Risk management in finance : six sigma and other next-generation techniques / / Anthony Tarantino, Deborah Cernauskas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830959403321
• Autore: Tarantino Anthony <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , [2009]; ©2009
• ISBN: 0-470-48525-6; 1-119-19781-3; 1-282-11449-2; 9786612114496; 0-470-48524-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Collana: Wiley finance
• Disciplina: 658.15/5
• Soggetti: Financial risk management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Data governance in financial risk management -- Information risk and data quality management -- Total quality management using lean six sigma -- Reducing risk to financial operations through information technology and infrastructure risk management -- An operational risk management framework for all organizations -- Financial risk management in Asia -- Doing business in Latin America : lessons learned and best practices for the protection of foreign investors -- Mitigating risk exposure in transitioning to the IFRS -- Quantitative operational risk management methods -- Statistical process control integrated with engineering process control -- Business process management and lean six sigma : a next-generation technique to improve financial risk management -- Bayesian networks for root cause analysis -- Analytics : secrets to deriving business value and insights out of information -- Embedded predictive analytics : transforming risk management from review function to competitive advantage -- Reducing the financial risks in litigation and legal discovery -- The circle of trust -- Reducing liability risk through best environmental practices -- Beyond segregation of ; duties : next-generation techniques in evaluating user access control risks -- Transaction-based cross-enterprise risk management -- Throughput accounting -- Environment consistency confidence : scientific method in financial risk management -- Quality in the front office : reducing process variation in trading firms -- The root cause of the global financial crisis and corporate board reforms to prevent future failures in risk management.
• Sommario/riassunto: Implement next-generation techniques-before disaster strikes-and improve operation risk management ""The recent global economic crisis has brought home the need for realistic operational risk management as an important element of an organization's survival strategy in turbulent times. In Risk Management in Finance Dr. Tarantino and his coauthors provide an operational risk framework for the twenty-first-century organization by culling the state-of-the-arts knowledge on next-generation techniques in financial risk management to forestall major risk management failures. This book repres

Clearing the smoke : assessing the science base for tobacco harm reduction / / Kathleen Stratton ... [et al.], editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960099803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, c2001
• ISBN: 9786610185153; 9781280185151; 1280185155; 9780309511841; 0309511844
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (656 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): StrattonKathleen R
• Disciplina: 362.29/66
• Soggetti: Smoking - Health aspects; Smoking cessation; Tobacco use - Prevention
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Preface -- REVIEWERS -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Principles of Harm Reduction -- 3 Historical Perspective and Lessons Learned -- 4 Products for Tobacco Exposure Reduction -- 5 The Scientific Basis for PREP Assessment -- 6 Surveillance for the Health and Behavioral Consequences of Exposure Reduction -- 7 Implementation of a Science-Based Policy of Harm Reduction -- 8 Principal Conclusions -- 9 Nicotine Pharmacology -- 10 Tobacco Smoke and Toxicology -- 11 Exposure and Biomarker Assessment in Humans -- 12 Cancer -- 13 Cardiovascular Disease -- 14 Nonneoplastic Respiratory Diseases -- 15 Reproductive and Developmental Effects -- 16 Other Health Effects -- A Presentations and Submissions -- B Committee Biographical Sketches -- C Time Line of Tobacco Events -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Despite overwhelming evidence of tobacco's harmful effects and pressure from anti-smoking advocates, current surveys show that about one-quarter of all adults in the United States are smokers. This audience is the target for a wave of tobacco products and pharmaceuticals that claim to preserve tobacco pleasure while reducing its toxic effects. Clearing the Smoke addresses the problems in evaluating whether such products actually do reduce the health risks of tobacco use. Within the context of regulating such products, the committee explores key questions: Does the use of such products decrease exposure to harmful substances in tobacco? Is decreased exposure associated with decreased harm to health? Are there surrogate indicators of harm that could be measured quickly enough for regulation of these products? What are the public health implications? This book looks at the types of products that could reduce harm and reviews the available evidence for their impact on various forms of cancer and other major ailments. It also recommends approaches to governing these products and tracking their public health effects. With an attitude of healthy skepticism, Clearing the Smoke will be important to health policy makers, public health officials, medical practitioners, manufacturers and marketers of "reduced-harm" tobacco products, and anyone trying to sort through product claims.