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Business Analysis: Microsoft Excel 2010

Book Description
Using real-world examples, Carlberg helps you put Excel’s features and functions to work and get the power of quantitative analysis behind your decisions.

Excel expert Conrad Carlberg shows how to use Excel 2010 to perform the core financial tasks every manager and entrepreneur must master: analyzing statements, planning and controlling company finances, making investment decisions, and managing sales and marketing. Using real-world examples, Carlberg helps you get the absolute most out of Excel 2010’s newest features and functions. Along the way, you’ll discover the fastest, best ways to handle tasks ranging from importing business data to analyzing profitability ratios.

Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier! You’ll find crystal-clear instructions, insider insights, complete step-by-step projects, and more. It’s all complemented by an extraordinary set of -based resources, from sample journals and ledgers to business forecasting tools.

•  Use Excel analysis tools to solve problems throughout the business
•  Build and work with income statements and balance sheets
•  Value inventories and current assets, and summarize transactions
•  Calculate working capital and analyze cash flows
•  Move from pro formas to operating budgets that help guide your management decisions
•  Prepare business cases incorporating everything from discount rates to margin and contribution analysis [Read more...]

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The Photoshop CS5 Pocket Guide

The Photoshop CS5 Pocket Guide


In this handy new , expert Brie Gyncild introduces readers to the powerful features in , including new features like content-aware fill, HDR , Bristle effects, Mixer Brush, and Puppet Warp. The book covers everything from navigating the interface and making basic edits to working with images in Camera Raw, making image corrections, and applying effects. There are chapters on merging photos, printing, and preparing images for the , as well as on organizing images in Bridge and automating tasks. This appealing, low-priced book is packed with quick results for people who want to jump in and get up to speed in Photoshop. This Pocket Guide offers a quick introduction to Photoshop CS5 and acts as a handy reference. It’s exactly the guide many new Photoshop users want–no fluff; just the important stuff. [Read more...]

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It’s Your World, So Change It: Using the Power of the Internet to Create Social Change

It’s Your World, So Change It- Using the Power of the Internet to Create Social Change


There’s been plenty of hype about the “netroots,” and online activism on both the right and left. But most of it’s been celebratory, not practical. This is a practical, start to finish guide to promoting any cause and participating in any social movement on the social . Long-time activist and online community expert Tom Head covers everything you need to know about e-activism, including: ” Using the to find activism jobs and volunteer opportunities ” Using Google Alerts, RSS feeds, and other tools to stay informed ” cause-related sites – even if you have practically no money or experience ” Engaging effectively on sites ” Promoting causes, events, or organizations without spamming ” Getting more attention and links for a cause ” Keeping allies informed via email, blogs, text messaging, and Twitter ” Organizing local activists using global media, and using online activism to support on-the-ground work ” Blogging to promote a cause: when it works, and when it’s not worth it ” Avoiding the common mistakes e-activists make. [Read more...]

Adobe Flex 4: Training from the Source, Volume 1

Adobe Flex 4- Training from the Source, Volume 1

Book Description
Adobe Flex: from the Source is the best-selling and most trusted resource for learning about Adobe Flex. Written by a team of authors with practical experience as consultants, mentors and developers of courseware, this book/CD uses -based tutorials, and is designed to teach beginning Flex developers the details of and architecting real-world rich internet applications using Builder incorporating MXML and ActionScript 3.0. The book includes a CD that contains all the files used in the lessons, plus completed projects for comparison. This latest edition includes complete coverage of New Flex 4 features such as the Spark Component model, Advanced Skinning, Component Creation, and much more. Adobe Flex 4: from the Source, , will follow later in the year and be geared towards more intermediate and advanced users. [Read more...]

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Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone

Designing with Progressive Enhancement- Building the Web that Works for Everyone

Book Description
Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an , the latest and greatest high-end system, or even hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be easy to understand and use, and as fully-featured and as possible.

Designing with Progressive Enhancement will show you how. It’s both a practical guide to understanding the principles and benefits of progressive enhancement, and a detailed exploration of examples that will you—whether you’re a designer or a developer—how, where, and when to implement the specific coding and scripting approaches that embody progressive enhancement.

In this book, you’ll learn:

  • Why common coding approaches leave users behind, and how progressive enhancement is a more inclusive and accessible alternative
  • How to analyze complex interface designs, see the underlying semantic experience that will work everywhere, and layer on advanced enhancements safely
  • A unique browser capabilities testing suite that helps deliver enhancements only to devices that can handle them
  • Real-world best practices for coding HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to work with progressive enhancement, and cases where forward-looking and CSS3 techniques can be applied effectively today
  • How to factor in accessibility features like WAI-ARIA and keyboard support to ensure universal access
  • Detailed techniques to transform semantic HTML into interactive components like sliders, tabs, tree , and charts, along with downloadable jQuery-based widgets to apply directly in your projects [Read more...]

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