Corporate Actions

Corporate Actions
Author: Francis Groves
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2008
Genre: Corporations
ISBN: 9781435693371

Corporate actions have been sidelined for too long and deserve to be treated with more respect. No type of investment security can be fully understood without knowledge of its corporate actions. They have implications for the sustainability of an investment's performance but repeatedly more beguiling investment preoccupations put them into the shade.

Money Laundering

Money Laundering
Author: Doug Hopton
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317094336

Worldwide, anti-money laundering regulations and legislation have become one of the weapons of choice of governments that are fighting global terrorism and criminality. In this updated edition of Money Laundering, Doug Hopton explains how The Money Laundering Regulations 2007 have extended even further the range of UK businesses covered by the Proceeds of Crime Act to include solicitors, lawyers, accountants, estate agents, high value dealers, trust or company service providers and, in effect, many other companies involved in consultancy or business services. The complexity of the new laws and the limited amount of any case law asks more questions about the responsibilities of these companies and their liabilities. Doug Hopton's highly practical guide explains the basis of international law, regulations and standards in this area and how they affect businesses; and provides down-to-earth advice on the basic rules of good business management: customer due diligence, know your business (and your client's business), which will help companies understand what procedures to establish, and how and when to report suspicious activity. The author explains the basis of money laundering and how it works, along with the development of the law and regulations around the world, and how other countries' laws can affect UK companies.

The Concise Guide to Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures

The Concise Guide to Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
Author: R. Brown
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2007-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230608949

This is the first single-volume desktop reference on mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures to cover all important aspects at once, including business, legal, finance, accounting, tax, and process issues. The author writes in an engaging, accessible style that will appeal to professionals and students alike.

The Concise Guide to Licensing

The Concise Guide to Licensing
Author: Ian Webster
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2007
Genre: License system
ISBN: 1906221383

Designed for the busy licensing officer, practitioner, elected member, statutory consultee or operator involved in licensing. This book explains various licensing regimes, including the complete syllabus for the NCLP.

Understanding Integrated Reporting

Understanding Integrated Reporting
Author: Carol Adams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351274988

Integrated Reporting is the big new development in corporate reporting that everyone is talking about. Why? Quite simply, Integrated Reporting marks a paradigm shift in the way companies and other organizations think about business models and the creation of value. Integrated Reporting promotes long term thinking about value-creation and stewardship across a broad base of interdependent capitals – financial, manufactured, human, intellectual, natural, and social and relationship.With updated references and case studies to take account of the latest developments in Integrated Reporting, this book provides a practical and expert distillation of for IR professionals.Internationally renowned sustainability reporting expert and accountant Dr Carol Adams explains in simple terms what is and how to do it; how it links with other reporting frameworks and what it means in terms of thinking and processes. You'll also get a clear business case for IR and insights and best practice examples from leading integrated reporters. Integrated Reporting is not just for companies.This book demonstrates how integrated thinking and IR can benefit many other organizations whose success and influence depends on relationships and partnerships.

Making Process Improvement Work

Making Process Improvement Work
Author: Neil Potter
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2002-03-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0132929562

Software process improvement too often reflects a significant disconnect between theory and practice. This book bridges the gap—offering a straightforward, systematic approach to planning, implementing, and monitoring a process improvement program. Project managers will appreciate the book’s concise presentation style and will be able to apply its practical ideas immediately to real-life challenges. With examples based on the authors’ own extensive experience, this book shows how to define goals that directly address the needs of your organization, use improvement models appropriately, and devise a pragmatic action plan. In addition, it reveals valuable strategies for deploying organizational change, and delineates essential metrics for tracking your progress. Appendices provide examples of an action plan, a risk management plan, and a mini-assessment process. You will learn how to: · Scope and develop an improvement plan · Identify and prioritize risks and mitigate anticipated difficulties · Derive metrics that accurately measure progress toward business goals · Sell your improvement program in-house · Initially target practitioners and projects most-open to new approaches and techniques · Stay focused on goals and problems · Align the actions of managers and practitioners · Delay major policy documents and edicts until solutions have been practiced and tested · Use existing resources to speed deployment · Incorporate improvement models, such as SEI CMM® and CMMISM, into your improvement program For those managers who are tired of chronic project difficulties, constant new improvement schemes, and a lack of real progress, this easily digestible volume provides the real-world wisdom you need to realize positive change in your organization.

Concise Guide to Software Testing

Concise Guide to Software Testing
Author: Gerard O'Regan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030284948

This practically-focused textbook provides a concise and accessible introduction to the field of software testing, explaining the fundamental principles and offering guidance on applying the theory in an industrial environment. Topics and features: presents a brief history of software quality and its influential pioneers, as well as a discussion of the various software lifecycles used in software development; describes the fundamentals of testing in traditional software engineering, and the role that static testing plays in building quality into a product; explains the process of software test planning, test analysis and design, and test management; discusses test outsourcing, and test metrics and problem solving; reviews the tools available to support software testing activities, and the benefits of a software process improvement initiative; examines testing in the Agile world, and the verification of safety critical systems; considers the legal and ethical aspects of software testing, and the importance of software configuration management; provides key learning topics and review questions in every chapter, and supplies a helpful glossary at the end of the book. This easy-to-follow guide is an essential resource for undergraduate students of computer science seeking to learn about software testing, and how to build high quality and reliable software on time and on budget. The work will also be of interest to industrialists including software engineers, software testers, quality professionals and software managers, as well as the motivated general reader.

A Concise Guide to Clinical Trials

A Concise Guide to Clinical Trials
Author: Allan Hackshaw
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2011-09-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1444356666

Clinical trials have revolutionized the way disease is prevented, detected and treated, and early death avoided, and they continue to be an expanding area of research. They are central to the work of pharmaceutical companies, and there are many academic and public sector organizations that conduct trials on a wide variety of interventions, including drugs, devices, surgical techniques, and changes in behaviour and lifestyle. A Concise Guide to Clinical Trials provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-read overview of the design, conduct and analysis of trials. It requires no prior knowledge on the subject as the important concepts are introduced throughout. There are chapters that distinguish between the different types of trials, and an introduction to systematic reviews, health-related quality of life and health economic evaluation. The book also covers the ethical and legal requirements in setting up a clinical trial due to an increase in governance responsibilities and regulations. This practical guidebook is ideal for busy clinicians and other health professionals who do not have enough time to attend courses or search through extensive textbooks. It will help anyone involved in undertaking clinical research, or those reading about trials. The book is aimed at: Those wishing to learn about clinical trials for the first time, or as a quick reference guide, for example as part of a taught course on clinical trials Health professionals who wish to conduct their own trials, or participate in other people’s studies People who work in pharmaceutical companies, grant funding organisations, or regulatory agencies

Concise Guide to Software Engineering

Concise Guide to Software Engineering
Author: Gerard O'Regan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2022-09-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031078160

This textbook presents a concise introduction to the fundamental principles of software engineering, together with practical guidance on how to apply the theory in a real-world, industrial environment. The wide-ranging coverage encompasses all areas of software design, management, and quality. Topics and features: presents a broad overview of software engineering, including software lifecycles and phases in software development, and project management for software engineering; examines the areas of requirements engineering, software configuration management, software inspections, software testing, software quality assurance, and process quality; covers topics on software metrics and problem solving, software reliability and dependability, and software design and development, including Agile approaches; explains formal methods, a set of mathematical techniques to specify and derive a program from its specification, introducing the Z specification language; discusses software process improvement, describing the CMMI model, and introduces UML, a visual modelling language for software systems; reviews a range of tools to support various activities in software engineering, and offers advice on the selection and management of a software supplier; describes such innovations in the field of software as distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, software as a service, cloud computing, and embedded systems; includes key learning topics, summaries and review questions in each chapter, together with a useful glossary. This practical and easy-to-follow textbook/reference is ideal for computer science students seeking to learn how to build high quality and reliable software on time and on budget. The text also serves as a self-study primer for software engineers, quality professionals, and software managers.

Form Your Own Corporation

Form Your Own Corporation
Author: W. Kelsea Eckert
Publisher: SphinxLegal
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2005
Genre: Corporation law
ISBN: 1572485167

The most successful businesses incorporate. A corporation protects your assets, shields you from liability and allows you greater flexibility to achieve your goals. Best of all, doing it yourself is as simple as 1-2-3. Form Your Own Corporation is your easy-to-use, money-saving guide to start and maintain your own corporation. Learn how to: - Protect Yourself from Liability - File the Correct Documents for Your State - Maintain Proper Records and Bookkeeping - Make Changes as Your Business Grows Essential Documents you need to: - Manage Your Day-to-Day Affairs - Save on Fees, Taxes and Expenses - Transfer Shares to Others - Raise the Money You Need - And much more . . .