Using Sap R/3 Fi: Beyond Business Process Reengineering

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This book is for the professional financial manager, accountant, or bookkeeper who needs to learn the basics of SAP R/3 FI quickly, without wading through a morass of technical jargon. Featuring a clear, functional outline, copious sample screens, and simple step-by-step instructions, Using SAP R/3 FI presents the most widely used FI functions in plain, argot-free English, following menu lines from the actual program.

The book also provides details about using FI for international business, such as translating the chart of accounts, keeping accounts in foreign currency, entering transactions in foreign currency, and revaluing accounts and open items in different currencies. You'll also learn the highlights of integrating R/3 FI with SD (order entry, shipping, and invoicing) and MM (purchasing, receiving, and inventory control). This remarkably detailed manual shows you how to use R/3 FI for all your basic accounting functions, including
* General ledger
* Accounts receivable
* Accounts payable
* System administration
* And much, much more.

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Overpriced book.......2002-11-27

I wasted money on this book. Currently, I am working on 4.6C and this book is outdated. This book covers very basic GL,AP,AR, functions and I do not refer this book at all. For beginner, this book might be helpful, however, I do not think any SAP consultants do not need this book.

Misleading title for an overpriced book!.......2001-10-22

After reading this book it's completely unclear to me why the author gave this book the subtitle "Beyond Business Process Reengineering" ... This book has nothing to do with BPR, it's simply a book that explains with many screenprints some very basic FI AP/AR/GL business processes. Don't expect any discussion of CO business processes.

The book has a generic, non-US, flavor. US readers will miss discussion of topics like "US sales and use taxes", "check management in AP", "1099 vendors", "lockbox processing", "cost of sales accounting / functional areas", etc.

All in all, the book is okay for people new to SAP who want to get a feel for how you enter transactions in SAP's FI module and don't mind US-specific processes are not discussed.

Finally, the book is very expensive. I believe David Novak's book (Configuring SAP R/3 FI/CO: The Essential Resource for Configuring the Financial and Controlling Modules) is a much better book and much more reasonable priced.

Great buy, at least for me........2000-08-11

This is an excellent book, it does not contain anything about configuration but it explains FI Processes and transactions very well. It covers submodules GL,AP,AR. It is definitely a very overpriced book, ......... It is also outdated, Im currently working with R/3 4.6B, and this book was written with ver. 3.G or something (Not sure). I recommend it to newbies as well as to intermediate users and consultants (You never know when you might need some extra help). I would like to see a book from the same author about FI Configuration. I would also like him to cover FI-TR (Treasury)

Outstanding.......1999-08-04

I thought that this book is very expensive but that was not true! This book goes beyond the reader expectations. It is the key to success in SAP R/3 FI.

Expensive but worth it!.......1999-05-07

This book is easy to read and understand and resembles a user manual with menu paths, explanation and step by step approach. I find it useful as a quick reference. The author also provides additional guidance via email which is a great help.

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Smart trainers know that games and activities can involve adults in learning like no other instructional method and no one knows more about games than Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan. In this must-have resource, Thiagi shows you how to customize more than thirty different kinds of games — games that fit the circumstances perfectly and that can be designed in mere minutes.

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Flexible, Adaptable, Effective Training Activities.......2004-11-12

Long one of my favourite training game designers, Thiagi has given up all his very best secrets about interactive training in his book "Design Your Own Games and Activities."

Here you will find dozens of brief activity descriptions, 32 chapters, and 30 fully described training activities neatly compiled in one book. Need a better justification for this treasure chest? Fine--Thiagi describes 10 workplace trends that demand interactive strategies, including teamwork, learning organizations, and the changing characteristics of learners. The appendices include a glossary of 62 interactive strategies, indices of the activities in the book, and dozens of resources on everything from the design of interactive strategies to theory to workplace applications to websites on interactive strategies. Plus, a CD with the instructions and handouts for each of those 30 fully described games, ready for you to print off and use.

Each chapter covers a specific type of interactive strategy, and starts with an example. Thiagi then outlines the benefits, uses, and limitations of the strategy. Finally, one of those fleshed out examples is provided. Although the game can be played in a training session as is, you have enough information to adjust it to your own audience's needs. Plus the debriefing questions provided for each activity are extremely helpful.

I've used most of these activities, and found that this gem of a book has paid for itself many times over. TOP TIPS is an excellent game for sharing best practices. THIRTY-FIVE makes a great session review. TRIPLE-JOLT's Team Poker I is one of my favourite team-building exercises. QUICK DRAW illustrates cooperative creativity very well. This one volume alone can create the core for scores of training sessions--at a fraction of the price of many training activity sets available through other sources.

This one comes highly recommended.

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After the unusual multiple changes of recent times, the reform of the sexual criminal law appears to be essentially concluded with the SexÄndG [Sexual Amendment Act]. The new sexual criminal law is hereby presented for the first time in a systematic presentation that shall serve as orientation for practice and teaching. The penal provisions of the StGB [Criminal Code], the ProstG [Prostitution Law] and the TDG [Teleservice Law] are also printed with this presentation. A systematic presentation became necessary since the numerous changes to the sexual criminal law and its methods had become confusing. This led to practical problems, especially with regard to the interpretation of the individual statutory features, but also with regard to the differentiation of the various circumstances. The work has successfully managed to shed light on these problem areas and to develop practical solution proposals. The reprint of the official substantiations pertaining to the 33rd StrRÄndG [Criminal Law Amendment Act] and to the two latter reform laws - the 6th StRG [Penal Reform Act] and the SexÄndG - also serves this purpose. The brief outline of the legislative history offered in the introduction and the listing of the most important reform laws - but also the discussion of the individual circumstances respective to the prefixed concise history of their changes - serves for facilitation of the determination pertaining to the respective decision-making! to be derived from the version of the law. The presentation at hand offers orientation and decision-making aids for all those who are concerned with questions pertaining to sexual criminal law in their daily practice. However, it is also addressed to teachers and students.

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Over the past 200 years, our knowledge of stars has expanded enormously. From seeing myriad dots of different brightnesses, we haved moved on to measure their distances, temperatures, sizes, chemical compositions, and even ages, finding both young and ancient stars that dwarf our Sun and are dwarfed by it. Unique in its approach, Extreme Stars describes the lives of stars from a new perspective by examining their amazing features. The result is a refreshing, up-to-date, and engaging overview of stellar evolution, suitable for everyone interested in viewing or studying the stars. Ten chapters, generously illustrated throughout, explain the natures of the brightest, the largest, the hottest, and the youngest, among other kinds of stars, ending with a selection of the strangest stars the Universe has to offer. Extreme Stars shows how stars develop and die and how each extreme turns into another under the inexorable twin forces of time and gravity. James B. Kaler is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He has held Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, has been awarded medals for his work from the University of Liège in Belgium and the University of Mexico, and most recently was selected to give the Armand Spitz lecture by the Great Lakes Planetarium Association. His research area, in which he has published over 100 papers, involves dying stars. Kaler has also written for a variety of popular magazines, including Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, and Scientific American. His previous books include The Ever-Changing Sky (Cambridge, 1996), Stars and their Spectra (Cambridge, 1997), Cosmic Clouds (Scientific American Library Paperback, 1998), and The Little Book of Stars (Copernicus, 2000). He is a current member of the Board of Directors of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and is a frequent guest on radio and television shows.

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Quite good........2007-03-09

This is the third book by James Kaler I've read--the other two being "Stars and Their Spectra" and "The Hundred Greatest Stars", in that order. The other reviews and the back matter of the book give pretty much all the relevent info on what the book is about: stellar superlatives.

As usual, Kaler's personal enthusiasm for his subject shines through, to a degree exceptional for any scientific text. He knows how to turn a phrase, how to create a provocative image with words that will stimulate the reader's imagination. There is much here to amaze even those who consider themselves well-versed in astronomy.

Much as I hate to say it, though, the book isn't perfect. It feels like it occupies an uncertain valley between the introductory "Greatest Stars" and the more advanced "Stars and their Spectra", like it's attempting to be the best of both worlds. Consequently, there are parts that are wonderfully new...as well as those that are "Hmm, he wrote about this in _____." As was the case with "Stars and their Spectra", I would have liked an appendix for more dyed in the wool geeks like myself. ;)

Though he eschews math and advanced physics, I can't quite recommend it for beginners; in my op, people just getting into his work should read "Greatest Stars", then this, and finally "Stars and their Spectra".

Good hunting!

Absolutely Fascinating - Stellar Evolution, Stellar Spectra, and Stellar Superlatives.......2006-07-02

Extreme Stars - On the Edge of Creation (Cambridge University Press) is a remarkably fascinating, in-depth look at stellar evolution from the perspective of the Hertzsprung - Russell (HR) diagram, a chart plotting stellar luminosity against temperature (expressed by spectral classes O B A F G K M). James Kaler illustrates the complexity of stellar evolution by examining extreme stars - the faintest, coolest, hottest, brightest, largest, smallest youngest, oldest, and even strangest stars.

Through the telescope most stars look alike, perhaps with a few showing a slight tinge of color. The key to understanding stars is to measure and analyze their spectra, a subject foreign to most readers. Kaler introduces atomic and molecular spectra early, thereafter steadily advancing the reader's understanding and appreciation of spectral analysis, all in the context of the HR diagram.

The HR diagram shows that most stars brighten with increasing temperature; these main sequence stars lie on the chart within a narrow, curved band stretching from the lower-right corner (dim M stars) to the upper-left corner (bright O stars). Hertzsprung's and Russell's key discovery was that many stars lie outside this main sequence, such as the sub giants, giants, super giants, and hyper giants (and contrastingly, the white dwarfs). Many stellar types move either onto or off the main sequence as they age.

The lower main sequence is the home of many of the faintest (and coolest) stars, grouped as M0 through M10. These faint stars, nearly all invisible to the naked eye, comprise about 50 percent of all stars. Surprisingly, other very faint stars - like the Mira variables that exhibit substantial variation in luminosity over months and years - are found among the giant stars, especially on the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB).

The magnificent, beautiful planetary nebulae are among the hottest stars. The brightest stars are actually quite rare, but due to their flamboyance some are well-known to the sky gazer. The largest stars (super giants and hyper giants) are not always the brightest, but are, nevertheless, absolutely awesome. The white dwarfs, among the smallest stars, exhibit a wide range in spectral characteristics; some even have variable luminosities with periods measured in only minutes. Even smaller yet are neutron stars.

The youngest stars, such as the T Tauri variables, as they fire up by burning deuterium, become visible at the "birth line" on the HR diagram, thereafter evolving toward the main sequence. The chapter on oldest stars allows consideration of the evolution of galaxies themselves. A final chapter looks at truly strange stars that reside within the main sequence, their weirdness revealed by their most unusual spectra.

In summary, Kaler's focus on superlatives (brightest, hottest, oldest, etc. ) proves immensely effective. Extreme Stars will appeal both to the amateur astronomer well-acquainted with the night sky and to the scientifically-inclined reader relatively new to astronomy. Five stars to James Kaler for this remarkable book.

I ate this one up.......2005-02-01

The stars are so distant that even at high power through a telescope they look like nothing more than colorful points of light. In "Extreme Stars", Kaler shows us that in fact these little luminaries of our night sky come in an astonishing variety of temperatures, sizes, absolute brightnesses, and chemical compositions. A chapter is devoted to each type of extreme star, e.g. the coolest, brightest, youngest, etc.

To me, the most interesting theme of the book is how a single star can actually change from one extreme type to another over its lifetime. For example, the brightest stars (accounting for 'unseen' radiation like ultraviolet and infrared) are the blue supergiants. These inevitably go supernova and often leave behind neutron star cores, which are both the smallest and hottest of stars. Also, the coolest red giants will form planetary nebulae and leave behind white dwarfs, which comprise one of the hottest types of stars at the outset. Another example is the faintest stars, which are so frugal with their fuel consumption that they have the longest lifespans and therefore will be the oldest stars.

The book is written with great enthusiasm and is well illustrated. I do remember one time that Kaler kind of took it into the deep end with his discussion of electron degeneracy and the Pauli Exclusion Principle, but for the most part the book is easily accessible to the interested layman. Amateur astronomers like myself would really dig it.

After reading the book, it made me want to get the telescope out and simply stare at some of these extreme stars for a while. The easiest ones to learn to identify by naked eye are the bright supergiants, like Betelgeuse and Deneb. But there are plenty of others in the other extreme types that are bright enough to see with the naked eye; these can be located with a decent star atlas.

One minor quibble: I feel that Kaler didn't emphasize enough that the vast majority of stars we see are just regular main sequence stars, ranging from perhaps 0.2 to three or four times the mass of the Sun. Extreme stars are relatively rare.

Highly recommended.

A Galaxy Full.......2004-05-17

Have you ever wondered how many different types of stars are in space or are there planets orbiting them? The book Extreme Stars, At the Edge of Creation, by James Kaler is a must read for the astronomy enthusiast. This book is a fresh approach at examining the lives of stars. It covers all extremes from black holes and neutron stars to supergiants and hypergiants. Kaler takes a unique way of organizing the stars in sections for example the coolest, the hottest and the brightest stars. In each section Kaler includes lots of diagrams and pictures to help the reader relate to examples from the text. He is also very through about each topic and often explains the history behind the star and the links that change stars from one type to another. In one chapter, Kaler explains that giant Jupiter class planets have been found in orbit around certain stars.
Kaler writes in a way that is very thorough and detailed but where even the most novice astronomer can still understand. The graphs and photos also help to clarify some of the more difficult. For example, when he talks about stars and their spectra he will often include a diagram to help show the relationship.
Overall I enjoyed reading this book and I would recommend it to someone interested in astronomy. It is really interesting and shows the great variety of stars that exist in the universe. Especially for people wanting to learn more about stars this book is a must read.

"Stellar behaviour runs amok".......2003-08-11

Kaler's descriptive aptly summarises the theme of this fine work. Astronomy done well is always a fascinating read, and Kaler's done a masterful job. He takes us into the realm of the biggest, hottest, smallest, coolest, most dense and diffuse stars in our universe. Each chapter is devoted to a type, with examples, history, evolution and likely finales. The text is clear and unambiguous, obviously written for anyone interested in our stellar neighbours. Diagrams and photographs illuminate complex subjects throughout, including some spectacular colour plates in one section. Kaler deserves high praise for a comprehensive and exhaustive presentation untainted by weighty philosophy or arcane mathematics.

Kaler's uses the nearest star, our sun, to launch a comparative view of the more extreme versions of stellar objects. Placed in the middle of the band of stars fitting on the "main sequence", it's a valid starting point. Main sequence stars range from very large and bright to very small and dim. Within that range they follow fairly predictable patterns for a given size and type. Outside that stable range, however, loom some immense exceptions and a plethora of tiny, almost minuscule stellar objects. Orion's shoulder is marked by a star with a diameter nearly reaching the orbit of Jupiter. Another, even greater, reach nearly to Saturn's. Others, as Kaler notes, would "fit inside a small town". Even these minute objects have a life history that tells us much about the universe we inhabit. Kaler is vivid in his descriptions of these objects, but he's even more spirited when dealing with the nuclear processes going on within them. Some stars truly seem to "run amok"!

Stars are distant laboratories where reactions occur impossible to duplicate in Earth-bound facilities. Kaler describes the activities of chemical elements within stellar objects and how their signals tell us about the events occurring there. As stars burn away their hydrogen fuel, various options, some still not understood, may be followed. Electrons jump from shell to shell emitting or absorbing energy. These signals, he notes, are the indicators of luminosity, temperature and even distance. One such signal, of course, is the most significant of all - the "noise" indicating the Big Bang that started it all. One result, however, is clear - without these processes neither our planet nor we would exist. This is because the stars, which began as clouds of hydrogen and dust, become the forges of heavier elements. As Joni Mitchell once sang, "we are all made of star stuff". You don't have to be interested in astronomy to enjoy this book. You need only care about your origins and environment. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

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Star Wreck 6: Geek Space Nine : An Extraterrestrial Example of Extreme Silliness
Lean Rewolinski
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What a wacky trip through space!!!.......2001-05-22

This book is so good!! If you love parodies and love Star Trek, then this book and the others in the series are for you!!!! I just finished reading it for the 5th time!! This time, the crews of the Endocrines must save the staff of Geek Space Nine from dullness. What happens when three Treks meet? A Star Wreck!!!

Extreme Sports Stars (High Interest Books)

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15 Facts about Stars (Earth Science: The Extremes: Adventures of Nature's Limits)

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Astrophysics in the Extreme Ultraviolet (I a U Colloquium//Proceedings)

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Astrophysics in the Extreme Ultraviolet (I a U Colloquium//Proceedings)

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From the beginning of Space Astronomy, the Extreme Ultraviolet band of the spectrum (roughly defined as the decade in energy from 90-900 Å) was deemed to be the `unobservable ultraviolet'. Pioneering results from an EUV telescope on the Apollo-Soyuz Mission in 1975 forcibly demonstrated that this view was incorrect; but it required the all-sky surveys of the English Wide-Field Camera and the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer to demonstrate the broad potential of this field. Over 700 EUV sources have now been detected.
Over 150 researchers from 16 countries gathered to share results in this new field at the International Astronomical Union Colloquium No. 152. Papers were presented on a wide variety of topics including cool star coronae, white dwarf atmospheres and evolution, neutron stars, the Io torus, cataclysmic variable stars, active galactic nuclei, the interstellar medium, winds and atmospheres of early type stars, and EUV plasma diagnostics.
Selected manuscripts from this meeting are provided in these Conference Proceedings.

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Extreme Action Stars
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Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy (Cambridge Astrophysics)

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This book describes the development of astronomy in the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength range, from the first rocket-based experiments in the late 1960s through to the latest satellite missions. It provides detailed material on the tools of EUV astronomy, dealing with the instrumentation, observational techniques, and modelling tools for the interpretation of data. Prospects for future EUV missions are discussed, and a catalog of known EUV sources is included.

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This text describes the development of astronomy in the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength range, from the first rocket-based experiments in the late 1960s through to the latest satellite missions. Discussions of the results from the most important space projects are followed by an analysis of the contributions made by EUV astronomy to the study of specific groups of astronomical objects. Within this framework, the book provides detailed material on the tools of EUV astronomy, dealing with the instrumentation, observational techniques, and modelling tools for the interpretation of data. Prospects for future EUV missions are discussed, and a catalogue of the known EUV sources is included. This timely book will be of great value to graduate students and researchers. It is the first to give a complete overview of Extreme Ultraviolet astronomy, and comes at the end of a major phase of discovery in the field.

Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy: A Selection of Papers Presented at the First Berkeley Colloquium on Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy, University of Calif

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Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy: A Selection of Papers Presented at the First Berkeley Colloquium on Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy, University of Calif
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Extreme!: Big tricks and inside info from top action-sports stars

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