Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Rfid or Business Mathematics

RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy

Author: Beth Rosenberg

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is rapidly becoming ubiquitous as businesses seek to streamline supply chains and respond to mandates from key customers. But RFID and other new wireless ID technologies raise unprecedented privacy issues. RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy covers those issues from every angle and viewpoint.

Award-winning technology journalist and privacy expert Simson Garfinkel brings together contributions from every stakeholder community--from RFID suppliers to privacy advocates. His contributors introduce today's leading wireless ID technologies, trace their evolution, explain their promise, assess their privacy risks, and evaluate proposed solutions--technical, business, and political. Beyond RFID, they also review the privacy implications of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, smartcards, biometrics, new cell-phone networks, and the ever-evolving Internet. Highlights include

  • How RFID and other wireless ID technologies work
  • RFID applications, from your gas station and pharmacy to the twenty-first century battlefield
  • RFID, privacy, and the law--in the United States and around the world
  • The privacy impact of location awareness in today's wireless Internet infrastructure
  • Doomsday scenarios: Could ubiquitous wireless ID enable totalitarianism?
  • RFID, security, and industrial espionage
  • How Bluetooth and Wi-Fi can track individuals, with or without their permission
  • Technical solutions to wireless ID privacy concerns--their value and limitations
  • Stakeholder perspectives from Texas Instruments, Gemplus, NCR, P&G, and other leaders
  • The future of citizen activism onprivacy issues

Clear, balanced, and accessible, this is the indispensable primer for everyone involved in RFID: businesses implementing or evaluating RFID; technology suppliers responding to user concerns; and policymakers and privacy advocates who want a deeper understanding of the technology and its implications. Includes contributions from

AIM Global, Inc.
CVS Corporation
Center for Democracy and Technology
Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
EPCglobal, Inc.
ExxonMobil Corporation
Fleishman-Hillard Inc.
The Galecia Group
Gemplus
IDAT Consulting & Education
Institute for the Future
Matrics, Inc.
MIT Media Laboratory
MIT Auto-ID Laboratory
Privacy Journal
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Procter & Gamble
RSA Security
Texas Instruments, Inc.
UCLA Department of Geography
Wayne State University Law School



Book about: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration or Active Directory

Business Mathematics

Author: Charles David Miller

KEY BENEFIT: Business Mathematics, Eleventh Edition maximizes interest by presenting the necessary mathematics through real-world applications. New examples from real companies and the people who run them are woven throughout the book to apply the concepts to real practices. Many new photographs, news clippings, and graphs have been added to increase the relevance of chapter content to the world of business. The globalization of our society is emphasized through examples and exercises that highlight foreign countries and international topics. KEY TOPICS: Whole Numbers and Decimals; Fractions; Percent; Bank Services; Payroll; Mathematics of Buying; Mathematics of Selling; Simple Interest; Compound Interest; Annuities, Stocks, and Bonds; Business and Consumer Loans; Taxes and Insurance; Depreciation; Financial Statements and Ratios; Business Statistics. MARKET: For all readers interested in business mathematics.

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New edition of a standard elementary text-workbook (with perforated test pages) for high school or junior college. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)



Table of Contents:

Preface

Introduction for Students

Pretest in Business Mathematics

Index of Applications

1. Whole Numbers and Decimals

1.1 Whole Numbers

1.2 Application Problems

1.3 Basics of Decimals

1.4 Addition and Subtraction of Decimals

1.5 Multiplication and Division of Decimals

   Case Study: Subway

   Chapter 1 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: The Toll of Wedding Bells

   Chapter 1 Test

2. Fractions

2.1 Basics of Fractions

   Case Study: Home Depot

2.2 Addition and Subtraction of Fractions

2.3 Addition and Subtraction of Mixed Numbers

2.4 Multiplication and Division of Fractions

2.5 Converting Decimals to Fractions and Fractions to Decimals

   Chapter 2 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Using Fractions with Statistics

   Chapter 2 Test

3. Percent

3.1 Writing Decimals and Fractions as Percents

3.2 Finding Part

3.3 Finding Base

   Supplementary Application Exercises on Base and Part

3.4 Finding Rate

   Supplementary Application Exercises on Base, Rate, and Part

3.5 Increase and Decrease Problems

   Case Study: Century 21

   Chapter 3 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Investment Gains and Losses

   Chapter 3 Test

Cumulative Review: Chapters 1—3

4. Bank Services

4.1 Checking Accounts and Check Registers

   Case Study: Jackson and Perkins

4.2 Checking Services and Credit-Card Transactions

4.3 Bank StatementReconciliation

   Chapter 4 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: The Banking Activities of a Retailer

   Chapter 4 Test

5. Payroll

5.1 Gross Earnings: Wages and Salaries

5.2 Gross Earnings: Piecework and Commissions

5.3 Social Security, Medicare, and Other Taxes

5.4 Income Tax Withholding

   Case Study: Social Security Administration

   Chapter 5 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Payroll: Finding Your Take-Home Pay

   Chapter 5 Test

6. Mathematics of Buying

6.1 Invoices and Trade Discounts

6.2 Series Discounts and Single Discount Equivalents

6.3 Cash Discounts: Ordinary Dating Method

   Case Study: George Foreman

6.4 Cash Discounts: Other Dating Methods

   Chapter 6 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: The Retailer: Invoices,

   Trade Discounts, and Cash Discounts

   Chapter 6 Test

7. Mathematics of Selling

7.1 Markup on Cost

7.2 Markup on Selling Price

   Supplementary Application Exercises on Markup

7.3 Markdown

7.4 Turnover and Valuation of Inventory

   Chapter 7 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Markdown: Reducing Prices to Move Merchandise

   Case Study: REI

   Chapter 7 Test

Cumulative Review: Chapters 4—7

8. Simple Interest

8.1 Basics of Simple Interest

8.2 Finding Principal, Rate, and Time

8.3 Simple Discount Notes

8.4 Discounting a Note Before Maturity

   Case Study: General Motors

   Supplementary Application Exercises on Simple Interest and Simple Discount

   Chapter 8 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Banking in a Global World:

   How Do Large Banks Make Money?

   Chapter 8 Test

9. Compound Interest

9.1 Compound Interest

9.2 Interest-Bearing Bank Accounts and Inflation

   Case Study: Bank of America

9.3 Present Value and Future Value

   Chapter 9 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Valuing a Chain of McDonald’s Restaurants

   Chapter 9 Test

Cumulative Review: Chapters 8 and 9

10. Annuities, Stocks, and Bonds

10.1 Annuities and Retirement Accounts

10.2 Present Value of an Ordinary Annuity

10.3 Sinking Funds (Finding Annuity Payments)

   Supplementary Application Exercises on Annuities and Sinking Funds

10.4 Stocks

   Case Study: American River College

10.5 Bonds

   Chapter 10 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Planning for Retirement

   Chapter 10 Test

11. Business and Consumer Loans

11.1 Open-End Credit and Charge Cards

11.2 Installment Loans

11.3 Early Payoffs of Loans

11.4 Personal Property Loans

11.5 Real Estate Loans

   Chapter 11 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Consolidating Loans

   Case Study: Citigroup

   Chapter 11 Test

Cumulative Review: Chapters 10 and 11

12. Taxes and Insurance

12.1 Property Tax

12.2 Personal Income Tax

12.3 Fire Insurance

12.4 Motor Vehicle Insurance

12.5 Life Insurance

   Case Study: Mattel

   Chapter 12 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Financial Planning for Taxes and Insurance

   Chapter 12 Test

13. Depreciation

13.1 Depreciation: Straight-Line Method

13.2 Depreciation: Declining-Balance Method

13.3 Depreciation: Sum-of-the-Years’-Digits Method

   Supplementary Application Exercises on Depreciation

13.4 Depreciation: Units-of-Production Method

   Case Study: Ford Motor Company

13.5 Depreciation: Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System

   Chapter 13 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Comparing Depreciation Methods: A Business Application

   Chapter 13 Test

14. Financial Statements and Ratios

14.1 The Income Statement

14.2 Analyzing the Income Statement

14.3 The Balance Sheet

14.4 Analyzing the Balance Sheet

   Chapter 14 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Owning Your Own Business

   Case Study: The Hershey Company

   Chapter 14 Test

15. Business Statistics

15.1 Frequency Distributions and Graphs

15.2 Mean, Median, and Mode

   Chapter 15 Quick Review

   Chapter Terms

   Summary Exercise: Watching the Growth of a Small Business

   Case Study: Bobby Flay

   Chapter 15 Test

   CHAPTER 15

   CHAPTER 14

Appendices

A. Equations and Formula Review

   A.1 Equations

   A.2 Business Applications of Equations

   A.3 Business Formulas

   A.4 Ratio and Proportion

B. The Metric System

C. Basic Calculators

D. Financial Calculators

Answers to Selected Exercises

Glossary

Index

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