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Enjoy my classes, I always have. You may recall in my class about the Forensic Audit Investigation that the evidences compiled are so strong that they are admissable in court.
A dashing Handsome man courted a single mom of 2 kids. He is irresistible with a catchy contagious smile. To add to his swerveness, he is a Grand Prix racer and respectable middle class family background.
The woman fell heads over heels for such a dream man. But this is to her detriment - her 'accidental' death. A perfect murder as the dashing man stands to collect an insurance premium worth RM16.5 million at present value.
When a love story is too good to be true, it usually is.
See article below and enjoy the Forensic investigation evidences. Do you see there are at least 7 evidences submitted to court that delivers a death sentence verdict on [cruel heartless] dashing man!
Lesson learnt: Don't trust [handsome] men, but yourself! Especially when they ask you out and skip ACCA classes!
Cheers.
Exclaimer of liability: The articles are written in fun, humourous style with no intention to target any individuals. The objective however is to MOTIVATE my students to NEVER GIVE UP in their quest to succeed in career/business.
It appeared to be the perfect murder - there were no witnesses, and there was not even a body.
Yet, one-time Grand Prix driver Sunny Ang was sentenced to hang for killing his barmaid girlfriend, Ms Jenny Cheok.
Pic 01: Sunny Ang charged with the Perfect Murder
One of Singapore's most sensational murder cases, it marked the first
time the prosecution had won a case that was based entirely on
circumstantial evidence.
Ang was one of the last murderers to be sent to the gallows by a jury; Singapore abolished jury trials in 1969.
This
week in 1965, the preliminary inquiry for the case was heard, and the
court was told that Ang stood to gain some $400,000 from the death of
his girlfriend.
Pic 02: Victim Jenny Cheok, 22, a single mother of 2
They had met in 1963 at the bar where she worked. She was 22 and he, 24.
Ang
came from a middle-class background and had been selected to train as a
pilot under a government scholarship programme, but his poor conduct
during training cost him that dream.
Pic 03: Handsome but deadly
He took part in the 1961
Grand Prix, but landed in trouble later for killing a pedestrian through
negligent driving, and attempted burglary. He was also declared a
bankrupt.
Ms Cheok was a single mother of two who had not finished primary school.
On Aug 27, 1963, the couple went on a diving trip near Sisters' Islands and Ms Cheok disappeared.
Her body was never found.
Pic 04: No remorse face
All
that was left was a single flipper she had worn, and its heel strap was
found to have been severed cleanly at the top and bottom, likely by a
knife or razor blade.
An expert witness would tell Ang's trial
that the loss of the flipper would have resulted in a diver's loss of
equilibrium and affected the person's mobility.
As an inexperienced diver, Ms Cheok would have panicked and drowned in the strong currents.
Ang,
a skilled diver, stood to gain from the payouts of insurance policies
he had begun buying for her two months before the dive trip.
He also had a will drawn up in which she left her entire estate to his mother.
In
one piece of circumstantial evidence, it was revealed that an insurance
policy worth about $150,000 had expired on the day before the diving
trip, but Ang extended it just three hours before they got on the boat.
When Ms Cheok failed to surface after her dive, Ang did not seem worried and did not enter the water to look for her.
Within 24 hours, he tried to make full insurance claims.
Pic 05: Witness Ms Aryes Soh testified that Sunny Ang didn't go in search for his girlfriend in the waters
In May 1965, Ang was sentenced to hang after the jury turned in a unanimous guilty verdict.
The prosecution was led by Mr Francis Seow, who went on to become solicitor-general and an opposition politician.
Ang was defended by Mr Punch Coomaraswamy, who later became a high court judge and diplomat.
Ang failed in his appeal and plea for clemency, and was hanged on Feb 6, 1967.
SOURCE: AsiOne, 2015,Sunny Ang and 'the perfect murder', http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/sunny-ang-and-perfect-murder, February 24
P7AAA Exam style questions:
a) What are the matters to consider when evaluating with client to perform Forensic Audit? [12]
b) Explain the audit procedures on compiling the evidences for client use. [6]
c) Explain the contents of Forensic Audit. [3]
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- relevant to serious and "I must pass ACCA" type of students only.
CLICK HERE FOR PART 1/2 What are the opposites that you can do to achieve your ACCA
success? See such scenarios: A] Instead of taking 60 minutes lunch, why not pack lunch and consume it in
15 minutes so that you have 45 minutes of study. In a 5day work week, you would
have studied 3 hours and 45 minutes.
B] Stuck in jam from 7.30 am to 8.30 am. Do the opposite. Leave for work at
6.30am. Arrive at 7am. Stay in office and study for 1.5 hours until
8.30am.
C] Do you leave office at 7 pm and get into a long traffic haul? Well, since you started work on time,
leave at 5pm - on time. Reach College library at 5.30pm. Put in solid 2 hours. Then leave
at 7.30pm for dinner with family or solo.
Just the above you put in 3 hours 15 minutes of study time. Equivalent of sitting for 1 full exam paper allotted time. Amazing, isn't it? Not to mention the weekends
of study time you can clock in.That will be another 16 hours.
Yes, my recommendation is do the OPPOSITE to what you are used to do now. Go against your natural reaction
to familiar situations. When you see ACCA Past Years questions, don't turn away.
Pick it UP! Browse through it. Write something out.
Eliminate the "M" activities in your life (see Part 1 of 2 earlier article) . No? You can't? Then at least reduce them by
90%.
You do this, ACCA SUCCESS is yours, and no one else.
May you have happy interesting journey in achieving your success.
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"I want to pass the exams", says many. Look at my friends in fancy office attire and thousands of dollars in salaries. I want to have that!
Well, that is easier said than done. Why? Because living in modern metropolitan society, there are many, many distractions. More than you imagine and handle. For instance, think of the dreaded time consuming "M" activities that are more of distractions. That leads to the destruction of hope to pass ACCA. These "M" activities are not bad in themselves. But they have the place albeit a small place in your life.
What are the "M" activities? see below
MALLS - walking aimlessly about
MEALS WITH FRIENDS
MEETING with Guys
(Soul) MATE
MESMERISING KIDS
Now, I am not saying, you should lock yourself in a room and just study. No, that is unreasonable for I know many of you have career and family responsibilities.
But what if make wise use of your time. Whatever your heart desires, you do the OPPOSITE.
Just do the OPPOSITE as you can see the video below. Taken from infamous Seinfeld sitcom on George who decided to do the opposite.
Look out for the upcoming Part 2/2 on what we mean by Opposite of George CLICK HERE
- Warning: Do not try this at home, for the actors and participants below are either professionals or desperate last-minute people. Viewers are advised to use discretion, if they want to maintain sanity.
Exams are a time of great stress. Especially in East Asia, where the pressure is on to achieve sky-high results.Whatever
the cultural differences, all students have their own rituals and
superstitions, whether it is playing a lucky song, eating special food
or even wearing a pair of lucky pants.
Here are some of the ways that exam-crazy students from across Asia ensure they pass with flying colours.
And there is a comment form at the end to let us know your favourite exam rituals and special ways of preparing.
1. How KitKat got lucky.
Pic 01 KitKat in Japanese sounds like "surely winning" and has become a good omen for exams
Traditionally,
Japanese students would eat Katsudon before or on the day of an exam,
comprising a warm bowl of rice topped with egg and a deep-fried pork
cutlet.
The dish name's likeness to the word "katsu", meaning "winning" is thought to bring students luck.
But KitKat in Japan has also been marketing itself as a bringer of good luck.
Pronounced
as "kitto katto", the chocolate's name is similar to the phrase "kitto
katsu", meaning "surely winning", making it a good candidate for a good
luck charm.
2. An apple a day.
Pic 02: Image caption
Fruit of learning: Hong Kong students eat apples before exams
Canteens across Hong Kong University campuses serve apples, and a variety of apple dishes, in the run-up to the exam period.
"The
pronunciation of apple in Chinese is "ping guo", which also means
"safety". So it's considered that you will safely pass the exam," says
Chong Wang, from Nanjing in China.
3. Avoid washing your hair.
Pic 03: Bad hair day: Rinsing away any chance of success
In your vicious cycle of all-night revision, microwave food and highlighter pens, you may have forgotten to have a shower.
But not to worry - in South Korea, it's thought that washing your hair could wash all the knowledge out.
"There
was one boy in our class who didn't wash hair before exams. The rest of
the time he was very clean, but once you came to know his exam ritual,
you didn't want to go near him," said one student about a classmate.
4. Eat Cashew nuts before the exams.
Pic 04: For Chinese students, the name for cashew nuts is like "wish to pass"
Around
a month before exams start in Hong Kong, students in clubs, societies
and residential halls, will gather for "superpass", or ging guo.
"Superpass"
is a series of activities aimed at helping you pass your exams with a
top score. The first part is the superpass dinner, which is usually held
at a Chinese restaurant.
It's
important that students eat pork cubes with cashews, one of the
signature superpass dishes. The Chinese word for "cashews" sounds like
the word for "wish to pass", and "pork cubes" sounds like "desire for a
distinction".
Homophones, or homonyms, play a big part in ritual and superstition in many East Asian languages.
5. A slice of luck
Pic 05: Cutting a roast pig is a part of many ceremonies in Hong Kong, including "superpass"
Returning
to the hall, it's time for everyone to have a turn at slicing through a
giant roast pig, considered to be an important sacred offering in
China.
Each participant is given one try at cutting the pig into two halves.
Those
who succeed are thought to go on to pass all their exams the first time
round, and those who fail, will have to re-sit some.
This is followed by eating kiwis, as the Chinese word for the fruit sounds like "easy to pass exams." 6. Praying for success - I believe this is quite popular among KL/PJ Students
Pic 06: Parents in South Korea praying for their children as they take exams
Many students in East Asia have the attentive support of their parents, whether they want it or not.
"Some
parents wait for their children outside the exam hall praying for them
to pass," says South Korean teacher Ji-Youn Jung, "My mum did, but my
test results turned out to be awful."
Ultra-keen parents will go as far as praying at Buddhist temples every day for the 100 days leading up to the exam.
7. Lucky watch versus a slippery soup.
Pic 07: Slippery customer: Seaweed soup could mean exam disaster
In
South Korea, the slipperiness of the widely-eaten seaweed soup is
thought to mean you will lose all the knowledge from the notes you've
been revising like mad.
"I try not to have seaweed soup before
important plans like exams or interviews. But if I happen to eat it
without consciousness, I don't worry too much," Ji-Youn says.
But
Chong Wang from China says: "My personal tradition is to have noodles
for breakfast on exam day, as noodles mean "everything goes smooth" in
Chinese. But I also take my lucky watch."
8. Chicken power.
Pic 08: Could chickens help boost your brain power?
A bit of
sugar might give you an energy boost, but South Koreans also believe
that this sugary snack could have exam-passing powers.
Yeot, a traditional sticky food, is eaten before important exams, especially university entrance exams.
Ji-Youn explains: "Yeot is a sticky sweet, and the Korean words for "sticky" and "pass entrance exam" sound the same."
Or else drink some chicken juice, which is thought to give your brain a boost.
Students
in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and China tend to drink this while
revising for exams, and on the morning of the exam itself.
"It's nothing superstitious," says Dylan Lee Soon Yoong, a Singaporean student at University College London.
"I
drink chicken essence on the morning of the exam... you down it like a
shot after heating it up. It's supposed to help your concentration and
is marketed pretty heavily to students in Singapore."
9. Wear red underwear.
Pic 09: Well read: All you need to remember for exam success, lucky red pants
Red
is widely believed to be a lucky colour in China. So many believe that
it's a good idea to wear some red clothing, or more specifically red
underwear, during an exam.
When a person is particularly successful, there is a Chinese saying, "Are you wearing red underwear?"
But
Chong Wang warns: "Some people may avoid wearing red during exams
because in China, fail scores are written in red on score sheets."
Image copyrightNUSImage caption10. Singaporean students style: Pray for mercy from the "Bell Curve God"
Pic 10: Singaporean students can pray electronically to the "Bell Curve God"
The
Bell Curve God is an embodiment of university students' fears of the
bell curve grading system used in Asia's top universities, such as the
National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.
Bell
curve grading means not just measuring how well you did in an exam, but
rather how you did in relation to everyone else in your class. In an
already high-achieving country, that pushes competitiveness to the max.
Shrines to the Bell Curve God have been set up at both universities, where food and candles are left as offerings to the "God".
The
National University of Singapore has gone as far as setting up a
website, Facebook and Twitter account for the Bell Curve God, so that
students can pray electronically.
"As students, we are subject to
the omnipotent, inscrutable force that is the Bell Curve God. He is the
arbitrary being that decides our grades," Dylan Lee Soon Yoong
explains.
CONCLUSION
Hmmm... On P2 (Corporate Reporting), I remember one ACCA Lecturer told me, "If it is not Debit, it must be Credit. This is easier than I thought."
You can do lots of hard work and ritualistically observe all the above ten ways. Remember to buy the red underwear from UNIQLO, heard it is better fabric and pricing. Or, you can try the old and tested way, pore over Past Years Questions, attend classes, do your tests and graduate like the rest of us. It never fails.
Source: Jody-Lan Castle, 2016, BBC News, http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35614030, Date: 3rd March
Note: Supply chain management, value
chain, e-marketing are Examiner Steve Skidmore’s favourite examinable topics.
You definitely want to focus on how to provide solutions for a specific case
scenario.
Special Note: Steve Skidmore is known for inserting "new knowledge" on Exam Answers, so you won't find the information below in your textbooks.
What is Supply chain management?
Supply chain management involves the coordination of all supply activities of
an organization from its suppliers and delivery of products to its customers.
Supply chain management includes not only supplier and
buyer, but also the intermediaries such as the supplier’s suppliers and the
customer’s customers.
To illustrate the Food Supply Chain, see the pictures below.
Farm : Cow Herds as the Upstream Supply chain
Processing Meat Factory
Logistics to deliver to Restaurants, Outlet, Retail/Hyper marts.
Final Product a Platter
Ummm... Do I need to explain this?
What are the Six Challenges in Supply chain management?
According to Dave Chaffey, there
following are:
1.Pressure
to reduce costs of manufacturing and distributing products in order to remain
competitive
2.Demand
forecasting
3.Failure
to deliver products on time consistently or lack of items on shelf in retailer
4.Failure
to deliver or ship correct product
5.High
inventory costs
6.Time for
new product development
Question: How can Genting Hotel
and Casino restructure its supply chain? Recommend any hardware infrastructure
and software solutions applicable to your restructuring solutions. [15 marks]
Suggested
Answer:
Assume we apply Genting Hotel supply chain that requires restructuring
supply chain.
$9.99 to travel to Genting Casino Hotel?! What are we waiting for?
Link to Airline Supply Chain
Link to Land transport Supply Chain
Add value to Value System Stream - Restaurant for guests
1.Cooperation relationship with linkage to upstream
supply chain with airlines like Air Asia, Ryan Air to determine how many tourists are
arriving. This will assist in planning the forecasting of demand based on
seasonal needs.
2.On linkage with upstream air line companies, install
SAP’s Enterprise Resource Planning allowing tourist-marketing offices to have
access real time on Genting Hotel’s booking records for the year. The
information flow seamlessly between the suppliers and company itself.
3.Collaboration relationship with exchange of
expertise such as market research knowledge. Genting can do market research to
determine which countries are most likely to visit Malaysia only casino. They
use internet connection to linked with different government offices around the
world to determine the countries most likely to have large tourists number.
4.On exchanging market research, install Technological
Interface Management (TIM) that allows suppliers, intermediaries and customers
to focus on collection, collation, interpretation and dissemination of vast
amount of information. B2B relationship that will allow Genting management to
know surplus idle room capacity that will influence tactical pricing and
promotion.
5.Power based relationship to reduce the cost of services.
Genting can invite tenders for its food supply, linen laundry and cleaning
contracts. Potential bidders need to submit online to Genting group and then
selection based on best specification and pricing are made.
6.On attracting suppliers, install Website with
extranet to approved suppliers that could submit e-tender. There is time
savings and thus the supply chain could quickly select suitable suppliers that
it selects online.
7.Arms Length relationship where Genting Hotel can
link with neutral platform hotel bookings website like Agoda.com. This way,
there is a meeting between suppliers of hotel rooms and demand generating
secured sales.
8.On marketing on neutral platform for travel/hotel trading
website that basically allow Genting to compete with other hotel suppliers. The
website will attract a large pool of customers who in turn can choose the wide
hotels selection.
9.Collaborate with transport sector and airline
company to offer a one package tourist package. This saves time and add value
to customers with ease of choosing tour destinations.
10.Cooperative relationship in having real time linkage
with tourism companies accessing number of hotels still available for booking
during the year.
11.Strategic intelligence in analyzing the demand
patterns of its linked up partners such as airline to determine the estimated
number of tourist arrivals. Data analytics software is required to ascertain
number of website visitors on Genting website.
12.Cooperative relationship with airline and transport
sector to know real time and determine the estimated arrival time. Each bus
couch should be equipped with a GPS system in order to determine the arrival
time.
13.On Buses tracking system, install Global Positioning
System (GPS) is more suitable than Trace Chip Tracking devices as the bus
movements are relevant to the tourism industry.
14.Cooperative relationship linking food suppliers with
its restaurants food requirement so that Just In Time inventory can be
installed. Assuming that hotels would have restaurant services too.
15.On Restaurants, install Materials Requirements
Planning (MRP) and Just In Time (JIT) systems enable suppliers to determine
real time the re-order levels to replenish food, laundries and replacements for
toiletries. This avoid risks of no stocks within Genting Hotel.
Conclusion
Genting supply chain should focus downstream marketing and devices by
adopt Information technology infrastructure such as cloud computing, e-mobile
and e-tablet browsing capabilities to widen its market appeal.
We
worked very hard the past 4 months with classes on practicing questions,
covering complex issues and systematically interpreting questions. Now IRC is
coming.
I must commend you WORKING STUDENTS in doing the assignments, attending
classes, doing mock exams while balancing with your other responsibilities as
Professionals, family commitments and extended matters.
You
may review the Tests as attached. You may also read the latest P7AAA Article on
Latest Ethical Issues dated 23rd Sept, 2014.
An
important emphasis in IRC is to use the same concepts and apply them in
different case studies context. P7AAA is very practical as in real-life
Auditors facing real issues. I would also show that not all marks are created
equal. How to get the low hanging fruits and not overspend time on tough
issues. The overall theme is PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE!
10 Countries Where Women Are More Educated Than Men
Yep, it is official. Women being more disciplined, focused are outperforming men in tertiary education. In Substance, they have knowledge and in form, they have that too.
Respect women for what they have achieved. Male chauvinists should stop thinking that women place is in kitchen. More women joining the workforce, this means somebody has to stay in kitchen. If too relaxed, it could mean men as the home-maker while women as the bread winner status.
ACCA RESULTS
Results are out. Look, cry/laugh, and move to next step. Never Give Up! Many succeeded as ACCA Graduates but it comes with tears, lots of determination and time.
Invest in your future and do your best. Women worldwide have done it, now that is a respectable example to imitate.
The
value of education is boundless and for many it grants the opportunity
to have a fighting chance in the competitive and increasingly selective
arena of the professional world. The rise in female university attendees
and graduates is now a growing global trend; educated women outnumber
educated men in many parts of the world.
According to a Yale
University study, women in the US account for 60 percent of the annual
university graduates and hold 60 percent of master’s degrees and 52
percent of doctorate degrees. Far from the antiquated mould of
uneducated female homemaker, it’s evident that a woman’s passion and
dedication to succeed in academia can be just as zealous as – and
apparently now even more so than – a man’s. And since women make up half
of the world’s total population, it’s fair to say that to place less
emphasis on women’s participation in higher education and the subsequent
greater career opportunities that it abounds overall hinders a
country’s prosperity — economically and otherwise.
As no great
achievement can exist without its challenges, we must note the threat
that exists to women’s education in countries where misogynistic or
extremist ideals maintain the counter-progressive outlook that women
must remain subservient to men. This is a reality which has proven all
too horrifying in the case of over 200 young girls who have been
recently abducted in Nigeria for attending school. Their oppressors, the
Boko Haram (a name which means, disturbingly, Western Education is a
Sin) exist as a mournful reminder that education — that which breeds and
nurtures individualism, global consciousness, and personal fruition —
can prove a dangerous thing to despotic reigns of power as it counters
their stratagems of control.
But despite obstructions, the rise in
women pursuing higher education is a pivotal achievement of our era.
It’s especially noteworthy when we consider that women in the US were
granted the right to vote just less than a hundred years ago, or that in
Saudi Arabia, for instance, that right wasn’t introduced until 2005.
The
rapid advancement of women’s rights signifies the import of female
leadership in a world hitherto strictly governed by men. Women are now
empowering themselves through education, taking hold of all its
limitless advantages and keeping a firm grip. While there’s always
more to be done in the pursuit of equal rights, the following list
features countries in which women now surpass men in university
attendance and graduation rates while also drawing attention to the
disparity that still exists for women in the labor force around the
world.
10. Saudi Arabia
The
Saudi Embassy reports that there are currently 1 million students
enrolled in universities in Saudi Arabia and of that number, over half
of attendees are women. A Yale University study reports that women make
up 51 percent of those enrolled in university—a highly progressive
achievement, considering the fact that Saudi women aren’t even allowed
to operate a vehicle alone. Despite the fact that a higher percentage of
Saudi women are educated compared to Saudi men, women in this country
still constitute a very slim minority of the labor force.
9. Argentina
Since
the 1990s, the percentage of female university attendees and graduates
in Argentina has hovered above 50 percent. Despite this steady
achievement, 74 percent of Argentine men participate in the workforce
compared to 47 percent of women.
8. United States of America
In
the US, women make up 57.4 percent of all university attendees. Since
2008, the rate of master’s degrees awarded to women has increased by 54
percent. In 2010, the US department of education noted that women now
surpass men in “enrollments at higher-education institutions at every
degree level.” Yet, women only hold about 3 percent of the highest
positions in corporate America and are still paid less for the same work
– an average of 77 cents to every dollar earned by men. The employment
rate for women in the US is just above 60 percent.
7. Brazil
In
2009, women made up 60 percent of university graduates and
postgraduates in Brazil according to a report by the Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an international
think-tank that works toward advancing economic growth and employment
rates globally within 34 countries constituting its members. The
employment rate for women in Brazil is slightly over 50 percent but
despite the fact that there are more female university graduates than
men, women still earn 30 percent less than men for the same work. Of the
594 seats in the Brazilian Congress women occupy only 56.
6. Spain
In
Spain, women made up 60 percent of all university graduates and
postgraduates in 2009 according to the OECD’s report. In Spain, 65
percent of working-age men are employed and only 51 percent of women.
5. Estonia
In
Estonia, a Northern European country, more than two-thirds of
university graduates are women. This marks the country as having the
highest percentage of female graduates of the 34 countries that are
members of the OECD. Estonia also has a comparatively high female
employment rate of slightly over 60 percent.
4. Chile
In
2009, women made up almost 60 percent of female graduates and
postgraduates in Chile. The female employment rate in Chile is at
slightly over 40 percent and this is attributable to a number of
factors. A notable contributing cultural factor to women’s absence from
the labor force is that in Chile, women must often choose between
working or raising a family. The notorious ‘machista’ or male
perspective that women should remain at home common in Latin American
countries tends to discourage women from joining the labor force,
despite their level of education.
3. Iran
In
2003, more than 60 percent of all college attendees in Iran were women.
That year, every 6 out of 10 college graduates were women as well. A
graduate degree increases an Iranian woman’s chance of joining the labor
force by 28 percent but only a quarter of female graduates actually
participate in the workforce. This is due to the fact that the country’s
strict traditional and religious values continue to stifle women’s
independence and often deter their participation in the workforce by
offering poor compensation, exhibiting workplace abuse and exploitation,
or simply not hiring women.
2. Canada
In
Canada, 64.8 percent of women have higher education compared to 63.4
percent of Canadian men. In 2006 and 2007, women made up 57 percent of
all college enrollments and were also 62 percent of all university
graduates in Canada. The female employment rate in Canada is relatively
high at 70 percent.
1. Finland
In
Finland, 80 percent of women are enrolled at a higher education
institution. Finnish women also make up over 60 percent of all
university graduates and postgraduates in the country. The female
employment rate in OECD countries averages at 55 percent and in Finland
it’s 66 percent, the highest of all OECD countries.
Source:
Melina Pérez, 2014, 10 Countries Where Women Are More Educated Than Men, http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/10-countries-where-women-are-more-educated-than-men/?view=all, May 17
