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Australian Export: A Guide to Law and Practice provides students and business people interested in international trade with a clear and concise guide to the main procedures and regulatory environment for international business transactions. The book contains details on the steps involved in a direct sale of goods including: international sales law, trade terms, payment mechanisms, transp...

Shows the multifaceted and interactive character of the relationship between science and technology on the one hand, and business and innovation on the other. This book explores this non-linear relationship through a selection of case studies and discusses its implications for science as well as for business.

This book comprises a variety of examples of the use of science and technology in bu...

In recent years, a succession of corporate scandals has rocked the international business community. As a result, many companies have invested considerable time, money and effort on the development of ethics management programs. However, in many cases, such programs are nothing more than insurance policies against corporate liability, designed merely to limit the fallout of scandals should they...

Think your business is too small to have big safety issues? Not true. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a serious fire, a permanent injury, or the death of an employee or owner can cause loss of profit or even an entire business. Applying the recognized principles of prevention outlined in this book not only helps reduce accidents, but it may also improve your comp...

As over half the assets of many major companies are now intangible assets, there is an increasing need to assess more accurately the value of intellectual property (IP) from a wider interdisciplinary perspective. Re-evaluating risk and understanding the true value of intellectual property is a major problem, particularly important for business practitioners, including business analysts and inve...

Independence is tempting, partnership has its pitfalls and private limited companies are as exposed to business misfortune as the sole trader. Whether you are setting up as a sole trader, a partnership or a limited company, it is essential to ensure that you are operating within the law. This 13th edition of Essential Law for Your Business covers all the key issues which affect your legal stand...

Practice management is one of the key elements in the career of a dentist. Most dentists own their own practices and even associateships carry with them the prospect of management, accounting and dealing with health insurance providers. Dental Practice Transition: A Practical Guide to Management helps readers navigate through options such as starting a practice, associateships, and buyin...

This book provides a detailed study of Financial Mathematics. In addition to the extraordinary depth the book provides, it offers a study of the axiomatic approach that is ideally suited for analyzing financial problems. This book is addressed to MBAs, Financial Engineers, Applied Mathematicians, Banks, Insurance Companies, and Students of Business School, of Economics, of Applied Mathematics, ...

The Enterprise Culture of the 1980s helped transform economies of Western Europe, but left behind a legacy of stress, both for managers and shop floor workers. The cost to business is seen in absenteeism, reduced productivity, compensation claims, health insurance and direct medical costs, which in the US cost approximately $150 billion a year. Stress related absences are about ten time more co...

The Economics of Property-Casualty Insurance presents new research and findings on key aspects of the economics of the property-casualty insurance industry. The volume explores the industrial organization, regulation, financing, and taxation of this business.The first paper, on external financing and insurance cycles, contains a wealth of information on trends and patterns in the industrys fina...

With the recent Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, public key cryptography, digital signatures, and digital certificates are finally emerging as a ubiquitous part of the Information Technology landscape. Although these technologies have been around for over twenty years, this legislative move will surely boost e-commerce activity. Secure electronic business transactions,...

This book presents the first comprehensive history of the interplay of public and private provision that made the Swiss three-pillar pension system into a model for the World Bank and other pension reformers during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Through a study of business federations, private pension lobbyists and insurance companies archives, Matthieu Leimgruber charts the cen...

• Examines how risk management security technologies must prevent virus and computer attacks, as well as providing insurance and processes for natural disasters such as fire, floods, tsunamis, terrorist attacks
  
  
• Addresses four main topics: the risk (severity, extent, origins, complications, etc.), current strategies, new strategies and their application to market verti...

• Outlines cost-effective, bottom-line solutions that show how companies can protect transactions over the Internet using PKI
  
  
• First book to explain how PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is used by companies to comply with the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) rules mandated by the U.S. Department of Labor, Health, and Human Services
  
  
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Want to be your own boss but arent quite sure how to make it happen? This savvy guide will show you the way. Now revised and updated to cover the latest regulations, techniques, and trends, it walks you step by step through the entire start-up process, from coming up with a business plan and lining up finan...