As financial markets integrate and business operations diversify, there is a need for adoption of common global accounting practices. This need is further intensified when inadequacies in the financial reporting system have surfaced more often than not in the recent past infringing the credibility of reported financial data. Such incidents have bought a call for a research on better alignment of corporate financial reporting requirements amongst users of financial statements. The AF conference is a forum of communication for academics, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the areas of accounting and finance. Through its broadly defined scope, we welcome research in areas such as accounting history, finance, financial reporting and communication methodologies, interdisciplinary perspectives on accounting, management control and public sector financial management. The AF conference provides an outlet for high-quality refereed empirical research on all aspects of accounting and finance. Purely theoretical research with the potential for empirical applications and in depth literature reviews will also be considered.

In the past, economics is primarily focused on numbers and statistics. However, with the introduction of qualitative and quantitative economics research, economics has evolved from the neo-classical theories and instead can now be easily understood and meaningfully presented with the analytical forecasts of the numbers and statistics that are produced. Qualitative economics refers to a direction of change in some economic variable as related to change of some other economic variable. On the other hand, quantitative economics uses a range of complex mathematical and statistical procedures to analyze economic phenomena. These techniques help economic analysts explain economic issues and understand human actions, group interactions and communities. The QQE conference is dedicated in providing researchers, academicians and students with a thorough understanding of the core techniques of quantitative and qualitative economics as well as their strengths and limitations. We also welcome participants to include their understanding of the qualitative and quantitative application to test economic theories and measure magnitudes relevant for economic policy and other decisions.

Ever wanted to learn how to develop your own web-based business but not sure how to get started? With HTML5 and a 4-day intensive crash course focusing on cloud computing technologies, creating your own web-based business is no longer an impossibility. Together with Mozilla, one of the leaders shaping the future of web development, learn how you can tap on the HTML5-enabled environment for truly interactive multimedia web applications development. HTML5 is embraced by industry leaders and technology visionaries as the new wave of web development. All participants attaining at least 75% attendance will be awarded a Certificate of Participation by Mozilla and NTU Ventures. Participants will also stand a chance to be funded up to $250K should youdecide to turn your HTML5 projects into new ventures! Terms and Conditions apply. *Please note that basic knowledge on HTML, JavaScript and either PHP or Java will be advantageous. ##Course Objective Upon completion of this course, the participants will be able to: - Understand the fundamental HTML5 Communication technologies: WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, Cross-Document Messaging, and XHR Level 2 - Understand performance improvements that can be gained from using HTML5 Web Workers - Use tools to analyze web application performance - Improve web application performance dramatically using the latest cutting edge performance techniques - Decide when and why to use HTML5 Communication and its implications on your architecture - Setup and configure an Enterprise development environment and use HTML5 Communication APIs - Build applications on top of WebSocket and use client-side APIs to communicate directly with back-end systems such as JMS, XMPP (Jabber), STOMP and AMQP - Design, develop, debug and deploy secure and scalable real-time web applications with HTML5 WebSocket that will work in today's browsers *** ###Course content 1. Tools & Environment: - NodeJS - Basic Concept & Setup - JavaScript on the Server-side - Concurrency - FileSystem Access - HTTP(S) Server & Client - TCP & UDP Socket - Frameworks - Amazon EC2 - Basic Concept & Setup - How to run NodeJS on EC2 Instance - Google AppEngine (Python & Django) - Basic Concept & Setup - Basic WebApp Demo - Template with Django - Data & Blobs Store - Channel API - Memcache - Task Queue 2. HTML5 Server-side Technologies - Server-side Design Principles - Communication on the Server-side - XHR & CORS - WebRTC - Server Push - WebSocket - Understanding WebSocket - How it works? - What's new & What's different ? - WebSocket JavaScript API - WebSocket Protocol - An Actual Project - Project Requirements & Overall design - Client-side implementation - Server-side implementation - Test & Deploy - Server-sent Events Schedule: 27 - 30 May 2013, 9am - 5pm Theatre at the Nest, Innovation Centre, NTU Course Fees: $480 for Public (including NTU Alumni). $50 for Current NTU Students and NTUV Incubatees only. Please key in the following promotional code to enjoy your discounted rate: NTUV. *Fees include course materials and meals (2 tea sessions and 1 lunch) for all 4 days. To Register, please go to <http://www.eventnook.com/event/register/1755> Closing date for registration and payment: 23 May 2013 If you have any questions, please email us at <html5@ntuventures.com>

If the sun always shines on Silicon Valley, why is there a cloud hanging over my start-up? There is no shortage of encouragement available to Entrepreneurs today. They receive much advice regarding the practicalities of building a business: Business Planning, Finance, IT, etc. but not so much about sustaining their motivation, or developing the critical soft-skills of leadership, influencing, communication etc. On top of that, young Entrepreneurs have little or no life experience of the working world to prepare them for the emotional and social challenges ahead. When you are running a tight ship you throw everything you have into building your business that can be measured on a spreadsheet, and can neglect your greatest asset – yourself. Andrew Jones will talk about how Entrepreneurs can coach themselves and their teams through the ups and downs of building a business, with some simple processes and frameworks. Andrew is an Executive Coach, Entrepreneur and Mentor with 22 years experience in Asia. After a corporate career in Human Resources and Technology, Andrew now focuses on his passion: developing current and future leaders. Date: 29 May, Wednesday Time: 12.30-1.30pm Venue: The HUB Singapore, Ground Floor Cost: $10 for Hubbers, $15 for Public All registered guests will receive a healthy vegan lunchbox!

"Design & Thinking" is a unique documentary exploring the idea of "design thinking"! How do we fully engage organizations to think about the changing landscape of business, culture and society? Inspired by design thinking, this documentary grabs businessman, designers, social change-makers and individuals to portray what they have in common when facing this ambiguous 21st century. What is design thinking? How is it applied in business models? How are people changing the world with their own creative minds? It is a call to the conventional minds to change and collaborate. Featuring… Alex Osterwalder, Author of Business Model Generation Bill Moggridge, Director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Cory Smith, CEO of Hub Bay Area Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto Sarah Stein Greenberg, Managing Director of Stanford d.school Susan S. Szenasy, Editor in Chief of Metropolis Magazine Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO Vince Voron, Head of Design in Coca-Cola North America And many others... Trailer: http://youtu.be/hbebjVbvVsI Our Speaker: So-Young Kang - Catalyst, Founder & CEO of Awaken Group, So Young is a multi-disciplinary Transformation Design (TD) firm that integrates strategy, leadership and innovation to design experiences that catalyze change. Awaken Group uses Design Thinking in many of their client projects as a problem-solving tool. So-Young has been leading cultural transformations, designing user-centric experiences, and designing organizations for almost 15 years. So-Young will talk about “transformation design” which is the application of design to solving complex issues; She will also share about her latest book Inside Out: Conversations about Leadership and Innovation in a New Global Economy, as an example of what began as a prototype project that is actually expanding into other countries, such as Korea, this year. More info: www.awakengroup.com/GLIP Event Schedule: 7.00 pm: Doors open at The Hub Singapore 7.30 pm: Introduction 7.40 pm: 'Design & Thinking' 8.50 pm: Speaker Intervention 9.15 pm: End of event Date: 29 May, Wednesday Time: 7.30-9.30pm Venue: The HUB Singapore, Ground Floor

TOPIC: The Meaning of "Like" BRIEF : Since the beginning of social media, Brand Managers & Marketers have been focusing on increasing "Like" on Facebook pages, increase followers on Twitter, grow their connections on LinkedIn, and so on. However, many have yet to unlock the true value of "Like". Many business owners are pondering on how to monetize the "Like" and understanding the preferences of these customers and prospects. Major shortcomings for most Brand Managers these days are: Little or no data ownership for conversations & consumers' profiles. Incoherent social presence of consumers & erratic sharing of content. Dispersed engagement across multiple social networks No understanding consumer preferences & behavior. No access to social graph. So, how do you increase your brand following and encourage Social Sell amongst the fans? How do you increase consumer engagement which could then lead to Product Ideation? And how do you foster Collaboration amongst consumers so that the Brands can enhance their level of support on their products? Let's see how leading brands have innovated their social media presence and how some of these brands have benefited from these social media innovations. SPEAKER: ARAVINTH KUMARASAMY Founder of sambaash Aravinth Kumarasamy is one of the founders of Sambaash where he conceptualizes and enables businesses to build their online communities in the social media world. His experience spans multiple industry domains including Healthcare, Travel, Creative, Design, Performing Arts, Education, Research, Technology, Banking and more. Aravinth previously held senior management position with global responsibilities at world class MNC's, leading successful teams in Sales, Consulting and Software Product R&D. He is a transformative thought leader, evangelising customer-centric solutions for businesses to harness the potential of social media networks RSVP at: https://www.facebook.com/SoLoMoThursday/events

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Exhibition Highlights： 2013 AQUATECH CHINA Shanghai Int’l Wastewater Treatment Show will create the most efficient trading platform for companies through independent area of 25,000㎡ totaling 70,000㎡show space, 1,300 exhibitors and more than 43,000 professional visitors. AQUATECH CHINA Shanghai Int’l Wastewater Treatment Show is no doubt the best wastewater treatment show in China. ● Professional Team, Top Quality International Wastewater Show Since 2012, the organizer Shanghai CHC Exhibition Co., Ltd has set up a professional team to take overall responsibility for Shanghai Int’l Wastewater Treatment Show. The team members are all from AQUATECH CHINA project team. They not only have rich experience on operating international leading exhibition, a huge database of 300,000 domestic and overseas buyers, but also enable the further subdivision of terminal user industry in order to ensure the exhibition results more comprehensive, professional and effective. ● Trade Shows, Powerful Alliances 2013 AQUATECH CHINA Shanghai Int’l Wastewater Treatment Show will be held concurrently with FlowEx China, a top quality international exhibition for pump, valve and pipe, and AQUATECH CHINA Shanghai Int’l Membrane & Water Treatment Show. Those shows combining together will attract a large number of high quality terminal buyers who are interested in water treatment equipments and solutions and then show doubling effects for you to create more business opportunities. ● Tapping into Terminal Industrial Buyers The organizer will tap into key target professional visitors on the basis of the subdivision of original end user industries and will ensure the attendance of purchasing decision makers. Besides that, the organizer will invite the company employees involved in environmental assessment, security, production technology, equipment maintenance and other position related to decision-making to attend the exhibition as well. Targeted professional visitors in different industries from different departments of the companies will also be invited accordingly. For example： Personnel from departments related to heavy metal wastewater in iron and steel industry, metallurgy industry and electroplating industry Personnel from water treatment related departments like organic pollutants, suspended solids, chroma and alkaline in printing and dyeing industry and paper industry Personnel from departments like physicochemical, biochemical and deep treatment in petroleum industry, chemical industry and coal industry Personnel from the departments like pretreatment, biochemical, sedimentation, filtration, drainage in pharmaceutical industry Pragmatic and Efficient Plan for Organizing Buyers  More than 3000 municipal engineering companies, sewage treatment plant, heavy industrial polluting enterprises will be invited to visit  Will get strong support and promotion from 28 domestic and overseas water industry associations  More than 60 national Industrial Park of user area will organize visitor groups  More than 106 national industrial associations of user area will organize visitor groups  Will use over 300,000 database to mass invitations, fax, email and telephone solicitation  Will invite 10,000 VIP buyers through call center  Will add 1,000 core decision makers into VIP Buyers Program to ensure the presence of high quality buyers  Will do business match between 10,000 pre-registered visitors, VIP buyers and exhibitors to increase purchasing rate  Will attract nearly 5,000 high level professional attendants through 70 high quality seminars  Will conduct intensive advertising through 206 professional and mass media all over the world Strong Media Publicity, Professional Visitors Only The organizer will not only do strong promotion on 102 professional media and continuously propagate on 24 overseas media, but also conduct intensive publicity on 57 major mass media before the exhibition. The associated media are over 200. Strong media campaign will fully guarantee the quality and quantity of the visitors and after 5 years’ efforts and accumulation, 2013 AQUATECH CHINA Shanghai Int’l Wastewater Treatment Show will be the vane of wastewater treatment industry and the must see exhibition for plenty of professional buyers. The amount of professional visitors will be expected to break 43,000. Major Media Partners：《Water & Wastewater Engineering》、《China Water & Wastewater》、《Industry Water Treatment》、《Technology of Water Treatment》、《Water-Industry Market》、《Industrial Water & Wastewater》、《Asia Environmental Protection》、《Process》、《Water21》、《World Pump》、《Valve User》、C-Water、PABLO(WWA)、Made in China、Goootech Water、Chinawater.net、HC360 Water、China Water Automation Net and etc. Terminal Industry Media Partners：《Environmental Protection of Chemical Industry》、《World Iron & Steel》、《Metallurgical Power》、《China Pulp & Paper》、《Nonferrous Metals》、《Electroplating & Finishing》、Oilyp.com、CHEMYES and etc. Fully Supported by Associations，End Users Group Gather On-Site The organizer will work closely with nationwide associations related to environmental protection and wastewater treatment to organize high quality buyer groups for 2013 AQUATECH CHINA Shanghai Int’l Wastewater Treatment Show. There are many associations decided to organize visitor groups and collaborate with the organizer to hold high quality conferences together and make sure the quality of the participants is high. Besides the core decision makers from wastewater treatment plants, design institutes and engineering companies, the organizer will also invite the industrial end users from petrochemical, chemical, steel, power, metallurgy, mining, pharmaceutical, paper making, printing and dyeing and electroplating as professional visitors. At the meantime, the organizer will unite local industrial associations in each city to organize buyer groups, so that many terminal industrial users will present at the exhibition site such as SINOPEC Engineering Incorporation (SEI), China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., TORAY Sakai Weaving and Dyeing (NANTONG) Co., Ltd. (TSD), Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Cheng Tou Waste Water Treatment Co., Ltd. Looking forward to participating plenty of high quality procurement and trade fairs organized by the organizer. Top Forums, Top Experts To keep AQUATECH CHINA Shanghai Int’l Wastewater Treatment Show’s leading position as the vane of the whole industry, the organizer will elaborately plan many professional forums. Leading experts will be invited to analyze prospects and trends of the industry. You will get one-stop cutting-edge industrial information and make better decision on business development. The following conferences and topics have been confirmed: Integrated Aqua Solutions 2013 (IAS), Municipal Summit Seminar, Wastewater Treatment, Pump and Valve, and Sludge Treatment. More forums and conferences will be launched. On-site Function Area to Increase Closing Rate The organizer will reasonably use the space layout of Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center to display multiple on-site function areas which is efficient, convenient and innovative to exhibitors and visitors. The organizer will provide various value-added services for pre-show business matching. Buyers’ joint-inviting, online searching, pre-show appointments and on-site business arrangement will make your participation more efficient and profitable. EXHIBITS PROFILE 1. Transport & Storage Pumps / Pipes / Valves / Distribution / Sewerage / Tanks & Silo's 2. Point of Use Water coolers and dispensers / POU filters / Bottled water 3. Research and Consultancy Consultancy and design offices / Branch organizations / Certification/testing services / Education / Research / Counseling 4. Water Utilities and Country Pavilions Wholesalers / Purification installations / Water provision and water management 5. Water Treatment UV / Separators / Reverse osmosis / Activated carbon / Membrane filtration / Filters / Chemical water treatment / Biological water treatment / Drainage equipment / Desalination equipments / Sludge separation / Presses/centrifuges 6. Process control technology & process automation Automation / Process control equipment / Dosing equipment / Data logging / Detectors / Management/control models / Computer simulations

ASP.NET MVC gives you a powerful, patterns-based way to build dynamic websites that enables a clean separation of concerns and that gives you full control over markup for enjoyable, agile development. ASP.NET MVC includes many features that enable fast, TDD-friendly development for creating sophisticated applications that use the latest web standards. ASP.NET MVC 4.0 framework is a mature framework and it can be used to design and develop highly scalable and robust modern web 2.0 application. Course Outline (1 day training) ------------------------------------------ - What's MVC? - Controllers & Routing - Views - Models - Entity Framework (Data Access) - Razor View Engine - Javascript validation & AJAX - Web API (REST) - Security - Dependency Injection - Nuget (package) Prerequisite ----------------- The attendees should have the background knowledge of C# or VB.Net language, web development knowledge and basic SQL. ##Limited Seats! **Note:** - You are required to bring along your own laptop.

"To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture," says Frantz Fanon. To undestand a culture fully, one must first be dedicated to learning its native language. Linguists well as our body of literature play a crucial role in unlocking the secrets behind the world's multitude of languages, and helping people understand how the human mind works across time and space, from different eras and individual cultures. Where spoken word, in its millions of years of evolution, fails to provide insights on historic and modern literature, linguists, with their uncanny curiosity, help convey messages from languages long dead and forgotten. Thus a discourse in the field of language, linguistics and literature is significant to gather and understand different perspective in our culture and the society between the past and the present.

The laws of the land lay the foundations of peace and order, and to ensure people progress in all aspects of their lives – whether in business, education, travel, health or recreation. The role of public officials is to create, scrutinize, implement and uphold the laws in order to protect the rights of every individual, corporate entity or institution. Educators of law thus possess the task of not only shaping each and every generation of legal practitioners into knowledgeable and responsible agents, but also the study of issues which surround the practice of law and its implementation across jurisdictions.

THoR conference aims to create an international platform for exchanging ideas, debate, opinions, research results among academicians and practitioners globally and incorporate methodological research that addresses issues on tourism and hospitality industry. To promote excellence in teaching and stimulating research in tourism and hospitality; provides essential and intelligent information about worldwide hospitality and tourism issues, practices, challenges and solutions both practically and theoretically. Key areas of focus (but not limited to): • Sustainable Tourism • Eco-Tourism • Medical Tourism • Heritage Tourism • Educational Tourism