This book presents empirical evidence on the convergence of financial and management accounting in the Italian context. The author provides an overview of the development paths of financial accounting including its evolution, role of non-financial, forward looking and voluntary disclosures, and internal determinants such as corporate governance and business culture. The author uses the premises…
This book explains how investor behavior, from mental accounting to the combustible interplay of hope and fear, affects financial economics. The transformation of portfolio theory begins with the identification of anomalies. Gaps in perception and behavioral departures from rationality spur momentum, irrational exuberance, and speculative bubbles. Behavioral accounting undermines the rational p…
This book will give readers an up-to-date understanding of occupational pensions, the economic issues they face, and some suggestions of how these issues can be tackled. The first section explains the operation of defined benefit and defined contribution pensions, along with some descriptive statistics. The second section covers selected aspects of occupational pensions. The focus of these firs…
This ground-breaking title presents an interdisciplinary introduction to the subject of Dependability and how it applies in medicine generally and in neurology in particular. Dependability is the term applied in engineering and industry to a service that is safe, reliable and trustworthy. Dependable systems use a variety of methods to deliver correct service in the face of uncertainty resulting…
Iklan Farmasi sebagai Sumber Pemberdayaan Diri Konsumen; Bukti dari Empat Negara; Menurut IMS Institute for Health, pasar farmasi global saat ini bernilai hampir USD 1 triliun per tahun-angka yang diperkirakan akan meningkat menjadi USD 1,2 triliun pada tahun 2017. Amerika Utara bertanggung jawab atas porsi terbesar, menghasilkan lebih dari 40% pendapatan ini. Sepuluh perusahaan obat terbesar d…
Itu adalah momen yang mempesona dalam sejarah profesi kedokteran hewan ketika Organisasi Pangan dan Pertanian Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa (FAO) mengumumkan pada 28 Juni 2011 bahwa rinderpest telah diberantas secara global dan tidak ada hambatan untuk perdagangan internasional karena rinderpest. Pada saat komunitas penelitian dikumpulkan di bawah "Program Pemberantasan Rinderpest Global (GREP)" u…
Buku ini merupakan hasil kerjasama akademik antara para sarjana di Norwegia, Sudan, Zambia, dan Afrika Selatan, dan merupakan titik akhir dari perjalanan yang dimulai di Omdurman, Sudan pada tahun 2007, ketika para sarjana dari empat negara bertemu untuk membahas mata kuliah master di pendidikan internasional dan pembangunan melintasi batas geografis dan epistemologis. Pada bulan Desember 2012,…
Ketika Yumei tiba di sebuah pub yang terletak di Clarke Quay, salah satu distrik tempat hiburan malam di Singapura, teman-teman terdekatnya sangat menunggunya. Saat sebotol sampanye muncul, sekelompok pacar yang terlalu bersemangat bergegas untuk memeluk dan mencium Yumei. Gadis-gadis itu menjerit kegirangan, 'Akhirnya bebas! Yay!'dan bersulang untuk pencapaian baru dalam hidup Yumei ini. Suasa…
This is the story of radio astronomy, of how radio waves are generated by stars, supernova, quasars, colliding galaxies, and by the very beginnings of the universe itself. This revised book provides an update on the state of radio astronomy and those sections no longer regarded as cutting edge have been removed. With this book, aimed at a lay audience, you learn what astronomers are doing with …
The aim of the present book is to give a systematic treatment of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations, i.e. how to recognize whether a system of differential equations can be treated as a system for extremals of a variational functional (the Euler-Lagrange equations), using contemporary geometric methods. Selected applications in geometry, physics, optimal control, and general rela…