First of all, I have to admit that accounting has an image problem. Be honest: What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you see the word “accountant”? You probably think of a nerd wearing a green eyeshade who has the personality of an undertaker (no offense meant to undertakers, of course). Well, I’ve never worn a green eyeshade in my life, and I can assure you that I’m no…
This book is designed for the accountant who is setting up a payroll system,wants to improve the efficiency of an existing system,or who needs answers to the inevitable variety of compensation,tax,deduc- tion, and record-keeping issues associated with payroll. Each chapter includes an example of how a company has addressed a specific payroll issue,as well as Tips & Techniques that offer guidanc…
In contrast, much has happened in the areas of Not-for-Profit and Government accounting for fixed assets. FASB ordered the capitaliza- tion of assets and charging of depreciation by Not-for-Profits. The gov- ernment Accounting standards Board was created as an equal to the FASB with the authority and responsibility to promulgate GAAP for governments. They replaced the Government Finance Officer…
The former Chairman of the American Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, once believed that lending institutions were doing a good job of protecting their shareholders. Following the credit crunch experience he admitted to being in a ‘state of shocked disbelief’. Perhaps this ‘shocked disbelief’ could now extend to investors and regulators (and indeed accoun- tants themselves) who once beli…
This book will explore issues critical for success in providing e-banking. The aim is to assist organizations in utilising the opportunities offered by this relatively new set of technologies. This book largely restricts itself to the organizational view of the problem, and is therefore primarily focused on organizational internal factors. External factors, such as the political or economic…
This material is an introduction to corporate finance. We will discuss the various responsibilities of the corporation’s financial managers and show you how to tackle many of the problems that these managers are expected to solve. We begin with a discussion of the corporation, the financial decisions it needs to make, and why they are important. To survive and prosper, a company must sat…
The quest to eradicate poverty has, for some time, been at the forefront of the policies, programs and operations of development agencies. Poverty eradication has also been the subject of considerable research by academics and policy analysts. At the extraordinary Summit convened by the UN in September 2000, the international community agreed to work together to reduce the incidence of ext…
We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness. Details are well understood; the big picture remains unclear. A fundamental challenge—in business as in life—is to integrate the micro and macro such that all things make sense. Humanities majors may well learn a great deal about the world. But they don’t really learn career skills through their studies. Engi…
The goal of this document is to provide you, the bank CEO, with a non-technical, easy- to-read resource on cybersecurity that you may use as a guide to mitigate cybersecurity risks at your bank. is resource guide puts in one document industry recognized standards for cybersecurity, best practices currently used within the financial services industry, and an organizational approach used by the…
Although there is no unique definition of the term natural computing, most commonly the field is considered to consist of three main strands of enquiry: see Fig. 1.1. The first strand concerns the use of natural materials and phenomena for computational purposes such as DNA and molecular computing (computing in vivo); the second strand concerns the application of computer simulations to replica…
The 2007–09 financial crisis has once again put finance back on the agenda. This book examines financial systems and – albeit indirectly – argues that the crisis is the logical outcome of neoliberal capitalism. The main objective of this study then is to demystify the process (or processes) of neoliberalization. More concretely it focuses on the European case study where historically aver…
Ask any business, large or small, to identify one of its most important assets and it is bound to identify its confidential and proprietary information or ‘trade secrets’. This is because it is in the nature of businesses to try to secure a competitive advantage over rivals and inventing the proverbial ‘better mouse- trap’ is one way to do so. Frequently, businesses that invent or crea…
South–South Cooperation (SSC), through enhanced collaboration amongst the countries comprising the Global South, has often been on the front pages since early 1970s, when the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD) promoted the New International Economic Order (NIEO). However, the birth of the Global South as an entity could perhaps be traced to a 1949 speech, when US Presi…
Our experience of health and illness is shaped by our personal background, social networks, cultural context, and community affiliations. We undertook this edited volume because we believe communication processes are a link between personal, social, cultural, and institutional factors and various fac- ets of health and illness. For example, social networks and the social support they can prov…
Academic philosophy has experienced a major upheaval in the last decade. Venturous young philosophers, psychologists, and economists have begun to challenge the traditional stance that philosophy is an undertaking best pursued from the safety and calm of an arm-chair. Instead, they took the gloves off and tried to bring philosophical ques- tions to the experimental laboratory. To date, more th…
ITIS WIDELY BELIEVED that politics and economics are separate and largely unconnected; that individual freedom is a political problem and material welfare an economic problem; and that any kind of political arrangements can be combined with any kind of economic arrangements. The chief contemporary man- ifestation of this idea is the advocacy of "democratic socialism" by many who condemn out of …
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