Financial Business Intelligence : Trends, Technology, Software Selection and Implementation Turn storehouses of data into a strategic tool
Business intelligence has recently become a word used by almost every CFO, controller, and analyst. After having spent the last decade implementing Enterprise Resource Planning software and other mission critical solutions, companies now have large databases with transactional data sitting in their computer rooms. Now, finally, the technology has reached a point where it is possible– in almost real time–to quickly and easily analyze the financial data in the corporate databases, to be able to make more intelligent business decisions. This book will help financial managers understand the trends, technology, software selection, and implementation of financial business intelligence (financial BI) software. With a dictionary of business intelligence terms, a comprehensive list of Request for Proposal questions, and examples of popular financial business intelligence reroutes and user interfaces, this book enables managers to measure their companies’ business intelligence and maximize its value. (Amazon.com).
This resource book for teachers offers meaningful and motivating activities for teaching other areas of the curriculum in English.
It supports the growing number of teachers in bilingual programmes or those looking to integrate language and subject content in their English classes.
It provides lesson plans, projects ideas and over 100 phototocopiable worksheets, teaching aspects of Science, History, Geography, Art, Information Technology and more.
The material has been designed to complement children's language learning at the same time as teaching content, and can be used to supplement any subject area or English course book.
So many slighting remarks have been made of late on the use of teaching grammar as compared with teaching science, that it is plain the fact has been lost sight of that grammar is itself a science. The object we have, or should have, in teaching science, is not to fill a child's mind with a vast number of facts that may or may not prove useful to him hereafter, but to draw out and exercise his powers of observation, and to show him how to make use of what he observes... And here the teacher of grammar has a great advantage over the teacher of other sciences, in that the facts he has to call attention to lie ready at hand for every pupil to observe without the use of apparatus of any kind while the use of them also lies within the personal experience of every one.
The Teacher's Grammar Book
The Teacher's Grammar Book, Second Edition introduces the
various grammars that inform writing instruction in our schools, and
examines methods, strategies, and techniques that constitute best
classroom practices for teaching grammar and writing. Designed for
students who are preparing to become English or language arts teachers,
as well as for credentialed teachers who want an easy-to-use guide to
questions of methods, grammar, and teaching, this overview of basic
English grammar includes the following major topics: a brief history of
grammar, teaching grammar, grammar and writing, traditional grammar,
transformational-generative grammar, cognitive grammar, dialects, black
English, and Chicano English. New in the reorganized and fully updated Second Edition:
*new chapter giving a brief history of grammar and grammar instruction;
*new chapter on best practices--strategies and techniques that actually work;
*expanded chapter on cognitive grammar--a topic not found in other texts of this nature;
*expanded chapter on dialects;
*summary
and evaluation of the minimalist program (Noam Chomsky's most recent
revision of transformational-generative grammar)--a topic unique among
texts of this kind; and
*reduced discussion of transformational grammar.
