Principles of Financial Economics

Financial economics plays a far more prominent role in the training of economists than it did even a few years ago. This change is generally attributed to the parallel transformation in capital markets that has occurred in recent years. It is true that trillions of dollars of assets are traded daily in financial markets—for derivative securities like options and futures, for example—that h…

The Accounting Game Updated and Revised Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemo…

How do people really learn? The answers and theories are endless. They include ideas ranging from genetic imprinting to osmosis and modeling and emotional intelligence. Brain research is voluminous in the 21st century. For now, though, please ask yourself: How do I learn? Isn’t that an interesting question? And, what do you learn? Do you learn information from reading, watching videos, u…

Administrative Law

Administrative law is the bye-product of the growing socio-economic functions of the State and the increased powers of the government. Administrative law has become very necessary in the developed society, the relationship of the administrative authorities and the people have become very complex. In order to regulate these complex, relations, some law is necessary, which may bring about regula…

THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF STATISTICS

Edition

4th edition

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-511-78827-7

Collation

-

Series Title

THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF STATISTICS

Call Number

-

A Guided Tour through Euro Area Economics

meant to represent a companion publication to the earlier and more basic book entitled “Fundamentals of monetary policy in the euro area” insofar as it covers topics that are more of a macroeconomic nature. Given the strong empirical focus that macroeconomics has witnessed over the last decades, the book aims at supplementing the basic concepts with a number of real-world examples c…

UNDERSTANDING INCOME STATEMENT: FINANCIAL SKILLS

This eBook will give you a thorough understand income statement, powerful decision making tool that every manager should be familiar with.

Accounting and Finance for Your Small Business

This book has been written for business owners and managers who want to refine the accounting and financial operations of their companies. It provides detailed information about how to run these operations, track cash flows, conduct analyses, analyze key financial information, create a corporate risk management strategy, and manage tax liabilities—in short, all of the key accounting and …

A GUIDE TO FORENSIC ACCOUNTING INVESTIGATION

The catastrophic business failures of this decade have been revealing on many levels. From my professional perspective as a forensic accounting investigator, I couldn’t help but notice the need across much of the business community for a better grasp of the scope and skills of the forensic accounting investigator. Most people seemed to be struggling. How could these massive frauds have oc…

Accounting Control Best Practices

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

ISBN–13: 978–0–471–3

Collation

1-268

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Construction Financial Management

In all businesses, financial statements are important for reflecting the financial health of a company. The construction industry is without exception. Among various financial statements, two of them are the most important ones. They are (1) Income Statement (or called Profit & Loss Account) and (2) Balance Sheet. In this chapter, these two important financial statements will be discussed in…

ACCOUNTING WORKBOOK FOR DUMMIES

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’…

A New Database on Financial Development and Structure

Arecent and expanding literature establishes the importance of financial development for economic growth.1 Measures of the size of the banking sector and the size and liquidity of the stock market are highly correlated with subsequent GDP per capita growth. Moreover, emerging evidence suggests that both the level of banking sector development and stock market development exert a causal impact o…

EVOLUTION OF MANAGEMENT THEORY

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Money, Banking, and International Finance

I taught Money & Banking and International Finance several times, and I converted my lecture notes into a textbook. Consequently, instructors can use this textbook for courses in Money & Banking, or International Finance or some hybrid in between them. Furthermore, financial analysts and economists could refer to this book as a study guide because this book contains concise information, and all…

The National Interest and the Law of the Sea

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing th…

FINANCIAL SYSTEMS

This paper offers a comprehensive comparison of the structure of banking and financial markets in the euro area. Based on this, several hypotheses about the role of banks in monetary policy transmission are developed. Many of the predictions that have been proposed for the U.S. are deemed unlikely to apply in Europe. Testing these hypotheses we find that monetary policy does alter bank loan sup…

Criminal Justice

On 4 August 2011, a young black man was shot dead by police officers in the north London area of Tottenham. The shooting of Mark Duggan, as well as the way in which it was handled by the Metropolitan Police and Independent Police Complaints Commission, triggered a series of riots that spread like wildfire across the cities of England. As with the disturbances in the northern English towns in …

Technology

Some people use fridge magnets to keep notes or lists on the fridge’s door. You even get magnets in the shape of words or letters that you can put on a fridge door to play with. The magnets make the letters stick to the metal of the fridge door. Can you think of other ways in which magnets can help us in our daily lives? In this chapter, you will learn about different types of magnets and h…

The New World of Economics A Remake of a Classic for New Generations of Econo…

E conomics has traditionally been defined by both its methods and its subject matter. That is to say, there are economic methods—models and statistical tests—that are based on a set of assumptions about the way people behave and interact with one another. Moreover, there is a distinct set of “tools” or “principles” economists employ in their analyses

WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

Since the early 1920s, numerous pamphlets and articles, even a few books, have sought to forge a link between "international bankers" and "Bolshevik revolutionaries." Rarely have these attempts been supported by hard evidence, and never have such attempts been argued within the framework of a scientific methodology. Indeed, some of the "evidence" used in these efforts has been fraudulent, some …

PROJECT MANAGEMENT GUIDEBOOK 

Welcome to the Project Management Guidebook. This Guidebook provides a practical approach to what many consider a complex process: the management of projects. This Guidebook is designed to simplify the management processes required to manage a project successfully from end to end. It defines Project Management in simple terms and provides you with all of the documentation tools required to make…

European financial system

The European financial landscape has changed dramatically over the last couple of years and the pace of change appears to have moved into a higher gear with the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). However, although EMU and the introduction of the euro have played a pivotal role in the changes the European financial system has been undergoing, a host of other factors can be ident…

The Fundamental Principles of Financial Regulation

There is a widespread view that the Credit Crunch of 2007-9 was, in part, a result of insufficient reach of regulation and that a solution is to take existing regulation and spread it more comprehensively across more institutions and jurisdictions. That would be an incorrect diagnosis. At the heart of the crisis were highly regu- lated institutions in regulated jurisdictions. The crisis has inv…

BUSINESS LAW

The study of business law and, more generally, the legal environment of business has universal applicability. A student entering any field of business must have at least a passing understanding of business law in order to function in the real world. Additionally, students preparing for a career in accounting, government and political science, economics, and even medicine can use much of the inf…

With a Little Help

It turns out the future doesn't really care about space travel. It used to, or at least when I was growing up all the science fiction I read promised that space travel would someday be commonplace. That was what made it the future: we would all be so bored with flying to other planets that we wouldn't even really talk about it anymore, it would just become a dull backdrop to our daily lives. Th…

ECONOMICS

The past decade has seen tremendous changes in the world economy. Many of these changes are linked to new technological advances that have trans- formed what the global economy produces, the ways in which many goods and services are produced, where they are produced, and how goods and services are transferred from the firms that produce them to the households, governments, and other firms that …

Information & Communication Technology

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has, within a very short span of time, turned out to be one of the basic building blocks of modern society. Many countries now consider understanding ICT and mastering its basic skills and concepts as part of their core education policy. While there have been many new technologies being introduced from time to time, with ever increasing rapidity, …

Alone Together - Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Thirty years ago, when I joined the faculty at MIT to study computer culture, the world re- tained a certain innocence. Children played tic-tac-toe with their electronic toys, video game missiles took on invading asteroids, and “intelligent” programs could hold up their end of a serious chess match. The first home computers were being bought by people called hobby- ists. The people who boug…

Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers

Edition

6th edition

ISBN/ISSN

9781118539712

Collation

-

Series Title

Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers

Call Number

-

The future of higher education: How technology will shape learning

The future of higher education: how technology will shape learning is an Economist Intelligence Unit white paper, sponsored by the New Media Consortium. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s editorial team executed the survey, conducted the interviews and wrote the report. The findings and views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor. Marie Glenn was the author of the repor…