Author: Daniel N. Riahi
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: stability, hydrodynamic, simulation, modeling, mathematical
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1996-03
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 9810223080
ISBN-13: 9789810223083

Hydrodynamic stability is of fundamental importance in the mechanics of fluids and is mainly concerned with the problem of the transition to turbulence. This book is devoted to publication of original research papers, research-expository and survey articles with an emphasis on unsolved problems and open questions in the mathematical modeling and computational aspects of hydrodynamic stability. Review chapters on the mathematical modeling and numerical simulation aspects of hydrodynamic stability, the physical background, and the limitations of the modeling and simulation procedures, du

Author: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui
Publisher: Quorum Book
Keywords: consequences, evaluation, accounting, leasing, term
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1998-01-30
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1567201474
ISBN-13: 9781567201475

Riahi-Belkaoui sees leasing and buying decisions as structured and quantifiable, and makes clear that the reporting decision has consequences for a corporation’s balance sheet. His book thus provides specific models for application of the leasing decision, for application of the buy versus lease decision, for accounting and reporting of leases, and an examination of the market consequences of leasing and its accounting. A valuable discussion and resource for corporate financial officers and upper management trained in financial decision-making.

Author: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui
Publisher: Quorum Book
Keywords: issues, solutions, problems, accounting, financial, critical
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1998-02-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1567201164
ISBN-13: 9781567201161

From the complexity of today’s business world and its daily transactions has come a proliferation of new accounting standards. The Financial Accounting Standards Board has weighed in with its own pronouncements on the issues, but are they truly comprehensible and applicable? Riahi-Belkaoui explores these questions clearly, with numerous illustrations of the accounting techniques embedded in them, and offers interpretations designed to help accounting professionals deal with these problems in their work. Scholars, researchers, and students in the academic community will also find his anal

Author: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: projects, capital, evaluating
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2000-12-30
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1567203574
ISBN-13: 9781567203578

The successful evaluation of capital projects requires not only a thorough understanding of traditional techniques of capital budgeting but advanced techniques as well. Riahi-Belkaoui examines the multidimensionality of capital budgeting in its various facets and in ways that executives with no special facility in the subject can follow. He covers replacement decisions, capital rationing, capital budgeting under inflation uncertainty, capital budgeting in a multinational setting with attention to political risks, social project evaluation, and concepts of wealth measurement and distribution. T

Author: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: economic, events, important, predictability, analysis, financial
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1998-07-30
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1567201644
ISBN-13: 9781567201642

Financial analysis, based on ratio analysis, has been used as a tool for analyzing the financial strength of corporations. Although ratio analysis is generally used as a univariate strategy, the accounting and finance literature has evolved to include multivariate-based models in finacial analysis, and these models can be used to explain important economic events and often predict them. Thus, in an "exhaustive coverage" of the economic events to which they can be applied, Riahi-Belkaoui discusses these models in a way that will have special value to corporate management, financial planners, an

Author: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: design, principle, accounting
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-02-28
List price: $86.95
ISBN-10: 1567205534
ISBN-13: 9781567205534

Distinguishing between accounting by design, in which accounting techniques and solutions are selected because they fit a pre-established goal, and accounting by principle, in which accounting techniques and solutions are selected according to principle and regardless of whether they mesh with preconceived ideas about the outcome, Riahi-Belkaoui describes designed accounting in detail. Characteristics of accounting by design can be found in income smoothing, earnings management, creative accounting, fraud, and slack. Preparers and users of accounting information, and anyone interested in the b

Author: Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui
Publisher: Quorum Books
Keywords: science, multiparadigmatic, accounting
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1996-07-30
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 1567200486
ISBN-13: 9781567200485

Once considered an intruder into the academic community, accounting has developed into a full fledged social science, with fierce competition among its different paradigms. Riahi-Belkaoui explains that these paradigms, each striving for primacy through publications, conferences, and other means of self-exposure, are characterized by their "exemplars, their image of the subject matter, their theories, and finally the methods they use." In doing so they have given accounting a certain, new cachet. Riahi-Belkaoui thus provides a critical examination of each of these paradigms in an effort to guid