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"Also known as the consolidated statement of comprehensive income, the consolidated income statement combines the revenues, expenses, gains, and losses of the parent company and its subsidiaries."
Maybe it takes into account their suppliers or something. I dont know what a subsidiary is...... a regular income statement is simple logic but you still need to do it the right way.
0.243 on their current cash debt coverage in 2023. Apparently these aren't very good years..... Unless I am computing something wrong. I am getting worried. Less than 1 is a bad number and signifies you need to use more than just your operating income to pay off your liabilities. This is a trend for 3 years. Apparently there was a NEGATIVE current cash debt coverage ratio in 2022. If I did that right.....How does that happen.
The financial management teacher, like I said, seems to be a Republican (None of my current professors have that liberal scent: I can just sort of sense their political views from their personality). My accounting teacher hinted he was a Republican, telling me "You're in the wrong party". I am not sure, but I believe it is over debates about the Federal Reserve and gold. Yes, Nixon was a Republican who got rid of the gold standard. FDR banned the private ownership of gold, so it seems as if the two parties are equal. However, accountants are supposed to be careful, if that makes sense. So a gold standard is very risky in many accountants' eyes, and will always be considered an asset unless formally declared to be legal tender. It is sort of weird: they don't care about hypothetical things or theories or anything. ("Nope, it's an asset because that's what the balance sheet says" or something and it is simple as that). I don't consider it an asset. I don't think it belongs on the balance sheet (Or I don't WANT IT on the balance sheet, I should say: I want it to be legal tender and therefore on the income statement). The financial management teacher sort of giggled and said "Then we won't have any reserves, of course..." when he was giving a lecture. In other words, then banks can't do whatever they want, knowing the Federal Reserve will bail them out: but accountants need to be "conservative" (careful), though for some reason accountants tend to be conservative politically.
*And of course, the Federal Reserve Act was signed by a Democrat (Woodrow Wilson).
I am pleased to announce that the Royal Law Codex, linked to in the regional factbook, is up-to-date as of April 30th, 2024.
(I'm thinking about the telegram sent out. I was thinking we just name it after Western Mars, but there is a region called "Mars" already)
Possible capital city names:
-Magna Urbs Martis (The Great City of Mars: let's have GOR proof-read my Latin), naming it after the Sovereign and our Founding Father
-Regio Vaticani (The region/area/district of the Vatican), considering this is Catholic-themed
There are other nouns describing regions/towns/municipalities/districts in Latin that may sound more appealing/catchy which we could simply replace. (For instance, "municipium" (town) could be plugged in to replace a word for city or something)
If I still remembered his name we could've named it after the founder of the IRU, as I suppose he brought us all together: I wonder where he went.
(I will continually add to this list as I think if more things come to my mind)
I vaguely remember replacing the WA Delegate with myself, becoming "Vice Chairman", after which I asked if I could write our formal constitution. Obviously it was a bit amateur (I was 13 maybe....It is probably embarrassing how poorly written it was if anyone still has a record of that.). I remember the IRU ultimately fell apart because I got in an argument with "Scheinfeld" and maybe "Rotgeheim" (I don't remember their names but I feel like they're someting like that, but they were friends who had dads in the military I think) about wars in the Middle East. Then the founder told me we had to "go into hiding" (to the FFS).
*wow, I was actually 11
I heard about a "Charter of Liberties" in some nation or city or something in my world history class in 6th grade. I pasted some stuff from the US constitution it looks like....It's weird how they capitalized all nouns.
As a matter of fact, I am pretty sure I have copies of all three FFS Constitutions, and the IRU Constitution also, and the CPE Constitution (or the latest version of it by the time I got there). I referenced them all when I was writing the various drafts that eventually would become this region's Constitution.
I was never really sure why the IRU split, but I wasn't going to stick around once it became obvious that the ultimate goal of Libertatem was to merge us into their region, rather than just oversee a separate region with its own institution. Never liked that. If I wanted to join a libertarian region, I would have sought it out; that's how I thought of it.
To be fair, the IRU was a conservative AND libertarian region, as was the FFS. Though I agree it was totally unconstitutional for the IRU founder to have given that dude control (They know each other irl I believe). He actually told me personally before he did so. He said he would give it away, start a new region and eventually invite IRU nations back into it.
"Before entering any executive position; he or she must repeat the following oath:"
Apparently I didn't know how to use semicolons.
One of the Senate's listed powers is to "make laws".....
Semicolons are just cool.
Though I do actually use semicolons a lot in my writing (currently, correctly) on essays and stuff. I notice these kids' essays suck. This kid wrote 8 out of our 10 page essay but it's poorly written and doesnt have sources. (He went entirely by his personal experiences with the company, and the info he did give was not cited but from memory of his own experiences: I suppose it is just as good as any source). I had to fix his its vs it's issue. Mixing affect with effect is one thing, but I feel like they should know this one (I get effect and affect mixed up). I only wrote 2 pages but I cited tons of stuff. It sounds like that guy is using casual language too (like this) maybe to make a point he believes the project is about him.
*Not him but the other group member (Who didn't do anything) is the one who accused me of plagarism. It sort of flatters me, actually.
The professors can't believe how good of a writer I am (asking if they can use stuff as examples), and I can't believe they believe that. Those students must be idiots or super lazy.
My typing is self-taught by Nationstates. I type in the incorrect form and type faster than most people (the fastest typer in my typing class in high school: I have used my typing skills to apply for jobs at the state requiring fast typing. I pass the tests not that I get hired)
Well, you were very young at the time.
Semi-colons are, in fact, very cool. And quite useful, imho.
So CA is 2 hours behind my time zone. It is so weird to think about how my midnight is your 10 pm. Probably why you seem to get on NS so late at night sometimes.
It is actually a myth that daylight savings time is for farmers. Farmers actually dont like it, many of them. If anyone ever heard that it was meant to gice farmers an extra hour (That doesn't even make sense: there is still the same amount of time where the sun shines)
*In high school I remember a teacher said "We arent an agricultural society anymore though...". However, according to this thing online, daylight savings time was created in the 1910's (when we were transitioning out of an "agricultural society")
I dont know the purpose actually.
Post self-deleted by The Confederacy of Beastland.
Wow, I found some errors while rereading it. Thank you Nationstates.
Yeahhh, it's pretty much the case for me with *all* online games: I either have to start playing super-early to catch the rest of the USA, or I have to play until very late, when the Asian and Australian gamers wake up. Otherwise, it's pretty much just us Pacific Standard Time players.
As I recall, the purpose was to save on fuel, because of oil rationing. They started it during WWII, dropped it, and then brought it back in the 1970s, due to the fuel crisis and because of environmental concerns. That was about the same time they were doing all sorts of environmentally-motivated things, like implementing right-turn-on-red-OK laws, creating the EPA, and so on. I have mixed feelings on the results of that era, but the motive was fundamentally good. However, I despise Daylight Saving Time, and even more, I despise the apparently popular idea that what we OUGHT to do is... make DST permanent?? Absolutely stupid.
Farmers definitely don't care about DST because when you're a farmer, you wake up when you need to, no matter what the clock says. It's just a hassle for the rest of us working industrial and post-industrial jobs, being so tied to daily routine.
Also. This membership was offered, but you haven't accepted yet. I assume you simply lost track of it, or didn't happen to see it.
As crown sovereign, with the Senate dissolved and its power firmly in mine own grasp, I hereby propose and pass the following constitutional amendment to the Federal Assembly, officially handing it off to the region to consider and debate:
2. A Knight shall be eligible for membership after achieving Earldom or after one (1) year of continuous Knighthood. Continuance of membership in the Royal Order of the Palace shall be at the plenary discretion of the crown sovereign. The crown sovereign may also grant membership to an otherwise-ineligible Knight once per royal or republican holiday, and only upon that day.
3. No non-Knight may be a Knight Palatine. Those who renounce the Republican Knighthood and those lawfully stripped of it shall automatically lose their membership in the Royal Order of the Palace, without exception.
4. Knights Palatine may be specially appointed at-will by the crown sovereign to any established Lordship or lesser office, excepting as Senator. The Knight Palatine shall serve in that office, at the sole pleasure of the crown sovereign, for an extended term—specifiable as four (4) months, six (6) months, or twelve (12) months—the beginning and end of which shall preferably coincide with regular terms. There shall be no term limits imposed on special appointments for Knights Palatine.
5. A Knight Palatine specially appointed to a Lordship may be removed from that office by the simple majority vote of the Senate. If a Knight Palatine is removed from an office by the Senate, they shall be ineligible for special appointment to that office until a regular selection has intervened.
6. Removal from one office as a Knight Palatine by the Senate shall not be construed as removal from all offices thereby. Removal from office by the Senate shall not be construed as criminal conviction, nor as preventing a Knight Palatine from enjoying that office after standing for its regular selection. Knights Palatine shall not be subject to removal from office by any other body and in any other manner, including criminal conviction for any crime less than High Crimes against the Republic.
7. Knights Palatine shall be specially exempted from all restrictions on holding simultaneous multiple Lordships in the College of Lords. This shall not be construed to extend to restrictions on holding simultaneous office in the Royal Senate.
8. Knights Palatine shall be exempted from the prohibition, when serving as Lordships, against simultaneously serving as Head of State or Head of Government in any other territory.
9. This amendment shall not be construed as granting any other exemption, privilege, or immunity not explicitly listed herein.
Given that there is no Chief of the Assembly at the moment, this will require the Crown Sovereign (me) to issue a writ of order to summon the Federal Assembly to its business, and then it will be my responsibility to basically act as Chief, establish the quorum, call to vote, and so on. But until then, I just want to talk a little bit about why I think this constitutional amendment is not only beneficial, but necessary.
Our low population has been something I've had to work very hard around as Sovereign. While our Knights have been extremely helpful in some respects. they're unfortunately very limited in how much responsibility they can take on. This was originally by design, and I want to keep that design in place, but it was designed with a much larger and more active population in mind. I built it to accomodate greater and greater numbers of nations, but I did not consider just how difficult all the many offices would be to fill (and tasks to distribute) when they're so many in number, so distinct in function, so frequently selected, and most of all, so stringently separated. These are very good attributes for offices when there is much competition among many applicants; a diversity of offices means a diversity of officers, all looking to have a specific area of power where they can make a concrete difference.
On the other hand, when there's only the few of us, as there are right now, there is no constitutionally built-in failsafe for the Cabinet to become more simple, more powerful, and more flexible. I did do it for the Federal Assembly, and for the Senate. These systems weren't perfect, for sure, but they were necessary, and I rather wish I had as much foresight for the College of Lords as I did for the legislative bodies!
This amendment remedies the problem.
It carves out specific, limited, though far-ranging exemptions for trusted, experienced Knights, who serve at the sole discretion of the Sovereign, and can (1) fill multiple administrative offices (2) for extended terms, (3) with minimal fuss and bother with holding selections, (4) both at-home AND abroad, BUT (5) are still able to be held accountable, by the Royal Senate.
All three Republican Knights here present would be entirely eligible (GOR, Beastland, and Cylthropia) under the terms of this amendment, and I feel that the terms ensure that as a retinue of specially-privileged Knights, it could be kept reasonably exclusive on merit, rather than being a matter of simply who can ingratiate themselves the best with the monarch.
These are the reasons why I believe this amendment is prudent and necessary. I hope you fellows will agree.
That's right: Germany implemented first and its enemies jumped on board under the assumption that it really did save energy, even though it wasn't proven. Oddly enough, it still isn't proven that it saves energy: studies show opposite results. Arizona at least opted out, as they found it led to people running their ACs longer.
Also, an often forgotten part of the misery: the US used to be aligned with other DST countries, but a George Bush era law from 2005 lengthened daylight savings time by about a month (to 'save energy'), which actually made it more miserable. This is why, for example, just as it is getting bright in the morning again, the time shift throws you into darkness again. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005#:~:text=Clocks%20were%20set%20ahead%20one,(October%2028%2C%202007).]
Ironically, people's obsession with making DST permanent is illegal under federal law (though this can be changed of course), but some states make a point of passing laws that would make it happen anyway as a way to pressure the government and appease constituents...I guess? But, like Arizona, any state can actually opt out of DST, yet this move is for some reason never advocated.
It boggles the mind.
I had a seizure during my accounting class yesterday. He said he was gonna give me an "incomplete" and have me come once a week over the Summer for help. It may make him look bad if someone that passed his class is an idiot in the next one. At the same time, I showed up everyday and stuff. I really do have something wrong with me and I think I'm too dumb to do accounting without notes. I may change to political science where I can write essays and stuff instead.
Very depressing that the one class (Intermediary Financial Accounting 1) I (almost, since he said he'd give me an incomplete) failed is my major
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