Financial Analysis of Mergers and Acquisitions Understanding Financial Statements and Accounting Rules with Case Studies / by Eli Amir, Marco Ghitti. by Amir, Eli, Ghitti, Marco

Table of Contents: “…Part A – Accounting and Financial Reporting -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Accounting for Inter-Corporate Investments -- Chapter 2: Main Issues in Purchase Accounting -- Chapter 3: More Issues in Purchase Accounting -- Chapter 4: Spin-Offs and Equity Carve-Outs -- Chapter 5: Special Purpose Entities -- Chapter 6: Tax issues in Business Combinations -- Chapter 7: Leveraged Buyouts & Recapitalizations -- Chapter 8: Financial Analysis of Business Combinations (Ratios) -- Chapter 9: Financial Analysis of Business Combinations (Advanced issues) -- Part B – Case Studies -- Chapter 10: Kraft’s Acquisition of Cadbury (Part I) – Purchase Accounting -- Chapter 11: The Bank of Hope: The Merger of Wilshire Bank and BBCN Bancorp -- Chapter 12: AT&T – Equity Method Investments -- Chapter 13: Nokia Siemens Networks – Purchase Accounting, Equity Method and Proportionate Consolidation -- Chapter 14: Ensign’s Spin-off of CareTrust REIT -- Chapter 15: Altria and Kraft – Carve-out and Spin-off -- Chapter 16: The Sale of Coca Tea – The Impact of Taxes -- Chapter 17: Surgery Partners – Pushdown Accounting.…”
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July '64.

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Social science in government : the role of policy researchers / Richard P. Nathan. by Nathan, Richard P.

Table of Contents: “…Evaluating the California GAIN Program -- The GAIN Process -- The MDRC Evaluation -- The Research Challenge -- Discoveries in the Implementation Process -- Endnotes…”
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Ronald Reagan on the Economy and Government Spending WPA Film Library.

Table of Contents: “…Intro: Ronald Reagan on the Economy and Government Spending: Great Communicator Series (2:23) -- A Time for Choosing (0:32) -- Making Government Work (0:40) -- Government Spending (1:11) -- Economic Recovery (0:48) -- National Debt (0:53) -- Permanent Welfare (1:42) -- Main Street America (0:19) -- Democracy in America (0:47) -- Wisdom and Decency of the American People (0:25) -- Anecdote on the Louisiana Purchase (2:18) -- America on the Mend (0:20) -- "Government is the Servant, Not the Master" (2:43) -- State of the Union Address: January 25, 1984 (2:30) -- Improving Government Programs (0:27) -- Announcement of the Reagan-Bush Candidacies for Re-election - January 29, 1984 (0:20) -- "We expect government to serve the people..." (0:26) -- Quoting Abraham Lincoln (0:33) -- Democratic Party Tax Hikes (0:26) -- Continuation of the New Beginning (0:47) -- Decentralization of Power (0:19) -- America to Lead the World in the 1990s (0:30) -- American Free Enterprise System (0:28) -- Tax Reform (2:17) -- Progressive Income Tax (1:12) -- Federation of Sovereign States (0:30) -- Great Days Ahead (1:39) -- A Prosperous, Progressive and Free Society (0:14) -- War Can Bring No Benefit (0:15) -- People Do Not Make Wars (0:18) -- A Thousand Sparks of Genius (4:15) -- Temporary Custody of the Presidency (0:21) -- Reagan's Management Style (0:27) -- Constitutionally Mandated Balanced Budget (0:23) -- Triumphs & Regrets (1:55) -- Great Prospects Before Us (1:14) -- A Time of Heroes (1:24) -- Economic Recovery Program (1:20) -- Notre Dame Commencement Speech (1:03) -- Christmas Address, 1984 (1:11) -- "We Must Be Cautious in Claiming that God is on Our Side..." (0:18) -- Main Street Americans (0:39) -- On the National Anthem (0:20)…”
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Blue-State Republican How Larry Hogan Won Where Republicans Lose and Lessons for a Future GOP. by Kromer, Mileah K.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Building a Durable Republican Majority -- Chapter 1: They Even Taxed the Rain -- Chapter 2: The Uprising and the Honeymoon -- Chapter 3: The Non-Transferable Endorsement -- Chapter 4: Moderating the Trump Effect -- Chapter 5: Go Ahead, Call Him a Socialist -- Chapter 6: The Anatomy of a Landslide -- Chapter 7: Women and Black Voters for Hogan -- Conclusion: The Future of the Hogan Coalition.…”
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Your Finances Kay, Frances. by Kay, Frances

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Understanding Canadian Law.

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Portugal. by Fund, International Monetary

Table of Contents: “…Main Features of the Portuguese Tax System; References; III. …”
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My Story : Tom L. Johnson. by Hauser, Elizabeth J.

Table of Contents: “…The City Government and the Tax School.…”
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Capital in the twenty-first century / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer. by Piketty, Thomas, 1971-

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Geothermal HVAC : green heating and cooling / Jay Egg, Brian Clark Howard. by Egg, Jay

Table of Contents: “…-- Summary -- 3: Geothermal Heat Pumps And Their Uses -- Passive and forced-air earth-coupled duct systems -- Water-source, forced-air heat pumps (water-to-air heat pumps) -- Direct expansion geothermal heat pumps -- Water-to-water heat pumps (heat pump chillers and boilers) -- Applications of geothermal heat pumps -- Pool heaters -- Domestic hot water -- Process cooling and heating -- Rooftop equipment -- Modular or piggyback units -- Package terminal heat pumps -- Vertical stack modular units -- 100% fresh air equipment -- Refrigeration systems -- Hybrid systems -- Superefficient DC HVAC -- Keeping the cows cool -- Summary -- 4: Earth Coupling Through Ground Loops -- Getting the load and loop size right -- Piping material -- Grout and backfill -- Manifolds or header systems -- Loop designs -- Vertical loops -- Horizontal loops -- Pond, lake, or ocean loops (use with caution ) -- Pumping groundwater, lake water, or seawater (open-loop systems) -- Pump and reinjection -- Standing column wells -- Surficial aquifers and caisson infiltration -- Concerns with open loops -- Open loops versus closed loops -- Summary -- 5: Introduction To Load Sharing --Benefits of load sharing -- Case of a large hotel -- Earth coupling as thermal savings bank -- Summary -- 6: Efficiency And Load Calculations Simplified -- Rating geothermal systems -- Annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE) (for gas furnaces) -- Cooling load in kW/ton -- Coefficient of performance (COP) -- Energy efficiency ratio (EER) -- Determining actual efficiencies -- Load calculations -- Manuals published by the air conditioning contractors of America -- Manual J: Residential heat gain and loss analysis -- Manual N: Commercial heat gain and loss analysis -- Manual D: Residential duct design -- Manual Q: Commercial low-pressure duct design -- Energy calculations and value -- Summary -- 7: Understanding Pricing And Geothermal Systems -- Factors that affect the price of geothermal HVAC -- Efficiency rating -- Quality -- System sizes -- Topography -- Load sharing -- Sales volume and competition -- Optional upgrades -- Heat recovery for domestic hot water -- Domestic hot water geothermal heat pumps -- Exchanger materials -- Compressor stages -- Hot gas reheat -- Intermediate exchangers -- Direct digital controls (DDC) -- Summary -- 8: Incentives, Tax Credits, Rebates -- U S federal tax credits -- Commercial tax credits and incentives -- Feingold-Ensign Support Renewable Energy Act -- Home star (cash for caulkers) -- Rural Energy Saving Program Act -- State and local incentives -- PACE funding -- Summary -- 9: Understanding Geothermal Project Proposals -- Typical geothermal HVAC proposals -- Poor proposals -- Good proposals -- Summary -- 10: How To Calculate Your Payback -- Determining ROI on residential systems -- ROI on geothermal pool heat pumps -- Calculating payback periods for commercial geothermal systems -- Net present value -- 30 cents a KWh: the big impact of higher electric rates -- Summary -- 11: Verifying Your Systems -- Actual SEER and EER results -- Factors that can affect efficiency -- Regional climate issues -- How to calculate your own EER -- Data points -- Minimum efficiency standards -- Summary -- 12: Life Cycles And Longevity -- Benefits of indoor equipment -- How to determine when upgrades pay off -- Summary -- 13: Common Problems And Horror Stories -- Word on water conservation -- Common issues -- Underground hazards -- Pressurized pockets -- Broken or damaged loops -- Design and installation fails -- Choosing the wrong loop type -- Unfinished jobs -- Pushy contracts -- Miscommunication, faulty equipment, inexperience-oh my! …”

Systematic : how systems biology is transforming modern medicine / James R. Valcourt. by Valcourt, James R.

Table of Contents: “…Applications -- Build me a buttercup: using synthetic biology to make diesel fuel, programmable cells, and malaria medicine -- More than just 86 billion neurons: the science of the brain, and how connections among neurons make it work -- Death and taxes: aging is governed by an organism-wide system that we might be able to manipulate -- Your microbiome and you: the body is host to trillions of microbes that affect human health -- This is your system on drugs: tweaking biological systems to produce better medical treatments.…”

Financial Advice and Investment Decisions : a Manifesto for Change. by Wilcox, Jarrod W.

Table of Contents: “…Resisting Forecasting OverconfidenceMaking Estimates More Robust to Extreme Observations; Taking Context into Account; Making Better Use of Information in Decisions; CHAPTER 7 Controlling Investing Behavioral Biases; Facing Up to Complexity; Promoting Independent Thinking; Controlling Organizational Biases; CHAPTER 8 Tax Efficient Investing; Context; Taxes that Affect Investment Returns; General Principles of After-Tax Investing; Measurement of After-Tax Performance and Benchmarks; CHAPTER 9 Matching Investment Vehicles to Needs; Revisiting Risk Aversion; Taxes Again; Diversification.…”
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O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference 2017 - San Francisco, CA O'Reilly Media, Inc.. by O'Reilly Media, Inc

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Forum on Decision Sciences edited by Xiang Li, Xiaofeng Xu.

Table of Contents: “…Innovation Research on Three-Dimensional Central Coordination of University-Industry-Government under Triple Helix Perspective -- The Innovative Pattern of Bulk Commodity Supply Chain Based on Internet Finance -- Social Attribute Preference Learning Based Design Decision of Electrical Engineering Projects -- Global Climate Change Studying Based on Big Data Analysis of Antarctica -- The Analysis of Our Energy Internet Development Prospect under the Background of “B&R” -- Study on the Relationship between Managerial Power and the Quality of Accounting Information -- Behavioral Selections of the Express Company and the Customer: An Analysis Based on Evolution Game Theory -- The Effects of Social Commerce Disputes of Rating Result -- Project Bid Evaluation Research Based on the Aggressive Generalized DEA Model -- The Mechanism of Empowering Leadership’s Effect on Employee Creativity in Dingtalk Alibaba Context -- The Credit Scoring Model Based on Logistic-BP-AdaBoost Algorithm and Its Application in P2P Credit Platform -- Dynamic Simulation of Stock Market Based on SVM With Different Parameter Optimization Methods -- The Analysis of China's Cotton Subsidy Policy Based on MPS and CSCT -- The Analysis of Farmers Cognition and the Influence of the Cotton Target Price Reform in Xinjiang -- Experimental Economics Analysis of Environment-Friendly Agricultural Technique Decision-Making -- Research On the Linkage Effect Between Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Stock Index and the Shanghai and Shenzhen Fund Index -- Competitiveness Assessment of China Listed Household Electric Appliance Enterprises by the Principal Component Analysis -- The Analysis of Internet Development Index Based on Visualization -- A Comparative Analysis Study Of Data Mining Algorithm In Customer Relationship Management -- Research on Value Evaluation of Scientific and Technical Human Capital Based on Key Performance Indicators -- Analysis of Factors Affecting Consumers’ Brand Trust under Different Purchasing Behaviors -- Big Data to Lead A New Era for “Internet+”: Current Status and Prospect -- Research on Fault Detection of High-Speed Train Bogie -- Influence of Customer to Customer Interaction on Service Purchase Behavior Intention: Moderating Role of Customer Experience——In China E-Commerce Environment -- Evolutionary Game and Simulation on the Internet of Things in Supply Chain -- Pricing Structure Financial Products of Commercial Banks in China -- A Chance Maximization Model for Uncertain Project Scheduling Problem -- The Explorer of Decision-Making in Class -- Some Power Aggregation Operators for Hesitant Intuitionistic Fuzzy Linguistic Set and Their Applications to Multiple Attribute Decision Making -- Mechanics Analysis in Cable Supported Barrel Vault Based on the Uncertain Damage -- Formulas to Calculate the Variance and Pseudo-Variance of Complex Uncertain Variable -- Measure Constraint Model and Its Properties of Closed-Loop Logistics Network -- Chance Left Constraint Model for TSP and Its GASO Algorithm -- Research on the Impact of the Counter Marketing to the Sales Performance of China's Tobacco Industry -- The Manufacturing Enterprise of China Internal Control and the Agency Costs -- Research on the Development and Management of Intellectual Property in the Aerospace Manufacturing Industry -- Under the Trend of Wisdom Supply Chain, Finance Storage Risk Identification and Aversion Countermeasures Research in Our Country -- Research Status of Earned Value Management -- Reliability Analysis of Unrepairable Warm Standby Systems Mixed With Randomness and Fuzziness -- Research on the Marketing Strategy of the New Media Age Based on AISAS Model：A Case Study Of Micro Channel Marketing -- Overview and Prospect of the Research on the Product Oil Consumption Tax in China -- A Survey of Electronic Commerce Tax Collection and Management -- Development Analysis of O2O Model Based on Mobile Electronic Business -- Research on Modeling Customer Churn in Video Players -- Risk Analysis of Supply Chain Pricing Problem Based on Uncertain Measure -- Pricing Decision Problem in Closed-Loop Supply Chain under Uncertain Random Environment -- Competition in A Two-Channel Supply Chain With Symmetric Retailers under Channel Preference -- Uncertain Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Net Present Value Criterion for Risk-Averse Decision Makers -- Research on the Development of Cross-Border E-Commerce in Port Cities——A Case of Manzhouli City -- Study on Development Countermeasure of Manzhouli Wood Processing Industrial Cluster -- The Study of Relationship between Diversification Strategy and Customers Performance in Service Industry— An Example Analysis of High-End Catering Enterprise in Beijing -- The"Internet +" Based Study on the Development Strategy ABAOT Sino-Russian Cross-Border E-Commerce -- The SWOT Analysis and Countermeasure Research of Travel Agency Online Marketing in Network Times -- The Analysis of the Management Mode of Decision-Making Characteristics and Development Trend of Engineering Project -- Study of Community E-Commerce Logistic Distribution Model Based on Intelligent Community Property -- Research on the Development Strategy of Cultural Enterprises Based on the Negative WOM -- The Literature Review on the Research of Derailment -- Regulation of Equity Crowdfunding in Hong Kong -- The Impact of Big Data on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Financing -- Uncertain Optimization Model for Railway Power Supply Equipment Maintenance Scheduling Problem -- Research on Yong Teachers’ Salary System in Private Colleges -- The Problems and Suggestions of Express "Real-Name System" in Our Country -- Introduction to Network Economy Era of Customer Relationship Management -- Research on the Tourism Consumption Behavior of College Students in the Mobile Social Network Environment -- Application of Improved Adaptive Genetic Algorithm in Train Energy Saving -- Optimal Inventory Policy for Newsboy Problem Based on Fuzzy Random Demand -- Research on the Causes and Countermeasures of the Price Dispersion of Online Retail Commodity -- Empirical Analysis of Influence Factor of Investment Income of Commercial Bank Financial Product -- Empirical Analysis on the Evolution of Development Mode of Cultural Creative Industry -- The Effect of Chinese Listed Company Manager’s Irrational Merger and Acquisition Decision on the Performance -- Research on Competitiveness of Listed Security Companies in China -- Research on the Evaluation of Rural Credit Cooperatives in Agriculture Efficiency in China’s Various Regions -- The Empirical Study on the Comprehensive Evaluation of Agricultural Economic Development Level in Various Regions of Heilongjiang Province -- The Chinese Regional Rural Credit Unions’ Efficiency Evaluation Based on Network DEA -- Analysis of Economic Benefit of Resource-Based City’s Transformation Based on the Development of Modern Service Industry -- Research on the Comprehensive Evaluation of Financial Ecological Environment in Various Regions of Heilongjiang Province -- Research on Performance Evaluation of Agricultural Development in Different Regions in China -- The Empirical Research on the Technical Efficiency and the Influencing Factors with the County Agency of Agricultural Development Bank of China -- The Empirical Study on the Evaluation and Improvement of Wheat Cost and Benefit Efficiency in Different Regions in China -- A Biclustering-Based Lead User Identification Methodology Applied to Xiaomi -- Discrete Tunnel-Filled Function Method for Discrete Global Optimization Problems -- The Trend Research of Intergenerational Income Elasticity Change between Father and Son - Based On The CHNS Data of Three Provinces in Central Empirical -- Research on the Legal Regulation of China's E-Finance Field.…”
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Paul G. Hoffman (1954).

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Natural Resource Revenues : a Test of Federalism. by Scott, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…; ""Static Redistributive and Welfare Effects of an Export Tax""…”
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Untapped Riches : Never Pay Off Your Mortgage and Other Surprisisng Secrets for Building Wealth. by Cutaia, Anthony, Slater, Robert

Table of Contents: “…a new, more flexible mortgage instrument -- What "smart loans" are -- "Smart loans" give you available cash -- Interest-only mortgages -- Interest-only mortgages : the increasingly popular way to free up usable cash -- The concerns over interest only mortgages -- Negative amortization loans -- Negative amortization : a mouthful of a phrase, a generator of quick cash -- More on negam mortgages : and why they are gaining more and more adherents -- The new real estate instruments -- Gaining a tax advantage : performing tenants-in-common real estate transactions -- 1031 exchanges : another great vehicle to avoid paying taxes -- 1031 exchanges and the importance of deadlines -- Save taxes and improve cash flow : do a cost segregation study -- The real estate budding pro -- Personal strategies for real estate transactions -- Mark Mouma : the handyman who buys and sells real estate -- Dan and Gayle Gile: they began by helping Dan's mother-in-law and then amassed $3 million in real estate equity -- Dean Budney: the freshly minted real estate pro who went to work for the Cutaias.…”
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Is Taxpayer Money Behind Profits at Goldman Sachs? (2/12/10) / MacNeil/Lehrer Productions (Firm).

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Food city / CJ Lim. by Lim, C. J.