This revision of Principles of Accounting is based on an understanding of the nature, culture, and motivations of today’s undergraduate students and on extensive feedback from many instructors who use our book. These substantial changes meet the needs of these students, who not only face a business world increasingly complicated by ethical issues, globalization, and technology but who als…
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How do people really learn? The answers and theories are endless. They include ideas ranging from genetic imprinting to osmosis and modeling and emotional intelligence. Brain research is voluminous in the 21st century. For now, though, please ask yourself: How do I learn? Isn’t that an interesting question? And, what do you learn? Do you learn information from reading, watching videos, u…
Administrative law is the bye-product of the growing socio-economic functions of the State and the increased powers of the government. Administrative law has become very necessary in the developed society, the relationship of the administrative authorities and the people have become very complex. In order to regulate these complex, relations, some law is necessary, which may bring about regula…
With a certain mind-numbing frequency, users of financial statements—investors and creditors—find themselves buffeted with announcements of accounting irregularities. These irregularities are called many things, including aggressive accounting, earnings management, income smoothing, and fraudulent financial reporting. While they may vary in the degree to which they misreport financial r…
meant to represent a companion publication to the earlier and more basic book entitled “Fundamentals of monetary policy in the euro area” insofar as it covers topics that are more of a macroeconomic nature. Given the strong empirical focus that macroeconomics has witnessed over the last decades, the book aims at supplementing the basic concepts with a number of real-world examples c…
Managerial Accounting is designed for accounting and nonaccounting business students. It covers the managerial use of accounting data for planning, control, and decision making. As in the preceding volumes in the Schaum’s Outline Series in Accounting, the solved problems approach is used, with emphasis on the practical application of managerial accounting concepts, tools, and methodology. …
Many African women undertake income-generating activities in order to sustain their families and have some private income. Some women prefer to run their economic activities as individuals, others have formed groups. However, many income-generating projects, especially with rural women, give only little income. Meanwhile, the need for cash income becomes more important day by day. Even in area…
Despite the recent rash of corporate scandals and the resulting rush to address the problem by adding more laws and regulations, seemingly little attention has been paid to how the nature (not the substance) of rules may or may not affect ethical decision-making. Drawing on work in the law, ethics, management, psychology, and other social sciences, this article explores how several characterist…
On 4 August 2011, a young black man was shot dead by police officers in the north London area of Tottenham. The shooting of Mark Duggan, as well as the way in which it was handled by the Metropolitan Police and Independent Police Complaints Commission, triggered a series of riots that spread like wildfire across the cities of England. As with the disturbances in the northern English towns in …
Some people use fridge magnets to keep notes or lists on the fridge’s door. You even get magnets in the shape of words or letters that you can put on a fridge door to play with. The magnets make the letters stick to the metal of the fridge door. Can you think of other ways in which magnets can help us in our daily lives? In this chapter, you will learn about different types of magnets and h…
E conomics has traditionally been defined by both its methods and its subject matter. That is to say, there are economic methods—models and statistical tests—that are based on a set of assumptions about the way people behave and interact with one another. Moreover, there is a distinct set of “tools” or “principles” economists employ in their analyses
The European financial landscape has changed dramatically over the last couple of years and the pace of change appears to have moved into a higher gear with the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). However, although EMU and the introduction of the euro have played a pivotal role in the changes the European financial system has been undergoing, a host of other factors can be ident…
There is a widespread view that the Credit Crunch of 2007-9 was, in part, a result of insufficient reach of regulation and that a solution is to take existing regulation and spread it more comprehensively across more institutions and jurisdictions. That would be an incorrect diagnosis. At the heart of the crisis were highly regu- lated institutions in regulated jurisdictions. The crisis has inv…
Business managements make daily decisions on many issues, such as how much and where to produce, for which market, what prices to set, and how much stock to keep. Mathematical models can help to make the best decisions, among the possible alternatives. The objective of this book is to present a survey of selected Operations Research methods, and some of their applications to managerial decisio…
The study of business law and, more generally, the legal environment of business has universal applicability. A student entering any field of business must have at least a passing understanding of business law in order to function in the real world. Additionally, students preparing for a career in accounting, government and political science, economics, and even medicine can use much of the inf…
Let posterity know, and knowing be astonished, that on the fifteenth day of September, 1784, Vincent Lunardi of Lucca, in Tuscany, the first aerial traveller in Britain, mounting from the Artillery Ground in London, and traversing the regions of the air for two hours and fifteen minutes, on this spot revisited the earth. In this rude monument for ages be recorded this wondrous enterprise succes…
The past decade has seen tremendous changes in the world economy. Many of these changes are linked to new technological advances that have trans- formed what the global economy produces, the ways in which many goods and services are produced, where they are produced, and how goods and services are transferred from the firms that produce them to the households, governments, and other firms that …
The future of higher education: how technology will shape learning is an Economist Intelligence Unit white paper, sponsored by the New Media Consortium. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s editorial team executed the survey, conducted the interviews and wrote the report. The findings and views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor. Marie Glenn was the author of the repor…
“Only sociology, founded on biology, founded on all the positive sciences, can give us the laws of humanity. Humanity, or human communities, are the organisms already prepared, or still in process of formation, and which are subservient to all the laws of the evolution of organisms. “One of the chief of these laws is the variation of destination among the portions of the organs. Some peopl…
This book is a tutorial on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). It’s about EJB concepts, methodology, and development. This book also contains a number of advanced EJB topics, giving you a practical and real-world understanding of the subject. By reading this book, you will acquire a deep understanding of EJB. Make no mistake about it—what you are about to read is not easy. EJB incorporates concept…
Practical Programming is true to its name. The information it presents is organized around useful tasks rather than abstract constructs, and each chapter addresses a well-contained and important aspect of programming in Python. A student wondering “How do I make the computer do X?” would be able to find their answer very quickly with this book.