Saturday, December 27, 2008

Essentials of Accounting or Threat Assessment

Essentials of Accounting

Author: Michael Lawrenc

Essentials of Accounting is designed for the basic accounting or bookkeeping course found at career or community colleges. In only eight chapters, this brief book presents an accounting system suitable for use in any business office that is not involved with inventories of goods for resale or for use in manufacturing products for resale. Lawrence and Ryan cover the basics necessary for accounting in a business: the accounting cycle, cash and payroll accounting.



Interesting textbook: Profiles in Courage or John Adams

Threat Assessment: A Risk Management Approach

Author: James T Turner

Detailed "how to's" of threat assessment—from the initial contact to the sharing of results!

Risk management can be an organizational nightmare, but it is an essential part of your operations. Recent events have shown us that organizations need to know how to respond swiftly and effectively in emergencies and that companies need to protect their employees from internal and external threats. Threat Assessment: A Risk Management Approach provides you with the tools you need to protect both your employees and yourself from a variety of threats.

This book examines the factors that human resource, security, legal, and behavioral professionals need to understand in work violence and threat situations that disrupt the working environment, revealing the best ways to reduce risk and manage emergencies. It includes case studies and hypothetical examples that show recommended practices in action and provides detailed interviewing methods that can increase the efficiency of current strategies. Helpful appendices provide sample forms for identification cards, stay-away letters, workplace behavior improvement plans for problem employees, questions for health care providers, and announcements for employees regarding security changes. An extensive bibliography points the way to other useful material on this subject.

Threat Assessment: A Risk Management Approach explores:

  • · the role of the multidisciplinary threat management team
  • · corporate liaisons with law enforcement agencies
  • · cyberthreats and stalking
  • · insider threats
  • · category classification of offending behaviors
Risk management is a constantly evolving field, and Threat Assessment provides you with access to the latest updates. Staying up-to-date on risk management innovations will help you increase corporate sensitivity to possible threats and provide the safest possible working environment to your employees.

The authors of Threat Assessment are seasoned professionals with extensive experience in risk management. You can learn from their expertise and adapt it to your situation, improving workplace safety and contributing to security in your own community.



Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1Threat Management: Organizational Challenge1
Ch. 2Workplace Violence: An Overview9
Ch. 3Organizational Response Options19
Ch. 4Intake Process31
Ch. 5Category Classification39
Ch. 6Threat Management: Interviewing Strategies61
Ch. 7Liaison with Law Enforcement85
Ch. 8Analysis of Threats93
Ch. 9Threat Assessment Feedback for Management105
Ch. 10Stalking As a Contemporary Crime in the Workplace111
Ch. 11Cyberthreats127
Ch. 12Insider Threat: Risk Management Consideration131
Ch. 13Executive Vulnerability147
App. AThreat Information Card for Potential Victims153
App. BStay Away Letter155
App. CBehavior Improvement Plan159
App. DHealth Provider Questions163
App. EAnnouncement to Employees Regarding Security Changes165
Bibliography167
Index175

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