Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-05-14
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $180.95
Price: $65.95
Review Entrepreneurial Finance: For New and Emerging Businesses / South-Western College Pub:This text covers the process of starting a business, raising capital, managing the finances of the business throughout its growth, and ultimately cashing out of the business. The book is very practical, providing real-world advice and information sought by those who want to start their own businesses. Stancill's text sticks to the nuts and bolts of managing the finances of a start-up or small business.
Creator: Robert W. Wood
Publication date: 1997-08
Dewey code: 346
Price: $67.00
Review Limited Liability Companies: Formation, Operation and Conversion, 1997 Cumulative Supplement (Business Practice Library) / Wiley Law Pubns:
Authors
- John D. Stowe
- Douglas R. Emery
- John D. Finnerty
Publication date: 2006-10-21
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $190.67
Price: $68.95
Review Corporate Financial Management (3rd Edition) / Prentice Hall:Emery, Finnery, Stowe is the only corporate finance text to bridge the gap between theory and practice with a unique pedogical framework, and the expertise of a researcher, practitioner, and teacher. Instructors and professors agree that bringing real word examples into the corp fin course is paramount, but doing this in a way that harnesses the theory is tough. E/F/S connectes the theory with practice like no other text, not only due to the fact that each author brings a special expertise to the table, but through the 12 principles that tie the texts concepts together.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-05-14
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $180.95
Price: $65.95
Review Entrepreneurial Finance: For New and Emerging Businesses / South-Western College Pub:This text covers the process of starting a business, raising capital, managing the finances of the business throughout its growth, and ultimately cashing out of the business. The book is very practical, providing real-world advice and information sought by those who want to start their own businesses. Stancill's text sticks to the nuts and bolts of managing the finances of a start-up or small business.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2001-05-03
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $89.95
Price: $188.17
Review Financial and Process Metrics for the New Economy / AMACOM:How can financial professionals measure the success of the businesses in the "new" economy? Author James Sagner first reviews and compares the financial and process metrics of the "old economy" with this "new economy", then supplies insightful and detailed answers by looking at transaction finance and its component systems: financial metrics and process metrics. The age of the Internet, fast-tracking and "profitless" companies is upon us - this book is a guide for financial professionals. It discusses the eye-opening concept of the "time value of money", and examines what the new metrics reveal about the success/failure potential of specific industries.
Publication date: 2006-02-05
Dewey code: 657.3
List Price: $54.95
Price: $54.94
Review Profitable Sarbanes-oxley Compliance: Attain Improved Shareholder Value and Bottom-line Results / J. Ross Publishing:The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is here to stay. This unique reference not only shows how to achieve compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, but also guides senior executives and their management teams in assessing the reliability of financial reporting and internal controls to maintain compliance. Unlike other SOX books, it shows how to use the process to reduce risks and improve profitability, shareholder value and operational performance. Key Features: • Delineates how to achieve compliance to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and how to select and apply the right performance metrics to maintain compliance and create value • Includes a blueprint for using the COSO and enterprise risk management frameworks that provides a model for assessing the reliability of business risk and internal controls • Supplies the tools and techniques to conduct internal control continuous self-assessments to improve operational performance and achieve greater profitability • Provides guidance on building effective programs for identifying, measuring, prioritizing and responding to risk • Uncovers the secrets to creating a reliable business process infrastructure that provides the basis for real-time top-down and bottom-up financial reporting and profit planning • WAV offers a free downloadable Sarbanes-Oxley compliance management checklist, performance measurement scorecard, self-assessment checklist and scoring template, business process management checklist, and other compliance and internal control resources and tools — available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center at jrosspub. com.
Publication date: 1994-01
Price: $51.84
Review Quality in the Finance Function (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) / Kogan Page:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2003-05-02
Dewey code: 658
Price: $150.00
Review Financial Risk Manager Handbook, Second Edition / Wiley:An essential guide to financial risk management as well as the only way to ace the GARP FRM Exam The Financial Risk Management Exam (FRM Exam) was developed by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) as a means of establishing an industry standard of minimum professional competence in the field. It is given annually in November for risk professionals who want to earn FRM certification. Authored by renowned financial risk management guru Phillipe Jorion, with the full support of the GARP, this is the definitive guide for those preparing to take the FRM Exam. With the help of questions (and solutions) taken from previous exams, Jorion coaches readers on quantitative methods, capital markets, and market, credit, operational, and risk management concepts and assessment techniques. In addition to being the indispensable guide for those aspiring to FRM certification, Financial Risk Manager Handbook also serves as a valued working reference for risk professionals. Phillipe Jorion, PhD (Irvine, CA), is a Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Management at UC Irvine. He has also taught at Columbia University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of British Columbia.
Publication date: 2006-02-05
Dewey code: 657.3
List Price: $54.95
Price: $54.94
Review Profitable Sarbanes-oxley Compliance: Attain Improved Shareholder Value and Bottom-line Results / J. Ross Publishing:The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is here to stay. This unique reference not only shows how to achieve compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, but also guides senior executives and their management teams in assessing the reliability of financial reporting and internal controls to maintain compliance. Unlike other SOX books, it shows how to use the process to reduce risks and improve profitability, shareholder value and operational performance. Key Features: • Delineates how to achieve compliance to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and how to select and apply the right performance metrics to maintain compliance and create value • Includes a blueprint for using the COSO and enterprise risk management frameworks that provides a model for assessing the reliability of business risk and internal controls • Supplies the tools and techniques to conduct internal control continuous self-assessments to improve operational performance and achieve greater profitability • Provides guidance on building effective programs for identifying, measuring, prioritizing and responding to risk • Uncovers the secrets to creating a reliable business process infrastructure that provides the basis for real-time top-down and bottom-up financial reporting and profit planning • WAV offers a free downloadable Sarbanes-Oxley compliance management checklist, performance measurement scorecard, self-assessment checklist and scoring template, business process management checklist, and other compliance and internal control resources and tools — available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center at jrosspub. com.
Authors
- Robert H. Flast
- Dennis I. Dickstein
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $60.00
Price: $54.65
Review No Excuses: A Business Process Approach to Managing Operational Risk / Wiley:Why should a company have an operational risk management function and how should it be organized? No Excuses proposes that operational risk should be examined through the business processes, that is, the flows of business. It provides practical, how-to, step-by-step lessons and checklists to help identify and mitigate operational risks in an organization. As well, it shows how operational risk can be directly linked to the process flows of a business for all industries. CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CROs, CIOs, and CAOs will benefit from this innovative book.
Authors
- John D. Stowe
- John D. Finnerty
- Douglas R. Emery
Publication date: 2006-10-21
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $190.67
Price: $68.95
Review Corporate Financial Management (3rd Edition) / Prentice Hall:Emery, Finnery, Stowe is the only corporate finance text to bridge the gap between theory and practice with a unique pedogical framework, and the expertise of a researcher, practitioner, and teacher. Instructors and professors agree that bringing real word examples into the corp fin course is paramount, but doing this in a way that harnesses the theory is tough. E/F/S connectes the theory with practice like no other text, not only due to the fact that each author brings a special expertise to the table, but through the 12 principles that tie the texts concepts together.
Creator: Robert W. Wood
Publication date: 1997-08
Dewey code: 346
Price: $67.00
Review Limited Liability Companies: Formation, Operation and Conversion, 1997 Cumulative Supplement (Business Practice Library) / Wiley Law Pubns:
Publication date: 1988-01
Price: $75.00
Review Practical Financial Management / Blackwell Publishers:All financial managers find themselves involved in making both investment decisions and financing decisions, and this book provides guidelines for making such decisions most successfully. It shows how investment decisions must be made relating to projects, working capital and mergers, while financing decisions are made in relation to capital structure dividend policy and leasing. Although such decisions can be considered separately the book demonstrates how, in the end, investment decisions and financing decisions must be made at the same time. Short chapters illustrate the making of wealth creating and investment financing decisions, while the essential background mathematics is confined to appropriate appendices. Those on professional finance and accounting courses, accounting degree courses, business studies, MBA programmes and post- experience courses. Also professional managers and advisors.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-06-22
Dewey code: 657.024655
List Price: $79.95
Price: $69.58
Review Accounting and Finance for the NonFinancial Executive: An Integrated Resource Management Guide for the 21st Century / CRC:Have you recently been promoted? Are you starting a new business? Do you suddenly find that you need to know more about finances than you ever expected, but have no time for formal training? If so, you need Accounting and Finance for the Non-Financial Executive. Whether you are a newly promoted middle manager or executive, a marketing manager of a small company, an entrepreneur, or own your own business, your results will be measured in dollars and cents. You need to know the basics of finance and accounting to make sound business decisions and become successful. Shim shows you the strategies for evaluating investment decisions such as return on investment analysis. You will see what you need to know, what to ask, which tools are important, what to look for, what to do, and how to do it. Easy to read and useful, the book presents many practical examples, illustrations, guidelines, measures, rules of thumb, graphs, diagrams, and tables that make comprehending the subject easy. Accounting and Finance for the Non-Financial Executive prepares you for additional managerial responsibilities. You will be better equipped to prepare, appraise, evaluate, and approve plans to accomplish departmental objectives. You will be able to back up your recommendations with carefully prepared financial support. Whether they are based on marketing, production, or personnel, by learning how to think in terms of finance and accounting you can intelligently express your ideas.
Authors
- Dennis I. Dickstein
- Robert H. Flast
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $60.00
Price: $54.65
Review No Excuses: A Business Process Approach to Managing Operational Risk / Wiley:Why should a company have an operational risk management function and how should it be organized? No Excuses proposes that operational risk should be examined through the business processes, that is, the flows of business. It provides practical, how-to, step-by-step lessons and checklists to help identify and mitigate operational risks in an organization. As well, it shows how operational risk can be directly linked to the process flows of a business for all industries. CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CROs, CIOs, and CAOs will benefit from this innovative book.
Publication date: 1994-01
Price: $51.84
Review Quality in the Finance Function (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) / Kogan Page:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2003-05-02
Dewey code: 658
Price: $150.00
Review Financial Risk Manager Handbook, Second Edition / Wiley:An essential guide to financial risk management as well as the only way to ace the GARP FRM Exam The Financial Risk Management Exam (FRM Exam) was developed by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) as a means of establishing an industry standard of minimum professional competence in the field. It is given annually in November for risk professionals who want to earn FRM certification. Authored by renowned financial risk management guru Phillipe Jorion, with the full support of the GARP, this is the definitive guide for those preparing to take the FRM Exam. With the help of questions (and solutions) taken from previous exams, Jorion coaches readers on quantitative methods, capital markets, and market, credit, operational, and risk management concepts and assessment techniques. In addition to being the indispensable guide for those aspiring to FRM certification, Financial Risk Manager Handbook also serves as a valued working reference for risk professionals. Phillipe Jorion, PhD (Irvine, CA), is a Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Management at UC Irvine. He has also taught at Columbia University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of British Columbia.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2001-05-03
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $89.95
Price: $188.17
Review Financial and Process Metrics for the New Economy / AMACOM:How can financial professionals measure the success of the businesses in the "new" economy? Author James Sagner first reviews and compares the financial and process metrics of the "old economy" with this "new economy", then supplies insightful and detailed answers by looking at transaction finance and its component systems: financial metrics and process metrics. The age of the Internet, fast-tracking and "profitless" companies is upon us - this book is a guide for financial professionals. It discusses the eye-opening concept of the "time value of money", and examines what the new metrics reveal about the success/failure potential of specific industries.
Publication date: 1988-01
Price: $75.00
Review Practical Financial Management / Blackwell Publishers:All financial managers find themselves involved in making both investment decisions and financing decisions, and this book provides guidelines for making such decisions most successfully. It shows how investment decisions must be made relating to projects, working capital and mergers, while financing decisions are made in relation to capital structure dividend policy and leasing. Although such decisions can be considered separately the book demonstrates how, in the end, investment decisions and financing decisions must be made at the same time. Short chapters illustrate the making of wealth creating and investment financing decisions, while the essential background mathematics is confined to appropriate appendices. Those on professional finance and accounting courses, accounting degree courses, business studies, MBA programmes and post- experience courses. Also professional managers and advisors.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-06-22
Dewey code: 657.024655
List Price: $79.95
Price: $69.58
Review Accounting and Finance for the NonFinancial Executive: An Integrated Resource Management Guide for the 21st Century / CRC:Have you recently been promoted? Are you starting a new business? Do you suddenly find that you need to know more about finances than you ever expected, but have no time for formal training? If so, you need Accounting and Finance for the Non-Financial Executive. Whether you are a newly promoted middle manager or executive, a marketing manager of a small company, an entrepreneur, or own your own business, your results will be measured in dollars and cents. You need to know the basics of finance and accounting to make sound business decisions and become successful. Shim shows you the strategies for evaluating investment decisions such as return on investment analysis. You will see what you need to know, what to ask, which tools are important, what to look for, what to do, and how to do it. Easy to read and useful, the book presents many practical examples, illustrations, guidelines, measures, rules of thumb, graphs, diagrams, and tables that make comprehending the subject easy. Accounting and Finance for the Non-Financial Executive prepares you for additional managerial responsibilities. You will be better equipped to prepare, appraise, evaluate, and approve plans to accomplish departmental objectives. You will be able to back up your recommendations with carefully prepared financial support. Whether they are based on marketing, production, or personnel, by learning how to think in terms of finance and accounting you can intelligently express your ideas.
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Entrepreneurial Finance: For New and Emerging Businesses, Limited Liability Companies: Formation, Operation and Conversion, 1997 Cumulative Supplement (Business Practice Library), Corporate Financial Management (3rd Edition), Entrepreneurial Finance: For New and Emerging Businesses, Financial and Process Metrics for the New Economy, Profitable Sarbanes-oxley Compliance: Attain Improved Shareholder Value and Bottom-line Results, Quality in the Finance Function (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education), Financial Risk Manager Handbook, Second Edition, Profitable Sarbanes-oxley Compliance: Attain Improved Shareholder Value and Bottom-line Results, No Excuses: A Business Process Approach to Managing Operational Risk, Corporate Financial Management (3rd Edition), Limited Liability Companies: Formation, Operation and Conversion, 1997 Cumulative Supplement (Business Practice Library), Practical Financial Management, Accounting and Finance for the NonFinancial Executive: An Integrated Resource Management Guide for the 21st Century, No Excuses: A Business Process Approach to Managing Operational Risk, Quality in the Finance Function (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education), Financial Risk Manager Handbook, Second Edition, Financial and Process Metrics for the New Economy, Practical Financial Management, Accounting and Finance for the NonFinancial Executive: An Integrated Resource Management Guide for the 21st CenturyTop headlines: The best and worst airlines of 2008: Some airlines still show up when they say they will. 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