Pro Excel Financial Modeling Building Models for Technology Startups

This book outlines smart business strategies for building a technology startup and provides a comprehensive guide to building a financial model of the company. I wrote this book to share my entrepreneuring experience and to help the entrepreneur avoid many of the obstacles and hazards that I encountered while leading and participating in early-stage companies. This book is important because it …

Introduction to Risk Management in the Public Procurement of Innovation

This guide aims to provide an overview of risk management in the context of public procurement of innovation (PPI). By definition, pursuing an innovative solution is a process that involves a higher degree of uncertainty towards the intended result compared to choosing for a proven solution. These uncertainties often act as a major barrier to innovation. Therefore, risk management is a key suc…

Quit & Stay Quit A Personal Program to Stop Smoking

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Investor Exits, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Firm Growth

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001 coincided with an abrupt and so far lasting change in the development of entrepreneurial venture-backed firms in the United States. Previously, entrepreneurs and investors commonly took viable young firms public through initial public offerings (IPOs). In some well-known cases, these firms subsequently grew into major, globally competitive corporatio…

Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation: Improving Indicator…

The availability of relevant, accurate, timely, and objec- tive information on the health of the science, technology, and innovation (STI) enterprise in the United States is critical to addressing vital policy questions for the nation. Just some of these questions are • How is the contribution of STI to productivity, employment, and growth in the broader U.S. econ- omy changing in a world o…

Science, Technology & Innovation Indicators

The social sciences, humanities, and law (SSH) are known to have more heterogeneous publi- cation patterns than the sciences, medicine, and technology (STM). On the one hand, original peer-reviewed research is published in a wider range of formats. Book publishing (monographs or articles in edited volumes) may even be more important than journal publishing in some of the disciplines (Sivertsen …

Critical analysis of scientific management

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Wealth Through Integration

In December 2008, when I met with the president of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), I was far from imagining that the work we wanted to do together would become a reality so quickly. As early as the beginning of 2009, we were given a unique opportunity to share our respective experiences through the celebration, throughout 2009, of 15 years of the West African Economic …

Principles of Mobile Computing and Communications

The most familiar aspect of mobile computing technology is the hand phone. About two decades ago, a hand phone was bulky and was only used for voice communication. It was merely an extension of the fixed line telephony that allowed users to keep in touch with colleagues. Now the hand phone is not only used for voice communication, it is also used to send text and multimedia messages. Future mob…

Hidden Financial Risk, Understanding Off–Balance Sheet Accounting

Then Enron disclosed problems in its third-quarter report of 2001 and soon declared bankruptcy. All of a sudden people were interested in accounting at levels I had never experienced previously. During the first half of 2002 I had at least 500 interviews with the media, and I discussed at length issues about Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, and Arthur Andersen. My main message …

EDUCATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

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Pragmatic Version Control with CVS

This book tells you how to improve the effectiveness of your software development process using version control. Version Control, sometimes called source code control, is the first leg of our project support tripod. We view the use of version control as mandatory on all projects. Version control offers many advantages to both teams and individuals. • It gives the team a project-wide undo but…

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning Refactor Your “Wetware”

Thanks for picking up this book. Together, we’re going to journey through bits of cognitive science, neuroscience, and learning and behavioral theory. You’ll see surprising aspects of how our brains work and see how you can beat the system to improve your own learning and thinking skills. We’re going to begin to refactor your wetware—redesign and rewire your brain—to make you more ef…

Hidden Financial Risk Understanding Off–Balance Sheet Accounting

When I graduated with a doctorate in 1977, I researched and published articles on mainstream topics, particularly current value accounting and the interaction between earnings and cash flows. After a while, it occurred to me that these are not the crucial issues of financial accounting and reporting. Ethics and honesty and fairness to financial statement users comprise the foundational issu…

Hidden Financial Risk: Understanding Off–Balance Sheet Accounting

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Practical Zendesk Administration

The version of Zendesk covered by this book is the latest public release as at September 12, 2012. Zendesk has a frequent—often weekly—release schedule, with new features and updates to existing features. The release notes are made available to the public in the official What’s New in Zendesk forum. Throughout this book I’ve deliberately de‐ scribed features without giving detailed st…

Ideas To Start Your Weight Loss

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HOW TO LIVE RULES FOR HEALTHFUL LIVING BASED ON MODERN SCIENCE

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Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting

White-collar crime is rampant, and has been for some time, in the business community of the U.S. economy. Experts have estimated that the costs of white-collar crime averages about 20 times the costs of street crimes each year. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) estimated that fraud cost the U.S. economy $660 billion in 2004. But white-collar crime has taken a backseat to stree…

HOW TO EAT A CURE FOR "NERVES"

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Markets The Fulton Fish Market

This feature explores the operation of individual markets. Patterns of behavior in markets for specific goods and services offer lessons about the determinants and effects of supply and demand, market structure, strategic behavior, and government regulation. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to James R. Hines Jr., c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, D…

The Transcendence of the Ego

Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Transcendence of the Ego (hereafter TE) first appeared as an article in the French academic journal, Recherches Philosophiques in 1937. It was among Sartre’s first philosophical publications, the outcome of a period of intense critical engagement with the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl (1859–1938). Sartre had become interested in phenomenology earlier…

The Political Economy of International Capital Mobility

International capital mobility is today a concern that breeds broader social uncertainty because of unprecedented degrees of financial social- isation. Financial markets now attract a greater volume of savings than at any previous time in their history. Existing living standards are there- fore increasingly dependent upon the market environment continuing to function in the manner prescribed by…

Practical Business Analytics Using SAS

There is an ever-increasing need for advanced information and decision support systems in today’s fierce global competitive environment. The profitability and the overall business can be managed better with access to predictive tools—to predict, even approximately, the market prices of raw materials used in production, for instance. Business analytics involves, among others, quantitative te…

PHP & MySQL® Web Development ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMmIES

When the World Wide Web was first developed, it was a static place. It was mainly a really big library with information that visitors could read. Documents were linked together so that the information was easy to find, but the Web pages were basically static. Every visitor to a Web site saw the same Web page. Over time, the Web has evolved. It’s now a dynamic environment where visitors inter…

Managing Workplace Diversity

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Pervasive Information Security and Privacy Developments: Trends and Advancements

Security and privacy issues have risen in importance as the use of technology increases. Newly devel- oped technological devices for asset security can only be successful if people are willing to use them. Gaining an understanding of individuals’ acceptance and possible use of new security technologies would be beneficial to entities that are developing, marketing, and implementing new securi…

People and Technology in the Workplace

The papers in this volume, and the symposium on which it is based, reflect the work of managers and union representatives, engineers and consultants, professors, and practitioners. Despite their common interests in the implementation of new technologies, these groups do not often meet and talk together. There are language barriers across the groups as well as within; there is no more automatic …

Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 Developer's Guide

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) may consist of many interconnected components. As a result of this, the Oracle SOA Suite is a large piece of software that initially seems to be overwhelmingly complex. In this chapter, we will provide a roadmap for your understanding of the SOA Suite and provide a reference architecture to help you understand how to apply SOA principles with the SOA Suite. A…