credit.
Accounts Receivable (AR)
Read MoreEssential Concepts in Biology: From Cells to Ecosystems
Biology
The science of living organisms and their interactions.
Growth and Development
Organisms grow according to DNA instructions.
Molecule
The smallest unit of life, such as DNA.
Cell
The basic unit of structure and function in organisms.
Organism
An individual living entity capable of life processes.
Population
A group of the same species in a specific area.
DNA
Carries genetic information in a double-helix structure.
Natural Selection
A mechanism where favorable traits enhance survival.
Ecosystems
Living organisms
Read MoreSpanish Civil War: Republican and Nationalist Zones
The Republican Zone During the Spanish Civil War
The Collapse of the Republican State
To tackle the rising, Giral distributed weapons to militias within the unions, and the Popular Front dissolved the traditional army, decreeing the creation of volunteer battalions that formed part of the militia.
In the territory loyal to the Republic, the uprising led to a revolutionary climate. The most significant event, starting in July 1936, was the collectivization of most industrial and agricultural property
Read MoreEmployee Rights: Contract Modifications, Suspension, and Termination
Contract Modification
Functional Mobility
It occurs when workers are assigned to functions other than those contracted.
Functional mobility options:
- Horizontal: It is done within the same group or equivalent.
- Ascending: The worker moves to higher functions within their category. If the change exceeds 6 months in a year or 8 months in 2 years, the worker is entitled to claim the salary of the higher grade.
- Descending: The employee is assigned to lower-level jobs. This can only occur due to urgent or unpredictable