Financial statements are the cognitive instrument par excellence to understand a company’s profitability, asset trends and financial performance. This volume is divided into three sections and addresses the main themes related to Financial Statements. The first part, “Financial Statement analysis – Main objectives and tools” illustrates the techniques commonly used to analyse and interpret financial statements: reformulations of statement of financial position and statement of comprehensive income and ratios. The second part, “IFRS –Accounting issues” presents the accounting issues of the most significant financial statements captions in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) applicable on the date of publication of this manual. Consolidated financial statements are the subject of the third part, presenting the fundamental problems that gradually may arise from the consolidation process. The book is intended for all those - students or professionals - who intend to deal in a systematic way with the issues of construction and analysis of financial statements. The content of each chapter is enriched by examples, with the aim of facilitating understanding.
Financial statements are the cognitive instrument par excellence to understand a company’s profitability, asset trends and financial performance. This volume is divided into three sections and addresses the main themes related to Financial Statements. The first part, “Financial Statement analysis – Main objectives and tools” illustrates the techniques commonly used to analyse and interpret financial statements: reformulations of statement of financial position and statement of comprehensive income and ratios. The second part, “IFRS –Accounting issues” presents the accounting issues of the most significant financial statements captions in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) applicable on the date of publication of this manual. Consolidated financial statements are the subject of the third part, presenting the fundamental problems that gradually may arise from the consolidation process. The book is intended for all those - students or professionals - who intend to deal in a systematic way with the issues of construction and analysis of financial statements. The content of each chapter is enriched by examples, with the aim of facilitating understanding.
Self-Organised Schools: Educational Leadership and Innovative Learning Environments describes the results of the research we carried out at fourteen Italian schools that highlight how there is a positive correlation between the capabilities of school self-organization and the innovativeness of learning environments: in other words, the more self-organized schools are, the more innovative learning environments are. The results of this work are part of the strand of research of bottom-up emergency and self-organization, an extremely fruitful trend as shown by Sugata Mitra, the founder of the Self-Organized Learning Environments, according to whom, education is a self-organized system where learning is an emerging phenomenon. This book gives new insights on self-organization studies, and most of all, to the idea that change - organizational and educational innovation - sparks from the bottom. This book is aimed specifically at school principals of all levels, scholastic reformers, educational scholars, organisation and management consultants who want to innovate learning and management of learning. These actors will benefit drawing useful examples from more than thirty different learning environments worldwide, fourteen examples of schools that self-organize, two frameworks - and two ready-to-use questionnaires - measuring the innovativeness of a learning environment, and the capability of a school to self-organize. Self-organization is the most fascinating future of innovative principals
Milan, known worldwide as the economic and fashion capital of Italy, is one of the most advanced cities in the world which, in its completely urbanized area of almost 181.76km², includes also wonderful shops and a great social life, besides, of course, art, a university culture, excellent food and traditions recognizable in everyday life and in daily habits; for example, the rediscovery of the small markets as a place to meet and have a chat, or going for a walk with the family in the streets of the centre. It is not at all easy to determine what is in the name “Milan”: first of all, it refers to a municipality with about 1,300,000 inhabitants, but also to an urban area with about 3,900,000 inhabitants also known as the “Greater Milan” and finally, to a metropolitan area of 7,400,000 inhabitants. Nevertheless, the city is identified by its symbols, and our intention is to introduce you to every aspect of the city of Milan through virtual photographs, texts and some curiosities. It is worth visiting Milan to learn the many realities that surround this city, from the entrepreneurial vocation to the connection with tradition: only by knowing the richness of the past can we confront the present. Enjoy your visit!
Examines the role of the ANS in the maintenance and control of bodily homeostasis, as well as in the pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and treatment of disorders such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, asthma, arrhythmia, diabetes, ischemia, myocardial infarction, urinary retention, and depression.
A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children’s minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci. Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her era detested in the fairer sex. She was self-confident, strong-willed, and had a fiery temper at a time when women were supposed to be soft and pliable. She studied until she became a doctor at a time when female graduates in Italy provoked outright scandal. She never wanted to marry or have children—the accepted destiny for all women of her milieu in late nineteenth-century bourgeois Rome—and when she became pregnant by a colleague of hers, she gave up her son to continue pursuing her career. At around age thirty, Montessori was struck by the condition of children in the slums of Rome’s San Lorenzo neighborhood, and realized what she wanted to do with her life: change the school, and therefore the world, through a new approach to the child’s mind. In spite of the resistance she faced from all sides—scientists accused her of being too mystical, and the clergy of being too scientific, traditionalists of giving children too much freedom, and anarchists of giving them too much structure—she would garner acclaim and establish the influential Montessori method, which is now practiced throughout the world. A thorough, nuanced portrait of this often controversial woman, The Child Is the Teacher offers an unbiased perspective from an author who is not a member of the Montessori movement, but who has been granted access to original letters, diaries, notes, and texts written by Montessori herself, including an array of previously unpublished material.
“FASCIST IDENTITY” provides an interpretation which places fascism outside the traditional political categories of right and left, it is proposed as innovative politological research compared to a deeper understanding of this ideology, and through consultation with many studies specialists, as well as a whole series of original documents that describe the fascist project, analyzes the totalitarian evolution during Years 20,30 and 40 of the twentieth century, through the writings of founder Benito Mussolini and those who, like the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, contributed to form the fascist political identity. Thus, the authors hope to bring to the attention of readers one of the most original and misunderstood particularities of the history of fascism, what the “regime” intended to create, a new social model focused on the direct participation of the masses in political life of the Italian nation, through the totalitarian full adherence to the universal values of Ethical Corporative State.
Questo è un omaggio alla mia zona, la Barona. All'occhio distratto e frettoloso questa periferia milanese può sembrare nulla più che una recente realtà dalla storia spesso difficile. Nulla di meno vero. Queste pagine vi catapulteranno in un viaggio che comincia all'alba della civiltà, raccontando la storia, le bellezze e le tragedie di questo splendido territorio.
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