Sunday, December 14, 2008

English Made Easy or Analysis of Financial Time Series

English Made Easy

Author: Mary Margaret Hosler

English Made Easy, 5/e by Hosler is a text-workbook for use in quarter or semester courses in business English or basic English skills. Fifty-one lessons presented in 12 units cover the essentials of grammar, punctuation, style, capitalization, number usage, word usage, and paragraph development. The user-friendly, four-page format for each lesson consists of two pages of instruction followed by two pages of exercises. New author Mary Margaret Hosler, is a well-known and highly respected postsecondary business educator. She replaces Bernadine Branchaw, who is deceased.



Table of Contents:
Unit 1: IntroductionLesson 1: Why Study English Again Unit 2: Sentence Structure Lesson 2: The Sentence Lesson 3: Subjects and Verbs Lesson 4: Kinds of Sentences Unit 3: Nouns Lesson 5: Common and Proper Nouns Lesson 6: Concrete, Abstract, Compound, and Collective Nouns Lesson 7: Plural Nouns Lesson 8: Possessive Nouns Unit 4: Pronouns Lesson 9: Antecedents, Number, and Gender Lesson 10: Pronouns and Their "Case" Lesson 11: Selecting the Right Case Lesson 12: Who, Whom, and Other Pronouns Lesson 13: More About Pronouns Unit 5: Verbs Lesson 14: Uses of Verbs Lesson 15: Helping Verbs, Principal Parts of Verbs, and Linking Verbs Lesson 16: Verb Tenses Lesson 17: Regular and Irregular Verbs Lesson 18: To Be and To Have Lesson 19: To Do and To Go Lesson 20: Just Perfect? The Perfect Tenses Lesson 21: Subject and Verb Agreement Lesson 22: Lie and Lay Lesson 23: Sit and Set; Rise and Raise Lesson 24: More Troublesome Verbs Unit 6: Adjectives (and more...)

See also: Bananas and Business or Effective Health Care Supervisor

Analysis of Financial Time Series

Author: Ruey S Tsay

Gain the statistical tools and techniques you need to understand today's financial markets with the Second Edition of this critically acclaimed book.

Youll find a comprehensive and systematic introduction to financial econometric models and their applications in modeling and predicting financial time series data. This edition continues to emphasize empirical financial data and focuses on real-world examples. Youll master key aspects of financial time series, including volatility modeling, neural network applications, market microstructure and high-frequency financial data, continuous-time models and Ito's Lemma, Value at Risk, multiple returns analysis, financial factor models, and econometric modeling via computation-intensive methods.

This is an ideal textbook for MBA students and a key reference for researchers and professionals in business and finance. Order your copy today.



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