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Review of Essentials of Corporate Finance

December 20th, 2009 No comments
Essentials of Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)

The only great thing about this book is its small size and thats about it. The text doesn’t do a very good job of explaining the ideas and concepts. Say you are given certain parts of an equation it doesn’t really show you how to use to components to solve for the right number. Instead [...]

Review of Understanding Workers’ Compensation Insurance

November 16th, 2009 No comments
Understanding Workers

I’ve just learning to do Medical Coding, but the place that I am hoping to get work in, the division that I apply at, is paying Worker’s Comp. Claims.This book has really help me understand what I am doing and I have shown this book to my neighbor-next-door, who was the one to introduce me [...]

Review of Statistical Tools for Finance and Insurance

November 13th, 2009 No comments
Statistical Tools for Finance and Insurance

This book reads quite well with examples from the authors own work. It complements the online version of the book. The authors provide working examples usingXploRe a free software package for performingstatistical languages.
There is an online version of the book with the example code for the XploRe software. The online book is free. I [...]

Review of Risk Management and Insurance

November 12th, 2009 No comments
Risk Management and Insurance

This textbook offers a detailed, panoptic view of the field of insurance and risk management. Author Etti G. Baranoff does not seem to promote a philosophical, narrative or analytical point of view on the subject. Instead, she aims to provide students with a dense introduction to the field’s bedrock information. Therefore, she presents a vast [...]

Review of Understanding Health Insurance

November 7th, 2009 No comments
Understanding Health Insurance

This book is written in an easy to understand style and anyone running a private billing service or working out of a medical office will find it very useful. It is especially helpful for understanding how to prepare HCFA claims for all third party insurance payers and medicare. I am a medical office manager and [...]