Cost Accounting, 9th Edition, Michael R. Kinney

The ninth edition of Kinney/Raiborn's COST ACCOUNTING: FOUNDATIONS AND EVOLUTIONS provides in-depth coverage of current cost management concepts and procedures in a straightforward and reader-friendly framework. The clean, concise presentation of materials and the updated illustrations reinforce and clarify the topics that readers traditionally struggle with most. In addition, real-world examples and ethical coverage are woven into the text so readers immediately see the relevance of the cost accountant's role in managerial decisions and learn to go beyond the numbers and think critically. Ensure mastery of the procedural and decision-making skills needed for future success with the Comprehensive Review Module, an array of newly improved end of chapter assignments, and the powerful, newly enhanced CengageNOW online learning and teaching system.

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"I prefer the Cost Management text over the Horngren in all 3 respects, organization, completeness and depth of coverage, but mostly the simplicity with which the information has been presented. The exhibits in the Cost Management text are also superior to the Horngren text, in my opinion."

"Kinney has better organization. The graphics are cleaner as is the color scheme and page layout. There is a slightly better inclusion of technology and modern management concepts. The end of chapter problems are more inclusive of the chapter’s material."

"Kinney does a far superior job in integrating real-world data throughout the text. I really liked Exhibits 6-1 and 6-2 which do a great job in illustrating process costing techniques with a real company. I like the way the company information and processes are integrated throughout the chapter--this type of integration is far superior to Horngren’s video presentations." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
Professor Michael R. Kinney joined the faculty of accounting at Texas A&M (College Station) in 1989 after receiving a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Arizona. He is currently a KPMG Faculty Fellow of Accounting. He has taught undergraduate courses in cost and management accounting and graduate courses in management control systems, cost management, management consulting, corporate taxation, partnership taxation, and corporate tax strategies. He has received teaching awards including the outstanding teacher of the Texas A&M College of Business from the College of Business Honors Society (twice), and Delta Iota Chapter's Beta Alpha Psi teaching excellence award in accounting (twice) and the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching. Professor Kinney has co-authored numerous articles in accounting, taxation, and finance as well as co-authoring ten college textbooks on management accounting and cost management. Dr. Kinney has also conducted consulting and executive development projects for several large Texas-based companies. Currently, Dr. Kinney serves as the Ph.D. Program Coordinator for the Department of Accounting.

It was fast, cheap, and worth the purchase. This book was exactly the edition I was looking for. Shipping was fast and the condition of the book is very good.

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• Loose Leaf: 848 pages
• Publisher: Cengage Learning; 9 edition (May 31, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1111972095
• ISBN-13: 978-1111972097
• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.6 x 10.6 inches

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Discounting, Libor, CVA and Funding: Interest Rate and Credit Pricing (Applied Quantitative Finance), 1st Edition, Chris Kenyon

The credit and sovereign debt crises have fundamentally changed the way participants in the global financial markets perceive credit risk. The effects of this change have been studied by many leading experts in Mathematical Finance, but to date there is no single volume that combines the results of this research and presents them at a level suited for practitioners and students alike. In market practice this fundamental market change is most directly visible from significant bases throughout the interest rate world, especially tenor bases, cross-currency bases, and bond-cds bases. This means that the curve used for discounting is no longer the curve used for Libor (aka Fixing Curve or Forwarding Curve).

In the last two years a consensus has emerged that this multi-curve pricing is now standard.The crises have also altered the perception of banks and governments - they are no longer regarded as zero-risk counterparties. Now both sides of an uncollateralized trade need to consider, and price in, the risk that the other defaults: my CVA is your DVA. Even collateralization does not remove pricing problems: when you post collateral how much do you have to pay for it? This FVA is not symmetric in many ways: whatever it costs you to source it, your counterparty will only pay you OIS. Even worse is that your funding costs are unlikely to be the same as those of all your counterparties.Discounting, Libor, CVA and Funding: Interest Rate and Credit Pricing is the first book to illustrate new ways of pricing interest rate and credit products in the post-crisis markets. Written by two seasoned practitioners, it will enable the readers to understand the many different versions of credit and basis spreads, and to build the appropriate discount curves that take the these spreads into account so that collateralized derivatives will be priced correctly.

The authors guide the reader through the complexity added by OIS discounting and multi-curve pricing as well as CVA, DVA and FVA. Derivatives do not exist in a vacuum. Regulators world-wide have reacted strongly to the crises with the introduction of Basel III. Hitherto quants could ignore capital costs and charges, but as of January 2013 this world is gone. Discounting, Libor, CVA and Funding explains details of Basel III that are important for pricing, especially around the CVA VaR and default exposure capital charges.This book will be required reading for quantitative practitioners who need to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in derivatives pricing, and will also be of interest to academic researchers and students interested in how instruments are priced in practice.

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"The ongoing economic situation is pushing researchers to re-discuss and update the fundamentals of financial modeling. Writing an encyclopedic book on financial modeling for exotics based on the risk free rate, a unique discount curve, no credit risk and no liquidity costs would be neither relevant nor realistic in 2012. This is not such a book. The reader will find here an interesting tackling of current and relevant problems such as multi-curve modeling and credit valuation adjustments, with a very interesting discussion of closeout and especially goodwill, which cannot be found anywhere else to the best of this endorser's knowledge. Funding costs, hints at systemic risk, regulation, and Basel III are also considered. It is great to find a quantitatively detailed analysis of such aspects in a single book, and readers who are open-minded and attentive to the current challenges posed by the market will find this book to be informative, relevant, pleasant to read, and even entertaining." - Prof. Damiano Brigo, Head of the Mathematical Finance Research Group, Imperial College, London, and author of Interest Rate Models: Theory and Practice (Springer) and Credit Models and the Crisis (Wiley).

About the Author
DR. CHRIS KENYON (London, UK) is a Director at Lloyds Banking Group in the front office Quantitative Research – CVA / FVA group. Previously he was head quant for counterparty risk at Credit Suisse, and at DEPFA Bank PLC he was Head of Structured Credit Valuation (post crisis), working on pricing model development and validation and market risk. He has also held positions at IBM Research and Schlumberger, where he applied real options pricing to everything from offshore rig lease extension options to variable volume outsourcing contracts. Chris holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cambridge University where he was a Research Fellow (Computer Modeling), and an MSc in Operations Research from the University of Austin, Texas. He is a regular writer and conference speaker, his papers have appeared in Quantitative Finance, Risk Magazine, Operations Research, IEEE Computer, amongst others, and presented at academic conferences and industry meetings including those organized by Bachelier Finance Society, WBS, Marcus Evans, Risk Magazine, and many more.

ROLAND STAMM is Head of Risk Methods and Valuation at HRE Group (formerly DEPFA Bank PLC), where he is responsible for (among other things) the development of new pricing models, model set up, validation and calibration, CVA adjustments, and market risk methodology. He was previously Head of Valuation at HRE Group, and has also held positions as Head of Market Risk Products, Head of IT Development, and Project Manager, all at DEPFA Bank. He holds a PhD in Mathematics (Algebraic Topology) from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, where he was awarded a magna cum laude for his thesis "The K- and L- Theory of Certain Discrete Groups," and he received a master's degree in Mathematics from the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz.

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• Series: Applied Quantitative Finance
• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (September 4, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1137268514
• ISBN-13: 978-1137268518
• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6 x 9.1 inches

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Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation (Wiley Finance), 1st Edition, Jack Alexander

No matter what industry your company competes in, you need to have a firm understanding of how to create a direct link between shareholder value and critical business processes in order to improve performance and achieve long-term value. Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation contains the information and expertise you need to do just this—and much more.

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One of the primary objectives of today's corporate manager or director is to create value for the company's shareholders. Yet many managers and most employees still have difficulty in fully understanding the drivers of shareholder value and how their activities relate to these drivers.

With numerous years of experience in the world of finance—most recently as the founder and President of Value Advisory Group, LLC—author Jack Alexander knows what it takes to build long-term value in today's competitive business environment. And now, in Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation, he wants to show you how.

Straightforward and accessible, this timely resource will assist you in developing a comprehensive understanding of valuation and creating a direct link between shareholder value and critical business processes. Divided into three information-packed parts, Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation includes: Part One, Creating Context and Covering the Basics, provides a foundation for the concepts utilized in the Value Performance Framework (VPF)—a performance management system developed by Alexander—including basic finance concepts and valuation principles. Part Two, Linking Performance and Value, presents key elements of the VPF. Each of the value drivers—sales growth, relative pricing strength, operating effectiveness, capital effectiveness, cost of capital, and the intangibles—are linked to critical business activities and processes; and key performance measures, analytical models, performance dashboards, and tools for improving each value driver are explored in depth. Part Three, Driving Performance and Value, examines how the concepts and tools outlined throughout the book can be used to improve business performance and build long-term shareholder value. Effective implementation of dashboards as part of a comprehensive performance management framework (PMF) is discussed, and key findings—based on the author's benchmark study of performance and shareholder value—are reviewed.

To drive home the points discussed throughout the book, a companion website has been included. The analytical models and sample performance dashboards found on this website are the perfect way to begin developing dashboards and analysis for your specific needs.

Many companies use performance measures, but only a few have achieved the full potential benefits that a well-designed and implemented performance management framework has to offer. No matter what industry your company competes in, you need a way to measure, monitor, and manage the key activities and processes required to improve business performance and achieve long-term value. Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation contains the information and expertise you need to do just this—and much more.

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Praise for Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation

"Beyond academic theory, I have witnessed firsthand Alexander's framework-driven concepts improve firm profitability and value. This is a required read for shareholder-friendly executives." —William W. Benton, CFA, Investment Analyst, William Blair & Company, LLC

"Drawing on his rich and varied experience as CFO, business consultant, and professor of financial management, Jack Alexander offers a practical approach to effective performance management in any company. This clear and concise reference is a must-read for anyone trying to understand and leverage the true drivers of shareholder value." —Earl T. Kivett, retired partner and director emeritus, Bain & Company, Inc.

"Creating long-term shareholder value is the fundamental responsibility of the chief executive and their leadership team. The Value Performance Framework developed in this book provides a useful tool for decision making. I recommend it for anyone concerned with long-term shareholder value." —Rick Wallace, Chief Executive Officer, KLA-Tencor

"A great 'how-to' book! Alexander uses his knowledge and experience as CFO, consultant, and finance professor to connect the dots between financial performance and value." —Jennifer Bethel, Associate Professor, Babson College

"Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation offers a practical approach to finance with solid tools to help improve business performance. This framework connects the dots between theory and practice, finance and business performance. The analytical models and dashboards provide effective and usable tools to measure performance, drive value, and evaluate acquisitions." —Dan Heaney, CFO, Public Consulting Group, Inc.

About the Author
Jack Alexander is founder and President of Value Advisory Group, LLC, a consulting firm with a focus on improving business performance and building shareholder value. He is a lecturer at Babson College, where he teaches corporate finance and advanced finance electives in the MBA program. Alexander is a frequent speaker on value-based management and business performance management. Prior to establishing Value Advisory Group, Mr. Alexander held a number of senior operating and financial positions in the industry. He is a Certified Public Accountant and has an MBA from Rider University and a BS in business management from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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• Series: Wiley Finance (Book 376)
• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (November 3, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470047976
• ISBN-13: 978-0470047972
• Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 6.3 x 9.1 inches

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Asset Protection Planning Guide, 2nd Edition, Barry S. Engel

Featuring the insights and strategies of leading asset protection strategist, Barry S. Engel, the Asset Protection Planning Guide helps advisors master the multitude of asset protection planning vehicles available, understand the strengths and weaknesses of those vehicles, and achieve the goals of clients.

The ideal reference for estate planning attorneys, trust officers, tax practitioners, financial planners, and other wealth planners, the Guide covers every aspect of asset protection planning -- describing the various asset protection plans, when to use them, why specific strategies are used, and which countries to go to for protection. It describes the complex mix of tools and techniques available to the planner in designing successful, solid plans -- offering a wealth of practical advice, helpful "how-to's" and practice tools, sample documentation language, and a sample trust.

This Second Edition reflects the most recent developments in asset protection planning, including coverage of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. This practical resource covers every aspect of this complex area, giving users the security of knowing they'll be well informed as they help clients safeguard their assets.

Topics covered include:- What Is Asset Protection Planning? - Asset Protection Planning and Fraudulent Transfer Law - Gifting as a Planning Tool - Joint or Concurrent Ownership as a Planning Tool - Exemptions as a Planning Tool - Foreign Annuities and Foreign Insurance Products - Family Limited Partnerships as a Planning Tool - Insurance as a Planning Tool - Domestic Trusts as a Planning Tool - Alternative Tools Under Other Legal Systems - Foreign Asset Protection Trusts as a Planning Tool - Expatriation as an Asset Protection Tool - Protection of Retirement Benefits - Ethical, Civil, and Criminal Considerations for the Asset Protection Planner The Guide includes numerous practice tools, including: the Engel Ladder of Asset Protection Vehicles, Model Foreign Asset Protection Trust Structures, Asset Protection Control/Benefit Scale, Sample Documentation Language, Sample Trust Agreement, and Sample Fee Agreement.

About the Author
Barry S. Engel is the founding principal of Engel & Reiman pc, a Denver-based law firm established in 1983. Mr. Engel is a Senior Fellow of The Estate and Wealth Strategies Institute at Michigan State University and a Fellow of the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys.

He is also the designated specialist for the professional section on asset protection planning for FindLaw.com. From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Engel was President of the Isle of Man, British Isles-based Offshore Institute, an organization of professionals engaged in offshore and international planning. He served on its Executive Committee from 1992 to 2003.

Mr. Engel is a member of the Editorial Board of Trusts & Trustees. He has also previously served as the Consulting Editor of the International Offshore and Financial Centres Handbook and the Consulting Editor of The Offshore Institute Membership Directory & Analysis. He authored a regular column "Shores," while serving on the Editorial Advisory Board of Conspectus Current.

Mr. Engel founded Shore To Shore, an offshore industry magazine. Over the past 15+ years, Mr. Engel has chaired or otherwise addressed hundreds of professional and client conferences worldwide on integrated estate planning, asset protection planning, and related subjects.

Don't waste your time with the other books that only hint on what to do...this book provides the details that allows you create a solid "estate plan" that is proven.

Unlike other books out there, this book written by an attorney, not from a convicted tax evader who is selling his newest scam.

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• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: CCH; 2 edition (September 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0808012908
• ISBN-13: 978-0808012900
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1 inches

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The Professional's Guide to Fair Value: The Future of Financial Reporting (Wiley Corporate F&A), 1st Edition, James P. Catty

An all-encompassing guide to the elements and basics of fair value

With the important role fair value is playing in the creation of a converged set of global accounting standards, demand for products in this category is growing spectacularly. The elements and basics of fair value are covered, including risk, dealing with the SEC, and details on legal responsibility. In addition, sample financial statements are included, along with tables, recommended applicable techniques, and management checklists for those who are responsible for preparing and approving of financial statements.

-Written by the Chairman and co-CEO of the International Association of Consultants, Valuators and Analysts (IACVA\
-Includes sample financial statements of both U.S. and foreign companies

Appropriate for anyone involved professionally with finance—managers, accountants, investors, bankers, instructors, and students—The Professional's Guide to Fair Value is a reliable reference on the ins and outs of fair value financial disclosure.

This book provides an excellent discussion of "fair value," which is an accounting concept. The author makes a very clear explanation of the distinction between fair value and other types of value, such as "fair market value." The text and examples are well-written and help in understanding the author's points.

Another thing I like about this book is that it is relatively new - copyright in 2012 - so it includes many recent accounting pronouncements and the latest thinking on certain topics brought about after the 2008-2009 financial crisis. In some parts, the author does go into quite a bit of detail, which is helpful for more novice students. For more experienced readers, the most value, in my opinion, come from the conceptual chapters (i.e., first five chapters of the book). Overall, this is a very good book that should be helpful to readers of all levels.

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• Series: Wiley Corporate F&A (Book 567)
• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 1, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1118004388
• ISBN-13: 978-1118004388
• Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.3 x 9.2 inches

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Loose-Leaf Advanced Accounting, 11th Edition, Joe Ben Hoyle

The approach used by Hoyle, Schaefer, and Doupnik in the new edition allows students to think critically about accounting, just as they will do while preparing for the CPA exam and in their future careers. With this text, students gain a well-balanced appreciation of the Accounting profession.

As Hoyle 11e introduces them to the field’s many aspects, it often focuses on past controversies and present resolutions. The text continues to show the development of financial reporting as a product of intense and considered debate that continues today and into the future.

The writing style of the ten previous editions has been highly praised. Students easily comprehend chapter concepts because of the conversational tone used throughout the book.

The authors have made every effort to ensure that the writing style remains engaging, lively, and consistent which has made this text the market leading text in the Advanced Accounting market. The 11th edition includes an increase integration of IFRS as well as the updated accounting standards.

About the Author
Joe B. Hoyle is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond, where he teaches Intermediate Accounting I and II and Advanced Accounting. He is currently the David Meade White Distinguished Teaching Fellow. He has been named a Distinguished Educator five times and Professor of the Year on two occasions. He is also author of Fast Track CPA Examination Review and coauthor of The Lakeside Company Case Studies in Auditing.

Thomas F. Schaefer is the KPMG Professor of Accounting at the University of Notre Dame. He has written a number of articles in scholarly journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting & Economics, Accounting Horizons, and others. His primary teaching and research interests are in financial accounting and reporting.

Tom is active with the International Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and is a past President of the American Accounting Association’s Accounting Program Leadership Group (APLG).

Timothy S. Doupnik is the Cramer Fellow in International Accounting at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Illinois. Tim is a past president of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. He currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of International Accounting Research and on the editorial board of several other international journals.

I regret buying this loose-leaf edition. No way to sell back, easy to have some pages lost. Should bought the hardcover edition. Much cheaper. I don't really care about the weight.

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• Loose Leaf
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 11 edition (February 15, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0077489381
• ISBN-13: 978-0077489380
• Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.3 x 10.4 inches

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Valuing Early Stage and Venture Backed Companies (Wiley Finance), 1st Edition, Neil J. Beaton

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Unique in the overall sphere of business valuation, the valuing of early stage and venture-backed companies lacks the traditional metrics of cash flow, earnings, or even revenue at times. But without these metrics, traditional discounted cash flow models and comparison to public markets or private transactions take on less relevance, calling for a more "experiential" valuation approach.

In a straightforward, no-nonsense manner, the mystique surrounding the valuation of early stage and venture-backed companies is now unveiled. With an emphasis on applications and models, Valuing Early Stage and Venture-Backed Companies shows the most effective way for your company to prepare and present its valuations.

Featuring contributed chapters by a panel of top valuation experts, this book dispels improper valuation techniques promulgated by unknowing business appraisers and answers your key questions about valuation theory and which tools you need to successfully apply in your specific situation.

Here, you'll find out more about various valuation techniques, including:

"Back solving" valuation
Modified cost approach
Option pricing model
Probability-weighted expected returns model
Asian puts
New data on discounts for lack of marketability

Detailed and hands-on, Valuing Early Stage and Venture-Backed Companies equips you with broad foundational data on the venture capital industry, as well as in-depth analyses of distinct early stage company valuation approaches.

Performing valuations for your early stage company requires an understanding of the special circumstances faced by your organization. With ample examples of generally accepted allocation models with complex capital structures common to early stage companies, Valuing Early Stage and Venture-Backed Companies mixes real-life experience with deep technical expertise to equip you with the complete, user-friendly resource you'll turn to often in valuing your early stage or venture-backed company.

About the Author
Neil J. Beaton, CPA/ABV, CFA, ASA, is a nationally known business valuation expert and speaker on the valuation of early stage companies. He is the National Partner in Charge of Valuation Services for Grant Thornton, LLP, an international audit, tax, and financial advisory services firm. He has more than twenty-seven years of professional experience and is a recognized expert witness in state and federal courts as well as international tribunals. He has authored an AICPA publication on valuing stock options and intangible assets for financial reporting purposes.

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• Series: Wiley Finance (Book 503)
• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 29, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470436298
• ISBN-13: 978-0470436295
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.9 x 10 inches

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Accounting Using Excel for Success (with Essential Resources Excel Tutorials Printed Access Card) (Managerial Accounting), 2nd Edition, James Reeve

ACCOUNTING USING EXCEL FOR SUCCESS, 2E leads students to accounting mastery while increasing Excel proficiency. Written with the modern business world in mind, this adaptation of the principles text--ACCOUNTING, 24e--offers an innovative four-step system for students: (1) read the accounting concept and illustration, (2) follow the same concept using the Excel Success Example, (3) practice using the "Try It" Tutorial, and (4) apply knowledge by completing the Excel Success Problem. This text reinforces key accounting concepts through six basic Excel formulas. Students build an Excel portfolio to demonstrate basic competencies in accounting and Excel. Each new copy of the book comes packaged with an access code that allows students to use the online Excel "Try It" Tutorials. These tutorials guide students through the hands-on process of entering formulas and understanding how to Excel for accounting. Excel Success Special Activities at the end of the chapter require students to manipulate spreadsheets and save the files to demonstrate Excel competency. Within the auto-graded online homework products (CengageNOW and Aplia™), students are asked to document their Excel processes.

Review
1. Introduction to Accounting & Business. 2. Analyzing Transactions. 3. The Adjusting Process. 4. Completing the Accounting Cycle. 5. Accounting Systems. 6. Accounting for Merchandise. 7. Inventories. 8. Sarbanes-Oxley, Internal Control and Cash. 9. Receivables. 10. Fixed Assets and Intangible Assets. 11. Current Liabilities & Payroll. 12. Accounting for Partnership & LLCs. 13. Corporations: Organizations, Stock Transactions, & Dividends. 14. Long-Term Liabilities: Bonds & Notes. 15. Investment & Fair Value Accounting. Mornin' Joe Financial Statement (U.S. GAAP). Mornin' Joe Financial Statement (IFRS). 16. Statement of Cash Flows. 17. Financial Statement Analysis. 18. Managerial Accounting Concepts & Principles. 19. Job Order Costing. 20. Process Cost Systems. 21. Cost Behavior & Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis. 22. Budgeting. 23. Performance Evaluation Using Variances from Standard Costs. 24. Performance Evaluation for Decentralized Operations. 25. Differential Analysis, Product Pricing, and Activity-Based Costing. 26. Capital Investment Analysis.

About the Author
Dr. James M. Reeve is Professor Emeritus of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Tennessee. Professor Reeve taught as part of the accounting faculty for 25 years after graduating with his PhD from Oklahoma State University. His teaching effort focused on undergraduate accounting principles and graduate education in the Master of Accountancy and Senior Executive MBA programs. Beyond this, Professor Reeve is very active in the Supply Chain Certification program, which is a major executive education and research effort of the college. His research interests are varied and include work in managerial accounting, supply chain management, lean manufacturing, and information management. He has published over 40 articles in academic and professional journals, including Journal of Cost Management, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Accounting Review, Management Accounting Quarterly, Supply Chain Management Review, and Accounting Horizons. He has consulted or provided training around the world for a variety of organizations, including Boeing, Procter & Gamble, Norfolk Southern, Hershey Foods, Coca-Cola, and Sony. When not writing books, Professor Reeve plays golf and is involved in faith-based activities.

Dr. Carl S. Warren is Professor Emeritus of Accounting at the University of Georgia, Athens. Dr. Warren has taught classes at the University of Georgia, University of Iowa, Michigan State University, and University of Chicago. He focused his teaching efforts on principles of accounting and auditing. Dr. Warren received his PhD from Michigan State University and his BBA and MA from the University of Iowa. During his career, Dr. Warren published numerous articles in professional journals, including THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW, JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTANCY, THE CPA JOURNAL, and AUDITING: A JOURNAL OF PRACTICE AND THEORY. Dr. Warren has served on numerous committees of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Institute of Internal Auditors. He also has consulted with numerous companies and public accounting firms. His outside interests include playing handball, golfing, skiing, backpacking, and fly-fishing.

Dr. Jonathan Duchac is the Merrill Lynch and Co. Professor of Accounting and is Director of the Program in Enterprise Risk Management at Wake Forest University. He earned his PhD in accounting from the University of Georgia and currently teaches introductory and advanced courses in financial accounting. Dr. Duchac has received a number of awards during his career, including the Wake Forest University Outstanding Graduate Professor Award, the T.B. Rose award for Instructional Innovation, and the University of Georgia Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Duchac has served as Accounting Advisor to Merrill Lynch Equity Research, where he worked with research analysts in reviewing and evaluating the financial reporting practices of public companies. He has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the Securities and Exchange Commission and has worked with a number of major public companies on financial reporting and accounting policy issues. In addition to his professional interests, Dr. Duchac is Treasurer of The Special Children's School of Winston-Salem, a private, nonprofit developmental day school serving child with special needs. Dr. Duchac is an avid long-distance runner, mountain biker, and snow skier. His recent events include the Grandfather Mountain Marathon, the Black Mountain Marathon, the Shut-In Ridge Trail run, and NO MAAM (Nocturnal Overnight Mountain Bike Assault on Mount Mitchell).

i bought this used for school. while the price was still pretty high, it did come in great condition. its a really good book, the whole class is based out of it. I could probably not attend class and just go through the book and it would be the same thing. great for people who want to learn on their own.

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• Series: Managerial Accounting
• Hardcover: 1368 pages
• Publisher: Cengage Learning; 2 edition (March 21, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1111535213
• ISBN-13: 978-1111535216
• Product Dimensions: 1.7 x 9.2 x 10.9 inches

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Capital Budgeting, 1st Edition, Pamela P. Peterson

Capital investment decisions are a constant challenge to all levels of financial managers. Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice shows you how to confront them using state-of-the-art techniques.

Broken down into four comprehensive sections, Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice explores and illustrates all aspects of the capital budgeting decision process. Pamela Peterson and Frank Fabozzi examine the critical issues and limitations of capital budgeting techniques with an in-depth analysis of:

Classifying capital budgeting proposals
Determining the relevant cash flows for capital budgeting proposals
Assessing the economic value of a capital budgeting proposal using different techniques
Incorporating risk into the capital budgeting decision
Evaluating whether to lease or borrow-to-buy

Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice provides the knowledge, insight, and advice that will allow you to handle one of the most important aspects of your firm's financial management. Advanced enough for practitioners yet accessible enough for the novice, Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice is your complete guide to understanding and benefiting from the essential techniques of capital budgeting.

From the Inside Flap
Corporate financial managers continually invest funds in assets, and these assets produce income and cash flows that the firm will then either reinvest in more assets or pay to the owners. Capital investment refers to a firm's investment in assets, and these investments may be either short-term or long-term in nature. A capital budgeting decision involves the long-term commitment of a firm's scarce resources. When such a decision is made, the firm is committed to a current and possibly future outlay of funds.

Capital budgeting decisions play a prominent role in determining whether a firm will be successful. The commitment of funds to a particular capital project can be enormous and may be irreversible. While some capital budgeting decisions are routine and don't change the course or risk of a firm, there are strategic capital budgeting decisions that will either have an impact on the firm's future market position in its current product lines or permit it to expand into a new product line. The annals of business history are replete with examples of how capital budgeting decisions have turned the tide for a company.

In Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice, Pamela Peterson and Frank Fabozzi discuss and illustrate the capital budgeting decision process. In Section I ("Making Investment Decisions and Cash Flows"), they cover the stages of the capital budgeting process (investment screening and selection, capital budgeting proposal, budgeting approval and authorization, project tracking, and postcompletion audit), classification of investment projects, and the critical task of cash flow estimation.

In Section II, Peterson and Fabozzi cover the techniques for evaluating capital budgeting proposals and for selecting projects. These techniques include payback and discounted payback techniques, net present value technique, profitability index technique, internal rate of return technique, and modified internal rate of return technique. Section III clearly explains the critical task of incorporating risk into the capital budgeting decision.

In the final section, Peterson and Fabozzi explain a common capital budgeting decision: the decision to buy an asset with borrowed funds or lease the same asset. This is the classic "lease versus borrow-to-buy decision." The coverage includes valuing a lease, how to incorporate uncertainty into the lease valuation, and how a firm should analyze a lease if it's in a current tax-paying position or has an operating loss to carry forward.

Capital budgeting is one of the most important, and sometimes most difficult, parts of financing. Through expert advice and questions and problems at the end of each section, Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice provides a detailed explanation of capital budgeting that will allow you to excel in this area.

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• Series: Frank J. Fabozzi Series (Book 10)
• Hardcover: 243 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471218332
• ISBN-13: 978-0471218333
• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6.1 x 9.2 inches

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Corporate Divestitures: A Mergers and Acquisitions Best Practices Guide, 1st Edition, William J. Gole

Providing practical application of best practices employed in the divestiture process, Corporate Divestitures provides you with detailed guidance on how your corporation should handle a divestiture. It provides a structured approach that emphasizes disciplined execution and illustrative documents and application aids that can be adapted for use in real-world situations.

Almost any business person would rather do an acquisiton than a divestiture - making a no-nonsense business approach a must. This comprehensive guide takes you through all the steps. From the initial strategic discussion which centers on analytics instead of emotional political biases or 'sacred' company history; to the project management of the sale transaction; to the softer human issues (which are usually given inadequate analysis). If you are looking for a pragmatic guide to a process that can get emotionally charged - this is your book.

The best thing about the topic is the hands-on approach to the topic. Haven't seen anything like it in Merger and Acquisition literature. Two authors who clearly know their stuff.

I would definitely recommend this book if you are interested in expanding your knowledge of corporate divestitures. Much better than many M&A books I have read.

Detailed, comprehensive and nuanced: the info is presented in a variety of ways made easy for every type of reader. Each systematic analysis is accessible via key-point charts, procedural outlines, step charts, & schedule charts - as well as lucid text. I would not have expected sections on preparing a data room, selection & structuring of so many functional prep teams, how-to's on retention planning, post-deal process assessment, etc. Inspires total confidence. Referenced with a 7-page Index.

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• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470180005
• ISBN-13: 978-0470180006
• Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.3 x 9.2 inches

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Risk Management: Approaches for Fixed Income Markets, 1st Edition, Bennett W. Golub

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STATE-OF-THE-PRACTICE RISK MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES

Risk management plays an increasingly important role in the life of financial institutions. Yet there have been virtually no texts to date that reconcile practical market experience and scientific discipline in an attempt to help portfolio and risk managers make better investment decisions-until now.

Written by two senior risk management practitioners of a global money management and risk advisory firm, this one-of-a-kind book utilizes an intriguing blend of finance, economics, mathematics, and common sense in applying cutting-edge financial modeling techniques to managing risk in fixed income markets. With a focus on both theoretical and practical considerations, a variety of existing and new approaches are brought together in a thorough but easy-to-understand fashion, including:

* Interest rate and basis risk durations
* Scenario analysis
* Expected rate of return
* Principal components analysis
* Value-at-Risk
* Stress testing
* Portfolio and hedge optimizations

As a growing proportion of the financial system adopts rigorous risk management techniques and incorporates them in making investment decisions, chief investment officers, corporate treasurers, portfolio managers, risk managers, traders, academics, and finance students will find Risk Management an invaluable tool in navigating this exciting and increasingly challenging dimension of investing.

From the Back Cover
RISK MANAGEMENT APPROACHES FOR FIXED INCOME MARKETS

"Golub-Tilman will, I believe, become an absolutely essential reference text for fixed income portfolio managers, traders, issuers, and scholars. It is comprehensive and clearly written. While rigorous, it is easy to understand because of its many practical examples."- Richard Roll, The Allstate Chair in Finance and Insurance, The Anderson School at UCLA, Past President, American Finance Association

"Outstanding and unique! A thorough discussion of the theoretical underpinning of risk management combined with keen insights from a practitioner's perspective. This text will rank among the most essential readings for both market professionals and academics." -Gregory J. Parseghian, Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Freddie Mac

"The most systematic and comprehensive overview of fixed income risk management."-Philippe Jorion, Professor of Finance, University of California-Irvine, Author, Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Controlling Derivatives Risk

"An inside look at approaches to fixed income risk management developed at a leading investment firm. The rigorous presentation covers both theoretical and practical considerations as well as their applications to portfolio management. Very interesting and highly recommended."-Charles W. Grant, Managing Director of Fixed Income, Virginia Retirement System

"Few, if any, financial studies have managed to reconcile practical market experience and scientific discipline within such an original approach and with such elegance! An absolute must for anyone in the world of fixed income."-Michele Donegani, Head of Asset Allocation and Manager Selection, European Investment Managers (EIM).

About the Author
BENNETT W. GOLUB is a founding partner and Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc., a global money management and risk advisory firm. Currently, he is co-head of its Risk Management and Analytics Group and is a member of its Investment Strategy Group and Management Committee. In addition to developing BlackRock's risk advisory business, Dr. Golub is actively involved in the creation of analytical tools used in measuring and managing market and credit risks of fixed income and equity portfolios. He has authored many articles on risk management and financial modeling and is a frequent lecturer at industry conferences and meetings. Dr. Golub earned an S.B. and an S.M. in Management and a Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Finance, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

LEO M. TILMAN is Director in the Risk Management and Analytics Group at BlackRock, Inc. He specializes in the creation of new risk management methodologies, marketing of risk management services, financial modeling, and risk advisory work. His primary focus is solving a wide range of portfolio management, trading, asset allocation, and enterprise-wide risk management problems through the use of financial modeling techniques. Mr. Tilman has published extensively on risk management, financial modeling, applied statistics, decision-making, and expert systems. He is a frequent guest lecturer on the topics of risk management and financial modeling. Mr. Tilman received a B.A. in Mathematics and an M.A. in Statistics with a concentration in Finance, both from Columbia University.

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• Series: Frontiers in Finance Series (Book 73)
• Hardcover: 312 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (June 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471332119
• ISBN-13: 978-0471332114
• Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 6.3 x 9.3 inches

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Advanced Management Accounting, 3rd Edition, Robert Kaplan

Contains leading-edge treatment of innovative management accounting issues used by major companies throughout the world. Advanced Management Accounting provides a systematic management- oriented approach to advanced management topics. Each chapter is accompanied by cases to illustrate the concepts discussed. Written by an authoritative author team known for establishing innovative business standards. Includes an updated chapter on Transfer Pricing to reflect more modern approaches in addition to an entire chapter on Economic Value Added (EVA). Appropriate for business professionals involved in cost accounting and/or management.

From the Publisher
Focused on the finer-points of management accounting and actual work practices, this volume presents detailed and extensive coverage of the application of analytic techniques. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From the Back Cover
Contains leading-edge treatment of innovative management accounting issues used by major companies throughout the world. Advanced Management Accounting provides a systematic management- oriented approach to advanced management topics. Each chapter is accompanied by cases to illustrate the concepts discussed. Written by an authoritative author team known for establishing innovative business standards. Includes an updated chapter on Transfer Pricing to reflect more modern approaches in addition to an entire chapter on Economic Value Added (EVA). Appropriate for business professionals involved in cost accounting and/or management.

MBA students alike may not even have the patient to read through it. But, as a management consultant in China ( i used to work for 2 of big 4 accounting firms, and now working as a freelance to help local companies to solve their managerial costing problems), this book is my primary reference for my work. I applied ideas in this book helping my clients building ABC and transfer pricing and costing control models. When you really need to solve true business problems (rather than reading in the school), you will find this is "the" book. In my view, you have to read Kaplan and Cooper's staff if you want to get some true knowledge about managerial accounting.

This book not classic. It contains chapters deal with subjects like performance evaluation and incentives in depth and by using advanced models. It also deals with ABC & ABM by using simle examples.

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• Paperback: 798 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3rd edition (February 6, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132622882
• ISBN-13: 978-0132622882
• Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 7.2 x 9.4 inches

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Business Forecasting with Business ForecastX, 6th Edition, J. Holton Wilson

The Sixth Edition of Business Forecasting is the most practical forecasting book on the market with the most powerful software—Forecast X. This edition presents a broad-based survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches. As always, the author team of Wilson and Keating deliver practical how-to forecasting techniques, along with dozens of real world data sets while theory and math are held to a minimum. This Sixth Edition includes Forecast X software updated for Excel 2007 and Vista. Forecast X is the most comprehensive software tool available in this market and the new version is also backwards compatible for XP Excel 2003 systems. This Excel-based tool effectively uses wizards and many tools to make forecasting easy and understandable.

About the Author
Software company producing Forecast X, which will accompany this edition of BUSINESS FORECASTING.

Wilson and Keating's "Business Forecasting" is an accessible introduction to practical forecasting. There is little explicit treatment of the statistical properties of the methods used, but the practical examples (which are numerous) show the effects of those properties. The methods should get a manager or engineer through most situations that require a justifiable forecast. I'm a bug on references, and there were an adequate number of them, but it would have been better if the reason each work was cited was specified.

This book is also, in practice, the user manual for the descriptive statistics / forecasting package 'SORITEC,' which is bound with the book. As such, it is absolutely required for beginning users of the package. The features of SORITEC which are covered are covered well, but that sharpens my wish that there would be at least a short description and a few references for the features not used in the main presentation.

In summary, a fine book for the 'dirty hands' crowd of forecasters; not bad for the 'ivory tower' crowd either, but not quite enough for the latter

I read this book for an MBA course on business forecasting. It is well written and very easy to understand. I do not have time to spend reading dense textbooks that get lost in academic jargon. This book gets right to the point. Most importantly, every chapter concludes with an application of the lessons learned using the Forecast X software. The book also uses very practical examples such as Gap sales data that everyone can relate to.

Prior to reading this book, I had no background in business forecasting. Today, I feel confident in my abilities to prepare, analyze, interpret, and communicate forecasts because of the lessons and practice problems in this book. The software is easy to install as an add-in for Excel. The interface is simple to use and eased my fears of being lost in a complex software package.

This is a great book to learn business forecasting.

Business Forecasting is an excellent resource for students who want to learn how forecasting is really done. The book is clear, concise, and well structured. Wilson and Keating provide an excellent foundation for students to understand the forecasting process and quickly build on this foundation. The comments from "real-world" practitioners provide a practical perspective to help students appreciate the concepts presented in the book.

The ForecastX software from John Galt Solutions (included with book) is the most comprehensive forecasting toolkit available. The students who take the time to learn the software through the text will certainly gain a marketable skillset. Because the software is easy to use and reliable, I was able to quickly apply the lessons from the text to create sophisticated and powerful forecasts. Moreover, students learn how to interpret and communicate the most important components of each forecasting method.

The software accompanying the book also includes all the data used in the text examples and chapter ending problems. This provides students with many opportunities to practice each forecasting technique. I found that practicing the chapter ending problems were a strong way to solidify the concepts presented in the text and learn when to apply each technique.

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• Hardcover: 513 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 6th edition (December 19, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0073373648
• ISBN-13: 978-0073373645
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches

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Venture Capital Valuation, + Website: Case Studies and Methodology (Wiley Finance), 1st Edition, Lorenzo Carver

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Imagine selling $2 million "worth" of Google stock and only receiving $50 in return? This scenario happens every day for venture-backed companies. Failure to quickly understand high-growth company valuation can cost trillions of dollars. Yet very few leaders involved in a venture-backed company have a definitive understanding of how valuation techniques are being applied to their financial statements and the decision-making process. Featuring extensive case studies of high-profile corporations, including Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft, Venture Capital Valuation provides the knowledge and techniques necessary to understand and value high-growth companies.

Sharing his twenty-year track record helping thousands of investors, practitioners, and entrepreneurs measure and realize high-growth venture, author Lorenzo Carver draws on real-world cases from investors, founders, and advisors to illustrate how each corporation was impacted by valuations. By putting these techniques into a context and framework, Venture Capital Valuation simplifies them so that anyone founding, running, and investing in these innovative companies can apply them immediately.

Featuring a companion website where readers can access and download additional case study material, as well as different valuation materials mentioned throughout the text, Venture Capital Valuation explores:

Why what you don't know about valuation will cost you money
How VCs, angels, founders, and employees give up investment cash flow every day
Facebook at $80 billion valuation versus Enron at $80 billion valuation
Deal terms, waterfalls, and the pre-money myth
Whether venture-backed companies should even consider a discounted cash flow (DCF) model
Separating enterprise value from the allocation of that value
Valuing total equity
Using Future Value (FV) and Present Value (PV) to value future cash flows today
Why applying the typical DCF model to a venture-backed company hardly ever works
"Enterprise Value" + "Allocation Methods" = Value Destruction
Undervaluing companies and overvaluing employee options
Why you should D.O.W.T. (doubt) venture capital returns
409A valuation professionals discussing topic 820 (FAS 157) with VC CFOs

An invaluable resource for anyone who wants to make the most out of their investments, Venture Capital Valuation shows business appraisers and venture capitalists how to maximize their returns and avoid losing money—before the damage becomes irreparable

About the Author
Lorenzo Carver, MS, MBA, CVA, CPA, is CEO of Liquid Scenarios, a technology-based financial business intelligence solution company that provides services to investors, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and academics on how to measure and realize high-growth venture value. Carver has a twenty-year track record of helping thousands of clients understand how to measure and realize high-growth venture value. He is the author and developer of BallPark Business Valuation, the #1 selling, award-winning small-business valuation solution software covered by Bloomberg Businessweek, Entrepreneur, CPA Software News, The Kim Komando Show, and business journals worldwide.

I've read this book twice in the past year - excellent reference work that goes into the details of how to value a company and why valuations are often misunderstood or plain wrong. If in negotiations with a VC or when raising financing, this book is an absolute must. I'm an entrepreneur who has been "through the war" and this book has been extremely helpful for me. Being able to master the principles in this book will ensure that you are prepared to negotiate or position for better value.

One of the greatest values of the book was to read of the pitfalls (of which I've been part) that could easily be avoided by simple means - things that would have saved me $$ millions.

Absolutely focused on highly specialized valuation techniques (Black Scholes, Real Options). If it your first approach to the subject you better start with a more introductory alternative book. This book is centered in discussing not the main concepts of valuation but the technicalities that make some methodologies better than other.

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• Series: Wiley Finance (Book 631)
• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 27, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470908289
• ISBN-13: 978-0470908280
• Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.3 x 9.2 inches

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Put Options : How to Use This Powerful Financial Tool for Profit & Protection, 1st Edition, Jeffrey Cohen

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A Revolutionary Program for Dramatically Improving Your Stock Market Performance While Insuring Against Market Freefalls

To increase their overall stock market returns, investors have been told for decades that they must first increase their risks. Problem is, millions of investors who bought into that line of thinking were caught blindside by recent market downturns--without ever knowing there was a better way.

Put Options outlines a better way, one that isn't built on pie-in-the-sky, get-rich-quick premises and promises. It introduces a powerful way to trade and invest that allows you to participate in stock market profits without incurring undue risk. The secret is in using put options, versatile instruments that allow you to increase per-dollar returns while hedging against sudden and devastating market downturns. Let Put Options show you how to:

Profit even when you've guessed wrong
Weather down markets with your equity virtually intact
Invest only in the world's most well-known, successful companies

The potential rewards of owning stock are substantial; so too, as recent markets have proven, are the risks. Let Put Options show you a new way to invest, one that significantly limits your downside risk when compared to stock ownership as it helps you pocket consistent profits in today's challenging financial marketplace.

"I think one of the best gifts any investor could bestow upon his or her financial planner or stockbroker is a copy of this book."--Donald Moine, Ph.D., Financial Planning Columnist, From the Preface

If you are like most investors, you would leap at the opportunity to earn consistent double-digit stock market returns with greatly reduced risk. Put Options introduces you to an innovative, proven program designed to do just that--produce consistent and regular stock market returns while minimizing the risk of losing those returns during a down market.

The secret, in a nutshell, is in implementing a low-maintenance, easy-to-follow program of selling puts on quality stocks while hedging those investments by buying puts on the overall market. Far easier to implement and track than it sounds, this strategy is frequently used by institutional investors, whose reputations and careers depend on garnering decent returns without assuming unnecessary risk. Yet, until now, it was considered too complex and high-level for individual investors and traders.

Put Options explains this proven technique in terms that virtually any investor can understand and implement. The rare investment book that supports its claims by providing the actual results of actual trades using actual household-name stocks, Put Options provides a step-by-step template on how you can use author Jeffrey Cohen's SafetyNet program to consistently:

Profit through the use of puts, one of today's most versatile investment tools
Lower your all-important break-even points in up, down, and sideways markets
Protect yourself--and even take home a profit--when stock prices go down

Financial advisors and stockbrokers will do everything in their power to steer you away from option writing as "too risky." Yet they have no problem recommending high-flying stocks they know little or nothing about, then leaving you to fend for yourself when negative news sends those stocks crashing to the ground...

... And you can't afford that kind of advice.

Put Options will change the way you invest by literally changing the way you view investment. It shows you how to invest in today's best blue-chip stocks in such a way as to profit when they do well while protecting yourself when they do poorly. Packed with facts, figures, and actual examples of SafetyNet in action, it unquestionably supports the bottom-line premise that writing options can, if done correctly, be far safer than owning shares of stock--and then shows you exactly how to do it.

About the Author
Jeffrey M. Cohen is founder of SafetyNetTrading.com as well as a hedge fund manager, continuing education instructor, and tax and financial planning expert. A popular speaker, Cohen has appeared on CNBC, CBS MarketWatch, and Lifetime.

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• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (July 16, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007141665X
• ISBN-13: 978-0071416658
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Accounting in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition: Accounting for the non-specialist (CIMA Professional Handbook), Janet Walker

Designed primarily for middle and junior management who deal with financial information without really understanding the content; students who are studying accounting as a non-specialist subject, for example on a business studies or engineering course. The book serves as a basic reference to be used throughout the course.

It will also be particularly helpful in providing the basic grounding that is required before moving on to the more technical and in-depth study of the subject that may be required on some courses. Students who are embarking on a course of study to become a professional accountant will also find this book of major benefit.

In addition to revisions through out, a new new chapter 'Making long-term investment decisions' covering capital investment decisions, extends and rounds out the final part of the book: using Financial Information to Manage a Business. The chapter deals with the investment appraisal process and covers the main investment appraisal techniques from the point of view of a non-specialist: payback periods, accounting rate of return and discounted cash flow methods are just some of the new topics covered.

The focus will be on the level of understanding that a non-specialist requires in the work place as such, in keeping with the rest of the book, the chapter includes practical examples and exercises to enhance the reader's understanding.

* Jargon free and easy to understand - no prior knowledge of the subject necessary
* Focuses on the principles and use of accounting information
* Review questions to assess progress at each stage and many fully worked exercises and examples

About the Author
Janet Walker is a freelance lecturer and consultant, specialising in courses in Financial Awareness Trained as a management accountant with Brooke Bond Oxo Limited, qualifying as a Chartered Management Accountant (FCMA) in 1981. After seven years in industry, joined Croydon College in 1982 as a Senior Lecturer in management accounting and financial management. Studied for MBA at City University Business School in 1987/88. Worked as a full-time author for BPP Publishing Limited for eighteen months from 1990, responsible for writing and technical editing of a range of accountancy and marketing texts and workbooks. Set up own business in 1991 as a freelance lecturer and consultant, specialising in presenting courses in Financial Awareness for a variety of clients, including the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), City University Business School, V & A Museum, Markel International, National Lottery Heritage Fund, ICL Systems Service, Norwich Union, Weetabix Limited and the General Dental Council. Also providing financial planning and marketing consultancy services to small businesses. Other books published are primarily through BPP Publishing as above, and a number of CIMA Study Systems through CIMA Publishing.

This book covers both Financial and Management Accounting. It is an excellent introduction to the subject. It provides a great overview of the PURPOSE and USES of P&L Accounts (Income Statements), Balance Sheets, and Cash flow Statements.

It also has great information on how these are constructed.

It is NOT a practical guide to book-keeping. I highly recommend this, both for managers trying to understand financial and managerial accounting, and for students begging accounting.

Once you;ve read this, though, you will probably need to read a book on basic book-keeping to allow you to function as your own accountant, if that's your aim.

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• Series: CIMA Professional Handbook
• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: CIMA Publishing; 3 edition (November 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075068738X
• ISBN-13: 978-0750687386
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.1 x 9 inches

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Financier: The Biography of André Meyer: A Story of Money, Power, and the Reshaping of American Business (Trailblazers), 1st Edition, Cary Reich

"A first-rate biography of an extraordinary man." --Andrew Tobias. David Rockefeller once deemed Andr? Meyer "the most creative financial genius of our time in the investment banking world." Andr? Meyer was also known as "The Picasso of Banking" and "The Incomparable Investor," but probably his most notable achievement was his ability to completely and single-handedly revitalize American business after World War II. Cary Reich presents an illuminating portrait of this ferociously energetic, charming, and ruthless businessman who was a trusted advisor of the Kennedys and an intimate of William Paley and Katherine Graham. Reich goes into detail about Meyer's immigration from Nazi-occupied France, his prowess on the Monopoly board of business, and some of Meyer's lasting business legacies--now household names--including Avis and Holiday Inn. * Includes a new foreword by Cary Reich. Cary Reich (New York, New York) is the former executive editor of Institutional Investor. His most recent book, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Mr. Reich is the recipient of numerous journalism awards, including the Overseas Press Award and the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism.

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A new edition of Cary Reich's engaging biography of Andre Meyer. In this new edition of Financier, Cary Reich presents an illuminating portrait of this ferociously energetic, charming, and ruthless businessman who was a trusted advisor of the Kennedys and an intimate of William Paley and Katherine Graham. Reich goes into detail about Meyer's immigration from Nazi-occupied France, his prowess on the Monopoly board of business, and some of Meyer's lasting business legacies-now household names-including Avis and Holiday Inn.

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Fortune magazine deemed him "the most important investment banker in the Western world." A ferociously energetic, charming, and ruthless businessman, he had, by the age of forty, helped save the foundering auto giant Citro?n, established France's first consumer finance company, and been awarded the Legion of Honor. He was a trusted adviser of the Kennedys and an intimate of Lyndon Johnson, William Paley, and Katharine Graham. His numerous business accomplishments included the building or revitalizing of such corporate giants as Avis, Holiday inns, Warner-Lambert, and Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals. One of the world's savviest individual investors, he amassed a personal fortune of well over $200 million, yet to his dying day never gave up the search for the ultimate buck. Andr? Meyer, "The Picasso of Banking," was all this-and much more. A man of seemingly endless contradictions, he was respected and admired by many, scorned and disliked by many others. In this riveting, classic biography, renowned author and National Book Award finalist Cary Reich skillfully captures the many facets of this colorful and complex figure, painting an illuminating and captivating portrait of an enigmatic icon who climbed his way from modest beginnings to become what David Rockefeller called "the most creative financial genius of our time in the investment banking world." Born in 1898 in Paris, Andr? Benoit Mathieu Meyer was saddled with adult responsibilities early on, having to provide for his family when his father, an inveterate gambler, "left a vacuum at the head of the household." After getting his professional start at a small Paris bank, he quickly caught the attention of the eminent private banking firm Lazard Fr?res, whose prestigious ranks he joined in 1925.

Within a year, Meyer was made partner. With the advent of World War II, Meyer was forced into exile by the Nazi occupation. Resettling in the United States, he took over Lazard's New York operation, building it into the most venturesome investment bank in America. During the 1940s and 1950s, when industry was thirsting for capital for its relentless growth, he financed anything and everything from Texas ranchland to New York City real-estate projects. In the sixties, when it became clear the big corporations could get bigger only by gobbling up other corporations, Meyer masterfully got the merger-and-acquisition ball rolling, and became the world's most prolific marriage broker for countless corporate combinations. Financier brilliantly captures Meyer's financial wizardry, a phenomenal talent that was tempered only by the volatile tantrums, ruthlessness, and insatiable greed that went hand in hand with his genius. Unveiling the dueling sides of his complex personality, this absorbing account shows Meyer at his best-as a father figure for the likes of Felix Rohatyn, his most famous prot?g?, and for Jacqueline Onassis in the years after the assassination-and presents him at his worst-as a tortured and possessive father and a cruel, often vindictive boss. Financier is a work that is as compelling, unforgettable, and monumental as its inimitable subject.

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Fortune magazine deemed him "the most important investment banker in the Western world." A ferociously energetic, charming, and ruthless businessman, he had, by the age of forty, helped save the foundering auto giant Citro?n, established France's first consumer finance company, and been awarded the Legion of Honor. He was a trusted adviser of the Kennedys and an intimate of Lyndon Johnson, William Paley, and Katharine Graham. His numerous business accomplishments included the building or revitalizing of such corporate giants as Avis, Holiday Inns, Warner-Lambert, and Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals. One of the world's savviest individual investors, he amassed a personal fortune of well over $200 million, yet to his dying day never gave up the search for the ultimate buck.

Andr? Meyer, "The Picasso of Banking," was all this--and much more. A man of seemingly endless contradictions, he was respected and admired by many, scorned and disliked by many others. In this riveting, classic biography, renowned author and National Book Award finalist Cary Reich skillfully captures the many facets of this colorful and complex figure, painting an illuminating and captivating portrait of an enigmatic icon who climbed his way from modest beginnings to become what David Rockefeller called "the most creative financial genius of our time in the investment banking world."

Born in 1898 in Paris, Andr? Benoit Mathieu Meyer was saddled with adult responsibilities early on, having to provide for his family when his father, an inveterate gambler, "left a vacuum at the head of the household." After getting his professional start at a small Paris bank, he quickly caught the attention of the eminent private banking firm Lazard Fr?res, whose prestigious ranks he joined in 1925. Within a year, Meyer was made partner.

With the advent of World War II, Meyer was forced into exile by the Nazi occupation. Resettling in the United States, he took over Lazard's New York operation, building it into the most venturesome investment bank in America. During the 1940s and 1950s, when industry was thirsting for capital for its relentless growth, he financed anything and everything from Texas ranchland to New York City real-estate projects. In the sixties, when it became clear the big corporations could get bigger only by gobbling up other corporations, Meyer masterfully got the merger-and-acquisition ball rolling, and became the world's most prolific marriage broker for countless corporate combinations.

Financier brilliantly captures Meyer's financial wizardry, a phenomenal talent that was tempered only by the volatile tantrums, ruthlessness, and insatiable greed that went hand in hand with his genius. Unveiling the dueling sides of his complex personality, this absorbing account shows Meyer at his best--as a father figure for the likes of Felix Rohatyn, his most famous prot?g?, and for Jacqueline Onassis in the years after the assassination--and presents him at his worst--as a tortured and possessive father and a cruel, often vindictive boss.

Financier is a work that is as compelling, unforgettable, and monumental as its inimitable subject.

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Critical praise for Financier: The Biography of Andr? Meyer

"A first-rate biography of an extraordinary man." --Andrew Tobias

"A fascinating mix of financial history involving household names of the corporate scene, gossip at rarefied altitudes and big bucks. The focus is on people, mutual back-scratching, wheeling and dealing through the conglomerate jungle." --The Wall Street Journal.

"This book is fun to read. Mr. Reich, while prudently avoiding heavy legal and accounting exegesis, has a talent for the clear explanation of essential technical detail." --New York Times Book Review.

"Hard-edged and uncompromising . . . a lucid and well-researched account." --The New Republic.

About the Author
CARY REICH is the former executive editor of Institutional Investor. His most recent book, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Mr. Reich is the recipient of numerous journalism awards, including the Overseas Press Award and the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism.

Product Details :

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 9, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471247413
• ISBN-13: 978-0471247418
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.1 x 9.2 inches

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