Unaccountable: How the Accounting Profession Forfeited a Public Trust
ISBN: 9780471423621 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For thousands of years, those who controlled and monitored society's finances-accountants-were often the most powerful, respected, and influential members of the community. From the collectors at communal granaries in the ancient Middle East to the scribes who monitored Queen Victoria's Exchequer, the accountant's role has been to preserve the integrity of financial systems.
In the United States, twentieth-century accountants played a vital role in shaping the transparency of U.S. capital markets, counseling the Allies on financial matters in both world wars, advising Congress on... For thousands of years, those who controlled and monitored society's finances-accountants-were often the most powerful, respected, and influential mem...
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138,02 zł |
Collection Management Handbook: The Art of Getting Paid
ISBN: 9780471456049 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You don't have to be gifted to be a great credit collector. All you need is a desire to learn from the best.. . . and that's the level of expertise this exhaustively researched volume puts right at your fingertips. The Collection Management Handbook puts you on the fast track to becoming a debt recovery dynamo. Drawing on actual cases from the collection industry's top achievers, this expanded edition redefines collection methodology. Focusing on multiple avenues of strategic creditor recourse, it goes beyond yesterday's dunning notices, showing you how to extract money from the most...
You don't have to be gifted to be a great credit collector. All you need is a desire to learn from the best.. . . and that's the level of expertise th...
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690,38 zł |
Managing Interest Rate Risk: Using Financial Derivatives
ISBN: 9780471485490 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As with previous titles in the IIA (Institute of Internal Auditors) series this is a clear and practical guide to a subject of key importance to financial managers. Whether borrowing, investing, saving or trading, a company will always have to take into account the cost of capital and therefore interest rate risk. The highly accessible style explains everything from the basic principles through to the techniques allowing those without prior knowledge to understand the nature and use of a variety of financial tools, including derivative instruments. This is the third part of the trilogy on...
As with previous titles in the IIA (Institute of Internal Auditors) series this is a clear and practical guide to a subject of key importance to finan...
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441,84 zł |
Accounting Theory
ISBN: 9780471507048 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Second Edition includes new chapters on financing and investment arrangements, pensions and deferred income taxes, mergers and acquisitions, and consolidated income statements. The author presents a unified approach to accounting theory and discusses advanced procedures not commonly in practice, deeper analysis of present concepts and standards, and the results of empirical research. The first chapter recounts the early history of accounting. The middle chapters analyze current theory along with alternative views. The closing chapter speculates on the future of the profession. At the end...
The Second Edition includes new chapters on financing and investment arrangements, pensions and deferred income taxes, mergers and acquisitions, and c...
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1137,47 zł |
Driving Your Company's Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value
ISBN: 9780471648550 / Angielski / Twarda / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Driving Your Company's Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value is a step-by-step book presenting a valuation-oriented methodology that helps companies maximize shareholder value. It offers clear, concise, and concrete methods for management to create and preserve value, complete with case study applications. In an easy-to-read format, it brings together the aspects of the Financial Accounting Standards Boards' new performance measurements, the balanced scorecard, and the new guidelines on fraud detection and Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL).
* Identifies the critical... Driving Your Company's Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value is a step-by-step book presenting a valuation-oriented methodology that helps companies...
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359,00 zł |
Technology Valuation Solutions
ISBN: 9780471654674 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A better way to value the profitability and risk of R&D projects
New technology and R&D initiatives affect companies in both the service and manufacturing sector. It's estimated that half a trillion dollars is spent worldwide each year on such efforts. Technology Valuation Solutions + website offers a methodology along with illustrative cases for valuing the profitability and risk of R&D projects. A companion to Boer's earlier work, The Valuation of Technology (978-0-471-31638-1), this book provides additional material that will help readers assess a wide variety of... A better way to value the profitability and risk of R&D projects
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386,61 zł |
Repeated Financial Decisions: An Experimental Analysis
ISBN: 9780471720287 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This monograph reports the results of a large scale experimental study into the decision-making process, in particular into how repeated decisions on whether to buy or sell are made when trading stocks. It considers how the resources and the objectives of individuals influence their behaviour, the perception that success is the result of being active and aggressive in the market and how the decision-making process is often minimised by repeating the same basic decision. It also compares the evidence of the actual behaviour of individuals with financial theory.
This monograph reports the results of a large scale experimental study into the decision-making process, in particular into how repeated decisions on ...
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386,61 zł |
International Commodity Trading: Physical and Derivative Markets
ISBN: 9780471852100 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In addition to discussing financial and commodity futures and options, this book links them to the physical economy at large, a linkage which is particularly important when one is thinking of physical commodity markets. The book looks at not only the futures of derivative markets, but it also explores the physical markets and the underlying economy.
In addition to discussing financial and commodity futures and options, this book links them to the physical economy at large, a linkage which is parti...
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524,69 zł |
Creative Accounting and the Cross-Eyed Javelin Thrower
ISBN: 9780471988359 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creative accounting, as highlighted in the best selling books of Terry Smith and Ian Griffiths, was one of the key themes in corporate finance in the 1980s. The control of creative accounting has been a major issue of the 1990s. This book looks at the regulatory response to creative accounting and the role olf the Financial Reporting Review Panel, under Sir David Tweedie, in policing company accounts. The book is about the contest for the control of creative accounting, a contest in which Sir David Tweedie describes the Financial Reporting Review Panel as 'like a cross-eyed javelin thrower at...
Creative accounting, as highlighted in the best selling books of Terry Smith and Ian Griffiths, was one of the key themes in corporate finance in the ...
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347,90 zł |
Reforming Financial Systems: Historical Implications for Policy
ISBN: 9780521032810 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume summarizes the key lessons of financial history for emerging market and developing economies, mostly drawn from when OECD economies themselves were industrializing and did not possess the checks, balances, and supervisory capabilities they have today. The topics include the role of central banks, debates on how to make banking secure and sound, the relative efficiency of universal banking (compared with the Anglo-American commercial banking model), and the role of savings banks, nonbanks, and securities markets in development.
This volume summarizes the key lessons of financial history for emerging market and developing economies, mostly drawn from when OECD economies themse...
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218,26 zł |
Judgment and Decision-Making Research in Accounting and Auditing
ISBN: 9780521418447 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of behavioral decision making has recently expanded into the area of accounting and auditing. This branch of research seeks to understand the cognitive processes that govern such necessary functions as the pricing of products and services, evaluating corporate performance, granting credit to prospective borrowers, and investing in financial securities. In Judgment and Decision-Making Research in Accounting and Auditing, editors Robert and Alison Ashton present and review more than twenty years of research in decision-making science. The book analyzes the judgments that business...
The study of behavioral decision making has recently expanded into the area of accounting and auditing. This branch of research seeks to understand th...
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518,28 zł |
The Elements of Accounting: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780521424493 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A concise introduction to the content and structure of accounting statements and the double entry system that underlies them. This book is intended as a first introduction to the subject and assumes no previous knowledge or experience of accounting. Worked numerical examples are an integral part of the exposition, and exercises (with solutions) are provided. There are also chapters on the interpretation of accounts, on accounting for price changes, and on broader aspects of accounting. The emphasis throughout is on understanding fundamental principles rather than on detailed practical...
A concise introduction to the content and structure of accounting statements and the double entry system that underlies them. This book is intended as...
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195,13 zł |
Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice
ISBN: 9780521469654 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a socio-historical analysis of accounting. It is the first major collection to address the multiple arenas in which accounting emerges and operates. As accounting continues to gain in importance in so many spheres of social life, an understanding of the conditions and consequences of such a calculative technology is vital. This book demonstrates the value of analyzing accounting work in relation to developments in accounting, organizational analysis, sociology and political science, and provides a critical perspective on the conditions and consequences of accounting...
This book provides a socio-historical analysis of accounting. It is the first major collection to address the multiple arenas in which accounting emer...
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160,35 zł |
Reforming Financial Systems: Historical Implications for Policy
ISBN: 9780521581158 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume summarizes the key lessons of financial history for emerging market and developing economies, mostly drawn from when OECD economies themselves were industrializing and did not possess the checks, balances, and supervisory capabilities they have today. The topics include the role of central banks, debates on how to make banking secure and sound, the relative efficiency of universal banking (compared with the Anglo-American commercial banking model), and the role of savings banks, nonbanks, and securities markets in development.
This volume summarizes the key lessons of financial history for emerging market and developing economies, mostly drawn from when OECD economies themse...
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503,37 zł |
A History of Accounting and Accountants
ISBN: 9780714612799 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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787,03 zł |
Armchair Millionaire, the
ISBN: 9780743411929 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With more Americans than ever before taking responsibility for their own financial futures, it's no surprise that ever-larger numbers of investors -- both novice and experienced -- have reacted to all the dizzying headlines with a call for more information and less noise. At the Armchair Millionaire web site, real people come together every day to share their own stories of investing success, centered around a time-tested long term wealth building strategy called "The Five Steps to Financial Freedom." THE ARMCHAIR MILLIONAIRE explains both the mechanics and the motivations that produce true...
With more Americans than ever before taking responsibility for their own financial futures, it's no surprise that ever-larger numbers of investors -- ...
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78,58 zł |
Strategic Management Accounting
ISBN: 9780750601108 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work places management accounting clearly within the context of the strategic management of the business, and provides an overview of both competitive and corporate strategic issues.
This work places management accounting clearly within the context of the strategic management of the business, and provides an overview of both compet...
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325,25 zł |
Money Matters for Hospitality Managers
ISBN: 9780750652506 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Particularly targeted at operational and junior management level, this book is designed to extend beyond the theoretical treatments that dominate other accounting texts on the subject. The author presents, analyzes and explains real-life scenarios. She also deals with an unprecedented range of sectors - including hotels, restaurants, contract catering, leisure tourism, cruise ships and theme parks - thereby providing coverage of the whole hospitality industry.
Particularly targeted at operational and junior management level, this book is designed to extend beyond the theoretical treatments that dominate othe...
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220,31 zł |
Accounting for Business Studies
ISBN: 9780750658348 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Businesses are complex, and, as a result, teachers face a difficult task developing students' understanding of how they work, especially in the global context. Accounting for Business Studies helps teachers focus on modern commercial issues and integrates accounting into business and management studies. This book includes: * A business perspective rather than an accounting perspective* e-business, including case studies* Globalisation, including case studies* Business skills, like interpretation, analysis and communication* IT integrated into specific business situations* Includes models such...
Businesses are complex, and, as a result, teachers face a difficult task developing students' understanding of how they work, especially in the global...
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288,53 zł |
Risk Accounting and Risk Management for Accountants
ISBN: 9780750684224 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Both Accountants and Auditors are confronted daily with challenges associated with the evaluation of credit risk, market risk, and other exposures. The book provides up-to-date information on the most significant developments in risk management policies and practices. Accountants whose work under International Financial Reporting Standards increasingly involves risk control in their job will find this book of practical value with the inclusion of material on "how to" successfully design, implementation and use risk control measures. Designed specifically for accountants the book...
Both Accountants and Auditors are confronted daily with challenges associated with the evaluation of credit risk, market risk, and other exposures. Th...
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293,77 zł |