The Value Driven Bank offers an innovative, cost-effective management strategy for financial institutions that capitalizes on internal strengths using these approaches to profitably reach customers, with a focus on the value elements unique to the bank such as service, convenience, quality Balanced with analysis and answers to the complexity озшвв of banking competition The Value Driven Bank covers these proven methods of increased competitiveness and profitability, including case studies and examples of successful banks to help project winning strategies onto institutions: accurately assessing the financial needs and desires of customers; emphasizing service over price; making bankers understand bank's value advantage; conveying the benefits of your bank that transcend the basic products; closing the loop by bringing the message to customers and price to customers that you have what they want.  ISBN 1557387737.

The world of banking is changing, and in this new study from Financial Executives Research Foundation you can get a first-hand look at how financial executives and bankers are redefining the substance and practice of corporate banking relationships Learn how companies and banks are carving out new parameters for provider-customer relationships, озшви as both sides seek to mutually create value The author ties together the disparate elements and tensions in the banking industry through case studies of eleven companies and four banks, including Chase Manhattan Corporation, Citibank, Northwest Airlines, The Gillette Company, and more.  ISBN 1885065108.

A revolutionary system for fearless trading without excessive risk "Trading Risk provides a useful and intuitive roadmap of the risk management process, as written by an individual with unique experience and insight into this topic It is an engaging read and covers complex subject matter in a straightforward and often-entertaining manner озшвл " Stanley Shopkorn, Shopkorn Associates "Ken Grant's eminently readable new book on risk management is a rare blend of theory and practical applications It is a great starting point for the novice and deep enough for the experienced practitioner " Mark R Graham, Managing Partner, Blue Elite Fund, Ltd "This book describes a very practical approach to risk management in a lucid and entertaining manner Anyone concerned with the topic of risk management ought to find it of interest " Susan Estes, Managing Director, Countrywide Securities "Thoughtful, unique, detailed, actually enjoyable, and comprehensible reading for what is normally a boring and confusing topic " Dwight Anderson, President, Osprei Management, LP "A must-read for risk managers of companies of all sizes who want to preserve capital and take practical advantage of trends in the marketplace This is a clearly written, funny, and entertaining guide to a very serious topic that affects all corporations This very complex topic was simplified and made easy to understand by a true expert in the art of risk management " Phupinder Gill, Managing Director & President Chicago Mercantile Exchange Автор Кеннет Л Грант Kenneth L Grant.  Издательство: Wiley, 2004 г Суперобложка, 258 стр ISBN 0471650919.

--This exclusive official guide puts you in the engineer's seat with complete coverage of Train Simulator's extensive train and track modeling features --Delivers detailed statistics and strategies for every route and train, plus full coverage of the game's unique operational challenges --Also features an online companion site for updated озшву information on the train simulator community after the game's release 1st edition Авторы Дэвид Чонг David Chong Рик Селби Rick Selby Ричард Уэйн Смит Richard Wayne Smith.  2001 г Мягкая обложка, 272 стр ISBN 0782129102.

Book Description For 15 years Street Fighter II has been a dominant force in fighting games, and now the ultimate collection has arrived Let our Tournament pros teach you all the expert strategy you need to master any character in Hyper Street FighterII: The Anniversary Edition or Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future The Street Fighter озшвь Anniversary Collection Official Fighter's Guide includes the following: Street Figher II The Anniversary Edition: Tournament Combos Give You the Edge in Every Match! Detailed Descriptions of Each Characters Moves and Special Abilities! Best Case Scenario Match-ups for Every Character! Advanced Techniques and Strategy! Anniversary Art Gallery!/ Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future Detailed Analysis of Every Character's Moves, Special Moves, and Super Arts! Devastating Tournament Combos to Crush Your Opponents! Frame Data for Every Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future Character! Advanced Tips and Tactics from the Pros! Street Fighter III 3rd Strike soundtrack included! Platform: PlayStation 2 This product is available for sale in the U S and Canada only.  2004 г 208 стр ISBN 0744003946.

BradyGames’ Shining Force EXA Official Strategy Guide includes the following: A comprehensive walkthrough of the entire game Complete maps for every area Detailed listing of weapons including their location and properties Expert boss strategies to defeat even the toughest boss In-depth bestiary Statistics for all characters, spells and озшвя items Platform: PlayStation 2 Genre: Action/Adventure This product is available for sale in North America only.  2007 г Мягкая обложка, 160 стр ISBN 0744009073.

SilverFast is a popular cross-platform scanning software and image editor that's made for 180 different scanners and is bundled with many of the biggest players in the industry SilverFast products work with most everything from low-end consumer model scanners to very high-end professional scanners The SilverFast product family includes versions озшгж that edit existing digital images, such as digital photos, Photo CDs, and images that were scanned by other software This is the only Official guide to the software It covers the entire family of SilverFast products and will appeal to a broad range of users Progressing from the basics to editing images and output, this book uses a conversational tone and a quick pace that won't bore the experienced and won't intimidate the new It includes a 32-pg color insert and a CD with trial versions of SilverFast, plus examples and sample files from the book.  ISBN 0782141978.

The surge of inequality in income and wealth in the United States over the past twenty-five years has reversed the steady progress toward greater equality that had been underway throughout most of the twentieth century This economic development has defied historical patterns and surprised many economists, producing vigorous debate Inequality озшгп in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? examines the ways in which human capital policies can address this important problem Taking it as a giventhat potentially low-income workers would benefit from more human capital in the form of market skills and education, James Heckman and Alan Krueger discuss which policies would be most effective in providing it: should we devote more resources to the entire public school system, or to specialized programs like Head Start? Would relaxing credit restraints encourage more students to attend college? Does vocational training actually work? What is the best balance of private and public sector programs? The book preserves the character of the symposium at which the papers were originally presented, recreating its atmosphere of lively debate It begins with separate arguments by Krueger and Heckman (writing with Pedro Carneiro), which are followed by comments from other economists Krueger and Heckman and Carneiro then offer separate responses to the comments and final rejoinders.  ISBN 0262083280.

Представляем Вам картину-репродукцию "Охота на уток" Картина-репродукция дополнит интерьер любого помещения, а также может стать изысканным подарком для Ваших друзей озшгх и близких Благодаря оригинальному дизайну картина может использоваться для оформления любых интерьеров, как то: гостиная, спальня, кухня, прихожая, детская или офис Картина выполнена масляной печатью с ручной подрисовкой Такая картина - вдохновляющее декоративное решение, привносящее в интерьер нотки творчества и изысканности! Характеристики: Размер: 40 см х 30 см х 1,5 см Материал: дерево, холст Производитель: Китай Артикул: 16424.  Феникс-Презент 2010 г ; Упаковка: коробка.

This authoritative, leading-edge resource gives you a comprehensive overview of sample rate conversion (SRC) and its applications in software configurable radios The book helps you understand the limits of feasible systems for sample rate conversion, aswell as the limits of interpolation You get sound advice on selecting the appropriate озшгч types of SRC for specific applications, and assistance in handling the trade-off between hardware complexity and the clock rate of a system From an introduction to software radio and a refresher on the fundamentals of sampling and sample rate conversion, to discussions on block signal processing and well-known and novel structures for sample rate conversion, the book offers you practical guidance that enables youto quickly find solutions for your challenging projects in the field This first-of-its-kind reference concludes with a list of questions that when answered helps to design a system for sample rate conversion Over 890 equations and 90 illustrations support key topics throughout the book.  ISBN 1580533361.

Book DescriptionThe contributions in this volume reveal much about the institutional nature of central banks They analyze the banks' growth and development as well as desired objectives and challenges in the future The articles tackle the issues in a variety of ways, combining historical observation with economic theory and experimentation озшве Download DescriptionThis volume collects the proceedings from a conference on the evolution and practice of central banking sponsored by the Central Bank Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland The articles and discussants' comments in this volume largely focus on two questions: the need for central banks, and how to maintain price stability once they are established The questions addressed include whether large banks (or coalitions of small banks) can substitute for government regulation and due central bank liquidity provision; whether the future will have fewer central banks or more; the possibility of private means to deliver a uniform currency; if competition across sovereign currencies can ensure global price stability; the role of learning (and unlearning) the lessons of the past inflationary episodes in understanding central bank behavior; and an analysis of the most recent experiment in centralbanking, the European Central Bank.  2003 г ISBN 0521814278.

BradyGames' The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring provides a comprehensive walkthrough for both single-player campaigns Tactical maps reveal enemy locations, attack paths and more! Complete rundown of every unit and structure for the forces of the Free Peoples of Middle-earth and the Minions of Sauron Multiplayer strategies to crush opponents озшвк in online battles Special full-color format provides added value!.  ISBN 0744003490.

Performance measurement is a key function in an asset management firm and deserves better than to be grouped with the back office Performance measurers provide real added value, with feedback into the investment decision process and analysis of structural issues Since their role is to understand in full and communicate the sources of return within озшвр portfolios, they are often the only independent source equipped to understand the performance of all the portfolios and investment strategies operating within the asset management firm This book provides an introduction to the subject of performance measurement and a useful reference for all the available methodologies There have been significant developments in the areas of performance attribution and presentation standards recently, which deserve practical coverage "Carl’s book is a ‘must have’ resource - the complete A to Z of the increasingly complex field of performance measurement " —Glenn Solomon,Global Head of Institutional Clients, Investment Reporting & Performance, BNP Paribas Securities Services "Internationally renowned authority Carl Bacon has provided what one would expect – an exceptionally well written and practical resource that every investment performance measurement professional should own " —David Spaulding, President, The Spaulding Group.  ISBN 0470856793.

Mergers and acquisitions is no easy path to riches or career advancement, but with the Applied Mergers and Acquisitions Workbook you can hone your skills and test your knowledge, so you can hit the ground running in this complex area of business The Applied Mergers and Acquisitions Workbook provides a useful self-training study guide for those озшвф who want to fully understand what drives M&A success and failure Useful review questions as well as problems and answers are provided for both professionals and students By using this comprehensive self-study Workbook in conjunction with the core book, Applied Mergers and Acquisitions, you can further your knowledge of this complex field, build practical intuition, and learn the art and science of mergers and acquisitions Techniques explored include valuation of synergies, valuation of options, option-like assets, and risk management terms The Applied Mergers and Acquisitions Workbook also: Presents real-world M&A problems withactual solutions Includes in-depth questions to test your M&A knowledge Offers a self-study course to review M&A decision-making tradeoffs, while discussing all the driving forces of M&A success The Applied Mergersand Acquisitions Workbook reviews the tools, concepts, and processes essential to M&A success, and will help you to understand and succeed in a highly competetive business environment Автор Роберт Ф Брунер Robert F Bruner.  Издательство: Wiley, 2004 г Мягкая обложка, 364 стр ISBN 0471395854.

This is a good time to look at the financial bear How does one spot the bottom of a bear market? What brings a bear to its end? There are few more important questions to be answered in modern finance Financial market history is a guide to understanding the future Looking at the four occasions when US equities were particularly cheap - 1921, 1932, 1949 and озшвэ 1982, Russell Napier sets to answers these questions by analysing every article in the Wall Street Journal of either side of the market bottom In these 70,000 articles he examines, one begins to understand the features which indicate that a great buying opportunity is emerging By looking at how markets really did work in these bear-market bottoms, rather than theorising how they should work, Napier offers investors a financial field guide to making the best financial provisions for the future Автор Рассел Нэйпир Russell Napier.  Издательство: CLSA, 2005 г Мягкая обложка, 324 стр ISBN 9628606794.

Throughout Herbert Simon's wide-ranging career -- in public administration, business administration, economics, cognitive psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and computer science -- his central aim has been to explain the nature of the thought processes that people use in making decisions The third volume of Simon's collected озшга papers continues this theme, bringing together work on this and other economics-related topics that have occupied his attention in the 1980s and 1990s: how to represent causal ordering formally in dynamic systems, the implications for society of new electronic information systems, employee and managerial motivation in the business firm (specifically the implications for economics of the propensity of humanbeings to identify with the goals of organizations), and the state of economics itself Offering alternative models based on such concepts as satisficing (acceptance of viable choices that may not be the undiscoverable optimum) and bounded rationality (the limited extent to which rational calculation can direct human behavior), Simon shows concretely why more empirical research based on experiments and direct observation, rather than just statistical analysis of economic aggregates, is needed The twenty-seven articles, in five sections, each with an introduction by the author, examine the modeling of economic systems, technological change: information technology, motivation and the theory of the firm, and behavioral economics and bounded rationality.  ISBN 0262193728.

The definitive book in its field since 1974, Export-Import Financing provides global traders, U S and foreign bankers, and students of global commerce with a complete, current, and in-depth guide to every aspect of global trade financing This newly revised and updated Fourth Edition includes the latest techniques and vehicles for financing озшгй all types of export and import operations Here is the latest information on emerging markets, new hedging techniques, particular areas of risk for import and export, recent regulations governing documentary credit, and new financing rules Export-Import Financing covers a wide range of topics, from foreign trade definitions, bank guarantees, and risk management, to shipping and collection, and the latest legislation Export-Import Financing, Fourth Edition, contains invaluable information on banking deregulation, international bank custody operations, bank involvement in insurance, changes in the maritime industry, and much more Written and organized for maximum clarity and accessibility, this comprehensive volume includes: The roles of commercial banks, private institutions, and governments in export-import financing, and how they interact How transactions are executed, including the role of foreign exchange and techniques for hedging The tools, techniques, and vehicles for financing all types of international trade, from letters of credit to bankers' acceptances Like its distinguished predecessors, Export-Import Financing, Fourth Edition, has been designed for practical use Numerous samples of the various instruments and forms used in daily financial and banking operations are included, from sales contracts to six different types of credit and risk analysis This indispensable volume has the detailed information you need to stay abreast of the latest developments in the changing world of international commerce Packed with invaluable information on how transactions are executed, the effects of recent legislation, and new financing techniques, Export-Import Financing, Fourth Edition, is certain to remain the "bible" for international traders, U S and foreign bankers, and students of foreign commerce The book thoroughly covers every aspect of export-import financing including banking deregulation, international bank custody operations, bank involvement in insurance, and changes in the maritime industry Easy to use and clearly written, this indispensable volume contains all the information you'll need to keep pace with the ever-changing nature of the world of international finance The latest techniques and vehicles for financing all types of export and import operations at every stage of the process-from obtaining credit for trade in emerging markets to how transactions are executed Coverage of new hedging techniques, new areas of import-export risk, recent regulations governing documentary credit, and new financing rules A completely new section entitled "Documentary Letter of Credit Examination Procedures" The latest risks of collection services and the risks involved with Red Clause Credits Specifications for the new ECU currency basket and recent currency fluctuations permitted by the EMS Air cargo updates, revised foreign trade definitions, updated coverage of bank guarantees for advanced payments and risk management, and an analysis of the effects of the loosening of the McFadden Act Авторы Harry M Venedikian Гарри М Венедикиан Gerald A Warfield Джеральд А Вофилд.  Издательство: Wiley, 1996 г Твердый переплет, 496 стр ISBN 0471121053.

Written by a veteran financial planner, this guide uniquely covers the statistical and non-statistical issues involved in selecting and managing a balanced portfolio of mutual funds It explains investment policy development techniques, explores all asset classes of mutual funds, and covers the critical issues of style analysis, data interpretation озшгс and style management 1 edition Автор Рональд К Рутерфорд Ronald K Rutherford.  Издательство: McGraw-Hill, 1998 г Суперобложка, 224 стр ISBN 078631138X.

Explaining the methods that have made her -- and her stock picks -- famous, Maria Bartiromo tells investors how to use hot information to make money in any market, raging bull or lumbering bear Packed with sage advice from the most influential people on Wall Street, Use the News is an indispensable investment handbook that will disclose the Wall Street озшгц insiders' secrets and show you how to take control of your investments 1st edition Автор Мария Бартиромо Maria Bartiromo.  Издательство: Collins, 2002 г Мягкая обложка, 304 стр ISBN 0066620872.

Simulation-Based Optimization: Parametric Optimization Techniques and Reinforcement Learning introduces the evolving area of simulation-based optimization Since it became possible to analyze random systems using computers, scientists and engineers have sought the means to optimize systems using simulation models Only recently, however, озшди has this objective had success in practice Cutting-edge work in computational operations research, including non-linear programming (simultaneous perturbation), dynamicprogramming (reinforcement learning), and game theory (learning automata) has made it possible to use simulation in conjunction with optimization techniques As a result, this research has given simulation added dimensions and power that it did not have in the recent past The book's objective is two-fold: (1) It examines the mathematical governing principles of simulation-based optimization, thereby providing the reader with the ability to model relevant real-life problems using these techniques (2) It outlines the computational technology underlying these methods Taken together these two aspects demonstrate that the mathematical and computational methods discussed in this book do work Broadly speaking, the book has two parts: (1) parametric (static) optimization and (2) control (dynamic) optimization Some of the book's special features are: + + An accessible introduction to reinforcement learning and parametric-optimization techniques + A step-by-step description of several algorithms of simulation-based optimization + A clear and simple introduction to the methodology of neural networks + A gentle introduction to convergence analysis of some of the methods enumerated above + Computer programs for many algorithms of simulation-based optimization This book is written for students and researchers in the fields of engineering (electrical, industrial and computer), computer science, operations research, management science, and applied mathematics.  ISBN 1402074549.