Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality: Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits
Author: Larry P English
A comprehensive guide to quality improvement from the leading expert in information and data warehouse quality.
Each year, companies lose millions as a result of inaccurate and missing data in their operational databases. This in turn corrupts data warehouses, causing them to fail. With information quality improvement and control systems, like the ones described in this book, your company can reduce costs and increase profits from quality information assets. Written by an internationally recognized expert in information quality improvement, Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality arms you with a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for ensuring data quality both in-source databases and the data warehouse. With the help of best-practices case studies, Larry English fills you in on:
- How and when to measure information quality
- How to measure the business costs of poor quality information
- How to select the right information quality tools for your environment
- How to reengineer and cleanse data to improve the information product before it reaches your data warehouse
- How to improve the information creation processes at the source
- How to build quality controls into data warehouse processes
About the Author
Larry P. English is the leading international expert in the field of information and data warehouse quality. He is a columnist for Data Management Review and a featured speaker at numerous Data Warehousing Conferences. Larry chairs Information Quality Conferences held around the world.
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A practical approach to using information quality as a business management tool to reduce the business and systems costs resulting from poor information quality. Argues that information quality is not an isolated function, but an inherent and integral part of the business management and that everyone in the enterprise has a stewardship role in it. Includes a glossary without pronunciation guides. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Applied Corporate Finance: A User's Manual
Author: Aswath Damodaran
Convert theory into solutions
Applied Corporate Finance, Second Edition converts the theory and models in corporate finance into tools that can be used to analyze, understand, and help any business. With this hands-on guide, you can find real solutions to real corporate finance problems, using real-time data.
Offering a user perspective to corporate finance, this text poses three major questions that every business has to answer, and provides the tools and the analytical techniques needed to answer these questions.
1. Where do we invest our resources? (The Investment Decision)
The first part of the book shows how to assess risk and develop a risk profile for a firm, and convert this risk profile into a hurdle rate. You'll also learn basic rules for estimating the returns on any investment.
2. How should we fund these investments? (The Financing Decision)
Firms generally can use debt, equity, or some combination of the two to fund projects. This part of the book examines the relationship between this choice and the hurdle rate for analyzing projects, and shows how to use the financing decision to maximize firm value. You'll also find a framework for picking the right kind of security for any firm.
3. How much cash can and should we return to the owners? (The Dividend Decision)
The third part of the book establishes a process for deciding how much cash should be taken out of the business and in what form (dividends or stock buybacks).
The final chapter in the book ties the value of the firm to these three decisions, and provides insight into how firms can enhance value.
Table of Contents:
Ch. 1 The foundations 1 Ch. 2 The objective in decision making 9 Ch. 3 The basics of risk 50 Ch. 4 Risk measurement and hurdle rates in practice 91 Ch. 5 Measuring return on investments 161 Ch. 6 Project interactions, side costs, and side benefits 229 Ch. 7 Capital structure : overview of the financing decision 275 Ch. 8 Capital structure : the optimal financial mix 339 Ch. 9 Capital structure : the financing details 396 Ch. 10 Dividend policy 445 Ch. 11 Analyzing cash returned to stockholders 482 Ch. 12 Valuation : principles and practice 531 App. 1 Basic statistics 596 App. 2 Financial statements 603 App. 3 Time value of money 615 App. 4 Option pricing 628
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