Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Your New Business -- Chapter 1 Preparing for Business -- Understanding the Enduring Rules of Business Strategy -- Focusing on focus - and a bit more besides -- Appreciating the forces at work in your sector -- Recognising the first-to-market fallacy -- Getting in Shape to Start Up -- Assessing your abilities -- Discovering a real need -- Checking the fit of the business -- Confirming Viability -- Researching the market -- Doing the numbers -- Raising the money -- Writing up the business plan -- Going for Growth -- Gaining economies of scale -- Securing a competitive advantage -- Retaining key staff -- Gaining critical business mass -- Chapter 2 Doing the Groundwork -- Understanding the Small Business Environment -- Defining Small Business -- Looking at the Types of People Who Start Businesses -- Making your age an asset -- Considering location -- Winning with women -- Being educated about education -- Coming Up with a Winning Idea -- Ranking popular start-up ideas -- Going with fast growth -- Spotting a gap in the market -- Revamping an old idea -- Wising up to the internet -- Solving customer problems -- Creating inventions and innovations -- Marketing other people's ideas -- Being better or different -- Finding a contract in the public sector -- Banning Bad Reasons to Start a Business -- Steering clear of bad assumptions -- Avoiding obvious mistakes -- Recognising That the Economy Matters -- Spotting cycles -- Readying for the ups and downs -- Preparing to Recognise Success -- Measuring business success -- Exploring the myth and reality of business survival rates -- Chapter 3 Can You Do the Business?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Define Account for Cash Discount Taken -- Defining Account for Overpayments/Underpayments -- Defining Accounts for Bank Charges (Vendor) -- Defining Payment Block Reasons -- Manual Outgoing Payments -- Defining Tolerances for Vendors -- Defining Reason Codes (Manual Outgoing Payments) -- Defining Accounts for Payment Differences (Manual Outgoing Payments) -- Automatic Outgoing Payments -- All Company Codes -- Paying Company Codes -- Payment Methods per Company Codes -- Bank Determination for Payment Transactions -- Ranking Order -- Bank Accounts -- Available Amounts -- Sort Methods and Adjustment Accounts for Regrouping Receivables/Payables -- Define Sort Methods -- Period Interval for Receivables -- Define Adjustment Accounts for Receivables/Payables by Maturity…”

“…This book is an extended argument for abandoning the species rank. Instead, the author proposes that the rank of "species" be replaced by a pluralistic and multi-level view. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One - Matrices -- Chapter 1 Basic properties of vectors and matrices -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sets -- 3 Matrices: addition and multiplication -- 4 The transpose of a matrix -- 5 Square matrices -- 6 Linear forms and quadratic forms -- 7 The rank of a matrix -- 8 The inverse -- 9 The determinant -- 10 The trace -- 11 Partitioned matrices -- 12 Complex matrices -- 13 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors -- 14 Schur's decomposition theorem -- 15 The Jordan decomposition -- 16 The singular-value decomposition -- 17 Further results concerning eigenvalues -- 18 Positive (semi)definite matrices -- 19 Three further results for positive definite matrices -- 20 A useful result -- 21 Symmetric matrix functions -- Miscellaneous exercises -- Bibliographical notes -- Chapter 2 Kronecker products, vec operator, and Moore-Penrose inverse -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Kronecker product -- 3 Eigenvalues of a Kronecker product -- 4 The vec operator -- 5 The Moore-Penrose (MP) inverse -- 6 Existence and uniqueness of the MP inverse -- 7 Some properties of the MP inverse -- 8 Further properties -- 9 The solution of linear equation systems -- Miscellaneous exercises -- Bibliographical notes -- Chapter 3 Miscellaneous matrix results -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The adjoint matrix -- 3 Proof of Theorem 3.1 -- 4 Bordered determinants -- 5 The matrix equation AX = 0 -- 6 The Hadamard product -- 7 The commutation matrix Kmn -- 8 The duplication matrix Dn -- 9 Relationship between Dn+1 and Dn, I -- 10 Relationship between Dn+1 and Dn, II -- 11 Conditions for a quadratic form to be positive (negative) subject to linear constraints -- 12 Necessary and sufficient conditions for r(A : B) = r(A) + r(B) -- 13 The bordered Gramian matrix -- 14 The equations X1A + X2B′ = G1,X1B = G2 -- Miscellaneous exercises -- Bibliographical notes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.1 Key Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOx) Elements -- Title I: Public Company Accounting Oversight Board -- Title II: Auditor Independence -- Title III: Corporate Responsibility -- Title IV: Enhanced Financial Disclosures -- Title V: Analyst Conflicts of Interest -- Titles VI through X: Fraud Accountability and White‐Collar Crime -- Title XI: Corporate Fraud Accountability -- 5.2 Performing Section 404 Reviews under AS5 -- 5.3 AS5 Rules and Internal Audit -- 5.4 Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- Notes -- Chapter 6: COBIT and Other ISACA Guidance -- 6.1 Introduction to COBIT -- 6.2 COBIT Framework -- 6.3 Principle 1: Meeting Stakeholder Needs -- 6.4 Principle 2: Covering the Enterprise End to End -- 6.5 Principle 3: A Single Integrated Framework -- 6.6 Principle 4: Enabling a Holistic Approach -- 6.7 Principle 5: Separating Governance from Management -- 6.8 Using COBIT to Assess Internal Controls -- 6.9 Mapping COBIT to COSO Internal Controls -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Enterprise Risk Management: COSO ERM -- 7.1 Risk Management Fundamentals -- Risk Identification -- Key Risk Assessments -- Probability and Uncertainty -- Risk Interdependencies -- Risk Ranking -- Quantitative Risk Analysis: Expected Values and Response Planning -- Quantitative Risk Analysis: Risk Monitoring -- 7.2 COSO ERM: Enterprise Risk Management -- 7.3 COSO ERM Key Elements -- COSO ERM: The Internal Environment Component -- COSO ERM Objective Setting -- COSO ERM Event Identification -- COSO ERM Risk Assessment -- COSO ERM Risk Response Elements -- COSO ERM Control Activities -- COSO ERM Information and Communication -- COSO ERM Monitoring -- 7.4 Other Dimensions of COSO ERM: Enterprise Risk Objectives -- Operations Risk Management Objectives -- Reporting Risk Management Objectives -- Legal and Regulatory Compliance Risk Objectives -- 7.5 Entity-Level Risks…”