Forgiveness is in the air—public figures making public apologies, movies de- picting loving kindness offered to murderers, and psychotherapy programs promoting forgiveness in individuals as well as in marital couples. It is a gift, an offering, a blessing, a cleansing event. Professionally speaking, within the field of psychology the literature on forgivenesshas arisen with little criticism a…
Due safety and security is not an end in itself but a condition for sustainable access, and is thereby an enabler to aid agencies’ institutional and operational goals of presence and program implementation. Safety and security management are increasingly seen as one element of an organization’s overall risk management, which also includes financial, reputational and legal risks. All organi…
The book is arranged in four parts. The first part describes the context and role of accounting in business. Some theoretical frameworks are provided. It is hoped that this will provide a foundation for readers’ understanding that accounting is more than a technical subject but is grounded in competing theories. These theories are themselves rooted in historical, political, economic and socia…
Credit risk management in rural and community banks has become more important not only because of the financial crisis that the world is experiencing currently, but also as a crucial concept which determines banks’ survival, growth and profitability. Because credit granting is one of the key sources of income generating activity in rural banks, the management of the risk related to credit…
The FATS manual is a milestone on the road to EU-wide harmonised Foreign AffiliaTes Statistics (FATS). Its importance becomes even more apparent when we consider the political background to this project. All over the world, ‘globalisation’ is seen as the predominant agent of change and the main policy challenge. At the heart of this complex and somewhat blurry concept, however, lie busi…
This book provides an opportunity to explore the fascinating, underpublicized, and sometimes misunderstood subject of social psychology. In it, twenty-eight intriguing studies that throw light on human social thinking and behavior are reviewed. These studies, mostly laboratory experiments, address topics such as people's unawareness of why they do what they do, the tenacity with which they…
Donor collaboration, cynics sometimes say, is an oxymoron. There is, however, one example of donor collaboration that is still going strong after about 15 years — the Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development. Initiated by the World Bank in 1979, this committee now includes 17 bilat- eral agencies, 15 multilateral institutions, and 2 other interna- tional development …
Forensic accounting–expert witnessing is not a new discipline, but few accounting textbooks exist to present a broad view of the profession of forensic accounting–expert witnessing. Books do exist on special subparts of it, including the determination of damages, business valuations, general dis- cussions of fraud investigations, or other limited areas of forensic accounting. Books dev…
Table of Contents xi On the applied side: Training generalized imitation 307 Focus on issues: Rules, observational learning, and self-efficacy 312 Rule-governed behavior 313 Focus on research: Instructions and contingencies 317 Key words 320 On the web 320 Study questions 321 Brief quiz 322 Chapter12 Verbal Behavior 324 In thi…
Organizations find information security and computer security require a lot of attention. As more and more of our lives and livelihoods become digital and interconnected, protecting that information naturally becomes more important. With increasing importance, these fields relate to a wider audience than the technical folks who manufacture, install, and manage computer resources. Technologists …