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Subsea repairs and inspection are costly for petroleum and pipeline engineers and proper training is needed to focus on ensuring system strength and integrity. Subsea Pipeline Integrity and Risk Management is the perfect companion for new engineers who need to be aware of the state-of-the-art techniques. This handbook offers a "hands-on" problem-solving approach to integrity management, leak detection, and reliability applications such as risk analysis. Wide-ranging and easy-to-use, the book...

Die Pensionszusage an den Mitunternehmer wirft steuer- und bilanzrechtliche Probleme auf: Nach der aktuellen Rechtsprechung muss die Gesamthand gewinnmindernd eine Pensionsruckstellung bilden. Der begunstigte Gesellschafter hat zeitlich und betragsmassig korrespondierend einen Gewinn als bezogene Sondervergutung zu versteuern, obwohl ungewiss ist, ob er jemals Pensionszahlungen erhalten wird. Verstirbt er fruhzeitig, entsteht aus der Aufloesung der bereits versteuerten Anwartschaft in seinem Son...

The Asian life insurance industry is truly entering an inflection point. Coming off massive growth from the past several years, the industry has suffered greatly, along with the rest of the financial industry, in the 2008 financial crisis. Most life insurers across Asia have lost tremendous value in the wake of the crisis; a few are in significant distress. It is important not to lose sight of the longer-term outlook though: fueled by macroeconomic factors such as the emergence of the middle cla...

Gain confidence in ICD-9-CM diagnostic and procedural coding with this comprehensive, hands-on work text. Practice exercises are provided throughout to help you test yourself as you go, and illustrations of human anatomy and procedures appear throughout to clarify concepts. When used in conjunction with your coding manual, this learning resource will help you master ICD-9-CM coding for all medical specialties.

Der Band stellt einerseits Vorgeschichte, Verlauf und Auswirkungen eines der spektakulärsten Zusammenbrüche eines Versicherungskonzerns im 20. Jahrhundert dar und bietet darüber hinaus eine am Beispiel demonstrierte, systematische Analyse der Verflechtung von Misswirtschaft mit Medien, Staat und Gesellschaft. Die Phönix Lebensversicherung, mit Sitz in Wien und Kunden in 22 Ländern, wurde im Jahr 1936 zahlungsunfähig. Sie hatte riesige Verluste aufgetürmt, Bilanzen gefälscht und Schlüsselperson...

This volume introduces the basic principles of insurance and risk as applied to the aviation industry. It discusses aviation insurance in the United States, and includes coverage of underwriting and pricing, risk management, premises liability and workers' compensation. Sample policies are shown.

This book proposes a bank risk aggregation framework based on financial statements. Specifically, bank risk aggregation is of great importance to maintain stable operation of banking industry and prevent financial crisis. A major obstacle to bank risk management is the problem of data shortage, which makes many quantitative risk aggregation approaches typically fail. Recently, to overcome the problem of inaccurate total risk results caused by the shortage of risk data, some researchers have prop...

This book is about risk conceptions, experiences and reflections. It applies the concept of the risk triangle, with its societal, organisational and personal angles, to two areas of inquiry: financial markets and the military, seeking to demonstrate the challenges, dilemmas and, in many ways, also the impossibilities of risk analysis and risk management. Drawing on empirical and micro- and macro-level analysis, this innovative work will appeal to students of political science, economics and busi...