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Financial Statement Analysis: Content and Context
No full textFirms that manage their resources wisely prosper, while those that don\u27t languish and ultimately fail. Financial statement analysis is a complex and challenging discipline, one that is both art and science. As such, Financial Statement Analysis: Content and Context teaches you how to interpret financial disclosures and place them in their appropriate context. This text takes a very broad view of financial statement analysis. A careful reading of this text improves investing, lending, and performance assessment decisions. This orientation differs from many traditional textbooks in this area that focus on only stock investment decisions.
This second edition improves on the content of the first edition. End of chapter assignments now include discussion questions and exercises to facilitate review of the chapter material. Two new industries that resonate with today\u27s readers have been added. The industry case assignments have been refocused to tie directly to each chapter\u27s material.https://inspire.redlands.edu/oh_books/1067/thumbnail.jp
The Influence of Social and Cultural Capital on Student Engagement: A Narrative Inquiry of African-American Male Voices in High School
No full textAfrican-American male students, at the national, state, and local level, have the lowest standardized test scores, the highest suspension rates and are overrepresented in Special Education (Act Research and Policy, 2012, NCES, 2015; California State Accountability Report Card, 2017; Matthews et al., 2010; Losen & Gillepsie, 2012). While the quantitative data tells educators and researchers what is happening in K-12 schools, an explanation as to why and how this is happening, is missing. Also missing are the voices of African-American male students explaining, through their perspective, why this phenomenon continues to exist. This study used narrative inquiry, as a qualitative methodological approach, through a Cultural Capital (Bourdieu, 1986) and Social Capital (Coleman, 1988) framework to answer the following questions: What is the influence of social and cultural capital on the engagement of high school African-American male students, What do high school African-American male authentic student voices reveal about the impact of social and cultural capital, race, pedagogy, and school expectations on the development of their identity, and What recommendations can be made to school leaders, and K-12 teachers, regarding African-American male student engagement? Four African-American male high school students were chosen, using convenient sampling, to participate in this study. Grade point averages ranged from 1.8 to a 3.8, and the participants had varying socio-economic status. Each participant was interviewed three times, ranging from 30 minutes to 45 minutes. The researcher used the interviews to create four distinct narratives of the experiences of the participants in school. African-American male students, navigating through a White-dominated school culture, found themselves often marginalized as their social and cultural capital can be perceived by the dominant culture as not having equal value, creating a gap (Strayhorn, 2010) that can lead to lower academic performance outcomes and higher suspension rates. Yet, their wealth of capital (Yosso, 2005), from family, peers, and community, as well as the role teachers play in creating a connected, student-centered classroom, focused on relationships and care, (Turner et al., 2014; Cooper, 2014), can help mitigate the negative consequences of the gap on student engagement
Special Issue on Health Digital Transformation II: E-Technologies and Intelligent Health IT/IS Adaptations to Increasingly Complex Problems in Today\u27s Healthcare Services Delivery Systems
No full textThis is the second of our two IJHISI special issues releasing a series of well-positioned, peer-reviewed papers presented at HICSS-50 conference in Hawaii. In the first IJHISI special issue series of papers, we observe that when transforming the healthcare sector in resolving complex challenges found across various aspects of the macro-micro dimensions of this evolving system, the growing use of emerging and innovative e-technologies arising from a multitude of perspectives have been the results of active engagements from and joint interactions among various healthcare stakeholders, including but not limited to such personnel as hospital managers, multi-provider care team members, health informaticians and engineers, health information systems and interface designers and even patients
A Guide to Calculating Habitat-quality Metrics to Inform Conservation of Highly Mobile Species
No full textMany metrics exist for quantifying the relative value of habitats and pathways used by highly mobile species. Properly selecting and applying such metrics requires substantial background in mathematics and understanding the relevant management arena. To address this multidimensional challenge, we demonstrate and compare three measurements of habitat quality: graph‐, occupancy‐, and demographic‐based metrics. Each metric provides insights into system dynamics, at the expense of increasing amounts and complexity of data and models. Our descriptions and comparisons of diverse habitat‐quality metrics provide means for practitioners to overcome the modeling challenges associated with management or conservation of such highly mobile species. Whereas previous guidance for applying habitat‐quality metrics has been scattered in diversified tracks of literature, we have brought this information together into an approachable format including accessible descriptions and a modeling case study for a typical example that conservation professionals can adapt for their own decision contexts and focal populations
EdTech Leaders’ Beliefs: How are K-5 Teachers Supported with the Integration of Computer Science in K-5 Classrooms?
No full textEducational Technology Leaders’ support of computer science teachers in K-5 classrooms are influenced by their beliefs about school-based program implementation criteria, available district-level support, and state mandates on the integration of computer science. The researcher in this study examines the beliefs about Computer Science teacher support, and training in five different Educational Tech Leaders’ districts, to determine sustainable implementation practices for K-5 schools. In order to effectively integrate computer science in K-5 instruction, administrators and program decision-makers must be aware of the beliefs Educational Technology Leaders hold related to the implementation process of programs, specifically related to the training of K-5 teachers who facilitate the computer science curricula in classrooms. Information reported in this study may inform school-level, district-level, and state-level decisions related to sustainable computer science program implementations
The Dynamic Effects of Stock Prices on Mutual Funds Flows and Volume in the Korean Stock Market
No full textThis paper examines the dynamic relationship among security returns, equity mutual fund flows, and trading volume using the monthly Korean stock market data. We employ various empirical methods including VAR analyses, Granger causality tests and a variation of the present value model. We find that Korean stock market returns Granger-cause equity mutual fund flows into the market, but not vice versa. We do not find evidence that the mutual fund flows directly affect stock market prices in the presence of fundamentals of firms. Instead, we find that fund flows seem to be influenced by the performance of the stock market and that investors try to forecast fundamentals of firms and change their demand for stocks accordingly.We find that the Korean stock market volume plays a significant role in predicting both returns and flows. This causal relationship is consistent with the sequential information arrival model (SEQ)
Is Your Job at Risk of Automation?
No full textAccording to an Oxford University study, more than 50 percent of all US jobs are susceptible to automation within the next two decades. Robots, which have previously been confined to the manufacturing sector, are now entering the service sector, where 90 percent of American employees work. Some service professions, such as tax preparers, freight agents, and cashiers, face close to certain risk of elimination. Others, such as physicians, social workers, and many education-related jobs, face almost no risk at all.
Job automation will hit certain metropolitan areas significantly harder than others. Low-wage cities like Las Vegas, Nevada; Orlando, Florida; and Riverside–San Bernardino, California currently have the highest shares of jobs that are susceptible to automation. This map illustrates the share of jobs automatable for all 421 metropolitan statistical areas (MSA). The bubble sizes are proportional to the number of workers employed in the MSA in December 2016. The bubble colors display the share of those jobs that can technically be “automated away” in the next twenty years. As the map shows, almost all large metropolitan areas can lose over 55 percent of their current jobs due to automation. The ones that fare better than others include high-tech centers like Silicon Valley, California, and Boston.https://inspire.redlands.edu/oh_chapters/1077/thumbnail.jp
Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance
No full textThis book explores software\u27s pivotal role as the code that powers computers, mobile devices, the Internet, and social media. Creating conditions for the ongoing development and use of software, including the Internet as a communications infrastructure, is one of the most compelling issues of our time. Free software is based upon open source code, developed in peer communities as well as corporate settings, challenging the dominance of proprietary software firms and promoting the digital commons. Drawing upon key cases and interviews with free software proponents based in Europe, Brazil and the U.S., the book explores pathways toward creating the digital commons and examines contemporary political struggles over free software, privacy and civil liberties on the Internet that are vital for the commons\u27 continued development.https://inspire.redlands.edu/oh_books/1066/thumbnail.jp
The Decision to Disclose: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experience of Coming Out in High School
No full textThis qualitative study used narrative inquiry to consider the stories of LGBTQ college students who looked back on their decisions to disclose in high school. A social constructivist framework and Bronfenbrenner\u27s Ecological theory shaped the lens by which this study viewed the decision to come out. The purpose of this study was to understand the factors that inform the decision to disclose in high school, and in which environments students felt safe, or not safe, coming out and why.
To collect data, participants took part in a three-interview process to help recall their coming out stories. Narratives were then crafted based on the participants\u27 recollections as they emerged throughout the interviews. Participants member-checked the narratives. Narratives and interviews were then hand-coded for common experiences and themes.
Findings emerged regarding the balance of support systems participants experienced that affected their decision to disclose, as well as the salient identities that existed regardless of the environment in which participants chose to disclose. These included political and religious identities. These findings could serve to help inform educators who work to create safer environments for LGBTQ youth
The Art and Science of Trombone Teaching
No full textThe Art and Science of Trombone Teaching is a new resource for anyone who wants to teach the trombone, taken from the viewpoint of both the teacher and the student. It is drawn from a long career of college level teaching, a decade of Pokorny Low Brass Seminars, and research into the science of teaching the instrument. The book includes sections on the psychology, physiology and physics of the trombone along with strategies and exercises for applying that knowledge to effective teaching.https://inspire.redlands.edu/oh_books/1054/thumbnail.jp