Congratulations on your promotion! It’s exciting, challenging, and perhaps a bit unsettling. Even though you’ve dreamed about and worked toward it for a long time, knowing that you’ve reached a higher rung on your personal success ladder natu- rally brings a touch of anxiety.
Over the past three decades, management tools have become a common part of executives’ lives. Whether trying to boost revenues, innovate, improve quality, increase efficiencies or plan for the future, executives have looked for tools to help them. The current environment of globalization and economic turbulence has increased the challenges executives face and, therefore, the need to find …
In all activities (whether business activities or non-business activities) and in all organizations (whether business organizations like a manufacturing entity or trading entity or non-business organizations like schools, colleges, hospitals, libraries, clubs, temples, political parties) which require money and other economic resources, accounting is required to account for these resources.…
The roots of OR can be traced back many decades, when early attempts were made to use a scientific approach in the management of organizations. However, the beginning of the activity called operations research has generally been attributed to the military services early in World War II. Because of the war effort, there was an urgent need to allocate scarce resources to the various military oper…
Risk management issues in the banking sector do not only have greater impact on bank performance but also on national economic growth and general business development. The bank’s motivation for risk management comes from those risks which can lead to underperformance. This study focuses on the association of risk management practices and bank financial performance in Nigeria. Secondary data s…
Fascinating lighting offers an infinite spectrum of possibilities: Innovative technologies and new markets provide both opportunities and challenges. An environment in which your expertise is in high demand. Enjoy the supportive working atmosphere within our global group and benefit from international career paths. Implement sustainable ideas in close cooperation with other specialists and cont…
Forensic accounting–expert witnessing is not a new discipline, but few accounting textbooks exist to present a broad view of the profession of forensic accounting–expert witnessing. Books do exist on special subparts of it, including the determination of damages, business valuations, general discussions of fraud investigations, or other limited areas of forensic accounting. Books devot…
This workbook addresses the issues of Understanding Change in the Workplace. Should you wish to extend your study to other Super Series workbooks cov- ering related or different subject areas, you will find a comprehensive list at the back of this book.
Risk Management introduces, illustrates, and analyzes the many aspects of modern risk management in both financial institutions and nonbank corporations. It consolidates the entire field of risk management from policies to methodologies as well as data and technological infrastructure. It also covers investment, hedging, and management strategies. The shift to flexible exchange rates in the…
This is the second edition of our book that is designed as an introductory text in financial accounting. What sets it apart from dozens of other books with that basic aim is that this book is not set in any one national context. Consequently, instead of references to national laws, standards or practices, the main reference point is International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Never…
This book has been written for anyone working or training to work in the legal profession, or for anyone whose job requires them to have a working knowledge of legal words and terms. The various exercises throughout the book focus on the key vocabulary that you might be expected to understand and use on a day-to-day basis.
This workbook addresses the issues of Solving Problems. Should you wish to extend your study to other Super Series workbooks covering related or different subject areas, you will find a comprehensive list at the back of this book.
In the initial stages cost accounting was merely considered to be a technique for ascertainment of cost of products or services on the basis of historical data. In course of time due to competitive nature of the market, it was realized that ascertainment of cost is not as important as controlling costs. Hence, cost accounting started to be considered more as a technique for cost control a s …
An agenda represents far more than simple a list of items that needs to be discussed.
The Hamlyn Trust came into existence under the will of the late Miss Emma Warburton Hamlyn, of Torquay, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty. She came of an old and well- known Devon family. Her father, William Bussell Hamlyn, practised in Torquay as a solicitor for many years. She was a woman of strong character, intelligent and cultured, well versed in literature, music and art, and a lover …