The translation of financial records of foreign subsidiaries gives rise to currency translation adjustments that affect total group equity. If unwanted, fluctuations in translation adjustments can be avoided using net investment hedges. This study aims to find the extent of net investment hedging in Sweden today and in a short historical perspective, and find explanations to varying levels of hedging and firms' decisions to hedge. Based on annual reports, we determine Swedish firms' net investment hedging policies and their level of hedging. The 32 largest companies listed on the Stockholm stock exchange in the years 1993, 2004, 2006, and 2009 are studied.

Abstract Children with neuropsychiatric disorders often require special arrangements from the society. These measures could target the child itself, its parents, or other parts of the social network surrounding the child. Parents of children with neuropsychiatric disorders are often deeply engaged both in their child and in these measures.Three parents of children with neuropsychiatric disorders, and four counselors in different habilitation centers, were interviewed. The purpose of this qualitative interview study was to describe the methods with which the counselors worked to support parents of children with neuropsychiatric disorders, and to understand how the parents experienced this support offered by the counselors.The qualitative interviews with counselors and parents followed a thematic interview guide. A structured interview form was used.

Viklund, J. & Älgamo, D. (2011).Fysisk aktivitet och idrott för vuxna individer i Västerbottens län ? möjligheter och utmaningar för en framtida aktivitetskatalog. (Physical activity and sports for adults in the county of Västerbotten ? opportunities and challenges for a future activity directory).

The purpose of this thesis project is to develop a set of interactive digital solutions designed to enhance the interest and knowledge intake of visitors at Skånes Djurpark (Zoo of Scania) in Höör. The project was carried out in collaboration with Skånes Djurpark and representatives from its visitors. Our thesis is based on academic works in the fields of interaction design, exhibit design and contextual learning. Ethnographical field studies have been conducted at Skånes Djurpark with additional field studies at Tropikariet in Helsingborg, Copenhagen Zoo and Regionmuseet Kristianstad. Existing information signs in Skånes Djurpark are primarily image- and textbased, forcing visitors to divert their attention from the different species of Nordic animals that inhabit the zoological park.

Childhood as a social category is under strucural redefinition. In this thesis the child and childhood are understood as socially constructed phenomenons. Focus is laid upon the construction of the concept ?in the best interest of the child? wich in The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is defined as beeing the foremost important view to take into account when decisions wich affect children are made. As the thesis shows, a concrete and universall view of the best interest of the child is lacking in practice and would in many cases be unfortunate.

This paper describes a case study of the largest film production ever conducted in Scandinavia. The study aims at explaining the complex relationships in the network structure in which the project took place. Coordination of creative projects carried out in a network context, includes handling conflicting interest and contradictions. Creativity needs space and freedom while projects need structure and coordination, whereby controlling these projects becomes complex. Adding to the complexity, does the loose form of organization that the network structure represents, without any long term structure.

The aim of this work is to demonstrate how the net present value (NPV) at the time of the first thinning depends on the spacing after pre-commercial thinning, and show how net value from first thinning in same stand is influenced. This study is performed with models based on non-distant dependent growth models for single trees. Two different growth models have been used, one for cleaning (pre-commercial thinning) and one for thinning. The first one yields stem density distributed over diameter classes. In the second one, (the thinning model), it is possible to choose when thinning should be done, the thinning method, thinning grade and numbers of thinning.

Twice as many women as men suffer from mental ill-health. The negative trend of mental problems among teenagers continues. In certain places in Sweden, 40 per cent of the teenage girls have outspoken symptoms of depression. This is why it is important to observe mental ill-health in a public health perspective. One effect evaluation of the DISA method (Depression In Swedish Adolescents) drew the conclusion that this universal depression preventive method is well working. The DISA method includes cognitive behavioural techniques that change negative pattern of thinking, give practice of communication, strategies of problem solution plus exercises to strengthen the social network.

Gemenskapsinterna förvärv är ett uttryck för handel mellan näringsidkare i olika medlemsstater inom Europeiska gemenskapen (EG). Enligt huvudregeln i mervärdesskattelagen (1994:200) (ML) ska ett förvärv beskattas i ursprungsstaten, varifrån transporten påbörjas. Vid gemenskapsinterna förvärv finns det dock speciella regler framtagna för beskattningen, i syfte att undvika dubbelbeskattning. Reglerna innebär att säljaren blir undantagen från skatteplikt i dennes etableringsland medan köparen beskattas för förvärvet i sitt etableringsland.Den svenska lagstiftningen anger att för att ett gemenskapsinternt förvärv ska undantas från beskattning måste varan transporteras av säljaren, köparen eller någon för deras räkning från ett EG-land till ett annat. Vidare måste köparen vara registrerad som skattskyldig till mervärdesskatt i ett annat EG-land än det som varan utgick ifrån.

Information technology (IT) penetrates more and more areas in the community. The Commission for Information Technology is of the opinion that the use ought to be widespread but states that this is not yet a reality. Differences exist between groups, e.g. between women and men. The purpose of this Master's thesis is to examine how female university students enrolled in two different programmes experience and use IT and to compare this with society's picture of the relationship between IT and women.

Förmånsbeskattningens grundläggande syfte är att åstadkomma neutralitet mellan olika avlöningsformer. Det ska med andra ord inte uppstå diskrepanser i beskattningen beroende på om den anställde väljer att uppbära kontant lön eller erhålla en förmån som är berättigad i tjänsten. I samband med anställning, ett uppdrag eller annan inkomstbringande aktivitet är det vanligt att den anställde erhåller betalning i form av varor, lån av en produkt, rabatter eller rätten att bruka något som finns i företaget. Avlöningen kommer den anställde till del genom andra sätt än betalning i form av kontanter och denna form av ersättning blir enligt huvudregeln föremål för förmånsbeskattning. I de flesta fall skall en förmån beskattas på likartat sätt som en kontant ersättning, dvs.

In this work, a method was developed and evaluated for calculating the life of welds under the influence of fatigue loads from a vibration environment. Typically, a shaker table is used for testing a component against vibration loads. The shaker table creates a vibration environment that is defined in the frequency domain by a power spectrum.Similarly, a virtual vibration table can be used to calculate the same type of load environment, which can then be used to calculate the expected lifetime. The benefit of this method is that it can be used in design, as well as in simulation of tests before physical verification tests are carried out.Today there are methods for calculating fatigue life of non-welded base material, but since many components contain welded joints, there is a need to apply this method to those types as well. To achieve this, the thesis combines two different areas, which together provide a method for fatigue assessment of welds using a virtual shaker table.The methodology is carried out by modeling the component, and its welded joints, in a finite element program.

People have different hobbies. The people we are going to meet here share the same interest - choir singing. Singing together in different choirs is their hobby (leisure time interest).What brings them together is the singing, getting an opportunity to sing together with people they otherwise would not meet. In this essay you will learn some of the reasons behind the fact that choir singing is a big movement in Sweden (reasons behind choir singing having a great number of practitioners). You will get a direct link to the informants, without having to read answers that have been tampered with.

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate how teenagers are attracted and motivated to maintain a relationship with companies on the Internet. Companies that have teenagers as a target market have to understand their needs and wants, in order to establish relevant relations. The study has been carried out through a review of theory within the field of study. A case study was carried out through interviews with teenagers in the ages of 15 to 19. The results from the study showed that what mainly attract teenagers to visit a website are personal recommendations, the name on the website and high rankings on the search engines.

För att förhindra att delägare i fåmansföretag utnyttjar det faktum att de har den reella bestämmanderätten har 3:12-reglerna utformats. Reglernas syfte är att neutralisera be-skattningen mellan delägare i fåmansföretag och delägare i andra bolag. Om en delägare eller närstående är aktiv i betydande omfattning i ett fåmansföretag eller annat företag som bedriver samma eller likartad verksamhet innehar delägaren kvalificerade andelar. Beskattning av kvalificerade andelar sker i inkomstslaget kapital upp till gränsbeloppet och sedan ska resterande del beskattas i inkomstslaget tjänst. Vad som omfattas av be-greppet samma eller likartad verksamhet är inte närmare definierat i varken lagtext eller förarbeten varför Högsta Förvaltningsdomstolens praxis ger ledning till hur begreppet ska tolkas.I praxis fastslås att begreppet samma eller likartad verksamhet omfattar situationer där hela eller delar av verksamheten har överförts till ett nytt bolag vars verksamhet ligger inom ramen för den tidigare bedrivna verksamheten.