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Corporate governance has become increasingly central to corporate reporting and management as businesses face growing pressure to address their responsibilities in sustainability and corporate accountability. The evolving focus on effective corporate governance has driven the introduction of new laws, regulations, standards, and best practices, reshaping its framework, principles, and functions. Business leaders and students must stay informed about these significant reforms and the associated accountabilities. This book offers a clear, accessible guide to the key regulations, laws, and best practices essential for robust governance and stakeholder protection. It covers the roles and responsibilities of all key players in corporate governance, including directors, management, auditors, accountants, legal counsel, and financial advisors. Taking a practical approach, the book explores topics such as financial markets, investor confidence, oversight, managerial, compliance, internal and external auditing, legal advisory functions, and performance reporting. It serves as a valuable resource for students and professionals seeking a comprehensive understanding of corporate governance responsibilities.Designed for both undergraduate and graduate levels, this book equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to become successful business leaders. It is an ideal reference for business colleges, accounting schools, and other corporate governance programs, with individual chapters adaptable for various accounting and business courses.

By applying modern monetary theories to China's reality, this book reviews the development practice of China's monetary policy and discusses the transitional goals of China's monetary policy in the new stage of high-quality economic development.The book focuses on the formation mechanism of China's inflation from the perspective of learning expectations, adaptive learning and dual labor market structure. It examines the monetary policy objectives of inflation management in an open economy, analyzes the causes of China's price fluctuations from a global perspective and discusses the optimal policy space of the optimal RME exchange rate regime and the synergy between finance and business cycles. The author proposes a policy framework of capital regulation to deal with financial shocks and provides monetary policy options to deal with financial and business cycles. This work helps readers to understand the internal theoretical logic of the target transition of China's monetary policy framework and points out that China's monetary policy reforms are driven by the economic contradictions it faces at different stages of development.The title will provide references for scholars, students and policymakers interested in China's monetary policy and provide experience and guidance for other developing countries to set their monetary policy targets and promote the transition of the monetary system.

Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America. To understand elders'experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped with health setbacks, depression, gentrification, financial struggles, the accumulated losses of neighbors, friends, and family, and other everyday challenges. The sensitive portrait Torres paints in At Home in the City moves us beyond stereotypes of older people as either rich and pampered or downtrodden and frail to capture the multilayered complexity of late life. These pages chronicle how a nondescript bakery in Manhattan served as a public living room, providing company to ease loneliness and a sympathetic ear to witness the monumental and mundane struggles of late life. Through years of careful observation, Torres peels away the layers of this oft-neglected social world and explores the constellation of relationships and experiences that Western culture often renders invisible or frames as a problem. At Home in the City strikes a realistic balance as it highlights how people find support, flex their resilience, and assert their importance in their communities in old age.

The four-volume set LNAI 15412-15415 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2024, held in Belém do Pará, Brazil, during November 17–21, 2024. The 116 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 285 submissions. They were organized in three key tracks: 70 articles in the main track, showcasing cutting-edge AI methods and solid results; 10 articles in the AI for Social Good track, featuring innovative applications of AI for societal benefit using established methodologies; and 36 articles in other AI applications, presenting novel applications using established AI methods, naturally considering the ethical aspects of the application.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the struggles of youth in India, Myanmar, and Thailand towards the creation of a freer, more inclusive, plural, and equal society. Chapter contributions in the book include analytical explanations and insightful debates on key issues, progress, and challenges, by a team of international and local researchers. The world is currently witnessing a surge in innovative, networked, and technology-driven freedom movements across Asian societies. Youth and community-driven initiatives in India, Myanmar, and Thailand are being adapted and localized to foster much-needed development, human security, stability, and social progress in a responsible, objective, and selfless manner. These movements, characterized by the unwavering participation of youth including Gen Z, are being continuously tested and implemented across Asian societies, highlighting a promising trend in the evolution of grassroots social movements. In this context, this book explores the strengths of South/Southeast Asia, examining grassroots changes through various case studies, and the emergence of broader possibilities for societal transformation across multiple chapters. Chapter contributors address several critical issues, including the spirit and practice of the responsibility to protest that drives youth uprisings against authoritarian regimes, the struggles of highland communities, environmental justice, resistance movements, anti-coup efforts, generational change, peace prospects, democratic foreign policy, and grassroots democracy. The book serves as a valuable resource for students, policy analysts, and anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the nature, processes, and challenges faced by youth for their societies.

This open access book is a groundbreaking exploration of systemic risk in modern financial systems. Through its theoretical and empirical investigations, it reveals the multidimensionality of systemic risk, the transmission channels of crises, and the interlinkages between physical, transition, and financial risks. It introduces cutting-edge methodologies, including prediction and optimization models based on complex networks, multilayer networks and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches, to forecast and measure systemic risk and financial crisis. It provides insight for academics, practitioners, policy and supervisory authorities, and bankers and financial market operators on understanding the links that determine the propagation of financial crises and the emergence of systemic risks. This book is essential for those wishing to better understand systemic risk and its implications.