Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0415253241
Paperback: 288 pages
Data: January 15, 2002
Format: PDF









Description: Routledge's "Key Concepts" series aims to provide basic definitions to undergraduates and the informed public. In this entry, approximately 230 terms in management, economics, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations are each given a one-sentence definition followed by a longer, more detailed description, up to two pages in length, explaining the idea in context. Each entry ends with See also references and further reading suggestions tied to a long, up-to-date bibliography. One might quibble about some of the titles in the bibliography (e.g., only one book by Peter Drucker and none by Alfred Sloan), but it's excellent for a title of this size. Although Routledge is a British publisher and there are some British spellings, most examples feature U.S. companies. Ultimately, this book is suitable for any library that carries the "Key Concepts" series. But it is closer to "Cliffs Notes" or the old "College Outline" series than a true dictionary, and it may be better placed in circulation than in reference. The cloth edition is overpriced, and libraries with a moderately good collection of business dictionaries will have everything offered in this volume. Small libraries might find Jack Friedman's Dictionary of Business Terms (Barron's, 2000. 3d ed.) or P.H. Collin's Dictionary of Business (Peter Collin, 2001. 3d ed.) better values.

Publisher: NOLO
Language: English
ISBN: 087337925X
Paperback: 240 pages
Data: May 2003
Format: PDF





Description: Stephen Fishman received his law degree from the University of Southern California in 1979. After stints in government and private practice, he became a full-time legal writer in 1983. He has helped write and edit over a dozen reference books for attorneys. He is the author of Software Development: A Legal Guide, Copyright Your Software, The Copyright Handbook, Consultant & Independent Contractor Agreements, Wage Slave No More: Law & Taxes for the Self-Employed, and Hiring Independent Contractors: The Employer''s Legal Guide, all published by Nolo.

Created by leading motivational speaker and corporate trainer Anne Bruce, this highly effective plan helps participants discover their own "true north" in order to find a focus for success. Throughout Discover True North are invaluable exercises, worksheets, and insights for personal growth developed from Bruce's work with thousands of workshop members and clients throughout the world--from Sprint and Ben & Jerry's to The American Red Cross and the London Institute of Management. Unlike other goal-oriented processes that call for long-range three-to-five-year life plans, working through this unique fourweek formula helps unlock potential immediately--today.

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Jack J. Phillips / Timothy W. Bothell / G. Lynne Snead,
«The Project Management Scorecard: Measuring the Success of
Project Management Solutions (Improving Human Performance series)»
Butterworth-Heinemann | ISBN 0750674490 | 2002-05-01 | PDF | 1.1 Mb | 353 pages

Accounting for Non-accountants
PDF | 2.6 MB | 352 pages


Author: Graham Mott
Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd; 6Rev Ed edition (June 3, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0749444169
ISBN-13: 978-0749444167









Contents:

Part 1 The annual accounts

1 Financial reporting 3
2 Financial recording 18
3 The profit and loss account 29
4 The balance sheet 41
5 Cash flow statement 57
6 Accounting for different business organizations 65
7 Accounting for inflation 76
8 Value added 85
9 Financial ratios 92
10 Other performance measures 109

Part 2 Management accounting

11 Costing basics 119
12 Costing and pricing 135
13 Marginal costing 146
14 Standard costing 166
15 Budgetary control 178

Part 3 Financial management

16 The cost of capital 197
17 Capital investment appraisal 207
18 Managing working capital 230
19 Share values 247
20 Mergers, takeovers and buy-outs 264
21 Company taxation 273
22 Overseas transactions 283

Appendices

1 Financial reporting standards (FRS) as December 2004 293
2 List of abbreviations 297
3 Glossary of terms 299
4 Compound interest factors of £1 306
5 Present value factors of £1 308
6 Cumulative present value factors of £1 per annum 310
7 Answers to self-check questions 312
8 Further questions 327[/align]

The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition



The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition
The MIT Press | ISBN 1857441508 | 1997-08-08 | PDF | 244 pages | 1.31 MB

Paul Krugman's popular guide to the economic landscape of the 1990s has been revised and updated to take into account economic developments of the past three years. New material in the third edition includes:

- A new chapter--complete with colorful examples from Lloyds of London and Sumitomo Metals--on how risky behavior can lead to disaster in private markets.

- An evaluation of the Federal Reserves role in reining in economic growth to prevent inflation, and the debate over whether its growth targets are too low.

- A look at the collapse of the Mexican peso and the burst of Japans bubble economy.

- A revised discussion of the federal budget deficit, including the growing concern that Social Security and Medicare payments to retiring baby boomers will threaten the solvency of the government.

Finally, in the updated concluding section, the author provides three possible scenarios for the American economy over the next decade. He warns that we live in an age of diminished expectations, in which the voting public is willing to settle for policy drift--but with the first of the baby boomers turning 65 in 2011, the U.S. economy will not be able to drift indefinitely.

Development, Geography, and Economic Theory (Ohlin Lectures)



Development, Geography, and Economic Theory (Ohlin Lectures)
The MIT Press | ISBN 0262112035 | 1995-09-15 | PDF | 128 pages | 15.31 MB

Why do certain ideas gain currency in economics while others fall by the wayside? Paul Krugman argues that the unwillingness of mainstream economists to think about what they could not formalize led them to ignore ideas that turn out, in retrospect, to have been very good ones.

Krugman examines the course of economic geography and development theory to shed light on the nature of economic inquiry. He traces how development theory lost its huge initial influence and virtually disappeared from economic discourse after it became clear that many of the theory's main insights could not be clearly modeled. Economic geography seems to have fared even worse, as economists shied away from grappling with questions about space -- such as the size, location, or even existence of cities -- because the "terrain was seen as unsuitable for the tools at hand."

Krugman's book, however, is not a call to abandon economic modeling. He concludes with a reminder of why insisting on the use of models may be right, even when these sometimes lead economists to overlook good ideas. He also recaps the discussion of development and economic geography with a commentary on recent developments in those fields and areas where further inquiry looks most promising.

Pop Internationalism




Pop Internationalism
Mit Pr | ISBN 0262112108 | 1996-03 | PDF | 221 pages | 15.31 MB

"Pop internationalists" -- people who speak impressively about international trade while ignoring basic economics and misusing economic figures are the target of this collection of Paul Krugman's most recent essays. In the clear, readable, entertaining style that brought acclaim for his best-selling Age of Diminished Expectations, Krugman explains what real economic analysis is. He discusses economic terms and measurements, like "value-added" and GDP, in simple language so that readers can understand how pop internationalists distort, and sometimes contradict, the most basic truths about world trade.

All but two of the essays have previously appeared in such publications as Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, and the Harvard Business Review. The first five essays take on exaggerations of foreign competition's effects on the U.S. economy and represent Krugman's central criticisms of public debate over world trade. The next three essays expose further distortions of economic theory and include the complete, unaltered, controversial review of Laura Tyson's Who's Bashing Whom. The third group of essays highlights misconceptions about competition from less industrialized countries. The concluding essays focus on interesting and legitimate economic questions, such as the effects of technological change on society.

Extreme Financial Risks: From Dependence to Risk Management



Extreme Financial Risks: From Dependence to Risk Management (Springer Finance) by Yannick Malevergne (Author), Didier Sornette (Author)
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 5, 2005) | ISBN-10: 354027264X | PDF | 5,2 Mb | 312 pages

Portfolio analysis and optimization, together with the associated risk assessment and management, require knowledge of the likely distributions of returns at different time scales and insights into the nature and properties of dependences between the different assets.
This book offers an original and thorough treatment of these two domains, focusing mainly on the concepts and tools that remain valid for large and extreme price moves. Strong emphasis is placed on the theory of copulas and their empirical testing and calibration, because they offer intrinsic and complete measures of dependences.
Extreme Financial;Risks will be useful to:
students looking for a general and in-depth introduction to the field;
financial engineers, economists, econometricians, actuarial professionals;
researchers and mathematicians looking for a synoptic view comparing the pros and cons of different modelling strategies; and
quantitative practitioners for the insights offered on the subtleties and the many dimensional components of both risk and dependence.
In toto, the content of this book will also be useful to a broader scientific community interested in quantifying the complexity of many natural and artificial processes in which a growing emphasis is on the role and importance of extreme phenomena.

Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy



Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy
Cambridge University Press | ISBN 0521846293 | 2006-03-20 | PDF | 352 pages | 2.31 MB

This book shows through accessible argument and numerous examples how understanding moral philosophy can improve economic analysis, how moral philosophy can benefit from economists’ analytical tools, and how economic analysis and moral philosophy together can inform public policy. Part I explores rationality and its connections to morality. It argues that in defending their model of rationality, mainstream economists implicitly espouse contestable moral principles. Part II concerns welfare, utilitarianism and standard welfare economics, while Part III considers important moral notions that are left out of standard welfare economics, such as freedom, rights, equality, and justice. Part III also emphasizes the variety of moral considerations that are relevant to evaluating policies. Part IV then introduces technical work in social choice theory and game theory that is guided by ethical concepts and relevant to moral theorizing. Chapters include recommended readings and the book includes a glossary of relevant terms.