Category: Food Safety and Production, Safety Food Safety and Related Issues TASA ID: 1005 Food safety is very much in the news nowadays. Headlines such as "Food Companies Work to Ensure Safety from Salmonella (1)" and "FDA: Plant Knew Peanuts Laced with Salmonella (2)" are just a few recent examples. Read more
Category: Fire Investigations Interviewing and Timeline Skills Your Fire Investigation Expert Needs TASA ID: 1436 During investigation of a fire, information comes from all around the investigator, who should have a way of assembling and ordering it when the smoke clears (literally) in order to successfully determine the origin and cause of a fire. At a fire scene there is limited time to collect witness statements and details from examination of the scene. A fire investigator may be at the scene with other investigators, but the opinion formed needs to be solely his or hers. Investigators must take the time to push out the clutter of everyone around them and put everything in its place. Read more
Category: Business & Commerce, Financial/Economic Preventing Corporate Fraud TASA ID: 321 Fraud can happen in a business of any size, but small businesses are often targets of fraud. According to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, small and midsize companies suffer more losses due to fraud than their larger counterparts. Experts estimate that companies lose 5% to 6% of their annual revenue to fraud, so every company should have a comprehensive fraud prevention program. Read more
Category: Business & Commerce, Financial/Economic What Is Your Firm Going to Be Worth in 10 Years? TASA ID: 4374 Perhaps the most rigorous way to calculate the value of a firm is by using discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. When we use DCF analysis, we build a detailed forecast of the firm’s sales, costs and expenses, and long-term capital investments. We then use those forecasts to calculate the “free cash flow,” or the cash that will be available to the firm’s investors, over the life of the firm. Read more
Category: Environment Understanding the Impacts of Hydroelectric Power, Mining, and Other Land Use Activities that Alter Water Temperatures and the Resulting Thermal Effects on Coldwater Fishes Such as Salmon and Trout TASA ID: 537 Changes in water temperatures can affect coldwater fishes, such as salmon and trout (salmonids) (Rich, 2007, 2000, 1987), either detrimentally or beneficially, depending upon other environmental factors. Of all the life-stage requirements of temperature-intolerant fishes, such salmonids, water temperature is the most important, yet, commonly, the least understood. Read more
