by Susan M. Wachter (2016)
"Underfunded pension liabilities threaten the fiscal stability of many cities. While Detroit's bankruptcy has dominated the headlines, the problem is widespread. With ongoing battles in many localities, policymakers are increasingly turning their attention to the legacy issues surrounding the funding of pensions. Public Pensions and City Solvency addresses this complex fiscal challenge and presents strategies to achieve financial sustainability."--Publisher's website.
Deborah Lucas
This text contains new research, both empirical and methodological, on the measurement and management of the costs and risks that the US government faces in providing credit and assuming risk through direct activities.
Alan Dixie
As well as individuals setting up & running their own businesses, a growing number of larger firms are now moving towards a 'homeworking' culture, where employees spend part or all of their working week in a home-based office rather than occupying expensive & less flexible offices. This practical guide shows why.
David Hoyle, John Thompson
QMS Conversion: A Process Approach assists organizations in converting their existing quality management systems of documentation into systems of managed processes that deliver business benefits. The 2000 version of ISO 9000 requires a different approach to be taken towards the achievement of quality, an approach that delivers customer satisfaction not simply compliance with documented procedures. By using a process approach to the development of a management system, the significant time and expense invested should be utilized in a way that will help an organization achieve real business benef.
Raymond M. Lee
"In this book you will discover how data can be 'found' in the world, captured from different forms of observation and retrieved from data banks of various kinds. There is a particular focus on use of the Internet, which promises to be a major source of unobtrusive data. You will learn how to generate unobtrusive measures, and also look at some of the wider ethical issues raised by the use of unobtrusive data."--Jacket.