GAAP

A significant body of generally accepted accounting principles (frequently referred to as U.S. GAAP) has been…

Financial Statements

Financial accounting is similar to a giant, complex portrait painted by the organization. One investor might…

Business Structure

In the United States, as well as in many other countries, owners of a business or…

Accounting Types

Accounting is further subdivided into (a) financial accounting and (b) managerial accounting. Financial accounting focuses on…

Financial Accounting

Financial accounting provides the rules and structure for the transmission of financial information about businesses and…

Boolean vs Ranked Retrieval

The Boolean retrieval model contrasts with ranked retrieval models such as the MODEL vector space model,…

Tokens

Within a document collection, we assume that each document has a unique document identifier (docID). Until…

Boolean Retrieval

Grepping through text can be a very effective process, especially given the speed of modern computers.…

Information Retrieval

What is information retrieval? Information retrieval (IR) is finding material (usually documents) of an unstructured nature…

Why, What, and How of Gamification Designs

Since gamification appeared, many things have changed. Research may benefit from a more precise definition of…