ACCT3 Financial is the Asia-Pacific edition of the proven 4LTR press approach to financial accounting, designed to enhance students’ learning experiences. The text is for teaching students learning the preparers/debits and credits approach and is presented in an easy-to-read and accessible style. Concise and complete new data and case studies from the Australian branch of CSL have been included as well as fully updated content. This new edition also includes a strong suite of student and instructor resources, including CourseMate Express, to enhance student learning and revision.

ACCT4 Financial is for students learning the preparers/debits and credits approach to accounting, presented in an easy-to-read and accessible style. Concise and complete new data and case studies from the Australian branch of CSL have been included and the content fully updated. This fourth edition includes new introductory coverage of GST and Ethics, and offers a strong suite of student and instructor resources to enhance student learning and revision. Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform. Learn more about the online tools au.cengage.com/mindtap

"The First World War's impact on the American South is often downplayed in favor of changes brought about by the New Deal and the Second World War. This thesis analyzes the changes the war made to the South culturally, socially, and economically and the impact of those changes in the 21st century. Literature, music, and other forms of popular culture demonstrate how the image of the South in popular culture shifted as a result of increased contact with the North and as federal investment brought economic boom to the region. Newspaper accounts show how social movements such as civil rights, unionization, and prohibition gained and lost momentum in the face of the war's democratic rhetoric and the long-standing biases and views of Southerners. Finally, economic data shows how the war turned cigarettes into a national addiction to the economic benefit of the South and how textiles migrated from New England to the South and became a key component of the Southern economy for the next century. Even as these industries have declined, the military bases built for the war continue to support Southern communities, as evidenced by state employment and economic impact data."--Abstract.

Discrete random media are collections of explicitly-defined scatterers distributed according to an underlying random process. Examples include blond hair assemblies, piles of soap bubbles, sand, and snow. High albedo discrete random media exhibit smooth high-order scattered radiance that depends not on the specific instance of scattering geometry but instead on the statistical properties of that geometry. This dissertation proposes three new techniques for rendering discrete random media that accelerate the computation of high-order scattering by assuming its smoothness and by limiting the computation done using explicit geometry. The first technique precomputes bulk scattering properties for spatially and directionally homogeneous discrete random media, then uses them in a path tracing method to take large steps through the core of a medium. The other two methods focus on rendering multiple scattering in hair assemblies, although the methods can be applied to other discrete random media as well. One method is a two pass photon mapping approach that uses a 5D data structure to estimate scattered radiance values while preserving their directionality. The other method is also a two pass method, but instead of a particle map it uses a grid of spherical harmonic coefficients to store radiance and to efficiently calculate scattering integrals. These new methods are among the first to render discrete random media accurately and efficiently, with the third technique being able to estimate multiple scattering in blond hair several orders of magnitude faster than a Monte Carlo path tracer, in roughly the time it takes to render the single scattering component.