Syfte: Att undersöka budgetens roll i olika företag inom verkstadsindustrin och hur rollen har påverkats av den finansiella krisen samt den efterföljande lågkonjunkturen. Att utreda vilken påverkan andra externa och interna faktorer har på budgetens roll, genom att analysera de specifika förhållanden som företag verkar inom. Metod: Studie av tre verkstadsföretag genom personliga intervjuer. Slutsatser: Studien har utgått från en indelning av budgetens syften i dess roll som planeringsverktyg och dess roll som motivationsverktyg. I de studerade företagen har finanskrisen inte påverkat budgeten som planeringsverktyg.

The aim of this study is to examine how teachers enable students with intellectual disabilities to participate in their own learning journey. The study is based on qualitative methods and data collection has been done through five individual interviews in another European country. The interviews are analysed with a qualitative method inspired by Bryman (2011). The studies theoretical frame is founded on thoughts of Dewey (1997; 2002; 2004). The results of this study shows, among other things, that good relationship between adults in school and students are an important base for participation. To build a good relationship to the students, the teacher has to have good knowledge of each individual student and its disability.

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to present an overviewof a number of libraries? specially adapted media forchildren with special needs.We also wanted to see how the librarians worked to helpchildren with special needs, to take advantage of the librariescollections and activities. These special needs could bedyslexia but may also be disabilities which have resulted inthem being unable to read literature other than specialadapted literature. Examples of this literature are DAISY,book & DAISY, pictogram, bliss, ISAAC, easy reading,Braille, tactile picture books, and computer programs thatmake it easier for people to read in their own way with theirown skills.Using qualitative interviews we have interviewed sevenlibrarians. Through this process we have been able toascertain which methods public libraries use to meet theneeds of those children whose disabilities relate to reading.The interviews also explored how they are working withchildren who need more time than other children does whenit comes to reading.The results of the interviews showed that the librariesprovided a lot of special adapted media.

This essay examines how public planners and the inhabitants of södra Gårda relate to the physical planning of the area and to the demolition versus the preservation of the quarters Eken and Cedern, and how the dialogue between planners and citizens appears to be. How do the planners and policymakers relate to citizen participation in urban planning, and how is participatory planning carried out in the legislation, rhetorically and in practice. Former research indicates a distinct gap between rhetorics, legislation and actions in practice regarding citizen participation in planning, which is why we find it an interesting topic for further research. The essay aims to highlight the different actors interests and visions of the development of the area. Which are the standpoints and arguments the different actors set out for the future visions of the area? The essay focuses on citizen participation in urban planning in the city of Gothenburg.

Varje företag har sitt eget sätt att ta fram sin budget. Controllern har ofta en central roll vid budgetarbetet och ser till att budgeten sammanfaller efter de mål som företaget satt upp. Företag använder sig av olika IT-system i sina verksamheter och dessa kan vara till hjälp vid framtagningen av budgeten. Syftet med denna studie är att studera hur företag framställer sin budget ur controllerns synvinkel. Vi kommer även att se hur IT-system kan stödja controllern och medarbetarnas verksamhet.

The aim of this literature review was to investigate whether the modern dairy cow has the time she needs to lie down and to sleep and what deprivation of these behaviors could lead to. Current research seems to agree on the fact that sleep is essential but there is no uniform explanation of the function of sleep, even though there are many theories. It is known that sleep has an important impact on the immune system and that sleep is increased in case of an infection. Sleep deprivation causes many negative effects including reduced function off the immune defense, increased metabolic activity, malnutrition and increased heart rate. It has also been found that deprivation of sleep could cause increased mortality.

The question of direct citizen participation in politics and administration is a contestable one. Its proponents claim that it has positive consequences even for the more "traditional", representative democracy, since participation leads to an increased political knowledge and increased political interest, and thus creates a revitalised democracy. Critical voices have however been raised to the validity of this claim. Critics have also pointed out direct participation as problematic, because it leads to problems of political inequality: a difference of political influence between ? on the one hand, the citizens participating directly and those that restrict their political participation to voting, and ? on the one the other hand ? between the institutions, for example schools, that employ, and don?t employ this method of direct citizen influence.In this essay, these two points of criticisms are tested in the context of user-boards in elementary and secondary schools.

SAMMANFATTNINGDatum:             2009-05-29Nivå:                 Magisteruppsats i ekonomistyrning, 15 högskolepoängFörfattare:       Sofi Gustafsson                                   Therese Johansson Handledare:     Ulla PetterssonTitel:                 Budgetlös styrning - inom Handelsbanken och AhlsellProblem:          Styrning med budget har kritiserats, exempel på kritiken är att den uppdateras alldeles för sällan, det är en tidskrävande arbetsprocess och den baseras på antaganden och gissningar. Ett resultat av kritiken är att ett fåtal företag har valt att överge budgeten för den budgetlösa styrningen. Litteraturen beskriver enbart de budgetlösa styrmodellerna teoretiskt och det kan vara svårt att förstå hur de tillämpas i verkligheten.Syfte:                Vår undersökning syftar till att bidra till en djupare förståelse för hur den budgetlösa styrningen tillämpas i praktiken genom att undersöka hur Handelsbanken och Ahlsells budgetlösa styrning tillämpas, för att se kopplingen mellan teori och deras egna system, samt att undersöka budgetlös styrning i förhållande till styrning med budget.Metod:              I denna Magisteruppsats har vi använt oss av litteratur om budget och budgetlös styrning, för att skapa referensramen. Vi har även använt intervjuer som metod för att samla in material till empirin. Dessa avsnitt är sedan sammankopplade vilket resulterade i vår analys och våra slutsatser.Slutsats:            I vår undersökning har vi kommit fram till att Handelsbanken använder sig av den modell Wallander grundade, Handelsbanksmodellen och de använder sig också av benchmarking.

Syfte: Att undersöka budgetens roll i olika företag inom verkstadsindustrin och hur rollen har påverkats av den finansiella krisen samt den efterföljande lågkonjunkturen. Att utreda vilken påverkan andra externa och interna faktorer har på budgetens roll, genom att analysera de specifika förhållanden som företag verkar inom. Metod: Studie av tre verkstadsföretag genom personliga intervjuer. Slutsatser: Studien har utgått från en indelning av budgetens syften i dess roll som planeringsverktyg och dess roll som motivationsverktyg. I de studerade företagen har finanskrisen inte påverkat budgeten som planeringsverktyg. Däremot har rollen som motivationsverktyg förstärkts i två av de undersökta företagen.

Bolivia is a multiethnic country where the indigenous people constitute the majority of the population. Despite two decades of attempts to take the democracy further is its foundation more volatile than ever. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to examine if exclusion is taken place in Bolivia from year 1982 until today and if so in which way political exclusion constitute problems of democracy in Bolivia. The answer depends on the understanding of democracy used in the analysis. In this thesis I use theories of process-, participation- and deliberative democracy.

The aim of this study has been to investigate the significance of the newly started project Vimmerbymodellen for unaccompanied young refugees. This regarding to how the unaccompanied young refugees are participating in creating networks and meeting points in the local community. Vimmerbymodellen is described as an integration project where the nonprofit sector collaborates with the municipality. The empirical material has been collected through semi-structured qualitative interviews where five unaccompanied young refugees and four involved adults have been interviewed. The empirical material from these interviews has thereafter been analyzed through the concept of social capital, identity and empowerment.The main result of this study shows that participation in the project is expected to contribute to the creation of networks and meeting points which has significance for unaccompanied young refugees.

Quadrotor UAVs are self-stabilizing, autonomous flying machines that has recently become more popular than ever. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have their roots in the military, where they were developed for use in reconnaissance and combat. During the last few years, advances in the fields of electronic sensors, electric motors and microcontrollers have enabled smaller designs and autonomic flight control even for private use. The quadrotor, which is the particular kind of UAV we are looking closer at in this paper, has 4 rotors in an X-like formation. This configuration has many advantages such as good lift capacity, non-complex mechanical structure and serviceability.In this project we aquired a current overview of the domain and determine whether it is possible to construct a quadrotor UAV designed for use in a WISENET sensor network on a low budget and short time schedule.Based on existing community project AeroQuad, a quadrotor is constructed with a budget of about 500 euro.

The accounting information system comprises budgeting, accounting, and costing. The accounting information system has, traditionally, constituted an integrated system where the different elements collaborate. If ABC is introduced this order is disturbed, since ABC is based on another logic which cannot easily be integrated with budget and accounting. ABC, therefore, is usually used parallely to the conventional costing method. There are, however, companies that have taken its ABC one step further by letting it replace the old costing model and integrate it with the accounting information system.

Computer use at work has risen considerably over the past fifteen years and is currently a relatively common phenomenon when 76 percent of women and 72 percent of men using the computer in their daily work (SCB Arbetsmiljörapport 2009).According to Gulliksen and Göransson (2009), Sweden is one of the countries which are more advanced in the procurement of computer systems at work. He means that Sweden has unique opportunities and conditions for user participation in the development of computer systems, when the user has the right to influence their working environment through a law in the Work Environment Act. The paper examines the importance of user involvement in system development and the Swedish company's approach and experience of user involvement. To highlight and explore the importance of user involvement, there has been a case study in which users have been representative of the development process. The case study has been conducted on a case company where the system IST analys was in need of a new interface.

Uppsatsen syftar till att utreda hur balanserat styrkort och budget kommer till användning inom den offentliga sektorn samt utreda vilka faktorer som påverkar deras användning. Tillvägagångssättet för studien kännetecknas av en kvalitativ forskningsmetod med influenser av såväl en induktiv som deduktiv forskningsansats. Även inslag av Grundad teori förekommer i samband med datainsamling och analys. Som teoretisk utgångspunkt behandlas utvecklingen från traditionell till modern verksamhetsstyrning. Därefter utgörs den teoretiska referensramen av Otleys "contingency theory", en teori om verksamhetsstyrning, Otleys teori om hur ett styrverktyg kan analyseras samt Sven Modells teori om faktorer som inverkar på organisationers verksamhetsstyrning.