Wiley CPA Examination Review 2004, Business Environment and Concepts

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Completely revised for the new computerized CPA exam—all the information you need to master!

Includes a very detailed outline taken from the recent white paper released by AICPA covering business and environment.

The most effective system available to prepare for the CPA exam—proven for over twenty-five years
Timely—up-to-the-minute coverage for the computerized exam. Contains all current AICPA content requirements in regulation
Unique modular format—helps you zero in on areas that need work, organize your study program, and concentrate your efforts
Comprehensive questions—over 600 multiple-choice questions and their solutions in each of the four volumes. Covers the new simulation-style problems. Offers almost three times more examples than any other competitor
Complete sample exam in regulation
Guidelines, pointers, and tips—show you how to build knowledge in a logical and reinforcing way

Wiley CPA Examination Review 2004 arms test-takers with detailed outlines, study guidelines, and skill-building problems to help candidates identify, focus on, and master the specific topics that need the most work.

Other titles in the WILEY CPA EXAMINATION REVIEW 2004 FOUR-VOLUME SET:

Auditing and Attestation
Financial Accountin and Reporting
Regulation

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Good Book for the money.......2005-02-10

Compared to the other CPA exam books I've tried (Bisk, Becker, MicroMash), this book is pretty good for the money. Some of the topics they discussed in this book (i.e. the chapter on economics and cost management) definitely requires you to have some exposure to these areas. If you graduated with only an accounting degree and were not exposed to these areas, you may have a difficult time understanding this. Also, as I was going through the practice questions, I found a few errors in the answers. My recommendation would be that for the money, I would go with the books published by Bisk.

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This unique book examines the re-emergence of a securities market in the People's Republic of China, providing a comprehensive analysis of the market forces that are transforming China's centrally planned economy. The authors provide answers to the key issues such as: Why did a securities market develop in China? How do market practices compare with those in other countries? What are the major difficulties encountered in the development process of the securities market, and what growth potential does the Chinese securities market have? Based on Dr. Xia's comprehensive survey of officials at Chinese securities issuing companies, government policy agencies, and stock exchange centers, the authors offer a comprehensive report on the investment climate in China and its future. After reviewing briefly the emerging securities markets of other developing countries and the impact of the international debt crisis, the authors examine the economic reforms in China and their impact on China's business climate. An in-depth discussion of financial sector developments, the regulatory framework and scope of the securities market, and a profile of market participants precedes a comprehensive examination of the type and nature of bond and stock issuing activities. The operations of securities trading centers, including secondary markets and, in particular, the Shanghai Exchange, is explained in detail with the conclusion offering unique insights into the development prospects of these markets. Essential to all investors in China, this book is also an important source of information for academics, researchers, and business executives.

The Re-Emerging Securities Market in China

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The Re-Emerging Securities Market in China
Mei/ Lin, Jian Hai/ Grub, Phillip D Xia
Manufacturer: Greenwood Pub Group 01/1//1992
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5KQMY

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Physical and chemical characteristics of aquatic humus
Egil T Gjessing
Manufacturer: Ann Arbor Science Publishers
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Physical & Chemical Characteristics of Aquatic Humus
Egil T. Gjessing
Manufacturer: Ann Arbor Science Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ794A

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This volume reviews the latest understanding of the behavior and roles of oxygen in silicon, which will carry the field into the ULSI era from the experimental and theoretical points of view. The fourteen chapters, written by recognized authorities representing industrial and academic institutions, cover thoroughly the oxygen related phenomena from the crystal growth to device fabrication processes, as well as indispensable diagnostic techniques for oxygen.

Key Features
* Comprehensive study of the behavior of oxygen in silicon
* Discusses silicon crystals for VLSI and ULSI applications
* Thorough coverage from crystal growth to device fabrication
* Edited by technical experts in the field
* Written by recognized authorities from industrial and academic institutions
* Useful to graduate students, scientists in other disciplines, and active participants in the arena of silicon-based microelectronics research
* 297 original line drawings

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The classic works of literature contained in each of these volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. A wonderful introduction to world literature, this finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience. Includes Comedies and Satires, Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, and others.

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Not relevant in post-Iraqi Freedom world.

Good basic primer, but heavily weighted to "proper" response

Good teaching tool, exciting adventure story, excellent game

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Imaginative design but not about leadership...

Infantry Combat: The Rifle Platoon: An Interactive Exercise in Small-Unit Tactics and Leadership
John Antal
Manufacturer: Presidio Press
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Armor Attacks: The Tank Platoon: An Interactive Exercise in Small-Unit Tactics and Leadership

Combat Leader's Field Guide

ASIN: 089141536X
Release Date: 1995-06-01

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You are the neophyte platoon leader in this informative and entertaining, interactive work from the author of Armor Attacks.

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Not relevant in post-Iraqi Freedom world........2003-06-05

As a former Light Infantry soldier in the US Army who doubled as an Anti-Tank weapons operator, I bought this book to see if what I learned held water. In this book, I was shocked at how little flexibility the scenarios offered. Life, including Army life, is about small decisions. This book only emphasizes big decisions. A quote I read once said "Life is what happens when you are making big plans." In this book, that is all that needs to be remembered. The commander you play in this war game is a West Point graduate, and a graduate of several Army schools, including the Rangers. To paint him as a newbie is a real stretch, especially when dealing with an incumbent and overbearing platoon sergeant. The United States is played as a continually unprepared military power and the enemy is made out to be on steroids. This book is almost irrelevant post-Iraqi Freedom. Save your money and buy a David Hackworth book instead.

Good basic primer, but heavily weighted to "proper" response.......2002-02-21

The reader jumps into the boots of a green platoon leader taking command of a platoon on the eve of battle, with the assignment to lead his platoon in protecting his company's flank in an imminant battle, and the reader given choices as the story progresses, with these choices altering the story's path by sending him to different sections of the book that show the results of his decisions as the story progresses.

It's a good basic tactical primer, though there are flaws in the storyline that make no sense. The three main flaws are as follows...

The personalities of the characters shift depending on whether the reader makes choices that agree with what the author has deemed to be the best choice. If he makes choices that the author disagrees with, the platoon leader, (the reader's role,) is portrayed as a weak and indecisive leader, bullied by an overbearing and obstinate platoon sergeant who leads him down the wrong paths at every turn. On the other hand, if he chooses as the author thinks best, the platoon leader magically becomes strong and forceful in personality while the platoon sergeant becomes almost sycophantic in nature at times, confirming his decisions to be wise. I found these personality shifts to be distracting to the basic concept of the book, which is to examine the probable results of the various choices offered, and implying that the only leaders who make mistakes are weak willed and indecisive.

The second major flaw is that identical events, unrelated to the previous choices made and completely outside the platoon leaders ability to affect in any way, have different results depending on the reader's agreement with the author's preferred choices, with them being more detrimental if he has made choices the author has deemed to be inferior to others, and more beneficial if the reader has chosen what the author has deemed to be the best course of action. (I went through and tried every available path through the story line out of curiosity.)

In one example, if the reader chooses as the author has deemed unwise, the enemy makes a counterattack that never appears under nearly identical circumstances if the reader chooses in agreement with what the author thinks best.

These slant the book in favor of the authors viewpoint rather than letting the results themselves teach the reader what would or would not be the best choice in an impartial fashion. The end results of these choices are not always consistant either with one set of choices, for example, resulting in the platoon taking very heavy casualties, but the rest of the company's casualties being very light, and this being deemed inferior in the authors eyes to the platoon itself taking relatively light casualties, but the company as a whole taking -very- heavy casualties in far greater numbers than the platoons first example losses, though it is the job of the platoon to protect the flank of the company. This seems backwards to me, though in both scenarios, the platoon did ultimately accomplish it's mission.

A third flaw is that the choices given are not always clear as to what is being chosen. What may appear, when reviewing the choices, to be a decision to seek defensible ground will, every so often, turn into the platoon being ordered to try to defend in the open, and what may initially appear to be a decision to defend in the open that appears ill advised will occasionally end up having been a choice to find good, defensible terrain to occupy.

Even with what are, in my opinion, these flaws in the book, it is as I said, a good basic primer in small unit tactics on the modern battlefield, and an entertaining and informative read.

Good teaching tool, exciting adventure story, excellent game.......2002-01-11

This is an above-average gamebook and war novel; it's not as polished or deft as a war novel by David Drake or Jerry Pournelle, but its writing style is better than many books written by serving officers such as Harold Coyle. Some books by active officers have good storylines that are hard to concentrate on because the inept style, esp. dialogue, grates on the ear. Not here - the prose is workmanlike and generally smooth.

The game situation is a Choose Your Own Adventure book based in modern warfare. While there is one best answer to every question (and you don't always have enough information to know what that will be in advance), there are several ways to win, and several levels of victory - you might accomplish the mission with few casualties, with many casualties, with near-complete casualties, or fail the mission altogether. The choices are exciting and nerve-wracking, because no matter what you choose, you can easily see how unexpected circumstance or plain bad luck could wreck your platoon. And luck is kept in its proper place - a laser-directed artillery barrage will reliably bust up an enemy column, but when a single tank is charging your position, inches make a difference and the dice will determine whether you as Lt. Bruce Davis live or die. Luck will definitely not save you from the fallout of a bad plan, nor completely derail a good plan, although it can turn an average plan into a failure.

As a teaching tool, its value lies in seeing the effects of your choices and being able to go back and start again. There are a few pages of general tactical advice, but they, like many Army tactics manuals, are so general as to be worthless. Indeed, the "lessons learned" sections appear to come verbatim out of Army manuals - as indeed they should, given the subject, but I would have preferred it if the author had rewritten them in plainer language and made some distinctions. For example, "mass" and "economy of force" are both important tactical concepts, but they're also antithetical. Some plain-English advice on when to concentrate and when to spread out would have been welcome.

Nor is this sour grapes - I actually made it through the first time to the optimum solution! Except for one important typo: there's a place where if you decide so-and-so, you are directed to section 88. That section has nothing to do with what you decided; it's part of a different decision chain altogether, although that was not immediately obvious to me. I don't know which section I was supposed to consult, but it sure wasn't 88. Copyediting in general has slipped across the book industry over the last decade - it's commonplace now to find, as in here, that the character "Piper" is called "Pipe" at one point, Lt. Bruce Davis is referred to as "Steve" Davis on the back cover, and so on. But when a misplaced digit sends you off into the ozone, it's almost as bad as transposing a range figure when calling in arty.

Required Reading.......2002-01-10

This is an excellent training book. It should be required reading for all platoon leaders, platoon sergeants and squad leaders. I gave it to my platoon leader and team leader. They also found it to be an excellent learning tool.
You and your men live or die based upon your own decisions. That's what I enjoyed most.

SSG Eric Hunt
A Co. 1/105th Inf

Imaginative design but not about leadership..........2001-12-13

...which is why I had purchased this book, that is, thinking it would have something to do with leadership. In this fictional, interactive account, a newly minted West Point Lt is given a rifle platoon and faces overwhelming odds against him. The reader makes choices throughout the book, usually about tactical decisions, which leads the reader down a "decision field," usually to the reader's own demise. This is imaginative. However, the basic principles of leadership are not discussed, other than working together, making sound and timely decisions, maintaining positive communications, and so forth.

Infantry Combat The Rifle Platoon An Interactive Exercise in Small-Unit Tactics and Leadership

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Infantry Combat The Rifle Platoon An Interactive Exercise in Small-Unit Tactics and Leadership

Manufacturer: Presido Press
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ASIN: 156865880X

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Military interactive exercise book

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Market: Scientists, engineers, and graduate students involved in the phenomenon of plasma physics. This 1966 reference work is a compilation of some of the most important plasma physics measurements published during the late 1950s and the early 1960s. It offers a wealth of useful information on elastic-collision and charge- transfer cross sections, mobility and diffusion, electron attachment and detachment, and recombination. Numerous fundamental principles make this a much-consulted handbook on the physical phenomena, measurements, and properties of plasma physics.

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Basic Vacuum Technology, 2nd edition
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Vacuum technology is widely used in many manufacturing and developmental processes and its applications grow in scope and sophistication. It is an inter-disciplinary subject, embracing aspects of mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering, chemistry, and materials science while having a broad foundation in physics. In spite of its technological importance, and perhaps because of its cross-disciplinary nature, substantial teaching and training is not widely available. Basic Vacuum Technology aims to give readers a firm foundation of fundamental knowledge about the subject and the ability to apply it. This book is an introductory text on how to use vacuum techniques. It provides a good grounding in the basic scientific principles and concepts that underlie the production and measurement of vacua. The authors describe how these are applied in representative low, medium, high, and ultra-high vacuum systems and explain the most important practical aspects of the operation of a large variety of pumps, components, and measuring instrumentation. The book introduces numerical methods for analysis and prediction of the behavior of vacuum systems in terms of the properties of their individual elements and enables readers to recognize and resolve problems with malfunctioning systems.

High Voltage Vacuum Insulation: Basic Concepts and Technological Practice

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The past decade has witnessed dramatic growth in the diversity and complexity of device applications where vacuum is required to support either high voltages or high electric fields. This is particularly true in thespace industry, specifically for the development of space-based pulse power systems.

This book presents an overview of the technological advances that have occurred since the publication of the Editors earlier book High Voltage Vacuum Insulation: The Physical Basis. In this latest book, contributions from internationally recognized professionals and researchers in the field provide expanded treatment of the practical aspects of the subject. High Voltage Vacuum Insulation: Basic Concepts and Technological Practice provides a modern working manual for this specialized technology that is generic to a wide range of applications. The format makes the text suitable for use as a basis for special topic lecture courses at either the undergraduate or graduate level.

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