Managerial accounting.The case describes AXA's corporate responsibility (CR) function. The company, a global leader in insurance and asset management, had distinguished itself in CR since formally establishing a CR unit in 2008. As the case opens, AXA's CR unit is being moved from the marketing function to the strategy group occasioning a thorough review as to how CR should fit into AXA's operations and strategy. Students are asked to identify CR issues of particular concern to the company, examine how addressing these issues would add value to the company, and then create metrics that would capture a business unit's success or failure in addressing the concerns.

Question 11 What is meant by bariatric surgical procedures?

Question 12 In a patient with marked obesity, is bariatric surgery better than a balloon inserted into the stomach?

Question 13 Does intravenous nutrition always have to be given via a central vein? Question 14 Why has there been an explosion of obesity in the young?

Question 15 Are proteins mostly absorbed from the intestinal lumen into the blood as amino acids?

Question 16 What are 'congeners' in alcohol?

Question 17 Cholesterol is synthesized in the body. What is the comparative role of diet and endogenous production in the level of serum cholesterol?

Question 18 We frequently read of the severe but 'rare' side-effect of myositis with statins. Do these drugs have more 'common' side-effects?

Question 19 Is there a relationship between brain disease and alcohol intake? Does alcohol have a proven toxic effect on the brain?

Question 20 What is the difference between malabsorption and malnutrition and how can these be differentiated clinically?