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Gateway to Business Analytics with Microsoft Excel®
Humberto Barreto · PALNI · 2025
Business analytics is a new, expanding subfield with fuzzy edges that overlap into a variety of other established disciplines, including economics, econometrics, computer science, data science, finance, statistics, mathematics, and even psychology. Business analytics includes such traditional techniques as regression and data visualization, but also newer methods such as web scraping, big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Its key distinguishing feature is using data to make and communicate business decisions. This textbook utilizes Microsoft Excel to present a mix of topics appropriate to an undergraduate level introduction to business analytics course with an engaging delivery style.
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Money and Banking
Robert Wright · Saylor Foundation · 2012
The financial crisis of 2007-8 has already revolutionized institutions, markets, and regulation. Wright's Money and Banking V 2.0 captures those revolutionary changes and packages them in a way that engages undergraduates enrolled in Money and Banking and Financial Institutions and Markets courses. Minimal mathematics, accessible language, and a student-oriented tone ease readers into complex subjects like money, interest rates, banking, asymmetric information, financial crises and regulation, monetary policy, monetary theory, and other standard topics. Numerous short cases, called "Stop and Think" boxes, promote internalization over memorization. Exercise drills ensure basic skills competency where appropriate. Short, snappy sections that begin with a framing question enhance readability and encourage assignment completion. The 2.0 version of this text boasts substantive revisions (additions, deletions, rearrangements) of almost every chapter based on the suggestions of many Money and Banking instructors. Some specific highlights are: Chapter 11 now contains enhanced descriptions of recent regulatory changes, including Dodd-Frank, Chapter 12 is an entirely new chapter on derivatives covering forwards, futures, options, and swaps that also including comprehensive treatment of the causes and consequences of financial crises, and Chapter 14 has updated discussions of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy tools, including paying interest on reserves, and the structure and leadership of the European Central Bank. Recent financial turmoil has increased student interest in the financial system but simultaneously threatens to create false impressions and negative attitudes. This up-to-date text by a dynamic, young author encourages students to critique the financial system without rejecting its many positive attributes. Peruse the book online now to see for yourself if this book fits the needs of your course and students. This textbook has been used in classes at:Augustana
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Gestión Inteligente Sinergias en la Contabilidad y Auditoría
Patricia Janella Salgado-Ortiz; Joffre Danny Preciado-Ramírez; Esther Angelica Proaño-González · Editorial Grupo AEA · 2024
El libro explora, en nueve capítulos, la formalización y sostenibilidad de emprendimientos informales en zonas rurales, con un enfoque en Ecuador. El primer capítulo destaca indicadores clave como financiamiento y educación empresarial para formalizar negocios. El segundo analiza las plataformas digitales y su impacto en pequeñas empresas de La Concordia, Ecuador, donde la digitalización mejora la competitividad, aunque enfrenta limitaciones de infraestructura. La capacitación continua para emprendedores, central en el tercer capítulo, es vital para el éxito en entornos rurales. Los capítulos posteriores abordan el papel del microcrédito (IV), la innovación en el cultivo de cacao (V), y la importancia de la auditoría en la toma de decisiones empresariales (VII). La obra también examina cómo la universidad contribuye con indicadores socioeconómicos (VI), la gestión de calidad en MIPYMES (VIII), y concluye con una propuesta curricular para capacitar a comerciantes informales (IX). Este compendio ofrece un análisis exhaustivo de cómo la educación, el financiamiento, la tecnología y la innovación son fundamentales para el desarrollo económico sostenible y la formalización en zonas vulnerables.