Accounting History: Some British Contributions

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In recent years there has been increasing interest shown in the history and development of accounting practices; accounting records are an important source of historical data, and they can also provide evidence of varied organizational structures and systems of management control. This volume brings together published work by the major British scholars in the field, and is intended as a contribution to accounting scholarship on the 500th anniversary of Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica (1494). Contributions are grouped under the following headings: The Ancient World; Before Double Entry; Corporate Accounting; Local Government Accounting; Cost and Management Accounting; Accounting Theory; and Accounting in Context. Contributors: W. T. Baxter, S. Burchell, C. D. B. Clubb, T. E. Cooke, J. R. Edwards, D. A. R. Forrester, J. Freear, J. J. Glynn, P. D. A. Harvey, A. G. Hopwood, P. Hudson, R. H. Jones, G. A. Lee, T. A. Lee, R. H. Macve, S. Marriner, M. Mepham, M. Mumford, C. J. Napier, E. Newell, C. W. Nobes, C. W. Noke, R. H. Parker, D. A. Postles, D. W. Rathbone, B. S. Yamey

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Accounting History : Some British Contributions
R. H. Parker
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Outdated with too much redundancy

A "must" reading study for executives and HR professionals.

Competency-Based Performance Improvement: A Strategy for Organizational Change
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Outdated with too much redundancy.......2000-08-02

This book was a frustrating experience. Partly this was due to it being some seven years old. The concepts of organisational development have gone forward a great deal since 1993. In addition, a major part of the text and even issues consist of direct quotes of other writers, some of them outdated even by 1993 standards. There is a lot of redundancy, and not nearly all of it can be justified by pedagogical reasons. For example, there is practically only one image (that takes a whole page to present six text boxes) in the book but it is repeated several times with only minor revisions. There is much extraneous text and the whole layout is very loose. This is outlined by the fact that every other point presented is according to Dubois either extremely critical or vitally important.

The stated idea of the book is to apply systems theory to performance improvement, but in practice Dubois suggests that organisations should think, what kind of competency they actually want to train or educate their employees for ... and design their performance improvement interventions accordingly. While this is a worthy issue, Dubois would have been able to squeeze his points to some 150 pages had he really tried. A major part of the extra pages go to justifying a prospective new fad, Strategic Systems Model (SSM), a prime example of an artificial TLA (three letter acronym), if you ask me. The point of SSM is to understand that things influence each other. I admit that this simple truth has often been forgotten in many organisations.

The most important thing that makes this book feel somewhat outdated is the fact that on several occasions Dubois focuses on training of management instead of the whole work force of an organisation. In my opinion, such division of labour and related training and education, has become more and more artificial.

The most useful chapters of the book focus on analysis of competence and competency requirements of an organisation. And some of the rest might be applicable on a more traditional organisation, not touched by the 1990's.

A "must" reading study for executives and HR professionals........2000-04-06

"Several factors, some of which are not under the control of HRD managers and staff, influence the potential effectiveness and efficiency of organization-based HRD. However, if its managers care enough, the HRD function can gain and maintain firm control of its performance improvement curricula, of how those curricula are translated into instructional programs, and of how its clients perceive the contributions of HRD to organization effectiveness or profitability. This book help you learn how to design and deliver effective and efficient performance improvement programs that enhance employees' job competence in ways that contribute to the achievement of an organization's strategic goals or objectives (from the Introduction)."

In this context, Dubois invites you to :

* "think systems" by learning some basic principles of systems theory and observing how they are applied to organization training or education.

* learn how to apply a Strategic Systems Model to create, implement, and maintain effective and efficient competency-based training or education systems in organizations.

* learn how to gain broad-based support within an organization for the training and/or education function(s) by taking a competency-based, systems approach to performance improvement.

* learn how to construct custom competency or performance models or menus for employee job performance.

* learn how to create a competency-based training or education curriculum system.

* learn how to create and implement organization or work unit-based curriculum systems which support the provision and maintenance of continuous-progress, competency-based training or education opportunities for employees.

* learn how to create the raw materials needed for competency-based instruction.

* learn how to monitor, evaluate, and maintain the performance of competency-based training and education systems.

* learn about the experiences and the results achieved by three large organizations which have created and implemented exemplary competency-based performance improvement systems.

I highly recommend this pioneering study to all executives and HR professionals.

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Highly recommended.......1999-07-28

A very illuminating look at medicine from behind the scenes. I read it years ago, & it has really stuck with me so I was looking for a copy of my own to reread & to show to others. It's a collection of essays, mostly by doctors but also by patients, other healthcare workers, etc. The topics are eclectic, ranging from male chauvinism to the doctor-patient relationship to euthanasia, & I recommend it highly to anyone who is interested in our medical system & how it impacts the lives of everyone who comes in contact with it.

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Explores the meteor burst channel. Leading experts in the communications field cover the research, military and commercial applications of this subject. Following an introduction to the technology, early chapters describe this channel, the theory and modeling techniques used to simulate it and the use of variable data rate transmission for efficient communication. Later chapters present a method for implementing such a system using FM techniques, compare experimental results with theory, offer additional theoretical results obtained for the variable data rate techniques and discuss the improvement obtained through the use of forward error correction coding.

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Hardbound. The plant kingdom offers a vast largely untapped source of a wide diversity of organic compounds, potentially useful in medicine. With the advent of powerful spectroscopic techniques and improved separation procedures it is now possible to elucidate the structures of compounds isolated in sub-milligram quantities. There has accordingly been a significant increase in the number of new compounds reported in the literature during the last decade. However, efforts at bioassay-directed fractionation of plant extracts have lagged behind, largely due to the absence of pharmacological screens in most laboratories involved in phytochemical research. The present volume contains contributions from a number of leading natural product chemists. The syntheses of the avermectin-milbemycin family of antiparasitic agents, macrolide antibiotics, &bgr;-lactam antibiotics, 1&bgr;-methylcarbapenem derivatives, taxane diterpenes and tumor-promoting diterpenes,

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A state-of-the-art approach to urban travel demand modeling

Currently used travel forecasting methodology was developed almost three decades ago, primarily to assess the impacts of large-scale capital improvement projects, and was not designed to deal with contemporary urban transportation problems. To be effective today, travel demand models must explicitly represent traveler behavior, must be policy-sensitive, and must be operationally reliable.

Urban Travel Demand Modeling: From Individual Choices to General Equilibrium presents an integrated system of models which overhaul the four traditional phases of travel generation, modal split, trip distribution, and network assignment. This book shows, for the first time, how generalized network equilibrium may be rigorously forecast from the optimal travel choices of "trip consumers" without the need to resort to heuristic procedures such as feedbacks. In addition, models for optimal transportation supply decisions are integrated with the demand models. Transit travel and goods movements are specifically addressed.

To make this book as self-contained as possible, the author provides review material on the mathematics required and the basic concepts of discrete choice modeling. Numerical examples throughout the book demonstrate the calibration and use of the models in a variety of situations, including uncongested and congested networks. Review problems are systematically provided, many with solutions. Illustrative add-on software for model implementation on several popular platforms is also available separately.

Urban Travel Demand Modeling may be used at the senior and graduate levels in civil engineering, economics, operations research, urban and regional planning, and geography courses. Transportation professionals in the private and public sectors, academics and researchers, will also find this methodology a rich, versatile, and efficient tool with which to address major urban transportation issues, including demand management, road and parking pricing, environmental impacts, changing socioeconomic and activity patterns, and urban development.

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State-of-the-Art Transportation Demand Models.......2000-06-03

The textbook provides a comprehensive examination of state-of-the-art travel demand models for both road/highway networks and transit. Numerous algorithms for travel demand are explained clearly and in detail. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in travel demand.

Urban Travel Demand Modeling: From Individual Choices to General Equilibrium. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association

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Urban Travel Demand Modeling: From Individual Choices to General Equilibrium. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Talia McCray
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: Urban Travel Demand Modeling: From Individual Choices to General Equilibrium. (book reviews)
Author: Talia McCray
Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1996
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: v62 Issue: n4 Page: p540(2)

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This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Although he had a distinguished career as a lawyer and statesman, Francis Bacon's lifelong goal was to improve and extend human knowledge. In The Advancement of Learning (1605) he made a brilliant critique of the deficiencies of previous systems of thought and proposed improvements to knowledge in every area of human life. He conceived the Essays (1597, much enlarged in 1625) as a study of the formative influences on human behaviour, psychological and social. In The New Atlantis (1626) he outlined his plan for a scientific research institute in the form of a Utopian fable. In addition to these major English works this edition includes 'Of Tribute', an important early work here printed complete for the first time, and a revealing selection of his legal and political writings, together with his poetry. A special feature of the edition is its extensive annotation which identifies Bacon's sources and allusions, and glosses his vocabulary.

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Meet Brian Vickers, insane pedant.......2006-05-11

I actually recommended this edition in another review over the Penguin collection of Bacon's essays - and I still do: there is more here, and it is cheaper. But this is still one of the most horrible pieces of scholarship I have ever come across. Vickers, the editor, has decided that there is absolutely no distinction between what a reader actually needs to know and what Brian Vickers happens to know.

Before I give some examples, here is the editor defending himself in the Preface: "Many of Bacon's words have totally changed their meaning since he wrote, and not to be aware of their intended sense means that readers would receive at best a vague impression."

Now, let me give an example of his helpful elucidations. I am choosing a passage literally at random. Here is first sentence of "Of Death."

Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak

How many footnotes does that passage seem like it requires? Perhaps one, two at most? Vickers gives us six. He helpfully explains that "go" can also mean "walk" - which certainly opened up the entire passage for me. He cites a scholarly paper that analyzes Bacon's use of the word "death" (I'll go right out and read that one); he explains every possible allusion that the passage might contain, and also points out that "tribute" means "something owing."

I want to quote one more example, to show how seriously pathological this guy is. Here is the first sentence from Of Beauty: "Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set, and surely virtue is best in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect."

This perfectly ordinary sentence has - get this - five footnotes! "Best plain set" is identified as "Mounted simply." Vickers points out that "comely," in Bacon's distant 17th century English, actually means "attractive." That's still what it means, you nutcase! Anyway, he goes on like this for the entire book, and produces a truly astonishing 300 pages of notes for about 500 pages of actual text.

By the end of a single page, any reader who is actually reading Bacon for pleasure will be unable to tell when to flip to the back of the book, because every other word has a footnote mark next to it. The result is that the genuinely necessary notes, which could actually have been helpful, are lost along with the useless ones.

I showed my friend the book and after flipping through it his first reaction was: "Wow, this guy really hates Francis Bacon." And he might be right. Maybe Vickers resents the fact that he has devoted his life to this writer, and wants to bury him under an avalanche of minutae; or, more charitably, perhaps he feels that you are just too dumb to understand Francis Bacon without Brian Vickers explaining every single word to you.

Well, if the first is true, he is failed; and if the second, he is wrong: Bacon is as readable as ever. Ignore the footnotes and enjoy. But somewhere out there is an older edition of the Major Works edited by a sane man, where useful background notes are concisely provided - try to find it. And if there isn't, Oxford needs to hand these great pieces of writing over to someone else.

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Conflicts Between Labor Legislation and Bankruptcy Law (Labor Relations and Public Policy Series, No 30)

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Conflicts Between Labor Legislation and Bankruptcy Law (Labor Relations and Public Policy Series, No 30)
Thomas R. Haggard
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Corporate Insolvency: Employment and Pension Rights

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Employee Rights in Bankruptcy:A Comparative-Law Assessment (Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations)

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In recent years, a number of company bankruptcies in Europe -- particularly in the Netherlands-- have exposed serious gaps in the securing by law of reparations due to employees.

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This work opens this far-reaching and hugely important issue by comparing employee rights in bankruptcy among four major European trading partners: the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany.

It is to be hoped that, armed with the substantive and procedural details that are fully laid out in these pages, company lawyers and bankruptcy lawyers throughout Europe will be enabled to bring the rights of employees in bankruptcy into a light at least as clear as that focused on other creditors.

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This digital document is an article from Defense Counsel Journal, published by International Association of Defense Counsels on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 718 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Labour Market Inequality between Men and Women: Current Issues in Law and Economics (AWSB)

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Bart Hessel , Joop Schippers , and Jacques Siegers
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Reducing labour market inequality between women and men has been a policy objective at both the European level and the level of the Member States of the European Union for quite some time. Various regulations and laws forbid unequal treatment, including measures to advance women's position in the labour market. Nevertheless, women's pay is still substantially lower than men's, they often hold inferior jobs and perform most of the care tasks in society. This volume discusses the central issues in today's policy and the debate on this issue by economic, legal and sociological experts. The focus is on EU law and the necessary redistribution of paid and unpaid labour between women and men. The central question throughout the discussion is to what extent current regulations either favour or hinder the realization of the goal of labour market equality between women and men.

The Protection of Workers' Claims in the Event of the Employer's Insolvency (Labour-Management Relations Series)

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