Skip to main content
Elsevier
View Cart

Books in Social sciences and humanities

  • Electronic Exchanges

    The Global Transformation from Pits to Bits
    • 1st Edition
    • Michael Gorham + 1 more
    • English
    Anyone reading the business section of a newspaper lately knows that the financial exchanges--stock, bonds, FX, commodities, and so forth--are undergoing tremendous transformations. Fund managers, market makers, traders, exchange professionals, marekt data providers and analyzers, investors--anyone involved with the financial exchanges needs to understand the major forces pushing this transformation in order to position themselves and their institutions to the best advantage.In this book, veteran exchange expert Michael Gorham joins his twenty-five years of experience with CME and CBOT to the technical expertise of Nidhi Singh of Goldman Sachs to write a book that tells the story of this dramatic transformation. They chronicle the shift:--from floors to screens--from private clubs to public companies, and--from local and national to global competition.They analyze each of these shifts, identify the drivers behind them and look forward to the implications arising out of them for exchange business in the future. They also explore several key trends:--an increase in product innovation--the integration of markets from all over the world onto a single screen,--the rise of the modular exchange--the outsourcing of various exchange functions, and--the difficulty of transcending geography for regulatory purposes.So join Gorham and Singh in learning the story of this fundamental transformation. As old ways of working are being destroyed, entirely new types of jobs are being created, and new ways of working with exchanges. This book will help you chart the way forward to financial success.

  • Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Online Course: Exam 70-642

    Exam 70-642
    • 1st Edition
    • Robert Shimonski + 1 more
    • English
    You will get a unique and intense test prep experience with this complete, self-paced. 100% online training course for 70-642. Written and designed by leading experts and Microsoft MVPs, this full training course delivers rich content, an interactive learning experience, and realistic practice questions.

  • A Study Of Performance Measurement In The Outsourcing Decision

    • 1st Edition
    • Ronan McIvor + 3 more
    • English
    Outsourcing is a key issue for many organisations having moved from the contracting out of peripheral activities such as cleaning to more critical areas such as design and marketing. This report is for managers and people in finance and accounting functions and takes a practical approach in developing a framework and then applying this framework in an actual organisation which makes it easier for practitioners to understand.

  • Economic Capital

    How It Works, and What Every Manager Needs to Know
    • 1st Edition
    • Pieter Klaassen + 1 more
    • English
    Managers can deploy and manage economic capital more effectively when they understand how their decisions add value to their organizations. Economic Capital: How It Works and What Every Manager Needs to Know presents new ways to define, measure, and implement management strategies by using recent examples, many from the sub-prime crisis. The authors also discuss the role of economic capital within the broader context of management responsibilities and activities as well as its relation to other risk management tools that are available to the modern risk manager.

  • The Role of Principles and Practices of Financial Management in the Governance of With-Profits UK Life Insurers

    • 1st Edition
    • Ian Dewing + 1 more
    • English
    PPFMs have emerged as key internal and external governance documents for the management and regulation of with-profits funds as boards must ensure that financial management practices are in accordance with PPFMs. This book presents the results of the special corporate governance arrangements of financial services firms. Management accountants have a role not only in the development and operation of systems producing PPFM information but will also need to use PPFM information to understand and compare financial performance.

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Scientific and Professional Dimensions
    • 1st Edition
    • Julian D. Ford
    • English
    This authored text-reference will be the first comprehensive text in the rapidly growing field of psychological trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder.According to the NIMH, approximately 5.2 million American adults already suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. Caused by everything from combat experience to violent personal assaults to natural disasters and accidents, the incidence of PTSD has already reached epidemic proportions. The profound impact of psychological trauma and the need for proactive and scientifically-based approaches to timely prevention and evidence based treatment is unarguable and mental health programs are seeing a significant rise in the number of PTSD courses offered and services required. As a result, scholars, researchers, educators, clinicians, and trainees in the health care and human and social services need a concise and comprehensive source of authoritative information on psychological trauma and posttraumatic stress. This volume will offer a foundational understanding of the field as well cover key controversies, the influence of culture and gender, and describe state-of-the-art research and clinical methodologies in down-to-earth terms. Clinical case studies will be used liberally.

  • Management Accounting in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Severin Grabski + 2 more
    • English
    Current evidence points to management accountants using traditional software (such as spreadsheets) for budgeting, ABC, balanced scorecards and other performance management techniques independent of, rather than integrated with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems. While there has been some limited research on the effects of ERP systems on management accountants, this report provides a comprehensive analysis of the consequences of implementation of ERP systems for management accountants.

  • Digital Forensics Ultimate DVD

    • 1st Edition
    • Michael Cross + 5 more
    • English
    Digital Forensics Ultimate DVD contains six of our best-selling titles. This collection of ebooks provides the IT security professional with easy access to tones of information on a single DVD. It contains over 3000 pages of techniques and tools. The books included are: Malware Forensics 9781597492683 Mac OS Forensics 9781597492973 Windows Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit, First Edition 9781597491563 UNIX and Linux Forensic Analysis DVD Toolkit 9781597492690 Alternate Data Storage Forensics 9781597491631 Scene of the Cybercrime, 2nd Edition 9781597492768

  • Hacking and Penetration Testing Ultimate CD

    • 1st Edition
    • Jay Beale + 4 more
    • English
    Hacking and Penetration Testing Ultimate CD contains six of our best-selling titles. This collection of ebooks provides the IT security professional with easy access to loads of information on a single CD. It contains over 2300 pages of techniques and tools. This features: *Long: Google Hacking: Volume One, 9781931836364*Jackso... et al.: Asterisk Hacking, 9781597491518*Haines... et al.: Kismet Hacking, 9781597491174*Kancli... NetCat Power Tools, 9781597492577*Beale, et al.: Pentester's Open Source Toolkit, 9781597490214*Orebau... and Pinkard: Nmap in the Enterprise, 9781597492416

  • The Transformation of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations in Vietnam

    • 1st Edition
    • Anne Vo
    • English
    This essential reference reviews recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management and union relations in a sample of multi national companies (MNCs) and local firms in Vietnam. It addresses the transfer of human resources management (HRM) systems across borders and the transformation of HRM practices in Vietnam in the context of a developing and transitional economy. The book extensively examines the attraction of younger generations to HRM systems in developing countries, the ‘brain drain’ phenomenon and the local firms potentially losing commercial competitiveness in their own country. The book also reviews the catalyst role of MCNs in the management of human resources.

Related subjects