The accounting department is a cost center. It does not directly generate revenues, but rather provides a fixed set of services to the rest of a company, and is asked to do so at the lowest possible cost. Consequently, the accounting staff is called upon to process transactions, write reports, create new processes or investigate old ones—while doing so as an ever-shrinking proportion of t…
Financial Management Strategies for Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations: Tools, Techniques, Checklists and Case Studies will shape the financial management landscape, just as our com- panion text Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations: Financial Management Strategies, Tools, Techniques, Checklists and Case Studies did in the operational arena, by outlining four important principles. First…
This book has been written for those who wish to achieve a broad understanding of financial management at either undergraduate or postgraduate/post-experience level. It is aimed primarily at students who are not majoring in financial management but who, nevertheless, are studying introductory-level financial management as part of their course in business, management, economics, computing, engin…
This book consists of two parts. Part I describes the essential Mathematica commands illustrated with many examples and Part II presents a variety of applications to mathematics and physics showing how Mathematica could be systematically used to teach these two disciplines. The book is based on an introductory course taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago to advanced undergraduate and…
This book is positioned as a first in a series of books on enterprise architecture needed for a Master of Enterprise Architecture program, and is targeted both at university students and practitioners with a drive to increase their understanding of these fields. As an introductory book, this book aims to explore the concept of enterprise architecture. At first glance, writing such an introduct…
We wrote this book because our primary sense of who we are as professionals is that we are teachers. We play various roles in our careers, but we are especially dedicated to our students. We want them to listen, read, create, and evaluate more effectively as a result of their experience in a business law class. Above all, we want them to sense the importance and excitement of the law. We tried…
Mathematics consists of rigorous abstract reasoning. At first, it can be intimidating; but learning about math can help you appreciate its great practical usefulness and even its beauty—both for the visual appeal of geometric forms and the concise elegance of symbolic formulas expressing complicated ideas. Imagine that you are to build a bridge, or a radio, or a bookcase. In each case you …
This series of six books is intended for the majority of pupils in the first years of secondary schooling. It provides a firm foundation in the mathematics needed at this level from which the pupils can proceed with confidence on a course to C.S.E. or G.C.E. '0' Level. The books can be used either as a complete course or as a supplement to existing textbooks. The material is arranged in sequen…
Basic Engineering Mathematics 6th Edition intro- duces and then consolidates basic mathematical principles and promotes awareness of mathematical concepts for students needing a broad base for further vocational studies. In this sixth edition, new material has been added to some of the chapters, together with around 40 extra practical problems interspersed throughout the text. The four chapters…
While classical mathematics has hardly changed over the years, new applications arise regularly. In the second edition, we attempt to teach applicable mathematics to a new generation of readers involved in self-study and traditional university coursework. As in the first edition, we lead the reader through homework problems, providing answers while coaxing students to think more deeply about ho…
Laserwords was in charge of ushering the manuscript through copyediting, composition, and proofreading. Each of the authors would like to thank the other two for the time they have taken from other professional activities to work on this project. Because of the time required to meld the points of view of our disciplines, it was only with the support of the National Science Foundation (Grant DU…
Life insurance has undergone enormous change in the last two to three decades. New and innovative products have been developed at the same time as we have seen vast increases in computational power. In addition, the field of finance has experienced a revolution in the development of a mathematical theory of options and financial guarantees, first pioneered in the work of Black, Scholes and Mert…
During the two decades since the appearance of the second edition of this work, there have been substantial changes in the course of mathe- matics and the treatment of its history. Within mathematics, outstanding results were achieved by a merging of techniques and concepts from previously distinct areas of specialization. The history of mathematics continued to grow quantitatively, as noted in…