Money in the Community uses the National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. The book provides the earliest of readers a background on taxes and how they work in the community. Simple sentence structure and word usage help readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary and index. The My Guide to Money series uses the National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance...

"An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises. By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will...

Esta entrega de la colección "Grandes problemas", coeditada por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y El Colegio de México, publica una investigación de Carlos Tello Macías que se nutre del trabajo acumulado, a lo largo de muchas décadas, por especialistas en el tema de las finanzas públicas mexicanas -entre ellos, académicos, analistas financieros e inclusive funcionarios públicos-, y analiza, entre otras muchas cosas, desde el presente...

El lector se encuentra próximo a conocer la experiencia del Banco Colpatria en el avance directivo y gerencial para la implementación de la gestión del cliente, a través de la narración de los aspectos más relevantes de dicha gestión, descrita bajo el método del caso. Este método, de gran práctica en el desarrollo de las ciencias sociales, humanas, biológicas y matemáticas, ha sido una de las estrategias pedagógicas de mayor uso y efectividad...

This volume details the process of, and difficulties in, assembling the data: the source notes for every column in each sub-file for each of the Excel files A-P; with some fuller explanation of the heading; and particular notes for particular years in each column. There are also explanations, calculations and reasoning for particular estimates and how totals were arrived at. The reasoning for some totals and the inclusion of certain categories may...

In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists-representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion-gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform. The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights from the ongoing collaboration that began at these meetings and provides a revelatory, unified, and coherent voice for fixing our troubled and damaged financial...

This report documents Viet Nam's financial management systems covering the areas of budgeting, funds flow, accounting and reporting, and auditing systems. It also provides insights into the quality of the country's internal control systems, staffing resource capacity, and information technology structure. The publication aims to enhance the understanding of project teams and consultants on public financial management systems with the objective of...

Governments around the world are wrestling with the problems of enormous debts, low growth, high unemployment and a gap between the demands of public expenditure and what can be raised through taxation. There are two small islands with no natural resources which have enjoyed high growth combined with low taxation: Hong Kong and Singapore. Nor do they have any public debts; in fact, on the contrary, they generally run a budget surplus, and investment...

The Bangladesh Public Financial Management Systems report documents the country's financial management systems covering primarily the areas of budgeting, funds flow, accounting and reporting, and auditing systems. This report also provides insights into the quality of internal control systems, staffing resource capacity, and information technology structure. The intent is to provide project teams and consultants with a better understanding of financial...