The problems with banker incentives are complex, but few could argue that those who received substantial bonuses at the end of 2006 and 2007 always acted in the interests of their share- holders. In the wider world, senior bankers created a very volatile and fragile financial system that was on the verge of breaking down, saved only by generous handouts from various central banks. An accountant…
Chapter 1, Exploring and Building the Repository, discusses the major components of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g and the basics of the repository. This chapter covers how to create a blank repository and set up the three layers of the repository from the beginning. At the end of this chapter, we're going to upload the new repository and make tests by running sample analys…
Background Helping young people to avoid starting smoking is a widely endorsed public health goal, and schools provide a route to communicate with nearly all young people. School-based interventions have been delivered for close to 40 years. Objectives The primary aim of this review was to determine whether school smoking interventions prevent youth from starting smoking. Our secondary objec…
“Standard Deviations shows in compelling fashion why humans are so susceptible to the misuse of statistical evidence and why this matters. I know of no other book that explains important concepts such as selection bias in such an entertaining and memorable manner.”
ost accounting professionals believe that all there is to be learned about asset accounting occurred in the introductory course on princi- ples of accounting. Therefore, although this subject can become quite complex, it has not been explored in the accounting literature. In 1984 when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) called for the rewriting of the uniform system of accounts for tel…
Welcome to Programming Visual Basic 2008! I know you’re going to enjoy it; I’ve read it five times already. You’re probably anxious to get to Chapter 1, but I recommend you read this preface to make sure you paid for the right book.
Server virtualization is an ever more important tool for reducing cost, increasing availability, and enhancing business agility
A chief executive officer (CEO) spends months deciding on a corporate strategy. The plan probably includes a mix of changes in products, customers, and mar- kets, as well as demands for increased efficiencies or information in a number of existing areas. The CEO then hands off the plan to a group of managers who are quite capable of implementing many of the changes, but who scratch their heads …
In response to a request from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine convened a committee to produce a detailed plan to facilitate the development of data standards applicable to the collection, coding, and classification of patient safety in- formation. Americans should be able to count on receiving health care that is safe. To achieve this, a new health care d…
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This book contains hundreds of very specific controls over the basic processes of a business—order entry, shipping, billing, purchasing, and the like. These controls are presented in layers, beginning with those needed for a very basic paper-based system and progressing through computerized systems and the use of selected best practice enhancements to the computerized systems. Thus, users can…
Has the time come for VAT in the U.S? It is unclear, but one thing is clear. In health care and tax reform, the conditions have never been more appropriate to consider emulating the successful experience of VAT seen in so many other nations
More than 250,000 women in the United States hear the diagnosis of breast cancer every year. Most women will be cured by sur- gery, which no longer means a mastectomy in many cases. Additional treatment, designed to prevent a recurrence in the breast or spread of the cancer to other areas of the body, may be recommended at the time of diagnosis. This may include radiation therapy, chemotherapy,…
Understanding telecommunications, in all its forms, has never been more critical. Numerous sources promise to provide the information and insight needed. However, a coherent, concise presentation of the essentials, which could serve as a starting point for providing the reader with a foundation of knowledge to build on has been lacking.
American medicine defines the cutting edge in most fields of clinical research, training, and practice worldwide, and U.S.-based manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, and medical equipment are among the most innovative and competitive in the world. In large part, the United States has achieved primacy in these areas by focusing public and private resources on research in the life and physica…
The intention of this book is to give the accountant the answers to the largest possible number of accounting issues that are likely to arise. Thus, given the wide-ranging scope of this work, the reader should know about its overall structure in order to locate infor- mation more easily. The Accounting Reference Desktop is divided into eight parts, each of which deals with a different aspect o…