Jan 27, 2012 |
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Companies in highly regulated industries face unique challenges in optimizing business performance and profitability while maintaining strong governance and regulatory adherence. In this start-to-finish guidebook, leading business performance consultant Hillel Glazer shows how to achieve these goals through the successful integration of lean and systems thinking. Written for operations managers, process professionals, and lean systems managers, Glazer shows how to systematically incorporate compliance into planning for overall performance, value, and profitability, rather than viewing compliance as an end in itself. High Performance Operations will help operations professionals and managers:
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“Hillel Glazer has deftly synthesized all that he’s learned from flying Download Now »
Jan 11, 2012 |
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CFO Techniques: A Hands-on Guide to Keeping Your Business Solvent and Successful is a comprehensive and instructive working manual for multitasking chief financial officers and controllers working in the fast-paced commercial environment. Every senior financial professional with an ever-broadening span of control will benefit from this complete outline of the core activities—with specific descriptions of individual tasks—comprising the daily agenda of a successful CFO or controller. It covers everything from traditional responsibilities like budgeting and financial reporting, to more innovative tasks like performance analytics and business strategy development.
While emphasizing specific guidelines on what it takes to excel as a company’s head of finance, the book refrains from overwhelming dryness by using cultural references, real-life examples, and a casual tone. With its bite-sized, easy-to-read chapters, CFO Techniques serves as both an invaluable desktop reference handbook and a good bedtime read. Whether you need a quick recommendation on treasury procedures, adhering to GAAP, keeping funds safe from embezzlers, or advice on dealing with the CEO, you will find the answers in this book.
- Guides you through CFO/controller core responsibilities, function by function
- Serves as a reference manual on financial matters specific to the small and mid-size commercial environment
- Goes beyond finance and accounting, addressing the administrative and behavioral issues all CFOs occasionally must address Download Now »
Oct 22, 2011 |
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Protect Your Wealth from the Ravages of Inflation is for people who have financial assets to protect in an unpredictable, inflationary environment. Maybe you have tried traditional financial advice, financial planning, and passive investment management techniques and you’re still losing ground. Maybe you’re worried that by the time you need to use it, your retirement fund will be worth less than your total contributions. Maybe you believe that high inflation will significantly decrease your standard of living in the future. Maybe all of these issues apply to you. Don’t despair; help is at hand.
Protect Your Wealth from the Ravages of Inflation is a concise, no-nonsense, straightforward guide that will help you to do three things:
1. Ensure that your emergency fund will still have some purchasing power when you need it. Emergency funds sitting in checking accounts, or near-cash investments, will just be eaten away by inflation. There is a better way to give you access to the cash you need when you need it. This book shows you how.
2. Insulate you from significant changes in the strength of your home currency. If all your income and expenses are in a single currency like the U.S. dollar, you run a significant risk that your home-country currency will lose value. Currency risk in your income-purchasing power and working capital is often overlooked until it’s too late to do anything about it. This book deals with this issue and gives you easy-to-follow advice to protect the value of your money.
3. Generate a better risk-adjusted return in your investment accounts. Buying a basket of stocks and mutual funds and then performing the traditional Download Now »
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Sams Teach Yourself Mint.com in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn how to use Mint.com’s free tools to simplify your finances, take control of your money, get better deals, and build lifelong financial security!
Tips point out shortcuts and solutions
Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls
Notes provide additional information
10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…
- Create your Mint.com account, and get started fast
- Consolidate all your checking, credit card, loan, and investment accounts on one easy web page
- Discover your total net worth right now
- Avoid financial “information overload”—but get all the details you want, when you need them
- Find better deals on loans, credit cards, checking accounts, and other financial services
- Easily create a personal budget and monitor your progress in following it
- Track your outstanding student loans, car loans, and mortgages
- Monitor all your investments, from stocks to retirement and college savings accounts—even art and antiques
- Get instant alerts about events affecting your finances
- Keep your financial information safe and secure Download Now »
Sep 27, 2011 |
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The human race created money and finance: then, our inventions recreated us. In Extreme Money, best-selling author and global finance expert Satyajit Das tells how this happened and what it means. Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that are generating increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, prosperity, and wealth–while endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of virtually everyone outside finance.
“…virtually in a category of its own — part history, part book of financial quotations, part cautionary tale, part textbook. It contains some of the clearest charts about risk transfer you will find anywhere. …Others have laid out the dire consequences of financialisation (“the conversion of everything into monetary form”, in Das’s phrase), but few have done it with a wider or more entertaining range of references…[Extreme Money] does… reach an important, if worrying, conclusion: financialisation may be too deep-rooted to be torn out. As Das puts it — characteristically borrowing a line from a movie, Inception — “the hardest virus to kill is an idea”.
-Andrew Hill “Eclectic Guide to the Excesses of the Crisis” Financial Times (August 17, 2011)
Extreme Money named to the longlist for the 2011 FT and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award.
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“A true insider’s devastating analysis of the financial alchemy of the last 30 years and its destructive consequences. Download Now »
Sep 23, 2011 |
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Eight months in advance, one eccentric genius predicted the start of history’s greatest bull market—accurate to within 17 days and 7 Dow Jones points. Then, days before his death, he called its end—precisely. Louis Rukeyser called him “uncannily accurate.” The Stock Traders Almanac called his work “the finest long-term forecast we have ever seen.” Honored by his peers, admired for his profound knowledge of history and markets, George Lindsay is now nearly forgotten. Much of his most significant research has been relegated to yellowing, typed newsletters. Until now. In George Lindsay and the Art of Technical Analysis, Ed Carlson demonstrates the immense power of Lindsay’s methods in today’s markets. Using visual models, Carlson explains Lindsay’s models clearly, simply, and intuitively. Using this book, investors and traders can apply these techniques without strong mathematical expertise, and without deciphering Lindsay’s dense writing style. Carlson walks through using Lindsay’s “Three Peaks and a Domed House” model to uncover surprising patterns in “haphazard” short-lived movements… using Lindsay’s “Timing Method for Traders” to identify tradeable market tops and get out of bull markets in time… predicting “decisive, often violent” market movements, and more. This book is an indispensable addition to any technical analysis library—and every technician’s trading arsenal.
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“George Lindsay was far more than just another analyst seeking solutions to the market’s mysteries. He made some eerily accurate market predictions, and his techniques and explanations continue to be roadmaps for many of today’s better technical analysts. This book belongs on the desk of anyone who is serious about market analysis and forecasting.” Download Now »
