Information technologies impact every aspect of accounting, including financial reporting,
managerial accounting, auditing, and tax. The nature of the work done by accountants
continues to evolve as these technologies advance. For example, less than 30 years
ago, accountants could have spent much of their day footing ledgers and making...
This book is about expanding Internet business risk management strategies
into resilience such as software diversity; into financial risk transfer instruments
such as insurance policies, catastrophe bonds, performance bonds, and
self-insurance as in Basel II; and into reputation systems.
Welcome to the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Scientific
and Statistical Database Management held in Portland, Oregon, where it celebrated
its 30th birthday. The first incarnation of SSDBM (then called the Workshop
on Statistical Database Management) took place in Menlo Park, California,
in December 1981. Since...
You made the right choice twice: Office 2011 for Mac and this book.
Take a deep breath and get ready to have a rollicking good time. That’s
right — this is a computer book, but it’s fun. What a concept! Whether you’re
brand-spanking new to the Office suite or a grizzled old Office veteran, I guarantee...
This book contains 71 original, scientific articles that address state-of-the-art
research related to scale space and variational methods for image processing and
computer vision. Topics covered in the book range from mathematical analysis
of both established and new models, fast numerical methods, image analysis,
segmentation,...
We were early adopters of Extreme Programming (XP), testing on XP teams
that weren’t at all sure where testers or their brand of testing fit in. At the time,
there wasn’t much in the agile (which wasn’t called agile yet) literature about
acceptance testing, or how professional testers might contribute. We learned
not...
Over the last few decades, energy minimization methods have become an established
paradigm to resolve a variety of challenges in the fields of computer vision
and pattern recognition. While traditional approaches to computer vision were
often based on a heuristic sequence of processing steps and merely allowed a
very limited...
Since its release, Spring Framework has transformed virtually every aspect of Java development including web applications, security, aspect-oriented programming, persistence, and messaging. Spring Batch, one of its newer additions, now brings the same familiar Spring idioms to batch processing. Spring Batch addresses the needs of any batch...
A simple, straightforward guide to the fundamentals of technical analysis
Technical analysis is a collection of techniques designed to help people make trading decisions. Technical Analysis For Dummies, 2nd Edition explains the basic principles and shows you how to apply these principles in an approachable and...
CALCO, the International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer
Science, is a high-level, bi-annual event formed by joining CMCS (the International
Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science) and WADT
(the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). CALCO aims to bring
together researchers and practitioners with...
A senior database manager at one of the world’s largest banks once told me that the best way to secure Oracle is to unplug it from the wall…and he is probably right. In fact, this holds true for nearly every networked application. Unfortunately, for many of us turning off the database is not an option; we must find another way to...
Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Financials is a solution that provides out-of-the-box features to meet global financial reporting and tax requirements with one accounting, tax, banking, and payments model, and makes it easy to operate shared services across businesses and regions. You may have read what EBS Financials does, but with this book on...
