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From an Islamic perspective, although the ownership of wealth is
with God, humans are gifted with wealth to manage it with the
objective of benefiting the human society. Such guidance means that
wealth management is a process involving the accumulation,
generation, purification, preservation and distribution of wealth,
to be conducted carefully in permissible ways. This book is the
first to lay out a coherent framework on how wealth management
should be conducted in compliance with guiding principles from
edicts of a major world religion. The book begins by defining
wealth from both a secular perspective, and an Islamic perspective,
before describing how wealth needs to be earned in lawful ways,
preserved and used to benefit the needs of community, with a small
part of the wealth given away to charity, and the remainder managed
in accordance with laws and common practices, as established by a
majority consensus of scholars of the religion in historical times.
Each section of the book has relevant chapters that discuss the
theory, as well as the application and the challenges in Islamic
wealth management in real and financial markets. This book will
appeal to students and researchers of Islamic wealth management,
certainly Islamic economics and finance in general; policy makers;
and a range of industry practitioners, such as investment managers,
financial planners, accountants and lawyers.
Backing the Bold is a primer on the venture capital industry,
business, and profession in Southeast Asia. The goal of the book's
thirteen chapters has initially been to guide students of the
Insignia Ventures Academy - Asia's first experiential venture
capital accelerator - in their exploration of the venture capital
industry and profession, specifically in the context of Southeast
Asia's startup ecosystem and from the perspective of Insignia
Ventures and its portfolio founders.Rather than being a book in the
traditional sense of the word, such an origin and context for
Backing the Bold has inevitably made this book a dynamic piece of
literature, continuously growing and improving thanks to every new
group of people who become part of the VC accelerator - as
organizers, mentors, or participants.Now in print and in
distribution, this first edition is available for all as a snapshot
of Backing the Bold's progress as a continuously evolving
repository of insights, best practices, and frameworks. It is for
readers of any background or motivation to gain a better
understanding of the venture capital investment process, portfolio
management, and profession in the context of Southeast Asia's
fast-growing technology markets.
As the spectrum of the internet of things (IoT) expands, artificial
intelligence (AI)-assisted agile IoT is the way forward for
sustainable finance. The depth of agile IoT has changed the
financial market, and it may quickly evolve as a powerful tool in
the future. The convergence of AI and IoT techniques will
significantly extract valuable financial information and offer
better services to customers. Some of the potential benefits of
AI-assisted agile IoT for FinTech include prompt customer support,
in-door client navigation, on-site queue management, improved
customer experience, security and authenticity, wireless payments,
increased business efficiency, self-checkout services, and business
automation. There is no doubt that leveraging the complete
potential of AI-assisted agile IoT will result in the creation of a
new and innovative financial system. AI-Enabled Agile Internet of
Things for Sustainable FinTech Ecosystems presents the advances in
AI-assisted agile IoT for financial technologies (FinTech). It
further explains the new applications, current issues, challenges,
and future directions of the field of AI-assisted agile IoT for
FinTech applications and ecosystems. Covering topics such as
consensus algorithms, IoT-based banking, and secure authentication,
this premier reference source is an excellent resource for business
executives and managers, IT managers, librarians, students and
faculty of higher education, researchers, and academicians.
This thought-provoking book introduces a financial economics
perspective to the topic of eco-innovations and, more generally,
sociotechnical transitions. It develops a model that illustrates
how financial constraints can prevent the development of
eco-innovations within companies and hinder the transition process
towards a more sustainable regime. Edgardo Sica presents a review
of the state of the art, as well as new data from original surveys
aimed at testing the impact of financial constraints on
eco-innovative decisions at radical and niche levels. He proposes a
definitive conceptualisation of eco-innovations while stressing the
relevance of the environmental performance of innovations, rather
than the environmental motivation of the innovators. Through the
use of a unique multilevel perspective model, the book critically
analyses the extent to which financial constraints can hinder
eco-innovative decisions, thereby crucially filling a gap in the
current literature on eco-innovations. Firms, Finance and
Sustainable Transitions will prove a stimulating read for
academics, researchers and experts within the fields of
eco-innovations, sustainable development, financial and
environmental economics, and green finance.
Master the most important areas of today's tax law with
Whittenburg/Gill's best-selling INCOME TAX FUNDAMENTALS 2023. This
concise, practical introduction to tax preparation uses a unique,
step-by-step workbook format that integrates real, current examples
and uses the most recent actual tax forms. You learn the
complexities of the U.S. income tax code as this edition's clear,
up-to-date presentation walks you through the most recent tax laws,
revisions and changes. Updated end-of-chapter problems and online
exercises let you practice completing tax return problems using
real source documents identical to those of actual clients. You
also learn to use professional Intuit (R) ProConnect (TM) tax
preparation software that accompanies each new book. In addition,
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