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Many people are too apprehensive of the perceived risk to invest and too intimidated by the complicated jargon to consider finance. No Fear Finance is an accessible guide to the essentials of finance and investment for students approaching the subject for the first time or professionals looking to gain new skills.
Guy Fraser-Sampson covers topics such as how people do business, how business is financed, accounting basics, financial accounting, working capital, capital transactions, the investment fundamentals of risk and return, the time value of money, investing in bonds and equity, asset classes, different types of funds, asset allocation, derivatives, behavioral finance and the future of business finance. Covering all of the basics needed to have a thorough understanding of finance, Fraser-Sampson provides general readers, entrepreneurs and new managers with the confidence to confront complex financial and investment concepts. |
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| | Monad : Introducing the MSH Command Shell and LanguageMonad, available for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, is the future of Windows administration. From setting up automated build environments to managing 200 desktops in an organization, anything that reduces the number of repetitive management steps is a real win. This is the promise of Monad, the powerful new... | | Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent
Back in 1995, the central computing services at Cambridge University were running
a variety of mail transfer agents, including Sendmail, Smail 3, and PP. Some
years before, I had converted the systems whose mail I managed from Sendmail to
Smail to make it easier to handle the special requir ements of the early 1990s ... |
Micro, Nanosystems and Systems on Chips: Modeling, Control, and Estimation (ISTE)
Micro and nanosystems represent a major scientific and technological challenge, with actual and potential applications in almost all fields of the human activity. The aim of the present book is to present how concepts from dynamical control systems (modeling, estimation, observation, identification, feedback control) can be adapted and... | | Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office
People often ask me if I think Apple is a company that knows how to make a good
server. My answer is usually a little longer than what those people probably had in
mind. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web server in 1989 on a computer running the
NeXTSTEP operating system. At the time, NeXTSTEP was a fledgling, ... | | Hacking iPod and iTunes (ExtremeTech)How to Mod The Pod and fine-tune iTunes
Does your iPod go wherever you do? This book will take the two of you on your most exciting adventure–deep into iPod’s awesome potential. You already know it’s a musical prodigy, but wait 'til you teach your iPod to take notes, give you the weather and stock quotes, keep your... |
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