This book is written for the first and second levels of undergraduate degree study in accounting and business studies, or equivalent introductory accounting courses where an understanding of accounting is a basic requirement. It is based on the author’s experience in providing a first level management accounting text and takes account of helpful suggestions from reviewers of three successiv…
E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. This book is suitable for those with a background in economics principles. Nafziger explains the reasons for the recent fast growth of India, Poland, Brazil, China, and other Pacific Rim countries and the slow, yet essential, growth for a turnaround of sub-Saharan Africa. The fifth …
The National Cancer Policy Board (board) concluded in its April 1999 re- port, Ensuring Quality Cancer Care, that based on the best available evidence, some individuals with cancer do not receive care known to be effective for their condition. The magnitude of the problem is not known, but the board believes it is substantial (IOM 1999a). Why do we know so little about the nature and extent of …
We begin this chapter by outlining the problems that stakeholder theory was originally conceptualized to solve and the “basic mechanics” that we believe underlie the development of the theory during the last thirty years. We turn in the next sections to the arguments of Milton Friedman, Michael Jensen, Michael Porter, and Oliver Williamson, often cited as opponents of stakeholder theor…
We provide an overview of the role of extreme value theory (EVT) in risk management (RM), as a method for modelling and measuring extreme risks. We concentrate on the peaks-over-threshold (POT) model and emphasize the generality of this approach. Wherever the tail of a loss distribution is of interest, whether for market, credit, operational or insurance risks, the POT method provides a sim…
This book is expected to be useful for engineers and technical managers who want to know the principles and applications of ZigBee in short-range wireless networking. The reader should be able to follow most of the materials in this book as long as he or she has some basic knowledge in electrical engineering and wireless networking.
The ability to read is the main foundational skill for all school-based learning. Without it, the chances for academic and occupational success are limited (Lyon, 1997). In fact, the most pressing issue in guaranteeing students equal access to the curriculum is ensuring their ability to read class materials. When children do not learn to read, their general knowledge and writing abilities suffe…