Business Activity Model, Student CD

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Business Activity Model, Student CD
Anthony H. Catanach , and Connie Esmond-Kiger
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The Business Activity Model (BAM) emphasizes financial disclosure and technical research as well as those accounting topics commonly found in traditional Intermediate Accounting courses. The BAM is designed to motivate students for the accounting profession, promote technical competency, develop life-long research skills, advance critical thinking, and foster the development of communication skills. With the inception of the new CPA exam, the BAM is ideally suited for those schools wanting to get a jump on preparing their students for those competencies which will be tested on this new exam: Research, Analysis, Judgment, and Communication. The new exam is specifically designed to test for the knowledge and skills that CPAs will need ON THE JOB. The new exam will utilize simulations to test spreadsheet, research, and multi-disciplinary skills, all factors specifically addressed by the BAM. The BAM's unique simulation also prepares students for the simulation process itself.

Students mimic the accounting and financial reporting processes found in the “real world” by conducting analytical reviews, soliciting information from clients, preparing adjusting and correcting entries, and drafting financial statements and notes for a fictitious client company (Hydromaint, Inc.). Issues become more complex as Hydromaint’s operations mature. The business begins as a service entity and later develops into a manufacturing and construction enterprise. During this transition, Hydromaint’s operations address all of the technical issues traditionally covered in a two-semester intermediate course. Ultimately, students are able to provide a complete set of financial statements (including the statement of cash flows) and appropriate note disclosures (for all seven years) for the company. The repetitive nature of the accounting and financial reporting process pursued in this approach integrates reinforcement with new learning and mimics the service processes found in the business environment.

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good reputation and best service

The most challenging I have ever had

Business Activity Model Student CD-ROM
Anthony H. Catanach , David B. Croll , Robert Grinaker , Anthony Catanach , and David Croll
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The Business Activity Model (BAM) emphasizes financial disclosure and technical research as well as those accounting topics commonly found in traditional Intermediate Accounting courses. The BAM is designed to motivate students for the accounting profession, promote technical competency, develop life-long research skills, advance critical thinking, and foster the development of communication skills. Students mimic the accounting and financial reporting processes found in the “real world” by conducting analytical reviews, soliciting information from clients, preparing adjusting and correcting entries, and drafting financial statements and notes for a fictitious client company. This new approach will appeal to instructors interested in curriculum change who wish to incorporate more technology in their classroom. This CD-ROM based product can be used in conjunction with any Intermediate textbook.

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The most challenging I have ever had.......2004-01-26

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Good but annoyingly flawed.......2003-04-05

I bought a copy of this book to study for the CPO exam for the International Foundation of Protection Officers. Having taken the brief "practice" exam..., however, I feel I could pass the exame without having paid... for the book.

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This book was apparently edited my blind people. There are MANY spelling errors. The used copy I bought had most of them highlighted for my amusement. Also, the book seems to have a Canadian Law overtone in many of the chapters. Also, some segments, (report writing) are left too short and others (the history of security in Ancient Rome) are long for no apparent reason. This book is of course not specific enought to provide all the training a good security officer needs, and this book should be supplemental to an on-site training program.

In summary, if you are looking for a good security training manual for basic security training, this is a good manual. The publisher has an instructor's manual from what I understand, but I have not read it. But this book needs to be supplemented with your own department's policy and procedures (obviously) and greater instruction in report writing (perhaps the most important part of a guard's job). The speling erors are irritating, but I'm not the gratest speller either. I know that IFPO offers other training manuals at the website, including an 8-hour CD Rom, and other things as well. But as far as this book is concerned, I've read many others which are much worse, but this one is fairly decent.

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Entropy and the Law of Conservation of Information.

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"Einstein once remarked that the most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." This statement, quoted by William Dembski, is a way of summarizing intelligent design theory, which argues that it is possible to find evidence for design in the universe. The author of The Design Inference (a scholarly exploration of this topic published by Cambridge University Press) in this book aims to show the lay reader "how detecting design within the universe, and especially against the backdrop of biology and biochemistry, unseats naturalism"--and above all Darwin's expulsion of design in his theory of evolution.

Intelligent Design is organized into three parts: the first part gives an introduction to design and shows how modernity--science in the last two centuries--has undermined our intuition of this truth. The second and central part of the book examines "the philosophical and scientific basis for intelligent design." The final part shows how "science and theology relate coherently and how intelligent design establishes the crucial link between the two." This suggests that Dembski is not simply rejecting Darwin and naturalism on fundamentalist or biblical grounds. While grounded in faith, he wishes to show how "God's design is accessible to scientific inquiry." As such, the book should be of interest to all thinking believers. --Doug Thorpe

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Voted a 2000 Book of the Year by Christianity Today!The Intelligent Design movement is three things:

a scientific research program for investigating intelligent causes
an intellectual movement that challenges naturalistic evolutionary theories
a way of understanding divine action

Although the fast-growing movement has gained considerable grassroots support, many scientists and theologians remain skeptical about its merits. Scientists worry that it's bad science (merely creationism in disguise) and theologians worry that it's bad theology (misunderstanding divine action). In this book William Dembski addresses these concerns and brilliantly argues that intelligent design provides a crucial link between science and theology.Various chapters creatively and powerfully address intelligent discernment of divine action in nature, why the significane of miracles should be reconsidered, and the demise and unanswered questions of British natural theology. Effectively challenging the hegemony of naturalism and reinstating design within science, Dembski shows how intelligent design can be unpacked as a theory of information. Intelligent Design is a pivotal, synthesizing work from a thinker whom Phillip Johnson calls "one of the most important of the design theorists who are sparking a scientific revolution by legitimating the concept of intelligent design in science."

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A Shot across the bow of scientific fundamentalism and reductionism........2007-09-27

This book leaves us with as many questions as it does answers--which is a good thing. A mind that isn't open to new possibilities can be subject to fundamentalism-religious, scientific or otherwise. What's that you say? The "scientifically inclined" are rarely subject to fundamentalism? Mmmmm....A lot of snake-handlers likely covet the "faith" of many atheists. I personally could never be an atheist--I don't have that much faith. An agnostic?--now at least that can be a logically defensible position.

The science in this book isn't nearly as god-awful (pun intended) as some reviewers would have us believe. I almost made my title for this review "good effort" because Demski does give an intellectually honest effort. As a philosophy major, I learned decades ago that it is impossible to "prove" the existence, or non-existence (you scientific fundamentalists don't get off easy either) of God or a Creator. I like Demski's **effort** anyway. If more scientific reductionists became as speculative (used in the good sense of the word) about the existence of God as they are fundamentally tied to God's non-existence, hey, they might learn a few things.

And grow their minds a little.

Unfortunately, I suspect that most reductionists are too busy "defending the faith" than opening their minds to new possibilities.

Jerry Falwell may be dead, but I suspect that there are still plenty of *non-religious* fundamentalists still around. They're not so hard to spot: they're the ones going after Demski as if he were Larry Flynt.

Entropy and the Law of Conservation of Information........2007-06-10

Professor Dembski has an ideal academic background to counter the philosophy of naturalism so prevalent in our culture. He has PhD's in Mathematics and Philosophy, and is a Professor of Theology and Science. Part one of the book discusses the philosophical history of science from the British Natural Theology view of science to the present ideology of the self-sufficiency of natural causes to explain all we encounter in the world. Part two of the book presents Dembski's theory of design in an information theory context. He specifies three criterions for detecting CSI {`Complex Specified Information'}. These are:
1) Contingency - not the result of an automatic process
2) Complexity - cannot be the result of chance
3) Specification - exhibits a type of pattern characteristic of intelligence

The rules for complexity can be formulated with precision in information theory following the work in 1953 of the Russian mathematician Khinchin, "Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory". Information theory is a measure and probabilistic formulation of the Second law of Thermodynamics, that entropy or disorder increases in a system over time. This explains why we can't just hook up a water pipe to a cold ocean and warm our houses. However, we can accomplish this by expending energy and intelligent design in the form of a heat pump.

Many years ago, the French mathematician Emile Borel {Borel sets and Borel probabilities} proposed a universal probability bound of 10**-50 below which no random event would occur. This always intrigued me, as any bound would have to take into consideration the number of particles that might interact, rate of interaction, and the total time allowed to interact. Professor Dembski adopts and justifies a more conservative bound of 10**-150. This translates to 500 bits of information using base 2 logarithms (bits) and the Khinchin formulation. Dembski adopts this bound as the criterion for complexity. He also introduces and formulates the law of conservation of information "that natural causes are incapable of generating CSI" and discusses the implications for science.

Part three of the book applies the rules of detecting design to biological systems in conjunction with the Michael Behe concept of `Irreducibly Complex' {Darwin's Black Box'}. Considering the enormous information content of a cell and with no functional selection intermediaries possible, one can only conclude intelligent design in life forms.

Based on the earlier work of the French physicist, Carnot, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) formulated in 1852 one of the most profound laws in all of science, the Second Law of Thermodynamics or the law of increasing entropy. Kelvin was a devout Christian and a staunch foe of Darwinism. He recognized the second law presents an impassible barrier to the evolution of the earth, and he formulated his opposition to Darwin in scientific terms rather than Scripture. However, Scripture may have provided a significant insight to Kelvin. In Genesis 1:31 God saw everything He had created as `very good'. One must conclude that increasing disorder {increasing entropy} was not one of the physical laws in operation at that time since death and decay are not aspects of `very good'. After the fall of man, God introduced the law of entropy in Genesis 3:16-19.

The debate is now formulated in information theory and the mathematical arguments against naturalism are much stronger. Most of the laws of modern science were discovered by Bible-believing Christians and Dembski argues that a proper view of science can bridge science and theology. To ignore design and creation and insist only on natural explanations can and has led to bad science.

A spanner in the works.......2007-05-10

William Dembski's book will undoubtedly provide Christians with just the sort of pseudo-scientific arguments they feel they need to combat the Darwinian bogey men. It will go down well in Christian theological colleges and will be welcomed by those who need to be reassured that, because it is the product of a Divine intelligence, all is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds.

But there is a snag, because embedded in the theory of Intelligent Design is a contradiction that is potentially fatal to belief in the Christian gospel. Dembski either does not know of this snag (which he should do) or he chose to ignore it (which he should not have done).

If you believe in an infinitely powerful and wise creator who stands apart from the universe, you are presented with a choice. Either you believe in a theistic God who intervenes in human affairs, or you believe in a deistic "intelligent design" God who, having formed the universe out of nothing and issued immutable laws for it to follow, withdraws and leaves it to run on without further intervention. You can't consistently believe in a God who intervenes in human affairs and yet does not intervene.

But here's the problem. Theism reduces God to a creator who has to work miracles to keep his creation running in accordance with his will; while deism reduces God to a less than omniscient architect or designer whose design has resulted in endless generations of human misery.

The contradiction implicit in believing either in an intelligent design God who (we feel) should intervene but doesn't, or a creator god who (we feel) shouldn't have to intervene, but does, is, I think, particularly fatal for the Christian religion, as belief in intelligent design rules out the need for the miracles of divine incarnation and bodily resurrection that are essential to the Gospel story; while belief in a creator who is careless enough to build into creation original sin, eternal punishment and the need for salvation rules out the possibility of belief that the original design was the product of an omnipotent and omniscient intelligence in the first place.

The problem can be stated as a logical inference that might be expressed as "If design infinitely intelligent, then no requirement for Divine intervention; and if Divine intervention required, then design not infinitely intelligent."

The problem with Dembski's book is that it will tempt Christians to believe that "science" can justify their beliefs. They would do better to put Dembski aside and make a leap of faith on the strength of the absurd, as Kierkegaard suggests in Fear and Trembling. Alternatively, they might consider studying Spinoza's argument for God and Nature being self-causing, and one and the same, infinite substance.

Understanding "Intelligent Design".......2007-01-15

William Dembski, who has Ph.D.s in both math & philosophy (as well as degrees in theology & psychology), asks:
* "How do we recognized the `finger of God'? By witnessing something that God alone could have done...by witnessing a sign that is uniquely specific to God" (p. 36)
* "For those who cannot discern God's action in the world, the world is a self-contained, self-sufficient, self-explanatory, self-ordering system. Consequently they view themselves as autonomous & the world as independent of God. This severing of the world from God is the essence of idolatory & is in the end always what keeps us from knowing God" (p.99).

To properly appreciate this work, one needs both a keen mind and an advanced statistical background. How ironic that the media wishes to portray advocates of intelligent design as less than intelligent themselves! Three decades ago, I began college as a math major. Yet, I must confess that I found the stats in this book absolutely challenging.

A watchmaker God?.......2006-10-21

In a time when Christian belief and religion in general is coming under very severe attack from many leading scientists and philosophers whose analytical/positivistic mode of philosophy aligns them closely with science, the attempts of creationists, conservative and fundamentalist Christians, and intelligent design theorists to put forward 'scientific' arguments for God's existence are completely understandable.

Unfortunately in my view, despite some very good and clever arguments from people like Demski, Behe and Johnson, which do contain some truth, these arguments fall into several bad philosophical and theological errors which in my view help undermine as well as promote belief in God.

First, it is well known since the time of Hume that trying to infer a cosmic designer from the order of things is troublesome, because of the nature of cause and effect. Also, in my view the God is ID theorists is somewhat too anthropomorphic. Making God just a big cosmic clockmaker, like Urizen in Blake's poems who draws a compass over the universe, in my view undermines the infinite and ineffable nature of God's own being, trying to reduce it to human concepts. Many Christians find the clockmaker God attractive because it fits with the fatherly images of God in the Bible, but I find it very unattractive because all too easily such a God becomes in our minds the true God, who in fact can't be captured by any image or concept (which the Bible and sacred tradition clearly remind us at many points).

The clockmaker God also has some very severe flaws, as has been well pointed out by people like Richard Dawkins. The theory of the intelligent designer has some very specific predictions, and many of these can be clearly falsified by clear evidence. Does this mean God doesn't exist?

I am also reluctant to see theology try and rush into the heart of science. As history shows us with the examples of Galileo and Copernicus, when theology tries to dictate to science what ideas are acceptable and which aren't, the results can be totally disasterous for both.

I agree with the complaints of many Christian thinkers that many philosophers and scientists who accept evolution try to argue against God's existence, against the relevance of philosophy as traditionally conceived for the search for goodness, truth and wisdom, and evolution is often misused by idealogues from various fields as a vehicle to promote their strange ideas. However, fundamentalism, anti-science theologies, fanaticism which makes a virtue of scientific ignorance in favour of theology (creation science) or a crude anthropomorphic watchmaker God are not good theological responses, and in my view are not well grounded either by reason, the bible, or Christian tradition. As St Augustine so wisely said, "If it happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about the passage of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, of fruits, of stones, and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are."

Design Flaw.(Review): An article from: American Scientist

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Design Flaw.(Review): An article from: American Scientist
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Dissatisfied with his lot in life, Bart Umbel resolves to escape the tedium of his Daily existence, though without any notion of how or what he would need to do in order to achieve ultimate happiness. When such a change is all but forced upon him, Bart boldly accepts the challenge and embarks on his quest of becoming the city's greatest Crime Solver. How can a humble Civil Servant hope to match wits with the crafty and unscrupulous soldiers of one of New York City's elite crime rings? Will Umbel succeed in overcoming the infamous AC gang and foil the plans of the devilish fiends? What will Bart have for lunch? These and other questions are resolved within, as is the dichotomy which defines his very being.

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Read it! Read it! Read it!.......2000-11-15

This guy E.F. Freund is pure genius. I don't know why noone's ever heard of him. He uses some big words in this book... words like 'drivel' and 'tripe', ya know, the kind of words that make you say to yourself "hmm... I really need to trim my toenails". There's this one part where the main character, Bart Umbel, gets really mad, but he never actually loses his temper. Words I might use to describe this book include 'thoughtful', 'gripping' and 'provocative', but then again, I might not. Avoid this book if you own any small children.

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Wow! What a story! I couldn't put this book down. I never imagined how wildly entertaining a bumbling postman-turned-private eye could be. I laughed, I cried, I wet my pants. I'll definitely think twice before putting another letter in the mailbox, that's for sure!! E.F. Freund has done a wonderful of job capturing the spirit of the U.S. Postal Service at its absolute worst. A truly magnificent work, this book will be cherished and remembered for generations to come.

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