Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Accounting - General

The sharp increase in both the price of crude oil and resulting revenues to Saudi Arabia has seen the rapid growth of the kingdom s international trade and a large accumulation of financial assets. These sudden and drastic changes have taken place, however, within a mainly traditional economy, unprepared to cope with a massive increase in government revenues. Long-term planning is therefore of the utmost importance to Saudi Arabia, and this study, first published in 1978, presents a detailed analysis of the structure of the kingdom s economy, represented by a dynamic simulation model. The...

For many years, individual countries created their own rules and regulations for company financial accounting and reporting. As the world became more global, problems began to arise. A company could make a pro fit for the year if the rules in its own country were applied, but this could turn into a loss if another country's rules were used.

To prevent this confusing and misleading state of affairs, standards were issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Since 2002, the standard setter in the United States, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), has...

Although the United States has developed highly sophisticated markets for funding corporate investment projects, markets for financing home ownership are comparatively rudimentary. When a corporation wishes to fund a project, it can choose any mix of debt and equity financing. In contrast, to buy a home, a household must take on debt in the form of a mortgage. The authors of this book propose the development of new markets, called Partnership Markets, that would allow households to use equity finance to buy their homes. With these new markets, a household would be able to finance housing...

Das Controlling- und Fuhrungsinstrument der Balanced Scorecard unterstutzt die Erhebung von harten und weichen Kennzahlen und ermoglicht es dadurch, auch strategische Ziele fassbar zu machen. Die gewonnenen Kennzahlen konnen eingesetzt werden, um den Anforderungen der neuen ISO 9001:2000 zu entsprechen: Messung von Prozessen, Vision, Strategie (Qualitatspolitik) und Nachweis der Wirksamkeit des QM-Systems an messbaren Qualitatszielen mit BSC. Das Buch liefert Losungen auf Excel-Basis, mit denen die Unternehmensstrukturen analysiert und ausgewertet werden konnen. Neu in der dritten...