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Our Business, Management, and Accounting titles are essential reading for students and professionals, and cover a range of foundational and advanced topics across actuarial science, quantitative assets management and investment modelling, business venturing, business law, and human resource management, among other topics

  • Financial Planning Using Excel

    Forecasting, Planning and Budgeting Techniques
    • 2nd Edition
    • December 10, 2008
    • Sue Nugus
    • English
    This book covers all aspects of budget preparation, from designing and creating a budgetary control system, consolidating data and working with spreadsheets. Now fully updated to include the latest version of Excel, Excel 2007 and for easy budgeting. The book shows how things are done in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 to ease transition from the previous version to the new version. Now in full colour throughout to aid quick understanding through numerous color screen shots.For those who use Excel on a daily basis in budget planning, this book is a must. It contains a wealth of practical examples, tips, new techniques all designed to help quickly exploit and master Excel to its full advantage and therefore use spreadsheets for more effective management accounting in your firm.

  • Handbook of Management Accounting Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 3
    • December 8, 2008
    • Anthony G. Hopwood + 2 more
    • English
    Volume one of Handbook of Management Accounting Research sets the context for all three volumes in the series. Volume two provides insights into research on different management accounting practices. This third and final volume features contributions from some of the most influential researchers in various areas of management accounting research, consolidates the content of volumes one and two, and concludes with examples of management accounting research from around the world.

  • Business Modeling

    A Practical Guide to Realizing Business Value
    • 1st Edition
    • December 8, 2008
    • David M. Bridgeland + 1 more
    • English
    As business modeling becomes mainstream, every year more and more companies and government agencies are creating models of their businesses. But creating good business models is not a simple endeavor. Business modeling requires new skills. Written by two business modeling experts, this book shows you how to make your business modeling efforts successful. It provides in-depth coverage of each of the four distinct business modeling disciplines, helping you master them all and understand how to effectively combine them. It also details best practices for working with subject matter experts. And it shows how to develop models, and then analyze, simulate, and deploy them. This is essential, authoritative information that will put you miles ahead of everyone who continues to approach business modeling haphazardly.

  • Strategic Marketing Decision-Making within Japanese and South Korean Companies

    • 1st Edition
    • November 30, 2008
    • Yang-Im Lee + 1 more
    • English
    This book acts as a bridge between marketing and strategic management, as it is written from a strategic marketing perspective. It provides students and practising managers with an appreciation and an understanding of how managers in Japanese and South Korean companies formulate and implement strategic marketing decisions, how they embrace the organizational learning concept, and how they formulate working relationships with staff in partner organizations. It provides an explanation of the role that culture plays in the management process and various problems are cited in the text and solutions are offered that reinforce the theories and concepts covered. A number of case studies highlight the link between theory and practice, and the work is structured in a way that allows the reader to think through and reflect upon the key issues associated with decision-making within Japanese and South Korean companies.

  • International Business Control, Reporting and Corporate Governance

    Global business best practice across cultures, countries and organisations
    • 1st Edition
    • October 30, 2008
    • Georges Nurdin
    • English
    This book is designed to help Business Controllers / Accountants / Finance Directors / Bankers / Financial Analysts / Business Consultants to understand that International Business Control is much more than just a business being IFRS and US GAAP compliant, or just an extension of the domestic HQ control system.

  • Network Quality of Service Know It All

    • 1st Edition
    • October 23, 2008
    • Adrian Farrel
    • English
    The term Quality of Service, abbreviated QoS, refers to network resource control mechanisms. Quality of Service is the ability to provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow. This book brings all of the elements of network quality of service (QoS) together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It introduces network QoS, explains the basics, describes the protocols, and discusses advanced topics, by the best and brightest experts in the field. It is a quick and efficient way to bring valuable content together from leading experts in the field while creating a one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive the information they would otherwise need to round up from separate sources.

  • IFRS: A Quick Reference Guide

    • 1st Edition
    • October 22, 2008
    • Robert Kirk
    • English
    This book is all about how companies are applying the key principles in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and shows this by use of extensive examples of UK company accounts. The book provides coverage of the key points of each standard and links that with actual practice. It is not a detailed guidance book as such, or a transistion book from UK standards to IFRS, but a quick reference for the busy accountant which shows how to apply the key points of each standard by reference to how other companies have done it.Robert Kirk BSc (Econ) FCA CPA trained in Belfast with Price Waterhouse & Co., and subsequently spent two years in industry in a subsidiary of Shell (UK) and four further years in practice. He is currently Professor of Financial Reporting in the School of Accounting at the University of Ulster and has been lecturing on the CIMA Mastercourses Accounting Standards and Accounting Standards in Depth since 1985. He has authored four editions of Accounting Standards in Depth; UK Accounting Standards: A Quick Reference Guide; and International Reporting Standards in Depth Volume 1 Theory and Practice and Volume 2 Solutions.

  • Network Management Know It All

    • 1st Edition
    • October 16, 2008
    • Adrian Farrel
    • English
    Network management refers to the activities, methods, procedures, and tools that pertain to the operation, administration, maintenance, and provisioning of networked systems, which includes controlling, planning, allocating, deploying, coordinating, and monitoring the resources of a network. This book brings all of the elements of network management together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It introduces network management, explains the basics, describes the protocols, and discusses advanced topics, by the best and brightest experts in the field. It is a quick and efficient way to bring valuable content together from leading experts in the field while creating a one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive the information they would otherwise need to round up from separate sources.

  • The Private Sector and China's Market Development

    • 1st Edition
    • September 30, 2008
    • Zhikai Wang
    • English
    Based on case studies, this comprehensive review aims to explore the development of the private sector and how it stimulates industrial growth at regional level in China. The book traces the privatization mechanism and how it facilitates the process of industrialization and urbanization in rural China. The Private Sector and China’s Market Development looks at the evolution of market transition and the rapid growth of the private sector from aspects of both bottom up and top down institutional innovation. It also provides a commentary of future development and innovation in the private sector.

  • CIMA Revision Card Fundamentals of Business Maths

    • 2nd Edition
    • September 16, 2008
    • Jo Avis
    • English
    CIMA Revision Card Fundamentals of Business Maths provides complete coverage of the CIMA syllabus in notes. This handy kit, the only revision aids recommended by CIMA, saves you time by distilling the contents of your CIMA Learning System down to bite-sized chunks, focusing only on the key points you need to pass your exam. This new revised edition reflects changes in the Learning System. This book covers basic mathematics; obtaining data; presentation of data; descriptive statistics; index numbers; financial mathematics; correlation and regression; time series; probability; and spreadsheets. Diagrams and bulleted lists show key points as clearly and concisely as possible, making them easy to learn and remember. Study tips are included to guide you in the right direction. This book will appeal to General Accounting students, and especially to CIMA students taking Fundamentals of Business Maths module- 2006 syllabus.

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