Published: May 2012

Disastrous Decisions: The Human and Organisational Causes of the Gulf of Mexico Blowout is an essential reference for all work, health and safety professionals, directors, officers, managers, safety regulators and engineers.

Written by noted expert Professor Andrew Hopkins, this book takes the reader into the realm of human and organisational factors that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. This event resulted in the loss of 11 lives in the explosions and fire, the sinking of the rig and untold damage to the environment and to the livelihood of Gulf residents.

It is important to know what people did, but even more important to know why they did it, so this book attempts to “get inside the heads” of decision-makers and understand how they themselves understood the situations they were in. It also seeks to discover what it was in their organisational environment that encouraged them to think and act as they did.

Hopkins provides a sophisticated analysis of the accident that first identifies a series of critical defences that failed and then goes on to explain why they failed.

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(Advocis 239)
CCH/Advocis FPSC-approved Capstone Course – 3rd Edition

The new CCH/Advocis FPSC-approved Capstone Course takes students through a concise summary of the core curriculum requirements, introduces them to new material required for the Financial Planning Examination 2 (FPE2), and then develops and tests their ability to integrate the core material.

• Concise, easy-to-follow textbook helps students review and integrate the core competencies required by a financial planner
• Students prepare with integrative case studies and practice in applying core concepts, plus exam writing techniques and practice questions
• Course materials include the same CCH financial planning software professionals use, allowing students to create complete financial plans – oneSource: The CCH Canadian Financial Planning Library and FP Solutions™

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COURSE 2 (Advocis 232)
CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES IN FINANCIAL PLANNING: 10th Edition

Students are introduced to basic income tax laws and then move into a more advanced understanding, as it relates to areas of financial planning. A review of the professional and ethical responsibilities associated with the role of a financial planner and an understanding of the structures and services within the financial industry are covered in the course. Different forms of business structures are explored in depth, along with an understanding of trusts.

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Rotch Library - NA2750.M38 2019

Rotch Library - NA2599.5.F76 2019

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Amorosa, Judith

Williamson, Peggie, author

Echoing similar sentiments put forth by several eminent economists, he had appealed to the central government to shed its reservations and borrow more in 2020-21.

No change in retail prices as oil marketing firms to absorb increase

The Union government will gain close to Rs 1.6 lakh crore in additional revenues this fiscal from a record hike in excise duty on petrol and diesel that has pushed the total incidence of taxation on auto fuels to 70 per cent of the price. Late on Tuesday evening, the government hiked excise duty on petrol by Rs 10 per litre and that on diesel by Rs 13 a litre to mop up gains arising from international oil prices falling to a two-decade low.