Lynda - Accounting for Managers

English | 32m | Video: 720p | Subtitles

 
As a leader, having an understanding of accounting principles and roles empowers you to make the best decisions for your team and organization. As finances are often at the center of roundtable discussions, management accountants can be some of your most important allies. Finance consultant Joshua Rischin teaches fundamental accounting principles, then explores key ways to connect with your finance team, shares important questions to ask, and discusses how to build a framework of accountability.

Whether you're working with a small-scale or large-scale system of connected devices, it is crucial that you devise thoughtful, sustainable management and monitoring solutions. In this course, learn about the basics of IoT device management, and discover how to build smart objects that are easy to maintain and troubleshoot. Instructor Ryan Hu covers essential concepts such as the system architecture, key functionalities, key standards, and protocols. He also discusses the representative standards for IoT device management—the LightweightM2M standard and the oneM2M standard. He shows how to use the IBM Watson IoT Platform, and more.

Lynda - Database Foundations: Data Structures

https://www.lynda.com/IT-tutorials/Database-Foundations-Data-Structures/2864145-2.html
This course focuses on seven core concepts: data types, designing a normalized database, identifying rows with primary keys, linking data with foreign keys, formalizing data relationships, indexes, and constraints. Database expert Adam Wilbert describes techniques that database developers use to protect their data. He explains why data types are important in creating a consistent data storage environment, then walks you through several common data types. Adam shows you the three normal forms of good database design.In order to work with the data stored in each row in a table, the table must contain a primary key column, or set of columns. Foreign keys provide the glue that the entire system is built on. Adam steps you through how to incorporate primary keys and foreign keys into the design of your database tables. He walks through data relationships, indexes, and constraints, then concludes with other courses you may find useful.