Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- What You're Not to Read -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Financial Reports -- Chapter 1 Opening the Cornucopia of Reports -- Figuring Out Financial Reporting -- Preparing the reports -- Seeing why financial reporting counts (and who's counting) -- Checking Out Types of Reporting -- Keeping everyone informed -- Following the rules: Government requirements -- Going global -- Staying within the walls of the company: Internal reporting -- Dissecting the Annual Report to Shareholders -- Breaking down the parts -- Getting to the meat of the matter -- Keeping the number crunchers in line -- Chapter 2 Recognizing Business Types and Their Tax Rules -- Flying Solo: Sole Proprietorships -- Keeping taxes personal -- Reviewing requirements for reporting -- Joining Forces: Partnerships -- Partnering up on taxes -- Meeting reporting requirements -- Seeking Protection with Limited Liability Companies -- Taking stock of taxes -- Reviewing reporting requirements -- Shielding Your Assets: S and C Corporations -- Paying taxes the corporate way -- Getting familiar with reporting requirements -- Chapter 3 Public or Private: How Company Structure Affects the Books -- Investigating Private Companies -- Checking out the benefits -- Defining disadvantages -- Figuring out reporting -- Understanding Public Companies -- Examining the perks -- Looking at the negative side -- Filing and More Filing: Government and Shareholder Reports -- Quarterly reports -- Yearly report -- The rules of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- Dodd-Frank's impact on financial industry regulation -- Entering a Whole New World: How a Company Goes from Private to Public…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 3: Integrating Application Protocols -- Technical requirements -- Installing Mosquitto -- Installing Client for URL (cURL) -- Application protocols and they fit into the picture -- The different types of application protocols -- An exercise to create a pub/sub MQTT broker -- Requirements for application protocols -- Reliability -- Power usage -- Security -- Integrating application protocols into the design -- A simple integration into the smart thermostat network -- A cloud scenario -- Multiple clients -- Practical - creating an MQTT pub and sub communication between an ESP32 and a Raspberry Pi -- Setting up Mosquitto as the broker on Raspberry Pi -- Subscribing and publishing from MQTTX -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Examining Communication and Connectivity Technologies -- Technical requirements -- The role of short- and long-range protocols within IoT -- Design factors -- Long-range communication protocols -- Allocating resources -- Infrastructure protocols -- Mesh networking, RFID, and Bluetooth -- RFID -- Mesh networking -- Bluetooth -- Examining edge cases for protocol selection and operation -- Understanding the fundamental rules of architecting for different areas -- A look at a water utility IoT network -- Practice forming more networks -- Practical scenario - working with multiple communication protocols with ESP32 -- Making the connections -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 2: Developing and Optimizing IoT Systems for Smart Environments -- Chapter 5: Realizing Wireless Sensor Networks within Smart Spaces -- Technical requirements -- Choosing between different sensor technologies -- Classes of sensor networks -- Routing for WSNs -- Design considerations -- Architecting the hardware and software -- Managing APIs -- How they integrate within the system -- Types of APIs -- Evaluating WSNs -- Metrics…”