Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurobehavioral disorder affecting 5–10% of children and adolescents and 3% of adults. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: From Genes to Patients aims to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the critical aspects of ADHD, and hopefully will serve as a quick and up-to-date reference source for professionals w…
There is no doubt that the new requirements issued in January 2013 by the Basel Committee1 will be a game changer for many financial institutions across the globe. As outlined by the Committee, one of the biggest lessons of the global financial crisis that started in 2007 is the need to radically improve a bank’s data capabilities and architecture in the area of risk management, thus enabling…
Due safety and security is not an end in itself but a condition for sustainable access, and is thereby an enabler to aid agencies’ institutional and operational goals of presence and program implementation. Safety and security management are increasingly seen as one element of an organization’s overall risk management, which also includes financial, reputational and legal risks. All organi…
Abstract. Treatments of risk in the international management literature largely focus on particular uncertainties to the exclusion of other interrelated uncertainties. This paper develops a framework for categorizing the uncertainties faced by firms operating internationally and outlines both financial and strategic corporate risk management responses.
Based on suggestions from reviewers, instructors, and students we have made a number of changes in the eighth edition of Developing Management Skills . • Added new skill assessments in Chapter 1 and a new case in Chapter 3. • Revised parts of the book to reflect suggestions and feedback from instructors and students. • Clarified instructions for scoring skill assessments and…
The book is arranged in four parts. The first part describes the context and role of accounting in business. Some theoretical frameworks are provided. It is hoped that this will provide a foundation for readers’ understanding that accounting is more than a technical subject but is grounded in competing theories. These theories are themselves rooted in historical, political, economic and socia…
Over half of the students who enrol on economics degree courses have not studied mathe- matics beyond GCSE or an equivalent level. These include many mature students whose last encounter with algebra, or any other mathematics beyond basic arithmetic, is now a dim and distant memory. It is mainly for these students that this book is intended. It aims to develop their mathematical ability up …
Business leaders recognise effective risk management as one of the main success drivers for enterprises. Even though the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) concept has evolved significantly in the past years, in the aftermath of recent economic crises it became evident some of its critical challenges still need to be addressed. The review of subject literature led to a conclusion that current ERM…
Credit risk management in rural and community banks has become more important not only because of the financial crisis that the world is experiencing currently, but also as a crucial concept which determines banks’ survival, growth and profitability. Because credit granting is one of the key sources of income generating activity in rural banks, the management of the risk related to credit…
Fisheries management is complicated in nearly all cases by a high degree of uncertainty about the current state and expected growth of fish stocks and about the economic and social factors that affect the desirable harvest levels. Even for fisheries with excellent data collection programs, scientific surveys and sophisticated assessments, the estimates of catch levels that will maintain hea…
The FATS manual is a milestone on the road to EU-wide harmonised Foreign AffiliaTes Statistics (FATS). Its importance becomes even more apparent when we consider the political background to this project. All over the world, ‘globalisation’ is seen as the predominant agent of change and the main policy challenge. At the heart of this complex and somewhat blurry concept, however, lie busi…
Since the turn of the century, legislation in Western countries has ex- panded rapidly to reverse the brief dominance of laissez faire during the nineteenth century. The state no longer merely protects against viola- tions of person and property through murder, rape, or burglary but also restricts "discrimination" against certain minorities, collusive business arrangements, "jaywalking," t…
This Course Guide was developed in part because of the high cost of college textbooks, and in part, to help organize students = studying by providing lecture notes. This Guide was made possible because the admin istration of IPFW had the foresight to make the campus = printing services available to duplicate these sorts of materials, and provide them at cost through the auspices…
Probability theory began in seventeenth century France when the two great French mathematicians, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, corresponded over two prob- lems from games of chance. Problems like those Pascal and Fermat solved continued to influence such early researchers as Huygens, Bernoulli, and DeMoivre in estab- lishing a mathematical theory of probability. Today, probability the…