Open-book accounting

KajOter, P. and Kuhnala, H. I. (2005), Open-Book Accounting in Networks - Potential Achievements and Reasons for Failure, in Management Accounting Research, 16 (2005) 2, pp. 179-204. 

Although the text concerns in-sewer processes, it has further perspectives, because wastewater occurs in several systems. The text might, therefore, have been written not as a sewer processes book but as a text on wastewater processes. The author could have done so at the general level but could not have included a corresponding specific experience. At the end of the book, it is, however important to mention that the fundamental knowledge of the book is not limited to sewer networks. Wastewater occurs not just in pipes and open channels but, just as an example, in many countries, also in different types of wastewater treatment ponds. Taking wastewater processes into account, there is a perspective for further improvement of such treatment systems. 

This book presents an updated account on the status of the computational modeling of homogeneous catalysis at the beginning of the 21 st century. The development of new methods and the increase of computer power have opened up enormously the reliability of the calculations in this field, and a number of research groups from around the world have seized this opportunity to expand enormously the range of applications. This text collects a good part of their work. 

Huxley s book opened an era when a number of pioneers of the psychedelic movement first turned on. Robert Masters, who published the earliest account of its effects in the sexual realm in his Forbidden Sexual Behavior and Morality (Julian Press, 1962), had his first experience with peyote during the 1950s in Louisiana. In I960, Arthur Kleps wrote to Delta Chemicals Co. in New York for mescaline sulfate and tried 500 mg. The experience resulted in his leaving his job as a state prison psychologist, in addition to other considerable changes in his life. Here is how he described what o ccurred ... 

By all accounts, Vernon Howell, who later changed his name to David Koresh, was a powerful visionary in the way he viewed the Bible. Koresh believed he would single-handedly bring about the second coming of Jesus Christ by opening the seven seals of the scroll mentioned in Chapter 5 of the Book of Revelations. The scroll is said to reveal the events that bring the world to an end. 

W. Benz, op. cit. (note 3), p. 17. Since each contribution to this book opens with a summary of the history of the Jews in the country under discussion, and gives a detailed account of all the anti-Jewish laws, measures and events that took place there, one must first dig one s way through masses of extraneous material which has already been set out in many other books before one can isolate the statistically relevant data among all the alphabet soup. The size of Benz s book is thus no indication of its statistically pertinent content. 

Now the underground chemist can turn this situation to his advantage by means of subterfuge. First he develops a false identity. He gets some of the books on false ID andSTXbracadabra She s Joe Schmoe. He uses this identity to form several companies. If he wants to be official, he consults the book. How to Form Your Own Corporation For Under 50 Dollars, available in most libraries. Otherwise, he just has some invoice-order forms printed up for his company. He may also open a checking account for his company to pay for chemicals. He uses checks with high numbers on them so that they don t think that he just appeared out of thin air. As an alternative, he may pay with certified checks from the bank. 

Rules of nomenclature appear early on in many beginning organic chemistry texts. In somewhat the same vein, the Introduction to this book starts with the conventions for naming steroids. This is followed by a concise account of the molecular mechanism of action by which many steroids exert their biological effects. More detailed descriptions of the activity of these compounds will be found in the opening paragraphs of the individual stmctural classes. 

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