This uniquely accessible, breakthrough book lets auditors grasp the thinking behind the mathematical approach to risk without doing the mathematics. Risk control expert and former Big 4 auditor, Matthew Leitch, takes the reader gently but quickly through the key concepts, explaining mistakes organizations often make and how auditors can find them. Spend a few minutes every day reading this conveniently pocket sized book and you will soon transform your understanding of this highly topical area and be in demand for interesting reviews with risk at their heart. "I was really excited by this book - and I am not a mathematician. With my basic understanding of business statistics and business risk management I was able to follow the arguments easily and pick up the jargon of a discipline akin to my own but not my own." —Dr Sarah Blackburn, President at the Institute of Internal Auditors - UK and Ireland

Managing IT like a business demands integrated and systematic business and IT insight the kind of integration and systematic insight that SAP has spent the last 35 years helping the world s leading companies achieve. Best-run businesses use SAP® solutions to automate key business processes so they can close the gap between strategy and execution. Best-run businesses drive clarity into their organizations by gaining insight for improved performance, efficiency for optimized operations, and flexibility to adapt quickly to changing circumstances.Like best-run businesses, best-run IT organizations are able to optimize operations, maximize innovation, and adjust rapidly to evolving business needs. Their IT management solutions help them better understand themselves and their customers and make the best decisions in the face of challenging expectations and constraints.This book outlines SAP s view on best-run IT. It will help orient you to our related solutions and provide you with ideas for driving clarity and business value in your IT organization.

In the nearly three years since the publication of the ActivEpi companion text, the authors received several suggestions to produce an abbreviated version that narrows the discussion to the most "essential" principals and methods. A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology contains less than half as many pages as the ActivEpi Companion Text and is a stand-alone introductory text on the basic principals and concepts of epidemiology.

Quick help with math questions! Take-along format fits easily into a briefcase, schoolbag, or pocket. Helps with common problems, including bookkeeping, investing, ratios, statistics, and household math. Provides easy-to-apply solutions. Includes tables and formulas.

First comes clear thinking, then comes clear writing. *** The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking teaches very clearly the essential skills to reason better--for classwork, for writing, and in everyday life. Hundreds of pertinent, analyzed, and engaging examples from the Internet, magazines, newspapers, radio, as well as dialogues of cartoon characters illustrate how to analyze arguments and make better decisions. The Pocket Guide is both the perfect supplement for any course that requires critical thinking and a practical aid for self-study. This fifth edition has new chapters on reasoning in the sciences that provide the basics for any student to begin the study of any science: explanations, experiments, the scientific methods, and models and theories.

If you could simultaneously increase revenue and lower costs, would your company benefit? Would you benefit? This wide ranging book teaches leaders, managers, and individual contributors how to super charge processes to improve customer retention and satisfaction, reduce costs, and increase revenue. The backstory: Industrial Engineering blends the problem solving ability of an engineer, the business acumen of an MBA and the people-focus of a social worker. There is a saying that Engineers make stuff, Industrial Engineers make it better. From construction to banking, manufacturing to professional services, tech to sustainability, product design to destruction, task elimination to automation, sales to project management, IEs have an impact in everything. If there is something at work or at home you think could be better, Industrial Engineering is the skill set to make the change. This book details the tools anyone can use to make huge improvements. Companies like Toyota and Apple have become completely dominant in their industries by using Industrial Engineering tools to improve their operations, iterate quickly, build great teams, and create more value for their customers. For the first time, the tools they used are available to everyone in an easy to digest, weekend read. Industrial Engineering may really be thought of as business engineering. To look at a business, analyze how it is functioning and then design a better way to do things is not simple. The tools needed are not obvious and often cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn in a graduate school program. This book is an exploration of dozens of those tools at a fraction of the cost. You'll benefit from this if: - You're interested in improving the you way things are done at work - You have management responsibility or supervise anyone - You're a leader, founder, or advisor to a business - You want to approach your managers with succinct plans to make improvements in your role or at the company - You are looking for a ways to earn a promotion