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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011).

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Breakthrough Innovation to Help Overcome Today’s Public Safety Challenges

everbridge

According to the EM-DAT Emergency Event Database, there were 432 natural hazard-related incidents in 2021, compared to an average of 357 annual catastrophes for the period 2001-2020. Furthermore, global disasters killed 10,492 people, impacted millions of others, and caused $252.1 billion in damages ( [link] ). Understand who is affected.

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Internal Controls to Prevent Financial Statement Fraud

Reciprocity

energy company coasted on accounting fraud until it imploded in 2001, leading to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act the following year. For example, record-keeping, authorization, and review activities should be divided among different employees. Perhaps the landmark example of cooking books was Enron, the U.S.

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Internal Controls to Prevent Financial Statement Fraud

Reciprocity

energy company coasted on accounting fraud until it imploded in 2001, leading to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act the following year. For example, record-keeping, authorization, and review activities should be divided among different employees. Perhaps the landmark example of cooking books was Enron, the U.S.

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SIA New Member Profile: Hochiki

Security Industry Association

In 2001, Hochiki America made the choice to expand our OEM business into what is today a full system supplier. The views and opinions expressed in guest posts and/or profiles are those of the authors or sources and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Security Industry Association.

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SIA New Member Profile: The AiN Group

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member the Authorized Integrators Network (AiN) Group was built by and is made up of consumer electronics dealers serving the residential and commercial building industries, providing its members the leverage they need to command the best volume price points on some of the top product lines in the industry.

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SIA New Member Profile: Secure Direction Consulting

Security Industry Association

MD : It goes without saying the last big boom to propel our industry forward was Sept 11, 2001. The views and opinions expressed in guest posts and/or profiles are those of the authors or sources and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Security Industry Association.