Wednesday 14 November 2012

Time Series: Applications to Finance


The Personal Finance Calculator : How to Calculate the Most Important Financial Decisions in Your Life


The Finance and Accounting Desktop Guide: Accounting Literacy for the Non-Financial Manager


The Economics Of Money, Banking And Finance: A European Text

  • Paperback: 602 pages
  • Author: P. G. A. Howells; Keith Bain (Author
  • Publisher: Financal Times Management; 3rd edition (May 31, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0273693395
  • ISBN-13: 978-0273693390

Barron's Finance & Investment Handbook (5th ed)


The Fast Forward MBA in Finance

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Author: John A. Tracy CPA (Author)
  • Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (August 5, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471202851
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471202851

Sunday 11 November 2012

The Motley Fool's 13 Steps To Investing Foolishly

  • Publisher: Motley Fool; Unstated edition (1999)
  • ASIN: B000IY4EPU

Essentials of Financial Analysis

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Author: George T. Friedlob, Lydia L. F. Schleifer, L.F. Schleifer
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (November 22, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471228303
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471228301

Principles of Corporate Finance (7th Edition)


  • Hardcover: 1330 pages
  • Author: Richard A Brealey (Author), Stewart C Myers (Author), Richard Brealey (Author), Stewart Myers (Author)
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 7 edition (July 2, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0072940433
  • ISBN-13: 978-0072940435

Friday 9 November 2012

Practical Financial Modelling, Second Edition: A guide to current practice


  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Author: Jonathan Swan
  • Publisher: CIMA Publishing; 2 edition (June 13, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0750686472
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750686471
This second edition of Practical Financial Modelling is vital tool for all finance and management professionals whose work involves the production and development of complex spreadsheets and financial models. The author bridges the gap between the Excel manual and financial literature with a wealth of practical advise and useful tips.

The book identifies good practice and highlights those areas which are prone to error and inconsistency resulting in a refreshingly simple approach to building and using financial models suitable for novice and experienced modellers. By using practical worked examples the most effective ways in which problems can be solved are explored. Key themes include: model structure, audit formulae and functions and model use.

New to the second edition:

Instructive information on Excel 2007 and its enhanced modelling functions and feature; Risk controls in developing and using financial models; Test-yourself modelling problems and applied examples in every chapter; Substantial information related to reporting and charting techniques and an appendix devoted to parallel comparison of how-to in Excel 2003 and 2007.

. Instructive information on Excel 2007 and its enhanced modelling functions and features
. Risk controls in developing and using financial models
. Test-yourself modelling problems and applied examples in every chapter
. Substantial information relating to reporting and charting techniques
. An appendix devoted to a parallel comparison of how-to in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007

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Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis

  • Paperback: 292 pages
  • Author: Matan Feldman, Arkady Libman
  • Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (February 26, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470047011
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470047019
Seamlessly bridging academic accounting with real-life applications, Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition is the perfect guide to a complete understanding of accounting and financial statement analysis for those with no prior accounting background and those who seek a refresher.

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Pro Excel Financial Modeling: Building Models for Technology Startups

  • Author: Tom Y. Sawyer
  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (March 27, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430218983
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430218982
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Learn the business thinking behind financial modeling and execute what you know effectively using Microsoft Excel. Many believe that sales and profitability projections shown in financial models are the keys to success in attracting investors. The truth is that investors will come up with their own projections. The investor wants to understand the assumptions, structure, and relationships within the modeling of a startup. If the investor is satiated, the entrepreneur has successfully demonstrated a complete understanding of the business side of the enterprise. Pro Excel Financial Modeling provides the keys necessary to learn this thinking and to build the models that will illustrate it.
  • Step–by–step approach to developing financial models in Excel
  • Extensive case studies and Excel templates provided

What you’ll learn

  • Learn the business thinking behind successful financial modeling aimed at investors.
  • Communicate effectively with investors.
  • Explore advanced modeling with Microsoft Excel, including cost of information technology, customer return on investment, cost of sales and marketing, cost of goods sold, team and staffing, profit and loss.
  • Discover best practices for modeling using Microsoft Excel.
  • Anyone who wants to think critically about their business models, communicate these models to investors, and successfully build them in Microsoft Excel will find the information they need within this material. Additional readers who will benefit include entrepreneurs, technologists, and developers who wish to start a business utilizing their technology ideas, and business and technology consultants. 

Essentials of Economics


  • Author: Bradley R. Schiller
  • Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Higher Education; 6th edition (July 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071101462
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071101462
"Essentials of Economics" is the market leader for the one-semester survey course. In just about 400 pages, it provides a solid introduction to the core concepts of economics with an emphasis on real-world examples and current events. "Essentials" has earned its popular success because, unlike other books on the market, it is free of the abstract and complex theory that requires more time than this course allows. Instead, the text is clean and concise, with many examples of significance to students today, including Headlines and Policy Perspectives that use current events to help illustrate the topics discussed. This real-world policy emphasis is a distinctive feature of Schiller's text and is integral to its dominance of the survey text market.

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Essential Economics (Economist Essentials)


  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Author: Matthew Bishop
  • Publisher: Bloomberg Press; 1 edition (April 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1861975805
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861975805
Here is the essence of economics, arranged alphabetically for easy reference and written with the clarity and authority for which "The Economist is renowned. "Essential Economics contains the substantive information that those in business, finance, and other professions need to understand. For many, "the joy of economics is a contradiction in terms. Yet in a compelling introduction, Matthew Bishop, business editor at "The Economist, offers a lively explanation of what economics is about and covers its applicability in modern business. This is followed by an expansive A--Z with several hundred entries that explain the essentials of economics as well as some of its more-arcane aspects. Packaged attractively in a paperback with flaps, "Essential Economics is a clear, concise reference that complements any business library.

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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics


  • Hardcover: 906 pages
  • Author: Ludwig Von Mises
  • Publisher: Foundation for Economic Education; 4 Rev Sub edition (May 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1572460210
  • ISBN-13: 978-1572460218
Human Action, Mises' seminal work, lays out the principles of economics, political economy and the social sciences with a meticulous logic which has prompted many to hail it as the "bible" of economics. This fourth revised edition, features a new hardcover and a new foreword and index by Bettina Bien Greaves.

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Thursday 8 November 2012

Biotechnology: Economic and Social Aspects: Issues for Developing Countries


  • Paperback: 404 pages
  • Author: E. J. DaSilva, C. Ratledge, A. Sasson
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (November 5, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521122287
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521122283
This book deals with the important issues involved in developing biotechnologically based industries in developing countries. The science and most of the techniques are well established, and it is often possible to obtain the desired finance. This book however, examines the sorts of choices that a developing country has to make to go ahead with projects and their likely socio-economic consequences. Each of the chapters in this book is written by experts in their field and discusses the current biotechnologically-based industries and their state of development, their suitability for various economies, and the problems associated with developing them. Other chapters discuss environmental questions and further socio-economic factors that need to be considered in order to bring about successful wealth creation in these countries.

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A Course in Monetary Economics: Sequential Trade, Money, and Uncertainity


  • Paperback: 424 pages
  • Author: Benjamin Eden
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (October 11, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0631215662
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631215660
Monetary Economics and Sequential Trade is an insightful introduction to the advanced topics in monetary economics. Accessible to students who have mastered the diagrammatic tools of economics, it discusses real issues with a variety of modeling alternatives, allowing for a direct comparison of the implications of the different models. The exposition is clear and logical, providing a solid foundation in monetary theory and the techniques of economic modeling. The text is rooted in the author's years of teaching and research, and will be highly suitable for monetary economics courses in both the upper-level undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Economic and Social Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology


  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Author: Robert E Evenson, Vittorio Santaniello, David Zilberman
  • Publisher: CABI; First edition (January 7, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0851996183
  • ISBN-13: 978-0851996189
There are currently many controversial socioeconomic issues concerned with the development and implementation of agricultural biotechnology. This book presents selected revised and edited papers from the fourth and fifth meetings of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research, held in Italy in 2000 and 2001.

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A Student's Guide to Economics


  • Paperback: 64 pages
  • Author: Paul Heyne
  • Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Inst (November 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1882926447
  • ISBN-13: 978-1882926442
Paul Heyne, one of the nation s best-selling economists, provides an accessible overview of the discipline of economics. Economic knowledge, he contends, is not complete without reference to the totality of human society 151 a realization essential to a proper understanding of the fundamental principles of economics. The sweep of economic thinking is presented here with reference to the great economists and important schools of thought.

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Key Management Ratios: Third Edition

Master the management metrics that drive and control your business

ISBN 10: 0273663453
ISBN 13: 9780273663454
Author: Walsh, Ciaran
Page: 378

Business ratios are the guiding stars by which you steer your company's course; they provide your targets and your standards; they direct you towards the best long-term strategies as well as the smartest short-term solutions. You can't afford to leave them to the accountants. In Key Management Ratios, Third Edition, top financial educator Cieran Walsh teaches you everything you need to knowabout ratios to manage your business far more effectively. This book's thoroughly updated coverage includes: financial statements, balance sheets, and P&Ls; measures and drivers of operating performance; corporate liquidity, financial strength, and cash flow; determinants of corporate value; cost,volume, and price relationships; investment ratios, acquisition analysis, and Shareholder Value-Added (SVA). Simply put, Cieran Walsh enables you to link your company's financial fundamentals to its day-to-day operations--so you can make smarter decisions based on better information

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Key Management Ratios (4th Edition)


  • Paperback: 408 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press; 4 edition (January 24, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0273719092
  • ISBN-13: 978-0273719090
With over 33,000 copies sold, Key Management Ratios is a market “classic”. This new edition is re-packaged with a new jacket design to revitalise the Key Management brand and new two-colour internals make it more readable and visually appealing.
Key Management Ratiosis an antidote to any fear of finance. Drawing data from 200 companies worldwide, the book brings clarity and simplicity to its explanation of every measure and shows how they all link together to drive your business.
From cash flow and profit to ROI and ROTA, its unique approach remains as classic as ever, bringing a simple and visual understanding to a complex subject.

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Qualitative Research: Studying How Things Work


  • Paperback: 244 pages
  • Publisher: The Guilford Press; 1 edition (March 3, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1606235451
  • ISBN-13: 978-1606235454
This book provides invaluable guidance for thinking through and planning a qualitative study. Rather than offering recipes for specific techniques, master storyteller Robert Stake stimulates readers to discover "how things work" in organizations, programs, communities, and other systems. Topics range from identifying a research question to selecting methods, gathering data, interpreting and analyzing the results, and producing a well-thought-through written report. In-depth examples from actual studies emphasize the role of the researcher as instrument and interpreter, while boxed vignettes and learning projects encourage self-reflection and critical thinking. Other useful pedagogical features include quick-reference tables and charts, sample project management forms, and an end-of-book glossary. After reading this book, doctoral students and novice qualitative researchers will be able to plan a study from beginning to end.

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Wednesday 7 November 2012

Financial Modelling in Practice: A Concise Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Level


  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 9, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470997443
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470997444
Financial Modelling in Practice: A Concise Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Level is a practical, comprehensive and in-depth guide to financial modelling designed to cover the modelling issues that are relevant to facilitate the construction of robust and readily understandable models.
Based on the authors extensive experience of building models in business and finance, and of training others how to do so this book starts with a review of Excel functions that are generally most relevant for building intermediate and advanced level models (such as Lookup functions, database and statistical functions and so on).  It then discusses the principles involved in designing, structuring and building relevant, accurate and readily understandable models (including the use of sensitivity analysis techniques) before covering key application areas, such as the modelling of financial statements, of cash flow valuation, risk analysis, options and real options. Finally, the topic of financial modelling using VBA is treated. Practical examples are used throughout and model examples are included in the attached CD-ROM.
Aimed at intermediate and advanced level modellers in Excel who wish to extend and consolidate their knowledge, this book is focused, practical, and application-driven, facilitating knowledge to build or audit a much wider range of financial models.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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Aquaculture: Principles and Practices


  • Hardcover: 640 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (October 3, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1405105321
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405105323
Covering all aspects of subsistence and commercial aquaculture as practiced across the globe, this fully revised new edition from two leading world authorities in the field is set in two parts: principles and practices, and covers in detail recent developments in:
  • History and planning
  • Nutrition
  • Reproduction and genetic selection
  • Production statistics and economics
  • Integrated aquaculture
  • Sustainability and environmental effects (new chapter)
All cultured species groups are addressed, from freshwater and marine fish to shellfish and seaweeds. Essential new facts and data have been included throughout.

This comprehensive work is an essential purchase for all those studying aquaculture and is a valuable source of reference for all personnel involved in the aquaculture industry; including those working in fish farms, research institutions, teaching posts in universities and commercial establishments such as aquaculture equipment and feed supply companies. Libraries in all universities and research establishments will find this book an important addition to their shelves.

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Macroeconomics


  • Hardcover: 548 pages
  • Publisher: Worth Publishers; 5th edition (June 15, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0716752379
  • ISBN-13: 978-0716752370
This is a clearly written and nicely organized upper-division macroeconomics textbook. Mankiw uses plain English and simple math to model the macroeconomy in the short-run (the IS/LM model), the long-run (the AS/AD model), and the very long run (the Solow growth model). He also devotes a lot of space to the Mundell-Fleming model of international trade and finance. One of the best features is the frequent use of short case studies that apply economic theory to "real world" problems such as the Great Depression or the Japanese slump of the 1990s. Mankiw's views are mainstream -- he doesn't even hint at the existence of alternatives such as Austrian economics or neo-Marxism -- but he is non-dogmatic about policy and quite candid about the limits of what economists really know about the economy. His book is a small masterpiece of clear economic writing for undergraduates.

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Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets


  •  Author: Peter J. Montiel
  • ISBN: 9780521780605
  • Publication date: April 2003
  • Pages: 456
This book is a rigorous, yet nonmathematical analysis of key macroeconomic issues faced by emerging economies. The first part develops an analytical framework that can be used as a workhorse model to study short-run macroeconomic issues of stabilization and adjustment in such economies, comparable to the IS-LM framework widely used in intermediate-level macroeconomics textbooks for industrial countries. The rest of the book considers fiscal issues, financial sector issues, and issues concerning exchange rate regimes and policies. In the fiscal area, the focus is on the formulation of intertemporal policies, i.e. fiscal sustainability, seigniorage, and the roles of central bank independence and privatization of public enterprises in achieving fiscal credibility. The analysis of the financial sector examines its role in promoting welfare and growth. Finally, the book explores recent developments in the theory of appropriate exchange rate regimes and management, and provides an overview of currency crises.

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The Technology Management Handbook

July 27, 1998
0849385776
978-0849385773
1st
If you are not already in a management position, chances are you soon will be. According to the Bureau of Statistics, the fastest growing areas of employment for engineers are in engineering/science management. With over 200 contributing authors, The Technology Management Handbook informs and assists the more than 1.5 million engineering managers in the practice of technical management.

Written from the technical manager's perspective and written for technologists who are managers, The Technology Management Handbook presents in-depth information on the science and practice of management. Its comprehensive coverage encompasses the field of technology management, offering information on:
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Innovations
  • Economics
  • Marketing
  • Product Development
  • Manufacturing
  • Finance
  • Accounting
  • Project Management
  • Human Resources
  • International Business

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    Microeconomics


    • Paperback
    • Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 15 edition (January 21, 2003)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0072881550
    • ISBN-13: 978-0072881554
    McConnell-Brue�s Principles of Microeconomics, 15 is the best-selling textbook and has been teaching students in a clear, unbiased way for 40 years. The 14th edition grew market share because of its clear and careful treatment of principles of microeconomics concepts, its balanced coverage, and its patient explanations. More students have learned their principles of Microeconomics from McConnell-Brue than any other text-12 million of them. The 15th edition is a substantial revision that delivers a tighter, modern, Internet-savvy book.

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    Tuesday 6 November 2012

    Strategic Alliances as Social Facts: Business, Biotechnology, and Intellectual History


    • Publisher: Cambridge University Press (July 14, 2003)
    • Authors: Ron, Mark De
    • ASIN: B008OWRPMW
    • ISBN-10: 0521811104 
    • Pages: 230 pages
    Strategic alliances are generally analyzed as planned and rational developments with clearly measurable outcomes in traditional management textbooks. Mark de Rond argues that such a view is unrealistic. Instead, he emphasizes the social dimension and the importance of the individuals involved inside alliances. Based on in-depth case studies of three major biotechnology alliances, the book combines insights from social theory and intellectual history with more mainstream strategic management literature. It provides a thought-provoking analysis that appeals to the reflective professional as well as academic researchers.

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    Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Economics and Policy (Natural Resource Management and Policy)


    • Hardcover: 740 pages
    • Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 12, 2006)
    • Author: Richard E. Just, Julian M. Alston, David Zilberman
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 038736952X
    • ISBN-13: 978-0387369525
    This book presents the first thorough economic analysis of current agricultural biotechnology regulation. The contributors, most of whom are agricultural economists working either in universities or NGOs, address issues such as commercial pesticides, the costs of approving new products, liability, benefits, consumer acceptance, regulation and its impacts, transgenic crops, social welfare implications, and biosafety.

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    An Introduction to Continuous-Time Stochastic Processes Theory, Models, and Applications to Finance, Biology, and Medicine


    • Hardcover: 354 pages
    • Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston; 1 edition (December 7, 2004)
    • Author: Vincenzo Capasso, David Bakstein
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0817632344
    • ISBN-13: 978-0817632342
    This concisely written book is a rigorous and self-contained introduction to the theory of continuous-time stochastic processes.  Balancing theory and applications, the authors use stochastic methods and concrete examples to model real-world problems from engineering, biomathematics, biotechnology, and finance. Suitable as a textbook for graduate or advanced undergraduate courses, the work may also be used for self-study or as a reference. The book will be of interest to students, pure and applied mathematicians, and researchers or practitioners in mathematical finance, biomathematics, physics, and engineering.

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    Monday 5 November 2012

    Valuation in Life Sciences: A Practical Guide


    • Hardcover: 384 pages
    • Publisher: Springer; 3rd ed. edition (May 6, 2010)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 3642108199
    • ISBN-13: 978-3642108198
    This book is the first complete guide to valuation in life sciences for industry professionals, investors, and academics. Boris Bogdan and Ralph Villiger introduce the characteristics of drug and medical device development, explain how to translate these into the valuation, and provide valuable industry data. After guiding the reader through the theory of valuation, including DCF, decision trees, and real options, the authors demonstrate how to value projects, patents, licences, firms, and stocks on real-life examples, even treating complex licence and company structures. Special emphasis is put on the practicability of the proposed methods by including many hands-on examples, without compromising on realistic results. The 3rd edition of the successful work includes new studies about success rates and about drug development in the biotech industry and their influence on valuation.

    Saturday 3 November 2012

    Case Study Research: Principles and Practices

    • Paperback: 278 pages
    • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (December 11, 2006)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0521676568
    • ISBN-13: 978-0521676564

    Case Study Research: Principles and Practices aims to provide a general understanding of the case study method as well as specific tools for its successful implementation. These tools can be utilized in all fields where the case study method is prominent, including business, anthropology, communications, economics, education, medicine, political science, social work, and sociology. Topics include the definition of a 'case study,' the strengths and weaknesses of this distinctive method, strategies for choosing cases, an experimental template for understanding research design, and the role of singular observations in case study research. It is argued that a diversity of approaches - experimental, observational, qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic - may be successfully integrated into case study research. This book breaks down traditional boundaries between qualitative and quantitative, experimental and nonexperimental, positivist and interpretivist.

    Technology Management


    • Paperback: 132 pages
    • Publisher: Capstone; 1 edition (April 11, 2002)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 1841122270
    • ISBN-13: 978-1841122274

    From the Inside Flap

    Fast track route to managing technology Covers the key areas of technology management from knowing which technology trends count and managing technology change, to devising the right level of technology training and and selecting technologies that match your business strategy.
    Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including ACUNIA, Nextel, and Seven-Eleven Japan and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Marc Adreesen and Timothy Berners-Lee
    Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

    From the Back Cover

    ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.
    ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need:
    01 Innovation
    02 Enterprise
    03 Strategy
    04 Marketing
    05 Finance
    06 Operations and Technology
    07 Organizations
    08 Leading
    09 People
    10 Life and Work
    ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest
    business thinking and practice quickly. 

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    Dictionary Of Financial And Business Terms


    by Roberto de Paula
    Roberto de Paula Lico Junior  is a lecturer in English as a Foreign
    Language and he has considerable expertise in the field of Overseas
    Trade, having designed and taught  a  number of classes related to
    International Law and Overseas Trade.

    Dictionary Of Financial And Business Terms download free ebooks e-book pdf epub mediafire hotfile rapidshare gratis ebook pdf, rtf, epub, lit, lrf, mobi, fb2, pdb
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    Best Practices in Business Technology Management


    • Hardcover: 368 pages
    • Publisher: Auerbach Publications; 1 edition (September 26, 2008)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 1420063332
    • ISBN-13: 978-1420063332
    Despite the exponential growth of computing and communications technology, the inertia of old business technology management practices still drives most investment decisions in this area. Companies spend too much money on new technology, while their business models and processes underutilize the resources they already have. Written in a compelling, conversational manner, Best Practices in Business Technology Management advises those who buy, install, and support all types of computing and communications technology, empowering them to optimize their systems in new and innovative ways.
    Divided into six chapters, the book provides insight into the field, discussing decision-making, trends, alignment, optimization, processes, timing, and other areas. It includes practical hands-on advice that explores organization, the challenges of working with people, acquisition and measurement of technology, operational effectiveness, and strategic effectiveness. The best practices presented are not theoretical or untested. Rather, they are the result of trench warfare and real applications. The insights contained in this volume represent what successful companies have done—and continue to do—to optimize the business technology relationship.

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    Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis


    • Paperback: 292 pages
    • Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (February 26, 2007)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0470047011
    • ISBN-13: 978-0470047019
    Seamlessly bridging academic accounting with real-life applications, Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition is the perfect guide to a complete understanding of accounting and financial statement analysis for those with no prior accounting background and those who seek a refresher.
    A true crash course in accounting—finally available outside of corporate training programs
    Seamlessly bridging academic accounting with real-life applications, Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition is the perfect guide to a complete understanding of accounting and financial statement analysis for those with no prior accounting background and those who seek a refresher.
    Written by accomplished investment bankers in a clear and easy-to-follow style, the Second Edition is filled with case studies, exercises, practical applications, and real-world examples that test and reinforce concepts.
    With new examples, an expansion of IFRS/GAAP discussion, and more exercises, the Second Edition equips novices with the necessary tools to put basic accounting and financial statement analysis skills to immediate use in their careers. 

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    Friday 2 November 2012

    Intermediate Accounting


    • Hardcover: 1440 pages
    • Publisher: Wiley; 13 edition (March 24, 2009)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0470374942
    • ISBN-13: 978-0470374948
    The bestselling book on intermediate accounting, Kieso is an excellent reference for practicing accountants and an invaluable resource for anyone entering the field. It integrates FARS/Codification exercises, cases, and simulations into the chapters. This introduces readers to the codification project. They’ll learn how to leverage everyday accounting programs like Excel, GLS, and other computerized accounting software giving them a strong background in the tools needed in the accounting profession. New and existing content is arranged in a way to offer accountants a chance to review key concepts.

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    Real Options in Practice


    • Hardcover: 320 pages
    • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (November 8, 2002)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0471263087
    • ISBN-13: 978-0471263081
    Review
    Rarely, a book of immense breadth comes along so little understood by its publisher that it is launched as a technical manual for industry insiders when, in fact, it is a seminal work in many fields. Marion A. Brach, a physician with a background in medical research and a deep understanding of mathematics, migrated to finance. She took an interest in real options, which is the field of valuation of choices in the real as opposed to the financial world and in due course produced her book.
    Dr. Brach's interest is, at its core, whether X corporation should buy Y corporation or invest a known amount of money in a project. This sort of thing has usually been handled by discounted cash flow analysis. If Y can add a known amount of money to X's business, then the purchase price of Y must not exceed the discounted cash flow it brings in.
    What's wrong with discounted cash flow is that it ignores risk, as Dr. Brach points out.That's a huge gap and one which real options can fix.
    The corrective value of real options pricing is obvious. The downside of real options is that it takes a good deal of math, usually partial differential equations, to do it. Financial calculators are alr eady available at modest prices to handle the Black-Scholes model of options pricing, but real options that involve corporate planning require a deeper sense of what the math is about. As Dr. Brach points out, a model for a deterministic solution, such as how much to pay for a right to buy a what contract that will expire at a known price, zero, at a given time, is different from the situation of a process that has a stochastic or even randomized outcome.
    Dr. Brach moves her story and analysis from biblical accounts of grain trading and a developing and parallel options market and Joseph's choice of whether to save grain to guard against seven years of famine. Thales, the Greek philosopher, bought call options on olive presses well before a harvest and was able to raise press rents at the small cost of the options he bought.
    The story of the development of real options moves from Greek olives to Dutch tulips and then to theories of thermodynamics. Dr. Brach mentions the roots of real options analysis in Russian and French investigations of probability theory, the use of Brownian motion as a foundation for stochastic theories of where prices will be in successive periods, and assumptions about market clearing and interest rates.
    There are investigations of the value of learning and the reduction of noise, the applications of game theory to outcome analysis, and a consideration of where real options is going and where its usefulness may end. The strength of the book is its sweeping view of the field of the valuation of events, the clarity of Dr. Brach's writing, a fine19 page bibliography, and her ability to tell her story without delving into mathematical physics - the source of much of the analytic power of real options analysis.
    For the investor, this value of this book about the analysis of non-financial options is what it says about the limitations of conventional investigations of future financial events. For thoughtful folks not concerned about figuring out the price of a financial options, Dr. Brach provides a glimpse of analysis as it will likely be in a decade or two. This reviewer cannot recommend this book too highly. For a reader with a little calculus and some statistics, it's not hard reading. For anyone, it is an adventure with a very bright mind-- Toronto Globe & Mail 

    Theories of Financial Disturbance: An Examination of Critical Theories of Finance from Adam Smith to the Present Day

    • Paperback: 208 pages
    • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (June 26, 2006)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 1845427637
    • ISBN-13: 978-1845427634

    Review

    "'Financial markets have an aura of disturbing instability. In this history of the thought of earlier economists who have studied the processes of finance, Jan Toporowski takes us on a fascinating journey to explore how they saw the impact of finance on the real economy. Not one for formal models, nor for rational expectations, Jan values historical experience and the insights and experience of earlier great thinkers.' - Charles A.E. Goodhart, CBE, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 'Jan Toporowski's Theories of Financial Disturbance is a tour de force. With his substantial knowledge of financial markets, his deep conceptual understanding of relevant concepts and his exhaustive reading of the essential literature, he is ideally placed to tell an absorbing narrative of, as he writes, critical theories of finance from Adam Smith to the present days - and he has. In a world in which finance and industrial and commercial capital are so out of kilter with one another, Toporowski's lucid wisdom is required reading.' - G.C. Harcourt, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK" --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

    About the Author

    Jan Toporowski, Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Official Visitor, Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, UK and Research Associate, Research Group on the History and Methodology of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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    The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)


    • Paperback: 640 pages
    • Publisher: Collins Business; Revised edition (July 8, 2003)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0060555661
    • ISBN-13: 978-0060555665

    Amazon.com Review

    Among the library of investment books promising no-fail strategies for riches, Benjamin Graham's classic, The Intelligent Investor, offers no guarantees or gimmicks but overflows with the wisdom at the core of all good portfolio management.
    The hallmark of Graham's philosophy is not profit maximization but loss minimization. In this respect, The Intelligent Investor is a book for true investors, not speculators or day traders. He provides, "in a form suitable for the laymen, guidance in adoption and execution of an investment policy" (1). This policy is inherently for the longer term and requires a commitment of effort. Where the speculator follows market trends, the investor uses discipline, research, and his analytical ability to make unpopular but sound investments in bargains relative to current asset value. Graham coaches the investor to develop a rational plan for buying stocks and bonds, and he argues that this plan must be a bulwark against emotional behavior that will always be tempting during abrupt bull and bear markets.
    Since it was first published in 1949, Graham's investment guide has sold over a million copies and has been praised by such luminaries as Warren E. Buffet as "the best book on investing ever written." These accolades are well deserved. In its new form--with commentary on each chapter and extensive footnotes prepared by senior Money editor, Jason Zweig--the classic is now updated in light of changes in investment vehicles and market activities since 1972. What remains is a better book. Graham's sage advice, analytical guides, and cautionary tales are still valid for the contemporary investor, and Zweig's commentaries demonstrate the relevance of Graham's principles in light of 1990s and early twenty-first century market trends. --Patrick O'Kelley