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Failures are a concern to all companies, in Belgium and abroad as well, without exception. It is a well-known fact that the extinction of a company is a tragedy for its entrepreneurs, staff members and various other partners, as it also is for the economy of the country where it is settled.
The Belgian economic fabric is mainly made up of small and medium enterprises (SME). That is why BestValue, a company dealing with the transmission of companies, found it useful to develop a control system dedicated to performance measurement and failure control in such specific enterprises.
The more entrepreneurs will implement measuring tools to track and identify the first appearing risk indicators, in cooperating with their accountants, the better they will be armed to make decisions and try to correct the situation of their company before it is too late.
Thanks to the control system to assess small and medium companies’ health developed in this project, BestValue will offer the opportunity to accountants to get a better understanding of business failures and cope with them.
The process model hereby presented is based on accountancy and financial information analysis, with an additional qualitative approach.
This project-thesis has no intention to be comprehensive, but it mainly permits to encourage entrepreneurs and accountants to stand back from their company’s overall situation and use more control systems to prevent their possible failures.

Failing company, failure path, causes of failure, SME, control system, dashboard, quantitative and qualitative approach, performance measurement, accountants --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Comptabilité & audit

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In an accessible and droll style, well-known sociologist Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream-to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement-recent generations have been told that the next generation will not be able to achieve these goals, that things are getting-or are on the verge of getting-worse. In American Nightmares, Best addresses the apprehension that we face every day as we are bombarded with threats that the social institutions we count on are imperiled. Our schools are failing to teach our kids. Healthcare may soon be harder to obtain. We can't bank on our retirement plans. And our homes-still the largest chunk of most people's net worth-may lose much of their value. Our very way of life is being threatened! Or is it? With a steady voice and keen focus, Best examines how a culture develops fears and fantasies and how these visions are created and recreated in every generation. By dismantling current ideas about the future, collective memory, and sociology's marginalization in the public square, Best sheds light on how social problems-and our anxiety about them-are socially constructed.

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Through the voices of women activists in the welfare rights movement across the United States, The Price of Progressive Politics exposes the contemporary reality of welfare rights politics, revealing how the language of colorblind racism undermines this multiracial movement. Through in-depth interviews with activists in eight organizations across the United States, Rose Ernst presents an intersectional analysis of how these activists understand the complexities of race, class and gender and how such understandings have affected their approach to their grassroots work. Engaging and accessible, The Price of Progressive Politics offers a refreshing examination of how those working for change grapple with shifting racial dynamics in the United States, arguing that organizations that fail to develop a consciousness that reflects the reality of multiple marginalized identities ultimately reproduce the societal dynamics they seek to change.

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This open access monograph provides an overview of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants, thereby focusing on housing, employment, social networks, healthcare, migration trajectories as well as their use of the internet and social media. Although the book’s empirical focus is Finland, the themes connect the latter to broader geographical scales, reaching from global migration issues to the EU asylum policies, including in the post-2015 situations and during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as from national, political, and societal issues regarding undocumented migrants to the local challenges, opportunities, and practices in municipalities and communities. The book investigates how one becomes an undocumented migrant, sometimes by failing the asylum process. The book also discusses research ethics and provides practical guidelines and reflects on how to conduct quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research about undocumented migrants. Finally, the book addresses emerging research topics regarding undocumented migrants. Written in an accessible and engaging style the book is an interesting read for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.

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