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by Tommie W. Singleton, Aaron J. Singleton
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
FRAUD AUDITING AND FORENSIC ACCOUNTING
With the responsibility of detecting and preventing fraud falling heavily on the accounting profession, every accountant needs to recognize fraud and learn the tools and strategies necessary to catch it in time. Providing valuable information to those...
Preservation of Affordable Rental Housing
Evaluation of the MacArthur Foundation's Window of Opportunity Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
In 2000, the MacArthur Foundation began the Window of Opportunity, a 20-year, $187 million philanthropic initiative intended to help preserve privately owned affordable rental housing. The authors of this report assess whether the initiative achieved its goals and identify lessons learned about effective...
by Kenneth J. Arrow, G. Constantinides, H.M Markowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Edited by Rajnish Mehra, this volume focuses on the equity risk premium puzzle, a term coined by Mehra and Prescott in 1985 which encompasses a number of empirical regularities in the prices of capital assets that are at odds with the predictions of standard economic theory.
by Dr. Robert W. Dillon, Erin M. Klein, Benjamin D. Gilpin
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Bring hope, joy, and positive energy back into the daily work of the classroom. In this book, learn to design brain-friendly learning environments that foster engagement, productivity, and achievement while allowing for seamless integration of educational technology. Discover how flexible, welcoming,...
Collaborative Resilience
Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...
Culture, Space, and Power
Blurred Lines
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines collects essays that study contemporary mutations of public and private space in multiple cultural contexts and media from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The essays range from the general to the specific: the first section will explore...
Corporate Sustainability Management
The Art and Science of Managing Non-Financial Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Businesses around the world are increasingly turning to an exciting new branch of management known as corporate sustainability management (CSM) to help them better understand and manage their non-financial performance.
Indeed, what we are witnessing is nothing less than the birth of a new management...
“I’Ll Try” Is Not Good Enough …
What It Takes to Make Change Happen in the Workplace!
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
If people could change their competencies and characteristics at will, personal development would be a relatively simple matter. However, there are many reasons why people consciously or unconsciously tend to resist change. The purpose of this book is to make you aware of techniques for overcoming...
Essential Partial Differential Equations
Analytical and Computational Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This volume provides an introduction to the analytical and numerical aspects of partial differential equations (PDEs). It unifies an analytical and computational approach for these; the qualitative behaviour of solutions being established using classical concepts: maximum principles and energy methods....
by John C. Graser, Daniel Blum, Kevin Brancato
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
The Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) currently runs three in-theater hospitals for severely injured or wounded personnel. Part of the practioners' preparation was treating DoD beneficiaries for a broad range of injuries and illnesses. Opportunities for this preparation are not as numerous "in house"...
The Innovator's Guide to Growth
Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the capability to deflect disruptive attacks...
College Counseling for Admissions Professionals
Improving Access and Retention
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
College Counseling for Admissions Professionals is a much-needed resource to guide college admissions professionals in helping students navigate the college choice process. This research-based book prepares college admissions professionals to not only be marketers of their institution, but also disseminators...
by Frank J. Bitzer, Nicholas W. Ferrigno
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Organized in a convenient Q&A format to speed you to the information you need, 2015 ERISA Facts delivers the latest guidance on:• Fiduciary responsibility under ERISA• Health insurance issues (HIPAA, COBRA, etc.)• Plan administration issues• Responsibilities related to plan investments...
Defying the Odds
The 2016 Elections and American Politics, Post 2018 Election Update
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Now updated to include the 2018 midterms and previewing the coming 2020 election cycle, Defying the Odds provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. With its keen insights...