Bakgrunden visar att stroke idag klassas som en folksjukdom och att svårigheterna som följer är såväl motoriska som kognitiva. Arbetsterapeuter har en central roll i rehabiliteringen och en del i deras arbete är att bedöma de kognitiva funktionsnedsättningarna. Det är av vikt att de instrument som används vid bedömning är utvärderade för patientgruppen och har bevisats lämpliga genom psykometriska bedömningar. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka vilka psykometriska egenskaper som testats och utvärderats för arbetsterapeutiska instrument vid bedömning av kognitiva svårigheter hos personer efter stroke, från år 2009 och framåt. Metoden som användes var en systematisk litteraturöversikt och tio vetenskapliga studier låg till grund för resultatet.

The overall aim of this study is to investigate how social workers who are dealing with financial assistance are experiencing discretion in their daily work. The aim of the study is also to examine how social workers who are dealing with financial assistance relates to the controlling and the supporting functions of their daily work and how this in turn affects the attitude to the client. In order to examine the aim of the study, qualitative method was used. Eight social workers have been interviewed and presented with two fictitious cases that they have been able to discuss. Theories regarding the street-level bureaucrat and its discretion have been used to interpret and understand the collected material.

Sjukvården är idag utsatt för många organisationsförändringar och effektiviseringar. Tillgängliga resurser ska utnyttjas på bästa sätt samtidigt som kvaliteten ska upprätthållas. Vården behöver då metoder och instrument för att kunna följa upp verksamheten. Dessa instrument ska ge en beskrivning av vilka resurser de olika enheterna behöver för att kunna ge rätt sorts vård och samtidigt vara kostnadseffektiv. Det finns olika instrument och metoder för att samla in fakta och analysera data, som kan ge en fingervisning om hur mycket personal och vilken organisation som bäst gynnar vården.

The employment structure consists of different sectors, whose share of the total employment rate is all part of an economic structural conversion according to this thesis applied theoretical approach. A structural conversion, which consist of recurring crises, such as the financial crises in the early 1990s. This crisis and its effect on the Swedish economy is well-documented, while the shortage regarding the effect on a smaller scale, in a local and regional context, provides this thesis purpose. More specifically, a comparison between the two neighbouring towns of Malm? and Lund, will constitute the local contexts in this research.

Ever since it was first introduced in an article in the Journal of Finance 1952, Harry Markowitz? mean - variance model for portfolio selection has become one of the best known models in finance. The model was one of the first in the world to deal with portfolio optimization mathematically and have directly or indirectly inspired the rest of the world to develop new portfolio optimization methods. Although the model is one of the greatest contributions to modern portfolio theory, critics claim that it may have practical difficulties. Partly because the Markowitz model is based on various assumptions which do not necessarily coincide with the reality.

The aim of this study is to analyze the justification of a financial incentive that rewards students who rapidly finish their studies within the language education ?Swedish for immigrants? (sfi). Thereby, we want to see what assumptions are made about the students, and relate this to experiences of the education at a local level. We applied a text analysis on a government bill about the incentive, which showed that the deficiencies in the education are said to be caused by the students? lack of effort.

Background: 2009 it has occurred a crisis in some of the member states of the European Union: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Greece. Despite, some major banks in the world had begun to recover from the financial crisis that occurred from 2007 until 2009, there were still banks who found it difficult to survive. Greece is one of the countries that suffered from the financial crisis. The high budget deficit and the unsustainable debt are underlying the crisis.Banks as financial intermediaries have important function in a nation?s economy.

Bakgrund och problem: 13 oktober 2008 gjordes ändringar i IAS 39 Finansiella instrument:Redovisning och värdering samt IFRS 7 Finansiella instrument: Upplysningar. Ändringarnabehandlar nya omklassificeringsmöjligheter för finansiella instrument som inte tidigare fannsoch vilka blivit aktuella i och med finanskrisen.Syfte: Att undersöka hur banker har tillämpat de nya omklassificeringsmöjligheterna ochvilka effekter detta har fått.Avgränsningar: Uppsatsen berör de fyra stora noterade svenska bankerna; Handelsbanken,Nordea, SEB samt Swedbank. Avgränsningen har gjorts med tanke på att banker har en storandel finansiella instrument och således borde var några utav dem som skulle kunna påverkasmest av ändringen.Metod: En studie gjordes av respektive banks årsredovisning för 2008. Det empiriskamaterialet analyserades sedan utifrån den teoretiska referensramen vilken utgörs av de delarav IAS 39 samt IFRS 7 som berör värdering av finansiella instrument, en redogörelse förverkligt värde kontra anskaffningsvärde samt en kort beskrivning av intressentteorin.Återkoppling: Tre av de fyra undersökta bankerna har valt att omklassificera, främst till följdav förändrade marknadsvillkor. Omklassificeringarna har i huvudsak skett från verkligt värdetill anskaffningsvärde.

Sammanfattning Titel: Värderingsproblematik vid finansiella instrument: En studie ur revisorns perspektiv.Författare: David Carlsson & Per-Johan ElertHandledare: Andreas JanssonKurs: Civilekonomuppsats 30 HP, VT 2011Seminariedatum: 31 majNyckelord: Revision, finansiella instrument, utan marknadsvärde, värdering.  Syfte: Vårt syfte är att belysa och skapa en förståelse för de problem som revisorerna själva anser finns vid värderingsprocessen av finansiella instrument. Vår ambition är att få fram nya aspekter på vad revisorerna anser vara svårt utöver det som litteraturen kring svårbedömda tillgångar tar upp. Metod: Vårt syfte är inte att göra några statistiska generaliseringar utan vi vill få fram vad revisorerna själva upplever vara svårt och fånga nyanserna bakom dessa svar. Därför kommer vi att i huvudsak använda oss av en deduktiv ansats med inslag av induktion. Teori: Teorikapitlet är uppdelat i fyra olika teman identifierade utifrån hur revisions- värderingsprocessen går till. Inom dessa teman har vi sedan tagit fram åtta stycken problemantaganden. Empirisk metod: Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ metod där vi genom ett subjektivt urval genomfört semi-strukturerade intervjuer med nio respondenter. Syftet med intervjun var att se om våra problemantaganden stämde in med respondenternas åsikter samt att få fram nya problem som upplevs av respondenterna. Slutsats: Revisorer ställs inför en hel del problem i revisionsprocessen av finansiella instrument.

This paper examines how individual social welfare officers argue about the conditions in foreign aid. The paper is a qualitative interview study there nine social welfare officers from four local governments have been interviewed.The results are divided into two areas. First, the client's responsibility over their own lives   and self-determination. These two areas are then analyzed separately.The analysis assumes an aletisk hermeneutics where the basis for the attribution of the result is Max Weber's vocation ethics and the more recent research about foreign aid.The conclusion of the study was that social workers believe that the client's responsibility for their own self-sufficiency outweighs supply. Financial assistance must be justified in order to be paid regardless of whether this causes rejection of application for financial aid..

Women ledaers and profitability, is there a correlation? Earlier research show different outcome on the correlation between women leaders and profitability. A Swedish consultant firm, Caran has a belief that more women leaders would create more financial profit, we ask us if that is the true situation. Using two different IC measurement methods we have shown the difficulties in calculate intagible resources, which methods that can/ can not be used and if women leders create financial value. We found the women leaders in Caran to add more value per dollar spent on the woman leaders than the value added per dollar spent on men leaders.

This essay presents a business plan for the idea of a Pet Shop in Stockholm. The initial purpose of the essay was to investigate weather the company would be financially profitable or not. During the process we encountered problems and pitfalls that we felt contributed to the fact that our business idea is yet not realized. Therefore the second purpose of describing the process that an entrepreneur goes through when starting a new business came about. Besides the business plan for Pet Shop we present a selection of the theories that we found relevant for our situation, among others behaviour of entrepreneurial teams, network theory and execution.

The purpose of this study is, on one hand, to obtain an understanding of how children in municipal music- and culture schools choose instruments and what forms of recruitment methods they are subjected to, and on the other hand, how you can make them continue to play once they have begun.To acquire this information, I have interviewed five music teachers and two principals at municipal music- and culture schools in Värmland. The questions treated, among other things, what affects children?s instrument preferences, recruitment methods and what you can do to keep interest for the chosen instrument alive.The result of the study shows some apparent tendencies. Even though some of the instruments have trouble recruiting students and other instruments have trouble keeping them, the old methods, which obviously do not work in a satisfactory manner, are still being used. Instead, increased commitment at the occasion of recruitment, more group teaching which strengthens the social bonds through role models and a will to have the courage to change the organization when it does not work, is required..

Introduction: The concept of CSR was first coined in the 1950?s and refers to corporate vol-untary work to contribute to a sustainable society. In Sweden, companies within the finance sector are among the worst when it comes to implementing CSR in their daily work. The debate on whether companies should engage in CSR activities or not, is extremely relevant nowadays. Right now we are facing a time where the demand on companies to take their social responsi-bility becomes more intensified.

On Nasdaq OMX Nordic Stockholm there has been a large increase in issues of preferred stocks since the financial crisis 2008. Aiming to explain whether preferred stocks have most of their characteristics relating to debt or equity, we answer four sub questions. Do all preferred stocks share the same features, or do they differ from each other? Our population is similar in characteristics, except for the preferred stock of Swedbank which is convertible and deviates when it comes to participation in dividends - instead of convertible the others are limited and redeemable. Further, the second sub question treats preferred stock in relation to the common stock quantitatively, in market data.