Business Operations Books

The use of statistical methods for categorical data has increased dramatically, particularly for applications in the biomedical and social sciences. This valuable reference summarizes these methods and shows readers how to use them using software.

By Alan Agresti

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Madjid Tavana (ed)

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This article considers the application of big data and data science to real-time player marketing and casino floor management in the casino gaming industry.

By Pedro Desouza, Wei Lin, William Schmarzo

Using data from a five-year study to illustrate important concepts and scenarios along the way, this insightful book helps eliminate paralysis-by-analysis and optimize decision making for marketing performance.

By John F. Tanner Jr

Written by researchers and professionals, this insightful guide examines the role of analytics in knowledge management and the integration of big data theories, methods, and techniques into an organizational knowledge management framework.

By Hsia-Ching Chang, Suliman Hawamdeh

Written for those who want basic understanding of how to use statistics in the business world without all the details of statistical theory, this book is designed to enhance a practical learning of statistics by nonstatisticians and to make the experience a little easier and maybe even fun.

By John Fogli, Linda Herkenhoff

Through a series of case studies and examples, this book demonstrates the benefits of a new analytics mindset that includes superior access to information, quicker insights, and the ability to spot trends far ahead of your competitors.

By Phil Simon

Offering a unique approach to numerical research methods, this user-friendly, hands-on guide presents readers with the necessary statistical applications for carrying out the key phases of conducting and evaluating a research project.

By Debra Wetcher-Hendricks

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By James McKee

This book walks you step by step through the full data visualization process, from calculation and analysis through accurate, useful presentation.

By Ben Jones

Whether you are considering starting a career in business analysis, or you are an experienced professional in the field, this book is your key resource to help you and your stakeholders discover opportunities for business success, deliver successful organizational change, and create business value.

By International Institute of Business Analysis

A basic knowledge of statistics allows trainers to make better decisions and understand data more fully. This Infoline will show you how to perform some basic statistical calculations and understand how to use statistics on the job.

By Jean Houston Shore

Learn to use analytics more effectively, convert data into value and facilitate smarter and better decision-making for your organization.

By Jordan Morrow

Overcome the hurdles to building a data-driven organization with this roadmap to closing the skills gap, investing in the right technology and creating a successful culture.

By Jordan Morrow

Providing a snapshot of what CIOs are doing to lead IT in a climate where technology belongs to everyone, this humorous and pragmatic book defines the top ten skills and behaviors that CIOs need to develop if they are going to be successful in an ever changing landscape.

By Martha Heller

Packed with examples and exercises, this refreshingly accessible book explains the four fundamental analytic techniques that can help solve a surprising 80 percent of all business problems, and demonstrates how professionals at any level can take the information at their disposal and leverage it to make better decisions.

By Piyanka Jain, Puneet Sharma

Effectively demonstrating statistics as a useful problem-solving tool, this engaging resource uses fun, common sense examples that illustrate the concepts, methods, and applications of statistical techniques.

By Kristin H. Jarman

Offering a pragmatic new business model for sustainability that extends beyond the traditional framework of the triple bottom line, this book describes eight steps that range from exploring a vision and establishing a strategy to implementing the strategy and promoting innovation.

By Francisco Szekely, Zahir Dossa

If you are engaged in professional services, consultancy or research, this practical book walks you through every step in the process of writing bids, tenders and proposals for contracts and project funding.

By Harold Lewis

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This article documents and discusses such examples where big data analytics techniques can be used to tackle some of the difficult security challenges like Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), big ticket breaches plaguing both private and public sectors today.

By Bharath Krishnappa

Comparing and contrasting the different types of analysis commonly conducted with big data, this accessible reference presents clear-cut explanations of the general workings of big data tools.

By Kim H. Pries, Robert Dunnigan

Big Data in Healthcare: Statistical Analysis of the Electronic Health Record provides the statistical tools that healthcare leaders need to organize and interpret their data.

By Farrokh Alemi

Presenting inside stories that demonstrate the power and potential of Big Data within the business realm, this book provides the insight executives need to incorporate Big Data into a better business strategy, improving outcomes with innovation and efficient use of technology.

By Patrick McSharry, Rob Thomas

By making the topic accessible through stories, metaphors, and analogies even though it's a technical subject area, this timely book looks at cutting-edge companies supporting an exciting new generation of business analytics.

By Ambiga Dhiraj, Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers

Effective management means combining data, people, and analytics to create a synergistic force for innovation and growth. If you want your company to move forward with confidence, this groundbreaking book can show you how to use what you already have and acquire what you need to succeed.

By Evan Stubbs

Providing an engaging, thorough overview of the current state of big data analytics and the growing trend toward high performance computing architectures, the book is a detail-driven look into how big data analytics can be leveraged to foster positive change and drive efficiency.

By Jared Dean

Offering case studies of data practices in the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, this book asserts that managing data over the long term requires massive investment in knowledge infrastructures, putting the future of scholarship at stake.

By Christine L. Borgman

Full of practical techniques, real-world examples, and hands-on exercises, this book explores the technologies involved in Big Data, as well as how to find areas of the organization that can take full advantage of big data.

By Bill Schmarzo

Designed to help you use BIM to increase transparency and create a more integrated design and construction process, this guide will also show you how BIM can help improve your strategic planning, maximize ROI, support the decision-making processes, and fine-tune GAP analysis.

By K. Pramod Reddy

Realizing the positive impacts of a value-based BA practice could very well mean the difference between success and failure for businesses negotiating 21st century challenges. This book provides a framework for implementing a BA practice that is strategically positioned and value-based.

By Kathleen B. Hass

Focusing on recent advances and innovations in the field of decision analysis (DA), this book illustrates genuine advances in practical decision science and includes developments and trends that depart from, or break with, the standard axiomatic DA paradigm in fundamental and useful ways.

By Louis Anthony Cox, Jr. (ed)

If you're interested in learning about the methods successful business analysis professionals use, this go-to reference offers tools and techniques you can apply to your own organization to achieve your financial goals. Get started today!

By Kate McGoey, Kupe Kupersmith, Paul Mulvey

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on April 29, 2024.

By Debra Paul, James Cadle, Paul Turner

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on April 29, 2024.

By Debra Paul, et al.

A vital blueprint for organizations that want to thrive in the competitive fray, this book presents a sustainable business analytics (BA) model focusing on the interaction of IT technology, strategy, business processes, and a broad spectrum of human competencies and organizational circumstances.

By Gert H.N. Laursen, Jesper Thorlund

For everyone in a business- focused role who wants to establish or contribute to Business Analytics, this essential resource offers real-world guidance for organizations looking to leverage their data into a competitive advantage.

By Gert H. N. Laursen, Jesper Thorlund

Showing you how to make extensive use of data, statistical, and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive modeling, and fact-based management to drive decision making, this book provides you with the tools your business needs to optimize you data driven processes.

By Gert H.N. Laursen

As a guide for practitioners and managers, this essential book lays out an approach for analytics, describes the processes used, and provides guidance on how to scale analytics and how to develop analytics teams.

By Anand Srinivasan, Rahul Saxena

Suggesting pathways for minimizing the risk in strategic and capital allocation decisions, this practical tutorial presents a methodology for conducting business case analysis that minimizes decision delay by focusing stakeholders on what matters most.

By Robert D. Brown III

Explaining the do's and don'ts of pitching your ideas through a business case, this book will teach you what the essential components of a business case are, including what key questions you should be answering, how to structure your business case, and more.

By Carrie Marshall

If disaster struck, could your business continue to operate? This detailed book clearly sets out how to identify the risks to your organization, how to create your own BCM plan, how to apply BCM in practice and what to do if the worst does happen.

By Stuart Sterling, et al.

Containing clear advice along with case studies, examples, checklists and success strategies, this book targets the big questions that entrepreneurs need to consider to build a successful business, with the answers that will set them on the right track.

By Frances McGuckin

With a mix of formal, rigorous pieces and brief introductory chapters, the expert resource provides practitioners with a comprehensive examination of the current state of the business forecasting field.

By Len Tashman, Michael Gilliland, Udo Sglavo

Guiding managers through developing, administering, or simply understanding business intelligence technology, this book keeps pace with the changes in best practices, tools, methods and processes used to transform an organization's data into actionable knowledge.

By David Loshin

Explaining what a business model is, what you have to do to get one, and what to do about the one you already have, this book will help you learn to think strategically about how to use your business model if you want to gain an advantage over your competitors.

By Barbara Spencer

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Adrian Tantau, Robert Staiger (eds)

Exploring relationships between strategy, management accounting information, and the design of control systems, this indispensable book uses management accounting techniques for operational, managerial and strategic purposes.

By Bruce Bowhill

The ability to write a successful business plan is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. This straightforward book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order to write and receive support for a business plan.

By Iain Maitland

If you're studying business at the university level or you're a professional looking for a desk reference on this complicated topic, this book provides clear, practical explanations of business statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations, with lots of examples that show you how these concepts apply to the world of global business and economics.

By Alan Anderson

This book tracks to a typical introductory course offered at the undergraduate, so you know you'll find all the content you need to pass your class and get your degree.

By Alan Anderson

Including topic summaries, tips and tricks, practice questions, and objective-mapping, this thorough guide offers 100% coverage of all exam objectives for the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) exams.

By Susan Weese, Terri Wagner

Designed to be a study guide for the CBAP certification from IIBA, this book contains exercises, case studies, and solutions, along with tools, techniques, best practices and templates to help business analysis professionals in their everyday tasks.

By Hans Jonasson

Featuring real-world scenarios, best practices, key terms, and a wide range of helpful topics, this valuable study guide presents the preparation process you need to confidently take - and pass - the CBAP and CCBA exams.

By Susan Weese, Terri Wagner

Featuring tales involving the likes of Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Clive Cussler, Lady Gaga, and Donald Trump, this book shows how age-old precedents and wisdom still apply today and how contract law's inherent dynamism cautions against exuberant reforms.

By Lawrence A. Cunningham

Drawing on the author's experience consulting for such global companies as 3M, Alcoa, Westinghouse, and Citi, this book shows how to develop and grow your organization by designing the culture, structure, strategies, and policies that encourage and support internal entrepreneurial ventures.

By Claudine Kearney, Robert D. Hisrich

Through the extensive and sophisticated discipline of counterintelligence, readers will learn the vital importance of intelligence to the survival, efficiency, and well-being of any organization as well as a whole new approach to the protection of business intelligence and assets.

By Dylan van Genderen

Create your dream job by turning your passion into a profitable business. This book is a passionate yet practical guide to identifying a business idea, embracing new ways of working, thinking unusually and building a great company without losing sense of your original idea.

By Riccardo Pozzoli

An essential resource for designing a complete rewards program that will benefit not only employees, but the organization itself.

By Michael Dennis Graham, Todd M. Manas

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Velsoft Training Materials, Inc.

Understanding customer behavior and ensuring a positive experience are crucial to business success. This easy-to-read guide provides everything you need to know to stay on track, from interpreting customer data and testing to understanding usability metrics and enhancing brand awareness.

By Jeff Sauro

This book addresses issues from defining and sizing projects to continuous development, continuous integration and continuous deployment.

By Doug Brown, Tirath Virdee

With plenty of examples that showcase best practices for working with challenges in the field, this guide provides a comprehensive overview of statistical data analysis research, featuring real-world case studies and applications.

By Peter J. Huber

Balancing examples from giants like Amazon, Home Depot, and Ford with newer players like Rovio, Groupon, and scores of niche-market winners, this book examines the forces behind the explosive growth in data and reveals how the most innovative companies are responding to this challenge.

By Christopher Surdak

This book presents data mining methods in the field of healthcare management in a practical way. Healthcare quality and disease prevention are essential in today's world. Healthcare management faces a number of challenges, e.g. reducing patient growth through disease prevention, stopping or slowing disease progression, and reducing healthcare costs while improving quality of care.

By David L. Olson, Özgür M. Araz

Discover how to achieve business goals by relying on high-quality, robust data

By Prashanth Southekal

Data science is little more than using straight-forward steps to process raw data into actionable insight, and in this new book, author and data scientist John Foreman will show you how that's done within the familiar environment of a spreadsheet.

By John W. Foreman

Use data, analytics and metrics to make better HR decisions for your business.

By Bernard Marr

Filled with practical examples to walk you step-by-step through common decision-making scenarios, this book will help you build the skills you need to answer complex management and policy questions.

By David H. Gustafson, Farrokh Alemi

Both a practical how-to guide and a framework for planning, this book shows you how to integrate operational and analytic technologies to create systems that are more agile, more analytic, and more adaptive to drive unprecedented levels of business value.

By James Taylor

With an emphasis on real-world examples and pragmatic advice throughout, this groundbreaking resource provides comprehensive coverage across all aspects of business analytics, presenting proven management guidelines to drive sustainable differentiation.

By Evan Stubbs

Lead your demand planning process to excellence and deliver real value to your supply chain.

By Nicolas Vandeput

Challenging you to stimulate innovation in your own organization, this book will show you how to make design a dialogue between complementary skills, to see design as a bridge between mind and matter, image and identity.

By Brigitte Borja de Mozota, Steinar Valade-Amland

Providing vital lessons any business leader can use as an engine of innovation, this book takes you through the process of bringing the best of Lean management to your enterprise in order to link your business strategy to superior value designed for customers.

By James M. Morgan, Jeffery K. Liker

Providing case studies in which major companies applied human capital analytics to guide people decisions, this is a guidebook for collecting, organizing, and analyzing the data surrounding human capital so you can make the most of your employees' potential.

By Barbara Beresford, Gene Pease, Lew Walker

This book guides you through the unrelenting pace of change and uncertainty facing business leaders today.

By Tom Goodwin

Whether you're a first-time or repeat entrepreneur, this invaluable book gives you the tools you need to improve your odds of making a product people want.

By Bill Aulet

Through a short history of business analytics and a detailed survey of products and services, analytics authority Thomas W. Dinsmore provides a practical explanation of the most compelling innovations available today.

By Thomas W. Dinsmore

Utilising extensive examples and case studies from eBay, Googlewhacking & Skype, this text primarily focuses on the contribution of e-business technologies to the effectiveness and efficiency of for-profit firms.

By Jonathan Reynolds

Including numerous real-world case studies, this step-by-step book bridges the gap between analytics and their use in everyday marketing, providing guidance on solving real business problems using data mining techniques.

By Antonios Chorianopoulos

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By William H. Hsu (ed)

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Adrian Dumitru Tantau, Laurenţiu Cătălin Frăţilă (eds)

With real-world case studies from around the globe, as well as an invaluable toolkit of templates, planning checklists and budget sheets, this practical book is an ideal resource for those seeking a step-by-step formula to plan and deliver a successful event.

By David Bassett, Ruth Dowson

This book demonstrates how to use people data to increase profits, improve staff retention and workplace productivity as well as develop individual employee experience.

By David Greenaway, Jonathan Ferrar

An exit strategy, if implemented early, is the surprising secret to ultimate startup success. Find out why-and how to develop one-in this comprehensive, practical guide from veteran Silicon Valley dealmaker Touraj Parang.

By Touraj Parang

Demonstrating how to use Access, Excel, and PowerPoint in a forensic setting, this guide reviews and shows how twenty substantive and rigorous tests can be used to detect fraud, errors, estimates, or biases in your data.

By Mark J. Nigrini

Early detection is a key factor in mitigating fraud damage, but it involves more specialized techniques than detecting fraud at the more advanced stages. This invaluable guide details both the theory and technical aspects of these techniques, and provides expert insight into streamlining implementation.

By Bart Baesens, Véronique Van Vlasselaer, Wouter Verbeke

Packed with examples and sample cases illustrating pertinent concepts in practice, this authoritative guide thoroughly reveals the elements of analysis that are used in today's fraud examinations, fraud investigations, and financial crime investigations.

By Delena D. Spann

Including numerous practical tips and analytical guidance, this resource presents an instructive approach to successfully implementing the freemium model into your software products by building analytics into product design from the earliest stages of development.

By Eric Benjamin Seufert

In From Data to Profit: How Businesses Leverage Data to Grow Their Top and Bottom Lines, accomplished entrepreneur and AI strategist Vineet Vashishta delivers an engaging and insightful new take on making the most of data, artificial intelligence, and technology at your company.

By Vin Vashishta

Providing a complete overview of operational risk modeling and relevant insurance analytics, this handbook presents detailed coverage of the theories, applications, and models inherent in any discussion of the fundamentals of operational risk, with a primary focus on Basel II/III regulation, modeling dependence, estimation of risk models, and modeling the data elements.

By Gareth W. Peters, Marcelo G. Cruz, Pavel V. Shevchenko

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This Knowledge Sharing article provides an overview of Big Data.

By Babu Analakkat

"The Economist" covers a wide range of subjects with confidence, wit and authority--Economist Books mirror this approach. This comprehensive guide discusses every aspect of preparing and using a business plan.

By Graham Friend, Stefan Zehle

This handbook collects the most up-to-date scholarship, knowledge, and new developments of big data and data analytics by bringing together many strands of contextual and disciplinary research. In recent times, while there has been considerable research in exploring the role of big data, data analytics, and textual analytics in accounting, and auditing, we still lack evidence on what kinds of best practices academics, practitioners, and organizations can implement and use.

By Alan Lowe, Jan Svanberg, Peter Öhman, Tarek Rana

Investigating commercial applications, with sections on forecasters' objectives and methodologies, this book offers a coherent overview of forecasting theory and applications in one place and with up-to-date accounts of all major conceptual issues.

By Allan Timmermann, Graham Elliot

The Handbook of Research on Foundations and Applications of Intelligent Business Analytics examines the technologies and applications of intelligent business analytics and discusses the foundations of intelligent analytics such as intelligent mining, intelligent statistical modeling, and machine learning.

By Zhaohao Sun, Zhiyou Wu

The Handbook of Research on Opinion Mining and Text Analytics on Literary Works and Social Media introduces the use of artificial intelligence and big data analytics applied to opinion mining and text analytics on literary works and social media.

By Moussa Pourya Asl, Pantea Keikhosrokiani

Presenting the ultimate analytics guide for the health industry leader, this essential book equips business leaders with little-to-no experience in analytics to understand how to incorporate analytics as a cornerstone of their 21st century competitive business strategy.

By Jason Burke

Revealing the true potential of analytics to harness vast amounts of data, this book walks your organization from relying on generic reports and dashboards to developing powerful analytic applications that drive effective decision-making throughout your organization.

By Trevor L. Strome

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Amir Hossein Ghapanchi, Amir Talaei-Khoei (eds), Madjid Tavana

Supplying an understanding of the different types of healthcare service providers, corresponding information technologies, analytic methods, and data issues that play a vital role in transforming the healthcare industry, this book presents strategies for achieving national goals for the meaningful use of health information technology and includes sound project management principles and case illustrations for technology roll-out.

By Stephan P. Kudyba (ed)

Whether looking to start up or expand, the practical advice in this engaging and accessible book will help anyone to prepare a plan that is tailored to the requirements of their business - one that will get the financial backing they need.

By Edward Blackwell

Whether you are starting or selling your own business, business plans are an essential and unavoidable part of the business cycle. This book offers the expert guidance you need to make an impact with your plan, including advice on researching competitors, presenting your management skills and successfully communicating your strategic vision.

By Brian Finch

From diagnosing and measuring customer satisfaction to finding innovative ways to raise capital, this course guide explains how to organize and implement the planning process from beginning to end and position a company for success.

By Michael P. Griffin

Whether you are starting or selling your own business, business plans are an essential part of the process. This book gives you the expert guidance you need to make an impact with your plan.

By Brian Finch

If you are starting or selling your own business, or wanting to expand your company, business plans are essential. Get expert guidance on how to make an impact with your business plan and successfully communicate your strategic vision.

By Brian Finch

Showing you how to create immense added value in any organization, this book sets out new approaches, formulas, and software needed to enable any HR function or organization to forecast trends and to existing retrospective data to their advantage.

By Tony Miller

This book is aimed at HR practitioners and analysts or anyone who aims to make a career in Human Resources. Prior knowledge of HR or organization behavior would be helpful but not mandatory.

By Reuben Ray, Subhashini Sharma Tripathi

Providing essential action steps for implementation of advanced analytics on human capital, this book presents an in-depth look at the science of human capital analytics, and provides a framework for using predictive analytics to optimize human capital investments.

By Boyce Byerly, Gene Pease, Jac Fitz-enz

Providing a unique view of applying human-centered computing in the social media scenario, this book looks at the classification and recognition of attributes, demographics, contexts, and correlations of human information among unconstrained visual data from the social media domain.

By Yun Fu (ed)

Demystifying the concept, technology and application of analytics, this book breaks its implementation down to repeatable and manageable steps, making it possible for widespread adoption across all functions of an organization.

By Nauman Sheikh

Taken from actual life lessons, the must-read book provides a real-world viewpoint on what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur.

By Brad Taylor

Covering data preparation, statistics, analytics implementation, as well as other crucial topics favored by interviewers, this book provides a full range of interview questions for jobs ranging from junior analytics to senior data scientists and managers.

By Bhasker Gupta

Aimed at business students, undergraduate and graduate, taking an introductory core course, this book presents key concepts related to quantitative analysis in business.

By David L. Olson, Majid Nabavi

Including expert guidance and practical advice, this essential guide allows all HR professionals to get to grips with analytics, feel confident in their ability to handle employee and organizational data and use analytics to move from opinions to insights.

By Dave Millner, Nadeem Khan

Presenting an accessible approach to statistical analytics, resampling, and the bootstrap for readers with various levels of exposure to basic probability and statistics, this book primarily focuses on applications of statistical concepts developed via resampling, with a background discussion of mathematical theory.

By Peter C. Bruce

Examining how intuition affects decision-making, this book provides insight into the role of trust in organizational leadership and communications, provides an overview of predictive and prescriptive analytics, and offers case studies on how intuition, trust, and analytics affect decision-making.

By Jay Liebowitz, Jerzy Gołuchowski, Joanna Paliszkiewicz

Shows how to present an IT project's expenses in terms of an investment in business practices and processes.

By Dan Remenyi

Whether responding to a tender from a potential client or pitching a new project to the Board, a well-written proposal can be the difference between success and failure. This guide will help you create high quality proposals that stand out from the crowd.

By Paul Coombs (ed)

With case studies, the latest research, and graphical knowledge representations that increase understanding of knowledge-based configuration, this book provides a toolkit to continue to push the boundaries of what configurators can do and how they enable companies and customers to thrive.

By Alexander Felfernig, Claire Bagley, Juha Tiihonen, Lothar Hotz

You'll learn which aspects of the project to pay attention to, the right questions to ask, and how to keep the project team focused on its mission to produce relevant and valuable project.

By Joseph A. Cazier

Written for anyone in a leadership or management role-from C-level/unit team managers to rising talent-this powerful, hands-on guide meets today's growing need for real-world tools to lead and succeed with data.

By Eric Anderson, Florian Zettelmeyer

Providing a framework for understanding how to work with learning analytics, this book shows learning & development and HR practitioners the power that effective analytics has on building an organization and the impact this power has on performance, talent management, and competitive advantage.

By Jean Martin, John R Mattox II, Mark Van Buren

Drawing upon case studies from organizations who such as The Gap, Hilton Worldwide University and Seagate Technology, this book will enable those involved in learning and development to make the business case for their activities and deliver an evidence-based service to their organizations.

By Cristina Hall, John R Mattox II, Peggy Parskey

Providing a holistic view on how to reduce the most common risks that projects face today, this book explores the role of product manager in doing business analysis to set a project up for success.

By Vicki James

Taking a look at how consistently successful businesses are able to attract a steady and ever-increasing flow of customers, this innovative text examines a range of simple, powerful strategies that businesses of any size or type can use to attract new customers.

By Joe Calloway

Much more than a guide to using data collection and analysis, this step-by-step guide is a template for spearheading large-scale change in your organization by dramatically influencing your department's overall image within the organization.

By Jack J. Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips

Illustrated with practical examples drawn from real cases, this concise, jargon-free book shows how to make sense of the task at hand, develop a strategy, articulate your options, define the benefits, establish costs, identify risks and make a compelling case.

By Ian Gambles

Featuring insightful case-studies and valuable hands-on tools, this book simplifies the decision-making process by explaining the key theories and practices behind corporate investments, and is designed to help executives make smart decisions and to maximize enterprise value.

By Wolfgang Messner

Filled with proven solutions, this straightforward playbook reveals how to get results through successful strategy execution, and presents a process that will help your organization execute strategy in a simplified, efficient manner.

By Andy Neely, Ed Barrows

By showing you how to understand and implement a sound marketing analytics process that helps eliminate the guesswork about the results produced by your marketing efforts, this book explains how to acquire - and keep - more customers so that you not only get a seat at the big-decisions table, but keep it.

By Jerry Rackley

Assuming no prior knowledge, this thorough guide introduces concepts relating to statistics, marketing strategy, and consumer behavior and then works through a series of problems by providing various data modeling options as solutions.

By Mike Grigsby

Including mini-case studies and real-life examples, this book presents modern marketing communication theories and tools in an accessible and jargon-free way while focusing on integrating online and offline techniques with a social media approach.

By PR Smith, Ze Zook

Presenting the latest tools and techniques available to help in the decision process, this book emphasizes and focuses on the aspects of constructing a useful model formulation, as well as building the skills required for decision analysis.

By William P. Fox

Driven by the increased data capture from digital platforms, commercial fields are becoming data rich and analytics is growing in many sectors. This book presents analytics within a framework of mathematical theory and concepts building upon firm theory and foundations of probability theory, graphs and networks, random matrices, linear algebra, optimization, forecasting, discrete dynamical systems, and more.

By Peter Grindrod

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Daniela Rosu (eds), Yixin Diao

Chock-full of practical examples, formulas, and concepts that can be immediately used and implemented, this handy guide is a must-read to build skills to enhance your career and help your company grow and succeed.

By Milo Sobel

This book presents a refresher on the talent development reporting principles framework and measurement strategy.

By David Vance, Peggy Parskey

A much-needed and welcomed resource, this book breaks new ground with a framework to simplify the discussion of measurement, analytics, and reporting as it relates to L&D and talent development practitioners.

By David Vance, Peggy Parskey

The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of news.

By Angèle Christin

Illustrating the application of NLP to develop competencies, this book will better equip you to communicate across cultures, reframe problems, manage stakeholder groups, resolve conflicts, motivate teams and become an even better leader.

By Peter Parkes

There are numbers you never think about even though they play a crucial role in every single aspect of your life. This fascinating book takes you inside the hidden world of facts and figures that affect you every day, in every way.

By Kaiser Fung

Including examples, exercises, and cases throughout, this accessible and comprehensive guide focuses on solving real-world optimization problems through the creation of mathematical models and the use of spreadsheets to represent and analyze those models.

By Kenneth R. Baker

Packed with practical examples and case studies, this detailed guide brings advanced analytics into Human Resources, giving you a framework for optimizing human capital investments through predictive analysis.

By Gene Pease

A unique guide to the work of an influential thinker in management and organization studies, this book presents a picture of organizations and their strategies that emphasizes the characteristics of real-life human beings.

By William H. Starbuck

Bringing together leading organization scholars and business historians, this thorough book examines why and how historical research and reasoning should be used in the study of management, organizations, and industries.

By Marcelo Bucheli, R. Daniel Wadhwani (eds)

People and Data is an innovative exploration of the relationship between non-data professionals and data in an organization's success, and why it is only when they work together that a business can unlock its full potential.

By Thomas C. Redman

By demystifying and simplifying the process of understanding and working with human capital metrics, this book offers an easy-to-apply set of key metrics that managers can use in their daily leadership and management tasks, as well as examples of how to understand, share, and act on human capital metrics.

By Tine Huus

Written by an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author on advanced cost management and performance improvement systems, this book offers a compelling overview of the current trends in performance management.

By Gary Cokins

With clear instructions as well as before-and-after samples, this classic guide explains how to craft compelling messages and powerful proposals that attract prospects' attention and speak to their needs.

By Tom Sant

Practical Data Analytics for Innovation in Medicine: Building Real Predictive and Prescriptive Models in Personalized Healthcare and Medical Research Using AI, ML, and Related Technologies, Second Edition discusses the needs of healthcare and medicine in the 21st century, explaining how data analytics play an important and revolutionary role.

By Gary D. Miner, Linda A. Miner, Mitchell Goldstein, Nephi Walton, Robert Nisbet, Scott Burk, Thomas Hill

In A Practitioner's Guide to Operationalizing Data Governance, veteran SAS and data management expert Mary Anne Hopper walks readers through the planning, design, operationalization, and maintenance of an effective data governance program.

By Mary Anne Hopper

Going beyond the usual slicing and dicing of HR data, this book shows HR professionals how to definitively connect the dots between people data and business outcomes with a straightforward approach for scaling analytics to all leaders and all levels.

By Hannah Spell, Matt Betts, Scott Mondore, Shane Douthitt

Exploring the power of predictive analytics and how you can use it to make valuable predictions for your business, this nuts-and-bolts guide helps you quickly see how to use the right algorithms and tools to collect and analyze data and apply it to make predictions.

By Anasse Bari, Mohamed Chaouchi, Tommy Jung

Providing tips on outlining business goals and approaches, this friendly guide will help you discover the core of predictive analytics and get started putting it to use with readily available tools to collect and analyze data.

By Anasse Bari, Mohamed Chaouchi, Tommy Jung

Getting down to the nature of data and examining the critical issues of sources, ownership, and quality, this book offers human resource professionals the information and tools they need to harness the power of analytics and determine future outcomes.

By Jac Fitz-enz, John R. Mattox, II

Revealing the power and perils of prediction, this rich, entertaining book explores how technology literally learns from data how to predict the future behavior of individuals.

By Eric Siegel

Filled with case examples, this forward-thinking book addresses the emergence of predictive business analytics, how it can help redefine the way your organization operates, and many of the misconceptions that impede the adoption of this new management capability.

By Gary Cokins, Lawrence S. Maisel

Providing a clear and accessible framework to understanding and learning to work with HR analytics at an advanced level, this book uses examples of particular predictive models, such as diversity analysis, predicting turnover, evaluating interventions, and predicting performance.

By Kirsten Edwards, Martin R. Edwards

Guiding students and professionals on how to identify and exploit pricing opportunities in different business contexts, this book discusses the various factors behind setting base prices for single products.

By Mark Ferguson, Tudor Bodea

Instructing business leaders in how to add the discipline and technical precision of the scientific method to their strategic planning and decision making, this book presents solutions to the big problems that modern businesses face - solutions that are grounded in logic and empiricism.

By George Danner

Global advances in technology give investors and asset managers more information at their fingertips than ever before. With this powerful book, you can join the elite club of quantitative investors who know how to use that information to beat the market and their competitors.

By Mark W. Guthner

Providing a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical concepts and modelling techniques of quantitative risk management, this book equips readers with practical tools to solve real-world problems.

By Alexander J. McNeil, Paul Embrechts, Rudiger Frey

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This article contains an overview of how the distributed computing framework, Hadoop can be integrated with powerful search engine Solr.

By Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Providing techniques for measuring the growth of scientific knowledge at the university level, this book covers research assessment and evaluation at individual and institutional levels and the main methodologies for measuring scientific impact and reputation.

By Francisco J. Cantú-Ortiz

Packed with case studies and examples, this book provides a broad understanding of retail, shows how to put accumulated data to optimal use, and insightfully reveals how you can begin using your business data as a strategic advantage.

By Emmett Cox

Offering insight into the ideal skills and characteristics of successful business analysts, this comprehensive guide provides a foundation of learning for effecting business analysis work.

By Barbara A. Carkenord

This is a must read for anyone contemplating entry into the franchise arena. The tools and insights shared will prove invaluable in elevating the skills required for success.

By Dave Roemer

From understanding the data and its sources to detailed metrics, dashboards, and reports, this book is a robust tool for anyone seeking a tangible return on investment from social media and digital marketing.

By Alex Gonçalves

Whether you're a marketer, analyst, manager, or technologist, this book will show you how to use social media data to compete more effectively, respond more rapidly, predict more successfully, grow profits, and keep them growing.

By Avinash Kohirkar, Matthew Ganis

Revealing how telecommunications companies can effectively enhance their relationships with customers, this book shows how social network analysis, analytics, and marketing knowledge can be combined to create a positive customer experience within the telecommunications industry.

By Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro

Delivering a mature approach to fraud detection and prevention, this comprehensive resource brings together all important aspect of analytics used in investigating modern crime in financial markets and uses R for its statistical examples.

By Marius-Christian Frunza

In Startup Program Design, two seasoned veterans deeply versed in startup engagement programs provide you with the tools to introduce open innovation practices to your organization.

By Adam Berk, Paolo Lombardi

Effective analytics is a team sport. This insightful book offers an approach that will allow you to get the deepest insights by bringing people together from both the business and HR perspectives to assess what's going on and determine the right solution.

By Alec Levenson

Featuring international real-life case studies and examples, and theory review questions and exercises, this book combines strategy content with strategy process through the lenses of management science, masterfully defining the common ground that unites both fields.

By Martin Kunc

Through topical and timely case studies that depict strategic challenges healthcare leaders commonly face, this book provides both the theoretical concepts and the practical tools leaders need to make better strategic decisions.

By Stephen L. Walston

Whether you're planning for a small business, large conglomerate, nonprofit, or even a government agency, this book covers everything you need to know to develop a plan for building and maintaining a competitive advantage.

By Erica Olsen

Written specifically for the non-IT crowd, this book explains analytics in an approachable, understandable way, and provides examples of direct application to retail merchandise management, marketing, and operations.

By Brittany Bullard

Directly applicable for businesses of all sizes, this highly accessible, self-contained reference was developed to be informative, highly practical, and easy-to-use while providing extensive and important context, field-proven approaches, and in-depth techniques for business success.

By Robert S. Frey

Introducing the concept of segmentation as the planning and scheduling tool that facilitates the optimization of the supply chain, this book provides detailed examples of how several organizations solved different problems using a segmented planning and scheduling structure.

By Gerhard J. Plenert

Filled with helpful definitions, notes, discussion points and tasks, this full-color introductory text is a hands-on guide that is theoretically grounded and offers a step-by-step process to clearly show how to do a data-driven qualitative Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA).

By Sigrid Norris

This book explores innovative technologies to overcome data complexity in healthcare.

By Michael N. Lewis, Tho H. Nguyen

Exploring a number of big data concepts and how they can be applied to improve your organization's analytics, this user-friendly handbook shows you step by step how to design, incorporate, and profit from a world-class advanced analytics ecosystem in today's big data environment.

By Bill Franks

A definitive field guide to business model testing, this practical resource contains a library of hands-on techniques for rapidly testing new business ideas.

By Alex Osterwalder, David J. Bland

Replete with in-depth analyses, insightful comments, and personal observations from the author, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the why and how behind the most significant and influential business achievements of our time.

By Jean-Marie Dru

This book brings you cutting-edge coverage on AI and its ability to create a perfect world or a perfect storm across industries.

By Dr. Cindy Gordon, Malay A. Upadhyay

For organizations who see the value of analytics but lack the depth of knowledge needed to structure appropriate solutions, this book breaks the cycle of frustration and provides a roadmap for putting the right people, processes, and technologies into place.

By Gregory S. Nelson

Delving into the requirements for laying a solid technical and organizational foundation that is capable of supporting operational analytics at scale, this book presents everything you need to implement operational analytic processes with big data.

By Bill Franks

The Art of Alignment takes a data-driven approach to organizational alignment. When executives add PURPOSE to engagement, coupled with measurement, your organization will experience market-leading performance.

By Art Johnson

With an emphasis on critical thinking, this friendly and accessible book presents fun and unique examples, guides readers through the entire data collection and analysis process, and introduces basic statistical concepts along the way.

By Kristin H. Jarman

Providing access to the insights which are driving the most successful people in all walks of life, this concise book contains the very best business tools that have come from the very best business brains on the planet.

By Jeremy Kourdi

Using real-life examples-from Nate Silver to Copernicus, and Apple to Blackberry-to demonstrate how the winners of the future will use big data to seek the truth, this book is a comprehensive and accessible guide on how to win customers, beat competitors, and boost the bottom line with big data.

By Russell Glass, Sean Callahan

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Howard Podeswa

Authored by a leading global market researcher with a background working on over 3,000 different research projects, this book brings together the most helpful and widely used templates and frameworks into a single, invaluable resource.

By Paul Hague

Using successful real life business plans from companies such as IKEA, Starbucks and LinkedIn, this step-by-step book is an essential guide to all aspects of business planning for entrepreneurs, senior executives and students alike.

By Colin Barrow, Paul Barrow, Robert Brown

An invaluable and comprehensive guide to all aspects of business planning, this book provides corresponding assignments that include case studies and will enable you to validate your business idea, brand your business, research your market, and raise finance.

By Colin Barrow, Paul Barrow, Robert Brown

Based on tried and tested business methodology used at the leading business school, Cranfield School of Management, this practical resource guides you through all the necessary steps to constructing a winning business plan.

By Colin Barrow, Paul Barrow, Robert Brown

Identifying eight different planning styles and seven stages of the planning process, this book explains what issues to address, how to write a business plan, what questions to ask, how much detail to include, and the time-frame to adopt.

By Neil Russell-Jones

Essential reading for anyone with business interests in the state of California, this book gives you the confidence to begin your CPRA compliance journey, while highlighting the potential ongoing developments of the CPRA.

By Preston Bukaty

Providing readers with more than a dozen brand-new business plans, this book includes revised and updated information on how to get started, what questions to ask and how to finalize a business plan that will get you off the ground and running.

By Brian J. Hazelgren, Joseph A. Covello

Providing numerical examples of theory, methods, and findings in several disciplinary contexts, this book shows the reader how to go beyond symmetric thinking and statistical-testing to think and test using recipes and algorithms.

By Arch G. Woodside

Most organizations capture and report data, but data is useless without analysis that leads to action. This clear, accessible, and hands-on guide shows you how to use this tremendous asset to lead your organization higher.

By David Swanson, Jenny Dearborn

Data has become an indispensable success factor for every company. However, the road towards a data-driven organization is paved with numerous challenges.

By Jonas Rashedi

Using analytic techniques first pioneered by Fair Isaac Corporation, the authors clearly show how today's forward-thinking executives and managers are using analytic insights to ensure their decisions keep up with information complexity and the pace of change-especially changes in consumer behavior and attitudes, in regulations, and in competitive actions and reactions.

By Ann Graham, John Nash, Larry Rosenberger

Transform enterprise big data into valuable assets with this comprehensive guide to data analysis, data engineering, algorithm design and data architecture.

By Jan-Willem Middelburg

Whether you're considering starting, expanding, or acquiring a business, this straightforward guide leads you carefully through every aspect involved in researching, writing, and presenting a winning business plan.

By Brian R. Ford, Jay M. Bornstein, Patrick T. Pruitt

Featuring the contributions of experts from leading valuation, accounting, investment banking, and law firms, this text provides a comprehensive review of contemporary valuation issues related to businesses, securities, and intellectual property.

By Robert F. Reilly, Robert P. Schweihs

Including Shewhart charts, run charts, frequency plots, Pareto analysis, and scatter diagrams, this book spotlights statistical process control (SPC) and develops a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoing improvement to yield better outcomes.

By Lloyd P. Provost, Sandra K. Murray

he book explains how companies such as Amazon, IKEA, Airbnb, Microsoft, and Logitech, have been able to create immensely successful businesses and disrupt entire industries.

By Alan Smith, Alexander Osterwalder, Frederic Etiemble, Yves Pigneur

Detailing rigorous metrics and methods for evaluating leaders, this groundbreaking landmark book proposes a "leadership capital index" - a Moody's or Standard and Poor's rating for leadership based on two broad domains, each comprising five factors.

By Dave Ulrich

Brimming with real world examples and input from thirty top HR practitioners and thought leaders, this groundbreaking book ushers in a new era in human resources and human capital management.

By Jac Fitz-enz

Authored by the world's leading scholars in the field of international business, this handbook reflects both the present structure of the field and the major intellectual issues of current and likely future interest.

By Alan M. Rugman, Thomas L. Brewer (eds)

The Performance Mindset: 7 steps to success in sport and life reveals the lessons of high-performing athletes and shows how you can build strategies to apply for greater success in sport, business or in your personal life.

By Anthony J. Klarica

Providing a practical approach to using data to solve real HR challenges in organizations, this book demystifies analytics with clear guidelines and recommendations for making the business case, starting an HR analytics function, avoiding common pitfalls, and much more.

By Lindsay McFarlane, Rachael Johnson-Murray, Shonna D. Waters, Valerie N. Streets

Featuring case studies and examples of both what to do and what not to do, this immensely practical and eminently readable book shows readers how to create a business plan that speaks directly to investors and lenders and makes it easy for them to say yes.

By Brian Tracy, Vaughan Evans

The objective of this manageable and plainspoken playbook (and workbook) is to sometimes gently, and sometimes less so, prod you toward making an informed decision about your proposed entrepreneurial undertaking or, conversely, help you realize and understand why you need to let go, walk away, and look elsewhere for opportunities.

By Jay J. Silverberg

In this book, we lead you through every single step in building a start-up. The book discusses how to keep your startup running and stop it from falling into the pitfalls.

By Krishiv Agarwal, Nikhil Agarwal

This book focuses on gaining a working understanding of what specialists will do in those fields as an organization grows and how founders can leverage the basics to get those capabilities started so once professionals are hired in each, they can hit the ground running with authentic materials.

By Amy Larson Pearson, Charles Edge, Chip Pearson

With detailed case studies of success and failure, this book presents a concrete framework for strategic action that allows companies to seize today's opportunities while simultaneously preparing for tomorrow's promise.

By Michael E. Raynor

Providing an integrated framework for launching and communicating the value of business analytics in your organization, this groundbreaking resource defines what business analytics is and explains how to harness its power to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace.

By Evan Stubbs

Providing practicable and use case-based experience, this book discusses several years of in-depth industry research and presents vendor tools, approaches, and methodologies in discovery, visualization, and visual analytics.

By Lindy Ryan

Ideal for anyone engaged in bidding activity, from the bid novice to the professional bid manager, this unique book explains key skills, such as getting to know a a customer, competing with other bidders and landing the deal.

By Emma Jaques

Thriving on Overload helps you build the capabilities that enable you to outperform your peers and prosper as never before in a world defined by excessive information.

By Ross Dawson

An examination of the history, evolution and recent developments in time series analysis and adjustment programs, this book includes case studies which demonstrate that time series adjustment methods can be efficaciously applied and utilized.

By Haim Y. Bleikh, Warren L. Young

Rife with case studies, examples, analysis, and quotes from real-world Big Data practitioners, this book provides commonsense, jargon-free advice for people and organizations looking to understand and leverage Big Data.

By Phil Simon

Using multiple examples from defense and commercial domains, this book provides a sound trade-off analysis framework to generate the tradespace and evaluate value and risk to support system decision-making throughout the life cycle.

By Gregory S. Parnell

In an easy-to-digest format, this book uses a fictional company to show how to transition to IBP and further explains how companies are linking strategy to execution through the IBP process.

By Colleen Crum, George Palmatier

Everyone wants their business to succeed, but wanting means nothing without a solid plan and the means to implement it. This practical, must-read book helps you set yourself up for success, and gives you the tools to forge your path to the top.

By Jamie Pride

This book takes a holistic view of a startups' aesthetics that enables it to become attractive for all stakeholders especially investors in all aspects of its operations at all stages of its lifecycle.

By Vivek Kale

Including case studies and visual techniques providing practical application of the analytical tests discussed, this clearly written guide allows practitioners to focus on areas that require further investigative techniques and to unearth deceptive financial reporting before it's too late.

By Pamela S. Mantone

Packed with exercises and case studies to help you practice and test your comprehension, this book covers the principles and best practices of financial modelling, including the Excel tools, formulas, and functions to master, and the techniques and strategies necessary to eliminate errors.

By Danielle Stein Fairhurst

Providing a firm grounding in laying out a strategy for customer centricity, this book offers an overview of what customer centricity is and why it can add value, and how to properly plan to consider the need, set expectations, align the right people in the organization, and map out a strategy.

By Abie Reifer, David Loshin

Translate data into value for your business with this strategic guide to identifying, communicating and developing data solutions and opportunities.

By Edosa Odaro

Entirely revised and up-to-date, this key reference presents a set of instructions for executing any business valuation project.

By Robert F. Reilly, Robert P. Schweihs, Shannon P. Pratt

A compilation of articles, speeches, interviews, and words of wisdom, this book offers a new perspective on the business savvy, investment philosophy, life-views, and legendary sense of humor of one of America's wealthiest and most successful investors.

By Janet Lowe

Explaining how to measure, analyze, and act upon today's quickly evolving web technologies and trends, this book debunks myths, identifies traps, and reveals specific, simple and advanced methodologies to transform your thinking.

By Avinash Kaushik

Delving into the confusing subject of business strategy, this book explores the realities of strategy and the ideas behind it with some of the world's greatest strategic minds, including C-suite veterans and leading-edge business school thinkers.

By Des Dearlove, Stuart Crainer

Uniquely focusing on integrating multiple types of big data intelligence into your business, this plain-English book is filled with case studies across a variety of industries and provides the essential concepts and framework to implement business analytics.

By Jean Paul Isson, Jesse Harriott

With real-life examples, samples of materials, and worksheets, this is a hands-on, user-friendly workbook that guides the user through the various stages of development, and will enable organizations to take an idea or concept and make it come to life in the form of a proposal.

By Tori O'Neal-McElrath

Whether your organization needs only a thousand dollars or several million, following this step-by-step process will improve your ability to transform an idea that needs financial support into a proposal that deserves to be funded.

By Lynn English, Lynn Kanter, Tori O'Neal-McElrath

Authored by the course director and owner of tradermasterclass.com, a leading source of live and online courses in trading, technical analysis, and money management, this book is a self-study exam preparatory guide for financial technical analysis certifications.

By Mark Andrew Lim

Covering in-depth financial statement analysis, ratio analysis, asset management, capital structure, and more, this comprehensive course guide gives students the tools they need to crunch the numbers, focusing on prediction rather than reporting.

By Eliot H. Sherman

Developed from the author's own experience, this resource details a proven, 10-step approach to cost reduction, and provides a series of tools to help you achieve sustainable cost reduction in your business while avoiding the damage of "slash and burn".

By Phillip Slater

Providing a broad understanding of international accounting, this book will assist readers in comprehending the financial statements drawn up by companies to comply with international standards and to understand articles concerned with the international world of accounting and finance.

By Audra Ong, Roger Hussey

Emphasizing the use of common sense rather than number-crunching models, this approachable guide to all key concepts within corporate finance provides a compact, easy to read experience for any reader, practitioners and students alike, whatever their background.

By Andrew Beresford, Christophe Thibierge

Outlining a compilation of practical advice based on interviews and comments from more than 60 CIOs, this book contains practical tools and valuable ideas and methods for intelligently reducing IT costs.

By Anita Cassidy, Dan Cassidy

Supported by easy to understand examples, this concise, readable book examines the efficient operation of competitive markets and what may cause those markets to fail; benefits from trade; profit maximization; consequences of choice; and implications of imperfect competition.

By Thomas Beveridge

Packed with worked examples and four comprehensive case studies, this book is designed for students who took accounting in their freshman year but struggled with double-entry bookkeeping or have forgotten it and need a quick revision of key accounting adjustments.

By Faisal Sheikh

Along with a fascinating exploration of what makes people fall for the common and not-so-common swindles, this eye-opening guide offers practical insights on the psychology of white-collar criminals-and how to outsmart them.

By David E. Morrison III, Joseph W. Koletar, Kelly R. Pope, Sridhar Ramamoorti

Widely recognized and relied on as a single reference source, this book provides answers to questions on accounting and financial reporting asked by accountants, auditors, bankers, lawyers, financial analysts, and other preparers and users of accounting information.

By D.R. Carmichael, Lynford Graham

Relied on by a considerable part of the accounting profession in their day-to-day work, this book discusses the new FASB Codification, includes expanded coverage of fair value and offers guidance on developing fair value estimates, fraud risk and exposure, healthcare, and IFRS.

By Lynford Graham (ed)

An invaluable, step-by-step guide to practical professional research, this book integrates teaching and learning capabilities through tools and strategies, enabling users to find justifiable, authoritative solutions to accounting, auditing, tax, and business problems.

By Natalie T. Churyk, Thomas C. Pearson, Thomas R. Weirich

Packed with vital information culled from the extensive For Dummies accounting, bookkeeping, and auditing libraries, this powerful, comprehensive, one-stop resource will get you up to speed on setting up your accounting system; recording accounting transactions; adjusting and closing entries; preparing income statements and balance sheets; and more.

By Ken Boyd, et al.

If you're a student studying the application of accounting theories or a professional looking for a valuable desktop reference you can trust, this book covers it all.

By Kenneth W. Boyd

Split into two broad sections which focus on financial accounting and management accounting and finance, this unique book uses clear, accessible language that will appeal to students from a variety of academic backgrounds.

By Matt Bamber, Simon Parry

With emphasis on learning by doing, and including worked examples throughout each chapter, this practical book is specifically designed to improve analytical skills and help both students and managers use accounting and finance tools for managerial advantage.

By Matt Bamber, Simon Parry

Including real financial statements and worked examples from well-known businesses, as well as full exercises and questions at the end of each chapter, this accessible guide provides students with the financial tools and analytical skills for managerial advantage.

By Matt Bamber, Simon Parry

An introduction to the main themes and ideas of finance and accounting, this comprehensive guide gives you a knowledge and understanding of the key concepts, together with practical and thought-provoking exercises.

By Roger Mason

Providing a starting point for constructing or documenting your Company's policies and procedures, this manual will assist you in assessing the maturity of the accounting and finance processes at your company.

By Rose Hightower

Providing hospitality managers with the knowledge and experience to be comfortable in using numbers to operate their departments, this guide examines the current practices of some of today's leading hotel and restaurant companies.

By Jonathan A. Hales

A concise guide on how to use financial data, for non-finance professionals.

By Allen Sweeny, Robert Rachlin

Featuring proven practices and step-by-step guidance, this invaluable resource provides need-to-know information concerning the most advanced techniques and strategies for increasing productivity, reducing costs, and monitoring existing accounting systems.

By Steven M. Bragg

Explaining how to develop an effective system of accounting and operational controls, this book offers best practices, pragmatic insights and proactive strategies to protect organizations from suffering substantial losses from financial dishonesty.

By Steven M. Bragg

This book delivers a powerful analysis of the new technological forces buffeting the accounting profession and identifies key pathways to responding to the challenges.

By Al Bhimani

Highlighting the debates over the use of fair-value accounting and principles versus rules-based standards, this book offers a comprehensive overview of ethics in accounting, as well as an examination of and recommendations for solving the current crisis in this field.

By Brenda Shay Duska, Julie Ragatz, Ronald Duska

Including a focus on real-world application, practical advice, reader-friendly guidance, and insight into the effects of global change on the profession, this concise resource is a thorough and engaging exploration of the ethical issues that accountants encounter in their professional lives.

By Brenda Shay Duska, Kenneth Wm. Kury, Ronald F. Duska

This book explains about accounting for business.

By Roger Hussey

Designed for managers and executives to be a comprehensive yet accessible resource, this book demystifies derivatives and provides practical advice and counsel on how to use them to manage more effectively the operational and financial risk to the firm.

By Frank J. Beil

With an extensive use of cases throughout, simulating a specific hedging strategy from its inception to maturity following a common pattern, this book explains the likely accounting implications of a proposed transaction on derivatives strategy, in alignment with the IFRS 9 standards.

By Juan Ramirez

Teaching you the basics of practical accounting easily and painlessly, this plain-English guide will help you avoid accounting fraud, minimize confusion, maximize profits, manage inventory, report income and expenses, and more.

By John A. Tracy

Unambiguous and sensible suggestions on improving your company's balance sheet and maximizing fixed assets.

By Raymond H. Peterson

Showing you that accounting, even the advanced topics, can be informative and fun, this book explains how the user of financial statements should interpret advanced accounting techniques presented, and helps the user conduct in-depth analysis of annual reports.

By Lawrence A. Weiss

Concepts, methods, and issues in calculating the fair value of intangibles

By Allan Esler Smith (ed)

The financial crisis that started in mid-2007 resulted in several proposals to modify the accounting standards. This book covers the revised standards that are already pronounced as well as the proposals that are currently being reviewed.

By R. Venkata Subramani

Designed for non-specialists with little or no background in accounting, this ideal introduction guides readers through the maze of financial terms, accounting concepts and techniques in a clear and easy-to-follow style.

By David Horner

Incorporating the latest International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) proposal for 2015, this up-to-date guide presents an introduction to accounting system regulations and standards, as well as taxation issues.

By David Horner

Ideal for anyone who has never taken an accounting class, and has no idea what a balance sheet, income statement, or statement of cash flow is, this easy-to-understand guide will help you get your accounting system up and running.

By Wayne A. Label

Defining the various illicit financial and accounting acts over time, this book attempt to identify the major perpetrators and the reasons for their actions, determines what regulations were effective and why, and uses the historical evidence to attempt to predict the future.

By Gary Giroux

This book features a new example disclosure note for revenue from contracts with customers, which has been added to the guide's illustrative financial statements and footnote disclosures.

By AICPA

Recognizing the importance of accounting information systems and internal controls in today's business environment, this book enhances opportunities for learning about AIS and its day-to-day operation, and is written for the business or accounting major required to take an AIS course.

By Andrea B. Weickgenannt, Leslie D. Turner

Including a wealth of information and data, as well as a wide variety of real-life examples, this book provides a how-to guide on creating an effective and efficient accounting department policies and procedures manual.

By Steven M. Bragg

Explaining the key elements of a listed company's annual report and accounts, this volume discusses profit and cash flows, the accounting profession, the regulation of financial reporting, issues relevant to listed companies, and more.

By Elizabeth Buckley, Peter Holgate

Filled with real world accounting examples that are relevant to students' lives, this clear introduction presents a learning system that illustrates the accounting cycle and key transactions, while giving students the tools to apply their learning through sample exercises.

By Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel

Filled with real world accounting examples that are relevant to students' lives, this clear introduction presents a learning system that illustrates the accounting cycle and key transactions, while giving students the tools to apply their learning through sample exercises.

By Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel

Expertly simplifying the core principles of accounting, this revolutionary book provides entertaining stories and examples as well as clarifying illustrations and practice problems-all of which combine to provide learners a path to fast and effective mastery of the material.

By Josh Bauerle

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By GTS Learning

With a wealth of real-world examples, demonstration problems, and handy exercises, this hands-on guide provides the learning and vital practice you need to master important accounting concepts and basics.

By John A. Tracy

This book addresses the growing interest among policymakers, practitioners and academics in the evolution and the future implications of social, environmental and sustainability accounting.

By Baldo

This book investigates the value relevance of the operating cash flow as reported under the International Financial Reporting Standards (IAS/IFRS) for the largest European listed companies and US listed companies in the past recent years.

By Francesco Paolone

Written in a concise, clear, and conversational way, this authoritative guide provides students with a practical set of tools and the confidence they need to use them effectively in making business decisions.

By Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel

As the first comprehensive book on running an effective A/P department, this text addresses electronic data interchange, fraud and check fraud protection techniques, corporate procurement cards, payment timing, benchmarking, 1099s, travel and more.

By Mary S. Ludwig

Discussing the importance of managing accounts receivable, this book provides proven principles for achieving benefits such as increased cash flow, higher margins, and a reduction in bad debt loss.

By John G. Salek

A new textbook offering a comprehensive introduction to models and techniques for the emerging field of actuarial Finance

By Mathieu Boudreault

An interpretation of The Wealth of Nations for the modern day world of finance, business and economics, this book aims to illustrate the timeless nature of Smith's insights by bringing them to life through 21st century examples.

By Karen McCreadie

Authored by a credit expert with two decades of experience in corporate finance and corporate credit risk, this book discusses techniques to measure, analyze and manage credit risk for both lenders and borrowers, and details practices to study the entity level credit risks, including portfolio level credit risks.

By Ciby Joseph

Written in a hands-on style that works towards the completion of two reporting case studies, this straightforward guide explains and demonstrates techniques so that Management Accountants can learn how to automate many aspects of the reporting process.

By Neale Blackwood

Providing step-by-step tools and techniques for constructing a risk management system, this comprehensive and in-depth book is an essential resource for anyone working in the financial field.

By Donald R. van Deventer, Kenji Imai, Mark Mesler

This book is for fundamental equity analysts and portfolio managers, present, and future. Whatever stage you are at in your career, you have valuable investment ideas but always need knowledge to turn them into money. This book will introduce you to a framework for portfolio construction and risk management that is grounded in sound theory and tested by successful fundamental portfolio managers.

By Giuseppe A. Paleologo

Containing rigorous research papers that bridge the strategy and finance fields by building on them, this book encompasses a range of combinations among corporate strategy and business (competitive) strategy and corporate finance and capital markets.

By Belen Villalonga (ed)

This book provides concrete examples and practical solutions for auditors who seek to implement agile techniques and methods.

By Ceciliana Watkins, Raven Catlin

Need assistance in understanding and applying the special considerations required in a single audit? This guide is an indispensable resource for auditors performing Yellow Book and Uniform Guidance compliance audits.

By AICPA

This book explains about technical questions related to AICPA.

By AICPA

For anyone seeking to understand the essentials of International Financial Reporting Standards, this book outlines the principal features of IFRS, explains why they are useful, looks at their impact on businesses, and provides some of the context to help define their global role.

By Peter Walton

Providing helpful guidance on the importance of clearly defining policies, this detailed resource explains how to implement an anti-bribery management system (ABMS) that meets the requirements of BS 10500, from initial gap analysis to due diligence management.

By Alan Field

A succinct and focused analysis of the core principles of good banking practice, this book concentrates on the application of robust risk management principles from a practitioner viewpoint, and how to incorporate these principles into bank strategy.

By Moorad Choudhry

Written at the foundational level, this book provides a broad overview of banking to give you an all-around understanding that allows you to put your specialty work into context within the larger picture of your organization.

By Moorad Choudhry

Explaining how technologies and data make the financial markets one of the most automated industries, this visual book describes how each step in the trading process employs technology and generates information.

By R. Tee Williams

Providing visual cues that guide readers through the material, this volume explains the activities associated with buying and selling, and covers principals, agents, and the market venues in which they interact.

By R. "Tee" Williams

Recent financial events have taught us to take a more critical look at the financial disclosures provided by companies. Written to reflect current market conditions, this up-to-date, reliable resource will help analysts and investors use these disclosures to assess a company's financial health and risks.

By Frank J. Fabozzi, Pamela Peterson Drake

Using a narrative approach to tell the story of the U.S. health care system, and identifying function rather than the more common data-driven focus on structure, this book presents policy decisions we have made about our health care system and analyzes some of their consequences to better understand the choices we have.

By Paula Stamps Duston

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Biliana Alexandrova-Kabadjova, Martin Diehl, Richard Heuver, Serafín Martínez-Jaramillo (eds)

A concise, accessible, and practical guide to compliance with anti-money laundering law, this book is for financial professionals, corporate investigators, business managers, and all personnel of financial institutions who are required, under penalty of hefty fines, to get anti-money laundering training.

By Kevin Sullivan

Containing five real-world core companies to study and follow, this text provides the practical and succinct advice that students and practitioners need, rather than a sole concentration on debate theory, assumptions or models.

By Aswath Damodaran

Focusing on the intersection of macroeconomics and investment strategy, this book gives investment managers an economic framework to improve their understanding and performance in this ever changing global economy.

By Robert T. McGee

Using numerous examples of real-world companies, this book discusses how uncertain foreign exchange (FX) rate changes affect a firm's ongoing cash flows and equity value, and offers advice on what can be done about this risk.

By Thomas J. O'Brien

Discussing how uncertain foreign exchange rate changes affect a firm's ongoing cash flows and equity value, and what can be done about that risk, this book looks at the estimation of the cost of capital for international operations and the evaluation of overseas investment proposals.

By Thomas J. O'Brien

Written by a cost-control expert with more than thirty years of design and building expertise, this volume offers practical, user-friendly guidance on how to better manage costs through all phases of a project.

By Michael D. Dell'Isola

Using real-world examples to illustrate the concepts presented, with the focus on Asian companies, this unique resource provides a deeper understanding of Asian financial reporting and how to detect irregularities.

By ChinHwee Tan, Thomas R. Robinson

Grounded in the principles of modern portfolio theory, this book demonstrates how adding new asset classes to a portfolio improves its risk-adjusted returns and how strategic asset allocation uses, rather than fights, the forces of the capital markets to achieve financial success.

By Christopher J. Sidoni, Roger C. Gibson

Drawing parallels between the uses of ALM in insurance companies and its uses in banks, this innovative book provides a better understanding of the commonalities and divergences between these two worlds.

By Jacques Janssen, Marine Corlosquet-Habart, Raimondo Manca, William Gehin

This book offers a step-by-step process for modeling and reshaping a bank's balance sheet. Based on the author's extensive research, it describes how to apply a quantifiable optimization method to help maximize asset return and minimize funding cost in the banking book.

By Beata Lubinska

This book thoroughly covers the main features and relevance of asset sales as an integral component of many companies' growth strategies in the current and continually evolving corporate finance eco-system.

By Claudia Curi, Maurizio Murgia

Written as a practical reference for accountancy practitioners and their advisors, this book provides a set of real life case studies illustrating the professional challenges facing all accountants and auditors, adding guidance on how to manage these situations effectively.

By Emile Woolf, Moira Hindson

This book provides direction for institutions assessing their operations and internal controls for regulatory considerations as well as discussions on existing regulatory reporting matters.

By AICPA

This guide is an indispensable reference document packed with information on new requirements and relevant changes to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification.

By AICPA

Considered the industry's standard resource, this guide will help accountants, auditors, and financial managers to understand the complexities of the specialized accounting and regulatory requirements of the health care industry.

By AICPA

Providing complete coverage of audit and accounting considerations critical for both preparers and auditors, this book features insights, comparisons, and best practices for some of the more complex areas such as pensions and post-employment benefits other than pensions (OPEB).

By AICPA

With illustrative examples, sample forms and helpful techniques ideal for small- and medium-sized firms, this comprehensive, step-by-step guide provides a plain-English approach to planning and performing audits.

By AICPA

With an emphasis on core knowledge and basic application skills, this user-friendly guide is designed as a working primer in the basic concepts of audit and assurance, which are explained and illustrated in clear and simple terms.

By Katharine Bagshaw

An indispensable resource for auditors performing Yellow Book audits, this annual edition provides accountants and other financial professionals with assistance in understanding and applying the special considerations required in a single audit.

By AICPA

Invaluable to internal auditors facing new demands in the workplace, this hands-on book is designed to help auditors in any type of business develop the essential understanding, capabilities, and tools needed to prepare credible, defensible audit plans.

By K H Spencer Pickett

Developed by a task force consisting of current and former employee benefit plan expert panel members, this alert offers a range of topics such as master trust reporting, cybersecurity, new proposed auditor's reports, electronic information, and more.

By AICPA

Written by a task force consisting of current and former employee benefit plan expert panel members, this alert features discussions on new developments and issues that auditors may face in their current audits, as well as a look at what's in the pipeline that may affect your engagements.

By AICPA

For auditors of financial statements, this book provides an overview of recent economic, industry, technical, regulatory, and professional developments that may affect how auditors conduct audits and other engagements.

By AICPA

Created for nonprofit finance and accounting staff, auditors, and board members alike, this alert features the most important developments affecting not-for-profit entities and the key issues auditors may face.

By AICPA

A must-read resource for accounting and auditing professionals who work with nonprofits, this essential reference will assist in the unique aspects of accounting and financial statement preparation and auditing for not-for-profit entities.

By AICPA

Ensuring auditors can obtain needed information quickly and accurately, this book consists of 100 topics, concepts, tips, tools and techniques that relate to how internal auditors interact with internal constituencies and addresses a variety of technical and non-technical subjects.

By Hernan Murdock

Clearly written and filled with informative anecdotes and examples, this book is for those in their 30s-50s who recognize that their current job will never afford them true financial independence.

By Michael Masterson

Providing a frank discussion of the attitudes, strategies, and the technology that specialists will need to combat fraud, this compelling, in-depth book shows you just how to leverage data and the most up-to-date tools, technologies, and methods to thwart fraud at every turn.

By Revathi Subramanian

Providing a helpful tool for evaluating a bank's performance over time and comparing it to its peer group, this book delivers a consistent, logical presentation of bank liquidity creation and addresses questions of research and policy interest.

By Allen N. Berger, Christa H.S. Bouwman

Containing a wealth of essential background information from practice, international observations and comparisons, along with numerous illustrative examples, this book analyzes the effects of macroeconomic and regulatory developments such as the set of Basel III rules on planning, and it also presents and discusses the consequences for actively meeting these challenges, especially in terms of capital.

By Johannes Wernz

This book discusses risk management, product pricing, capital management and Return on Equity comprehensively and seamlessly.

By Johannes Wernz

Whether you're complying with the new standards of practice, valuing a bank, or searching for sustainable value creation, this one-stop resource offers a robust, integrated value-based management framework for addressing such managerial issues as fund transfer pricing, risk-adjusted performance evaluation, deposit pricing, capital management, loan pricing and provisioning, and much more.

By Jean Dermine

Providing detailed, actionable guidance for expanding your revenue in the face of a new virtual market, this book explains how a financial bust from one perfect storm - the real estate bubble and the liquidity collapse in capital markets - is leading to a boom in the market for innovative lenders that advance funds to small business owners for growth.

By Charles H. Green

This book explores the evolution of the banking sector and the financing tools it fosters, addressing the impact of new regulations and the ensuing opportunities for financial institutions, firms, and individuals.

By Caterina Cruciani, Elisa Cavezzali, Gloria Gardenal

Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this detailed resource examines the essential aspects of this discipline and shows you what it takes to make the most informed decisions possible, whether you're a bank director, investor, or borrower.

By Benton E. Gup

Providing insights by experts and influencers from across the financial services industry, this book tackles some of the most exciting and contentious topics on the profound changes currently taking place.

By Ouida Taaffe (ed)

China registered double-digit GDP growth for more than three decades. Recently, the rate has slowed down considerably. The slow growth period, which Chinese policymakers refer to as the 'new-normal', has created enormous curiosity among scholars and policymakers.

By M. Kabir Hassan, Mohammad Dulal Miah

Intended for executive banking courses, advanced undergraduate, Masters and MBA courses in banking, this book shows how to develop a framework for proposed Basel III liquidity regulation and demonstrates how to decide on methodologies for studying the aforementioned regulation.

By Janine Mukuddem-Petersen, Mark A. Petersen

Giving clear and concise explanations of accounting principles and practice, this book offers numerous diagrams and worked examples that enable you to master the basic principles then apply them to practical examples to consolidate and test your knowledge.

By Andy Lymer, Nishat Azmat

Discussing the economic underpinnings of cost benefit analysis, this practical book addresses measurement problems associated with shadow pricing of public goods, and outlines potential pitfalls for the non-specialist.

By Barry P. Keating, Maryann O. Keating

Opening a discussion about uncertainty in model parameters, model specifications, and model-driven forecasts in a way that standard statistical risk measurement does not, this book provides a roadmap to better risk management through more circumspect measurement, with comprehensive treatment of model uncertainty.

By Matt Sekerke

Offering a synthesis of the most essential elements of this discipline, this reliable resource provides a comprehensive view of behavioral finance and its psychological foundations, as well as its applications to finance.

By H. Kent Baker, John R. Nofsinger

Featuring 250 figures and 50 interesting, authentic and fraudulent real-world data sets to explain both theory and practice, this book shows the widespread applicability of Benford's Law and its practical uses to detect fraud, errors, and other anomalies.

By Mark J. Nigrini

This book will take you from a foundational understanding of the business environment through to a reflective review of your own operational effectiveness and efficiency. You'll gain access to the Audit Risk Barometer (ARB), an innovative self-assessment tool that scores audit department strengths and opportunities for improvement.

By Robert L. Mainardi

Emotions such as greed, fear, hope, and overconfidence drastically affect financial decisions, but most investment models fail to take them into account.

By Hersh Shefrin

In this timely book, Marcos Buscaglia, a Latin America economist, emerging markets expert, and an emerging voice on the relationship between democracy and markets, argues that the current ESG criteria has brought environmental and social standards into investment decisions, but its approach to democracy needs to be refined.

By Marcos Buscaglia

Exploring the benefits of blade servers and virtualization, this book clearly shows you why they are rapidly becoming key foundation building blocks for the next generation of data centers.

By Anne Skamarock, Barb Goldworm

In Blockchain and Web3: Building the Cryptocurrency, Privacy, and Security Foundations of the Metaverse, two tech and finance experts deliver a comprehensive and accessible guide to the present and future of blockchain technology and how it will form the foundation of a new, better internet.

By Ken Huang, Winston Ma

Bringing you accessible information on the new technologies and programs that develop with the art of bookkeeping, this one-stop guide cuts through confusing jargon and gives you friendly instruction you can put to use right away.

By John A. Tracy, Lita Epstein

Bringing you accessible information on the new technologies and programs, this go-to guide cuts through confusing jargon and gives you friendly instruction you can use right away.

By John A. Tracy, Lita Epstein

A simple and straightforward guide to accounts, this book introduces you to the main concepts of bookkeeping and accounting, giving you a basic knowledge and understanding together with practical and thought-provoking exercises.

By Roger Mason

An authoritative, up-to-date guide on the history of booms, busts, and financial cycles, this engaging and accessible book helps investors, policymakers, and analysts navigate the radical uncertainty that plagues today's investing and economic environment.

By Vikram Mansharamani

A one-stop, how-to book of formulas, explanations, and examples, this comprehensive resource offers a wide range of topics, from calculating basic breakeven, to dealing with multiple products, mixed costs, changing costs, and changing prices.

By Jon Wentworth, Michael E. Cafferky

Presenting a comprehensive collection of information that internal auditors rely on to remain effective in their role, this complete guide will help you ensure that internal control procedures are in place, are working, and are leveraged as needed to support your company's performance.

By Robert R. Moeller

While identifying some characteristics that make budgeting for national defense complicated and difficult to understand, the authors examine resource management, aspects of federal government budgeting, budgetary politics in Congress, and much more.

By Jerry L. McCaffery, L.R. Jones

This ambitious text covers the processes of both the Executive and Congress and the relationships between the two, and provides readers with an understanding of how federal budget and financial management processes are supposed to operate.

By Jerry L. McCaffery

Featuring case studies, illustrations, checklists, samples, worked-out solutions, and more, this practical and easy-to-use problem-solver equips you with an all-in-one resource guaranteed to make the budgeting process easier, less stressful, and more effective.

By Allison I. Shim, Jae K. Shim, Joel G. Siegel

Offering valuable insights that could enhance your understanding of investing, this book skillfully outlines the proven principles Buffett has followed over the course of his long and successful career and shows what it takes to make them work for you.

By Prem C. Jain

Structured around detailed case studies from around the world, this book offers unique insights into the process of building effective leadership development, looking at a range of approaches from almost zero cost options to high-end investment that actually works.

By Nigel Paine

Building the High-Performance Finance Function describes the development of the high-performance finance function (HPFF) framework and explores the experiences, lessons learned, and results achieved by finance functions that have transformed themselves into "HPFFs," or high-performance finance functions, using the HPFF framework.

By André de Waal, Eelco Bilstra, Jacques Bootsman

Revealing how virtually anyone can accumulate houses debt free and earn an income for life, this essential resource provides you with a practical way to create wealth through an ethical approach of buying, financing, and managing property.

By John W. Schaub

Including coverage of new visual thinking techniques, this book walks through the process of building models from the initial phase of formulating questions through modeling cash flow, budgets, investment appraisal and "dashboard" tools for monitoring performance.

By Clive Marsh

This book helps to sharpen your business skills and avoid preventable losses, read Business Financial Information Secrets. You'll learn everything you need to know about Profit & Loss Statements, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flow Statements, along with externally produced reports, additional internal financial information, and all the ins and outs of ensuring that reports are always 100% accurate.

By Tage C. Tracy

Introducing you to the main Business Intelligence (BI) concepts with user-friendly definitions, this detailed guide provides hands-on demonstrations of open-source tools suitable for the BI requirements of small businesses.

By Albert Nogués, Juan Valladares

Covering the subject of economic damages and their role in lawsuits against businesses, this book introduces students to relevant economic fundamentals and how to apply those fundamentals to a range of lawsuits.

By Scott D. Gilbert

Exploring relationships between strategy, management accounting information, and the design of control systems, this indispensable book uses management accounting techniques for operational, managerial and strategic purposes.

By Bruce Bowhill

Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for those with some statistical background, this unique, self-teaching guide provides an effective, painless way to learn or review the statistics that can help ensure your business success.

By Sid Kemp, Steven M. Kemp

Giving you step-by-step directions for the major valuation methods, supported with real-world examples, this plain-English is filled with expert guidance that business owners, managers at all levels, investors, and students can use when determining the value of a business.

By Jim Bates, Lisa Holton

This book offers everything you need to know for deploying capital wisely to outperform your competitors over the long term.

By David Giroux

Presenting a complete knowledge platform on capital budgeting, this authoritative book provides a direction to the academic and business fraternity to effectively cope with emerging financial issues and challenges enveloped with the topic.

By Sandeep Goel

This book explains the financial appraisal of capital budgeting projects. It develops basic concepts, principles and techniques and applies them to case studies in forestry, property and international investments.

By Don Dayananda, John Herbohn, Patrick Rowland, Richard Irons, Steve Harrison

Offering a variety of perspectives and a rich interplay of ideas from both academics and experienced professionals, this valuable resource provides a strategic focus that allows you to understand how financing decisions relates to a firm's overall corporate policy.

By Gerald S. Martin, H. Kent Baker

In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher shows that many of our received ideas fail to pick up the work that the idea of capitalism is doing for us, without us even realizing it.

By Michael Sonenscher

Cases on Applying Knowledge Economy Principles for Economic Growth in Developing Nations examines cases from developing countries in order to derive an adapted model of knowledge economy that could be applied to developing country conditions.

By Bo Jia, Danilo Piaggesi, Helena Landazuri

In Catching Up to Crypto: Your Guide to Bitcoin and the New Digital Economy, celebrated crypto and Bitcoin expert Ben Armstrong delivers an exciting and fresh new exploration of Bitcoin and digital currencies.

By Ben Armstrong

Using case studies, diagrams and practical examples, this toolkit provides a clear definition and explanation of category management, and presents a step-by-step process for its implementation and use that companies can readily apply in line with their overall business strategy.

By Jonathan O’Brien

Providing an accessible format and style that is appropriate for general audiences and students with only a minimal macroeconomic background, this comprehensive book provides readers with an understanding and insights into the roles and functions of modern central banks in advanced as well as emerging economies, theories behind their thinking, and actual operations practices.

By Thammarak Moenjak

Providing exam focus and knowledge application, this authoritative resource offers an invaluable self-study guide to passing one of the most sought-after designations in the finance industry.

By Pamela Peterson Drake

Packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions for a wide variety of accounting and finance problems, this book is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's busy CFO, controller, treasurer, and other finance professionals.

By Allison I. Shim, Jae K. Shim, Joel G. Siegel

Highlighting vital thoughts, benefits, and considerations for proceeding with an ERP toward high performance, this book includes case studies and lessons from Accenture clients who have implemented, upgraded, and operated Oracle/PeopleSoft and SAP.

By C. Cristian Wulf

Using cultural references, real-life examples, and a casual tone, this invaluable book emphasizes specific guidelines on what it takes to excel as a CFO, from tackling budgeting and financial reporting, to more innovative tasks like performance analytics and business strategy development.

By Marina Guzik

Whether you are a practitioner, student, or faculty member, this invaluable guide provides an essential reference for those at any stage of the CFP certification and a one-stop resource for practitioners looking to better serve their clients.

By Charles R. Chaffin

This book contains the most comprehensive financial reporting and disclosure guidance available, plus a complete set of illustrative financial statements to assist you in understanding and applying standards like ASU 2016-14, 2018-08, and 2014-09.

By AICPA

This sample content, derived from the QAE guide, provides the CISA candidate with an understanding of the type and structure of questions that have typically appeared on past exams and is prepared for use in studying for the CISA exam.

By ISACA

This sample content, derived from the QAE guide, provides the CISA candidate with an understanding of the type and structure of questions that have typically appeared on past exams and is prepared for use in studying for the CISA exam.

By ISACA

Emphasizing changes in the regulatory environment stemming from the 2008 market crash and liquidity crisis, this detailed resource uses new case studies and end-of-chapter quizzes to explore the transaction value chain of trading, clearing, settlement, and custody.

By David Loader

Fully indexed and arranged by subject, this guide includes the authoritative standards and interpretations applicable to preparation, compilation, and review engagements.

By AICPA

Issued directly by the AICPA, this authoritative guidance is essential to fully understanding the requirements associated with an attestation engagement.

By AICPA

Providing insight into collateral management and its increasing relevance in modern banking, this book explains the connection between the need for collateral management in order to alleviate counterparty risk and the actions that firms must take to achieve it.

By Michael Simmons

An invaluable springboard to those starting out in the world of accountancy, this book will help you to understand the wealth of information contained within financial documents so you can "talk the talk" with others in the business.

By Paul Rodgers

Using a series of practical exercises and case studies, this book supports readers that wish to develop their ability to analyze the creditworthiness of a customer and their business in the context of the current economic climate, future market and sector expectations.

By Adrian Cudby

Commercial property is a major investment class that offers abundant opportunities but poses unique risks. Thorough and inclusive knowledge is essential to success in this complex and competitive sector of real estate. This book provides expert coverage of critical topics.

By Giacomo Morri, Paolo Benedetto

Incorporating technology trends, resources, links, and additional information throughout the text, this hands-on book addresses the implications of finance, financial literacy, and the importance of understanding finance for both individuals and entrepreneurs.

By Sean Stein Smith

Covering both the mathematics of relevant investment statistics and the policies and procedures for achieving and maintaining compliance, this book is a comprehensive guide to successfully using GIPS standards in today's turbulent investment environment.

By Bruce J. Feibel, Karyn D. Vincent

Written for the nontechnical professional in business and law, this book offers a solid understanding of how computers facilitate fraud and financial crime, and explains how they can be used to investigate, prosecute, and prevent these crimes.

By Michael Sheetz

The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy.

By John Perkins

This book explains about financial modelling.

By Liam Bastick

Providing a comprehensive overview of the roles and responsibilities of controllers in today's environment, this edition provides controllers and vice presidents of finance with all aspects of management accounting from the controller's perspective.

By Steven M. Bragg

The My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This book explains the importance of cash and cost control, and provides the tools to manage them effectively and rationally.

By LID Editorial

It explains the mathematical underpinnings of convertible securities and offers thorough analyses of convertibles from every angle, including those of various types of investors and issuers and numerous related disciplines (tax, performance analysis, accounting, risk management, and others).

By Dan Partlow, F. Barry Nelson, Tracy V. Maitland

Accounting Information systems (AIS) have become indispensable in the field, and this invaluable resource provides clear guidance for students or professionals needing to get up to speed.

By Arline A. Savage, James L. Worrell, Mark G. Simkin

Including theoretical discussion, case studies and step-by-step guides, this clear and comprehensive book provides a thorough explanation of financial modeling and analysis while describing the practical application of newly-developed techniques.

By Edward Bodmer

Incorporating examples drawn from relevant legal decisions, research findings and common experience, this book provides an overview of the fundamental principles and processes of both Chapter 11 reorganizations and Chapter 7 liquidations.

By William J. Donoher

The math, formulas, and problems associated with corporate finance can be daunting to the uninitiated. This book gives you the tools and advice you need to understand corporate finance principles and strategies analysis in a friendly way that makes comprehension easy.

By Michael Taillard

Teaching the essential concepts, tools and techniques by delving into real-world applications, this book offers a comprehensive tour of the field through scenario-based instruction that places concept and application in parallel.

By Antonio Salvi, Maurizio Dallocchio, Pascal Quiry, Pierre Vernimmen, Yann Le Fur

Featuring questions and answers, chapter summaries, a glossary, and case studies, this book shows how to use financial theory to solve practical problems and is designed for students of corporate finance and financial analysis and practicing corporate financiers.

By Antonio Salvi, Maurizio Dallocchio, Pascal Quiry, Pierre Vernimmen, Yann Le Fur

A comprehensive look at the enormous growth and evolution of distressed debt markets, corporate bankruptcy, and credit risk models.

By Edith Hotchkiss, Edward I. Altman, Wei Wang

Explaining the elements of a financial strategy, this practical guide shows how these can be tailored to suit the needs of an organisation and complement its business strategy.

By Keith Ward, Ruth Bender

Containing handy formulas, checklists, and models, this practical guide puts this dynamic discipline in perspective and presents proven ways to determine the value of corporate equity securities for the purpose of portfolio investment.

By Alexandra Reed Lajoux, Robert A. G. Monks

Discussing the Black-Scholes option pricing model and the weighted average cost of capital, this book provides a template for demonstrating corporate financial management using a real company - Coca-Cola.

By Carl B. McGowan, Jr.

Presenting a clear understanding of the qualitative and quantitative aspects of managing a business, this book offers business leaders and managers-no matter what their expertise in financial matters-a guide and proven framework to help optimize decision making, grow revenue, and increase profitability.

By Lawrence C. Karlson

Including a list of the most common costing problems, along with recommended solutions, this book discusses the role of a cost accountant in assisting the modern-day management team in running a company.

By Steven M. Bragg

Addressing cost from a strategic perspective, this book provides practicing managers with a thorough understanding of the various dimensions of cost and value in projects, along with the factors that impact them.

By Jeffrey K. Pinto, Ray R. Venkataraman

Identifying 43 treatment processes, nine types of water treatment plants, plus five types of advanced water treatment plants, this guide shows you how to arrive at a dependable estimate quickly with a minimum of information and supporting data.

By Susumu Kawamura, William McGivney

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Emilia Mendes

Featuring the underlying mathematical and analytical principles of cost estimation, this book focuses on the tools and methods used to predict the research and development, production, and operating and support costs for successful cost estimation in industrial, business, and manufacturing processes.

By Daniel A. Nussbaum, Gregory K. Mislick

Including scores of formulas and elucidating examples, this book presents the theoretical development of cost of capital estimation and its practical application to valuation, capital budgeting, and forecasting of expected investment returns encountered in current practice.

By Roger J. Grabowski, Shannon P. Pratt

Describing the most commonly used parts of the model, what the optimizer does with your statistics, and why things go wrong, this book will enable you to fix entire problem areas by adjusting the model or creating more truthful statistics.

By Jonathan Lewis

Supplying readers with a clear understanding of important background material on the different types of healthcare providers, this book demystifies contractual language for anyone interested in learning more about the specific systems and processes used for payment in healthcare services.

By Duane C. Abbey

A discussion on cost-benefit analysis, this book provides a summary of recent theoretical and empirical developments and summarizes state-of-the-art stated-preference and revealed-preference valuation methods.

By Bengt Kriström, Per-Olov Johansson

Aimed at a wide business community and based on solid research, this book presents a compelling business case for investing in anti-fraud measures to counter financial crime, and outlines an approach to help return some of the revenue lost to the cost of fraud.

By Jim Gee, Mark Button

COVID-19's Impact on the Cryptocurrency Market and the Digital Economy proposes a dive into the digital ecosystem through a historical, sociological, political, and economic approach that supplies readers with a foundation they can build their future digital skills on.

By Nadia Mansour, Salha Ben Salem

For those seeking to pass the CPA exam and launch their accounting careers, this comprehensive introductory study guide provides you with a wealth of information and is designed to help you prepare you for each portion of this rigorous exam.

By Kenneth W. Boyd

This book demystifies the world of angel investing, venture capital, and corporate funding and lays out a strategic pathway for any entrepreneur to secure funding fast.

By Judy Robinett

Seamlessly bridging academic accounting with real-life applications, this book is the perfect guide to a complete understanding of accounting and financial statement analysis for those with no prior accounting background and those who seek a refresher.

By Arkady Libman, Matan Feldman

Exploring the background and context of creative accounting and fraud, this book looks at a series of international accounting scandals and draws some themes and implications from the country studies.

By Michael Jones

With the banking industry in flux and the credit business at its core, this book is a timely and practical guide on how to successfully manage a credit portfolio in light of a challenging market environment and increased regulatory scrutiny.

By Michael Hünseler

Exposing the role played by the international financial services industry in facilitating crime and laundering criminal property, this highly informative book scrutinizes the vulnerability of banks, brokerages, trust companies and investment funds to criminal abuse.

By Stephen Platt

Presenting an integral resource for professionals responsible for minimizing organizational risk, this thorough guide sheds light on today's risk management landscape through a unique collection of interviews from risk leaders in both the banking and investment industries.

By Frances Cowell, Matthew Levins

Providing usable information that will help you improve the quality and profitability of your business, this book is about generating profitable revenue from existing clients, and converting part-time clients into 100 percent full-time clients.

By Clifton Warren

This book is for anyone who finds themselves lost in the blockchain babble, exploring and explaining not only how to participate, but the often overlooked reasons why this new technology is relevant to every human being.

By Jake Ryan, James Diorio

The innovative investor's guide to an entirely new asset class, this clear, concise, and accessible resource shows you how to navigate this brave new blockchain world and how to invest in these emerging assets to secure your financial future.

By Chris Burniske, Jack Tatar

Filled with examples and sample problems that connect math skills to real-world situations, this book presents proven step-by-step methods for understanding foodservice math and using it appropriately in the kitchen.

By Julia Hill, Linda Blocker

From a discussion of the main branches of ethical thinking to an overview of regulation and legislation in the UK and internationally, this book covers the theory and practice of conduct and professionalism in banking.

By Fred Bell

Whether you're just getting started out in the foreign exchange market or an experienced trader looking to diversify your portfolio, this book is a hands-on, user-friendly guide that explains how the foreign exchange market works and how you can become a part of it.

By Brian Dolan, Kathleen Brooks

Including guidance on the practical steps to take and powerful international case studies, this book will give the reader a clear understanding of costs and why they always have to be driven down if a business is to remain competitive and grow.

By Colin Barrow

Packed with numerous examples, diagrams, and techniques, this plain-English guide introduces new and veteran data modelers, financial analysts, and IT professionals to the fascinating world of financial derivatives.

By Robert Mamayev

In Data Sleuth: Using Data in Forensic Accounting Engagements and Fraud Investigations, certified fraud examiner, former FBI support employee, private investigator, and certified public accountant Leah Wietholter delivers a step-by-step guide to financial investigation that can be applied to almost any forensic accounting use-case.

By Leah Wietholter

Learn how to use debt to decrease funding costs, and more.

By Douglas R. Emery, John D. Finnerty

This second edition expands the provocative analysis of the racist colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance into other sectors and offers practical advice on how anyone can be a healer.

By Edgar Villanueva, William J. Barber

A informative guide to derivatives in the real world, this book provides the detailed explanations you've been seeking, the hands-on training the real world demands, and a practical skillset that investment managers need.

By R. Stafford Johnson

With commentaries that make serious points in a lighthearted manner, this engaging resource explores the practical uses of derivatives and offers a guide to the key results on pricing, hedging and speculation using derivative securities.

By Dirk Nitzsche, Keith Cuthbertson, Niall O'Sullivan

A comprehensive reference guide of accounting and financial terminology.

By Roger Hussey (ed)

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Ashutosh Deshmukh

Including extensive guidance and background on the digital revolution in banking, this book analyzes the activities of incumbent banks such as Barclays in the UK and mBank in Poland, as well as new start-ups such as Metro Bank and disruptive new models of banking such as FIDOR Bank in Germany.

By Chris Skinner

Analyzing the set of forces driving the global financial system toward a period of radical transformation, this book explores the transformational challenges that lie ahead for global and regional or local banks and other financial intermediaries.

By Claudio Scardovi

This book provides top-level advice about transforming financial services organizations

By Ignacio Garcia Alves, Juan Gonzalez, Philippe de Backer

Offering a toolkit of key ideas and cost management strategies, frameworks for analyzing cost, and techniques for implementing cost-reduction programs, this practical book addresses issues of strategy and leadership and details of operational execution.

By Andrew Wileman

This book provides an overview of earnings quality (EQ) in the context of financial reporting and offers suggestions for defining and measuring it.

By Elisa Menicucci

Examining market risk, credit risk, and operational risk, this book provides exceptional coverage of the GARCH modeling approach, which is empirically sophisticated and relevant yet easy to implement, and sets this book apart from others.

By Peter F. Christoffersen

Including real-world case studies and step-by-step trading rules, this complete guide shows you how to apply the classic but complicated methods presented using a modern, simplified approach that will help you identify cycles, anticipate trends, and cash in on your trades.

By Bennett A. McDowell

In Embedded Finance: When Payments Become An Experience, veteran growth strategists, entrepreneurs, and fintech disruptors Scarlett Sieber and Sophie Guibaud deliver a thought-provoking and page-turning discussion on the most impactful and exciting trend of fintech yet: embedded finance.

By Scarlett Sieber, Sophie Guibaud

Featuring research on topics such as international markets, transition economies, and financial instability, this book is an essential reference source that discusses the complex nature of financial markets and the growth of developing economies.

By Cristi Spulbar, Ramona Birau

This book, the first of two volumes, highlights the concept of financial inclusion from the Islamic perspective. An important element of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), financial inclusion has been given significant prominence in reform and development agendas proposed by the United Nations and G-20.

By Abdelrahman Elzahi Saaid Ali, Khalifa Mohamed Ali, Muhammad Khaleequzzaman

This book explores the financial risks associated with lending to low-income groups due to high poverty levels and the lack of collateralization mechanisms.

By Abdelrahman Elzahi Saaid Ali, Khalifa Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Hassan Azrag

With unique hands-on tools including processes, templates, checklists, models, formats and scorecards, this book is a comprehensive narrative on managing compliance and compliance risk that enables value creation for financial services firms.

By Saloni P. Ramakrishna

Examining the financial risks already inherent in banking and insurance operations, this technical and rigorous book provides the necessary tools to implement ERM in these environments, including performance analysis, credit analysis and forecasting applications.

By David L. Olson, Desheng Dash Wu

This book presents a wide range of tools and techniques used in entrepreneurial finance in emerging markets.

By Darek Klonowski

With real-world case studies and detailed analysis, this essential guide demystifies the ever-changing world of entrepreneurial finance and guides you, step-by-step, through the process of maintaining steady profitability and business longevity.

By Steven Rogers

Avoiding the typical long and complex theoretical and mathematical approaches, in favor of a direct, simple and intuitive approach, this clear and concise introductory text offers an applied, practical and realistic approach to understanding equity derivatives.

By Mohamed Bouzoubaa

An in-depth manual filled with analytical information and new ideas, this well-balanced and accessible book offers a hands-on guide to the popular investment opportunities of smart beta, which is one of the fastest growing areas within the global equity asset class.

By Khalid Ghayur, Ronan Heaney, Stephen Platt

Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this reliable resource explains the process of equity valuation, provides the necessary mathematical background, and discusses classic and new portfolio strategies for investment managers.

By Frank J. Fabozzi, Harry M. Markowitz (eds)

Packed with international cases studies illustrating enterprise risk management best practices, this valuable reference explores contemporary issues, including quantitative and qualitative measures, as well as potential pitfalls and challenges facing today's enterprise risk managers.

By Christopher Ketcham, Jean-Paul Louisot

Making it easy to digest complex information on the regulatory framework, this indispensable resource will help eliminate non-compliance risk and ensure that your firm is entirely current on its ability to navigate the maze of financial services regulation.

By Annie Mills, Peter Haines

Tips, tricks and hints to keep you up to speed on the latest accounts payable information.

By Mary S. Schaeffer

Learn how to improve your cash flow with this guide's tips, hints and techniques.

By H.A. Schaeffer Jr.

This reference provides an overview of the credit, collections, and accounts receivable functions, as well as tips, techniques and case studies, and shows how to streamline the credit process and how to make this area as efficie

By Mary S. Schaeffer

Through illustrative examples, cases, and explanations, this authoritative resource makes abstract concepts come to life to help you understand and successfully navigate this complex area.

By Carl Pacini, George R. Young, Michael A. Crain, Richard S. Gendler, William S. Hopwood

Providing an authoritative text on financial decision-making in the health care industry, this trusted resource includes real-world examples of financial problems and solutions; actionable benchmarking data; plus learning objectives that highlight key skills and concepts.

By James O. Cleverley, Paula H. Song, William O. Cleverley

Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in payroll.

By Steven M. Bragg

Providing insights into best practices and next generation techniques for readers entering government, not-for-profit, business, and IT positions, this concise, easy-to-follow book presents an understanding of the major areas of risk exposure that all organizations face.

By Anthony Tarantino, Deborah Cernauskas

Using real-world information, this comprehensive book will help you to choose the correct hardware and software tools, develop an appraisal strategy, deploy tests and prototypes, and produce accurate software cost estimates.

By Capers Jones

Drawing on insights from economics, psychology and philosophy, this timely book develops a novel theory of epistemic virtue and applies it to racist and sexist lending practices, subprime mortgages, CEO hubris, the Madoff scandal, professionalism in accountancy and regulatory outsourcing of epistemic responsibility.

By Boudewijn de Bruin

Providing many examples of ethical conflicts, this book proposes alternative actions for the internal auditor and helps auditors understand the reality of performing the internal audit role and the importance of properly managing ethical standards.

By Lynn Fountain

A groundbreaking account of the euro's history and tragic consequences, this vivid and compelling chronicle describes how the euro improbably emerged through a narrow historical window as a flawed compromise wrapped in a false pro-European rhetoric of peace and unity.

By Ashoka Mody

Written for construction and engineering contract administrators, project managers, quantity surveyors and contract consultants, this book is an important guide to the quantification of contract claims in the construction industry once liability has been established.

By John Mullen, R. Peter Davison

Providing the tools and techniques necessary for finding errors and fraud in audits, this guide offers best practices for performing a risk assessment and gathering spreadsheet and other data from company systems.

By Bill Jelen, Dwayne K. Dowell

A practical job aid for any manager who needs to get an organization to execute better, this book provides a proven 12-step plan to get results, overcome delays, and achieve tough goals faster.

By Robert A. Neiman

By using finance as a record keeper and predictor of success, this book works on the premise that financial models can clearly demonstrate where a particular strategy might lead, and helps quantify strategy to gain support from colleagues and take the right actions to ensure sustainable growth.

By Ralph Tiffin

Offering essential guidance on the revised COSO internal controls framework, this book provides a step-by-step plan for installing and implementing effective internal controls with an emphasis on building improved IT as well as other internal controls and integrating better risk management processes.

By Robert R. Moeller

A practical foundation to the Solvency II process for executives, practitioners, and consultants, this accessible resource presents an overview of the many issues your company will likely face in dealing with this forthcoming regulation.

By David Buckham, Jason Wahl, Stuart Rose

Providing both ideas and practical guidelines for applying sound techniques for fraud investigation and detection and related project management, this unique and practical book develops the ethical and legal foundation required to apply theory and advice in real-world settings.

By Ian Ross

Explaining in non-technical language the importance of valuation and the concepts that define it, this essential guide presents practical direction for best practices of financial valuation as well as for understanding the many FASB pronouncements involving fair value.

By Mark L. Zyla

This book provides hands-on guidance and the latest best practices for measuring fair value in financial reporting. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) have all updated their guidelines for practitioners, and this book details the changes from a practical perspective.

By Mark L. Zyla

Written in a non-technical language for both the professional and non-professional, this book provides all you need to know about the what, why, when, and how of federal financial management.

By Cornelius E. Tierney, et al.

Written in a conversational, easy-to-understand tone, this course guide offers managers the ability to use and analyze financial information to improve the performance of their operations and to identify-and avoid-potential problems.

By Eliot H. Sherman

Learn key financial concepts and relate them to the financial management actions necessary for the nonfinancial manager.

By Eliot H. Sherman

By introducing readers to financial terminology, this course guide relates financial measures to operating information and enables students to understand and apply financial measures to operating performance.

By Eliot H. Sherman

Presenting the finance basics that experts and top professionals understand, this concise guide explains how to analyze a business from its financial reports; understand a Profit and Loss account; make sense of accounting jargon; build a financially sound business plan; deal with revenue, profit and cashflow; and more.

By Stuart Warner

Covering all aspects of finance relevant to IT professionals, this book will help IT decision makers conquer their fear of finance or refresh existing knowledge.

By Michael Blackstaff

This book is intended to help professionals gain an extensive working knowledge of critical financial principles in an easy-to-follow manner.

By Anural Singal

A simple and straightforward training course in finance, this book introduces you to the main themes and ideas of finance and accounting, giving you a basic knowledge and understanding of the key concepts, together with practical and thought-provoking exercises.

By Roger Mason

Financial decisions impact virtually every area of your company. As a manager, it's up to you to understand how and why. This guide helps you understand the information in essential financial reports and then shows you how to use that understanding to make informed, intelligent decisions.

By Gene Siciliano

Exploring four key areas of expertise required of a buyer in today's environment, this book is aimed at the non-financial manager or aspiring manager, but it is written from the perspective of a purchasing manager.

By Richard France

Fast moving, to the point, and rooted in first-hand executive experiences, this book is for people of vision and action, and for creating the conditions required for growth, innovation, and increased competitive advantage.

By Kelly Barner, Magnus Lind

By illustrating core finance facts and concepts through equations and graphical material, this concise and easy-to-understand book will help people studying business management, marketing, accounting, and other subjects.

By Lucia Staszkiewicz, Piotr Staszkiewicz

Containing straightforward insights, this well-rounded guide to the dynamic field of finance will help you understand what the principles of modern finance are and how they can be used to make the right decisions when managing risk and return.

By Frank J. Fabozzi, Pamela Peterson Drake

Providing a clear introduction to fundamental accounting concepts, this book offers streamlined learning objectives and various tools that will help you learn the essential ideas, techniques, and methods of accounting with ease.

By Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel

Learn the fundamentals of financial accounting and performance appraisal with this accessible, internationally focused textbook written specifically for non-accounting students.

By Stephen M. Frost

With easy-to-understand explanations and real-life examples, this book provides students who are studying business, finance, and accounting with the basic concepts, terminology, and methods to interpret, analyze, and evaluate actual corporate financial statements.

By Maire Loughran

Placing accounting issues within the context of marketing, management, IT, and finance, this book introduces challenging accounting concepts with examples that are familiar to everyone, which helps build motivation to learn the material.

By Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel

Providing a clear and comprehensive introduction to financial accounting, this book is focused on helping millennial students get the most out of their accounting courses in the digital age, and on helping instructors deliver the most effective learning whether face-to-face, hybrid, or online.

By Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel

While there is growing interest in IFRS within the US, interest outside the US has exploded. This completely updated and expanded text highlights the integration of more US GAAP rules - a desired feature as more foreign companies find the United States to be their largest market.

By Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel

Starting with the big picture of financial statements, this book uses visual pedagogy and easy-to-understand examples to show students why financial accounting is important to their everyday lives, business majors, and future careers.

By Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel

Looking at the theory and practice of financial analysis and modeling, this guide reviews all the necessary concepts and walks you through real-world financial problems and models that you can learn from, use for practice, and easily adapt for work and classroom use.

By Chandan Sengupta

Analyzing intangible asset measurement and performance improvement, this visionary guide helps financial managers upgrade their skills so they can answer their organization's call for operations reviews, investment evaluations, problem reporting and more.

By Steven M. Bragg

Filled with insight from international experts, this book highlights both the warning signs to illegal financial activity as well as the most effective methods for combating the invidious corruption that, if unchecked, puts all nations at risk.

By Maximillian Edelbacher, Michael Theil (eds), Peter Kratcoski

If you want to understand derivatives without getting bogged down by the mathematics surrounding their pricing and valuation, this informative guide will help you unlock their incredible potential.

By James A. Overdahl, Robert Kolb

Including over 100 diagrams and various case studies to help describe the range of approaches available, this book provides all the tools needed to build and maintain a comprehensive ERM framework.

By Paul Sweeting

Containing all the tools needed to build and maintain an ERM framework, this comprehensive, yet accessible guide uses diagrams to illustrate the range of approaches available, and highlights risk management issues with numerous case studies.

By Paul Sweeting

Designed to help finance professionals include uncertainty in their planning and budgeting process, this book guides readers step-by-step through the entire projection plan development process, and presents the tools, techniques, and special considerations that increase accuracy and smooth the workflow.

By Michael Samonas

In the wake of highly publicized allegations of accounting irregularities and fraudulent financial reporting that are shaking up today's corporate community, this book provides a step-by-step guide to how these crises can envelop a company and how to prevent them from happening in the first place.

By Michael R. Young

This book studies the nature, characteristics and determinants of brand information published in companies' annual and financial reports.

By Sandra Rmadi-Saïd, Yves-Alain Ach

Considering the key ingredients of financial innovation from both academia and industry, this book discusses the positive potential, and also the risks of financial innovation and the influence of producers on consumers.

By Michael Haliassos

Offering a key resource for understanding and implementing effective data governance practices and data modeling within financial organizations, this book outlines the strategies and tools needed for financial institutions to take charge and make the much-needed decisions to ensure that their firm's information processing assets are effectively designed, deployed, and utilized to meet the strict regulatory guidelines.

By Sean C. Keenan

This book focuses on the "why" of existing and evolving markets and instruments as well as the "how." It also provides a thorough discussion of the specifics of banking, insurance, pension funds, and mutual funds.

By Meir Kohn

Written with a strong historical perspective, this book provides a balanced introduction to the operation, mechanics, and structure of the U.S. financial system emphasizing its institutions, markets, and financial instruments.

By David A. Whidbee, David S. Kidwell, David W. Blackwell, Richard L. Peterson

Based on their work training tens of thousands of managers and employees at many leading organizations, the authors of this accessible, jargon-free book will help nonfinancial managers add substantially more to their companies'-and their own-success.

By Joe Knight, John Case, Karen Berman

Exploring how financial literacy can enhance peoples' ability to make informed economic choices, this book proposes that financial literacy determines how well people make and execute saving, investing, borrowing, and planning decisions.

By Annamaria Lusardi (eds), Olivia S. Mitchell

An accessible, practical and easy to understand guide, this essential book shows managers how to gain confidence in understanding financial matters, managing a budget and dealing with bankers, accountants and finance professionals.

By Clive Marsh

Identifying key objectives and exploring current practices, this essential guide offers practical guidance on all major aspects of nonprofit financial management.

By Alan Seidner, Jo Ann Hankin, John Zietlow, Timothy O'Brien

This book offers a complete financial toolkit on how to use this area of your business to your advantage.

By Alnoor Bhimani

Avoiding complicated formulas and using numerous spreadsheet examples, this comprehensive guide presents the most-used tools and techniques of health care financial management.

By Michael J. McCue, Noah D. Glick, William N. Zelman

Designed to be practical, and appropriate for all operational staff, this comprehensive resource includes coverage of topics such as an examination of the entire trade lifecycle, new issue distribution of bonds and equities, securities financing as well as corporate actions, accounting and reconciliations.

By Keith Dickinson

Built around a full-length case study of Wal-Mart, this essential guide shows you how to perform an in-depth analysis of that company's financial standing, walking you through all the steps of developing a sophisticated financial model as done by professional Wall Street analysts.

By Paul Pignataro

Bridging this gap between theory and practice by providing a nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with spreadsheets, this book takes the reader step-by-step through each model, showing how it can be solved using Microsoft Excel.

By Simon Benninga

With thought-provoking discussion and refreshing perspective, this essential guide provides insightful reference for critical areas that directly impact an organization's effectiveness.

By Jack Alexander

Containing a wealth of practical examples, tips, and new techniques, this book will help you to quickly exploit and master Excel to its full advantage and therefore use spreadsheets for more effective management accounting in your firm.

By Sue Nugus

Discussing the concept and application of financial ratios in the financial analysis process, this book aims to provide readers an opportunity to learn how to compute the financial ratios, where to apply them and when to use them as investment evaluators and others.

By Sandeep Goel

Making financial ratios easy to understand and use effectively, this concise book will prove invaluable to both financial and non-financial executives looking for easy, intuitive methods to assess corporate health and assist in strategic decision making.

By Albert J. Pizzica, Michael Rist

Authored by the former Inspector General of the SEC with additional guidance provided by leading experts, this detailed book is a one-stop resource for navigating the numerous regulations that have been enacted in response to the financial crisis.

By H. David Kotz

Taking an exclusive user's decision making perspective, this thorough book emphasizes how management's choice of accounting methods and their required estimates in reporting transactions and events impact financial statements, both immediately and in the future.

By David T. Doran

Written by bestselling author and past winner of the GARP Award's Risk Manager of the Year, Aaron Brown, this book offers thorough and accessible guidance on successfully managing and controlling financial risk within your company.

By Aaron Brown

Presenting the strategies, principles, and measurement techniques necessary to manage and measure financial risk, this reliable, comprehensive resource shares valuable lessons that will help you develop an intuitive feel for market risk measurement and reporting.

By Steven Allen

An essential reference to the subject for today's complex world, this timely guide skillfully surveys the landscape of financial risk and the financial developments of recent decades that culminated in the crisis.

By Allan M. Malz

Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this essential reference supports candidates studying for the Global Association of Risk Professional's annual FRM exam and prepares them to assess and control risk in today's rapidly changing financial world.

By Philippe Jorion

Introducing the latest techniques advocated for measuring financial market risk and portfolio optimization, this authoritative guide provides a plethora of R code examples that enable the reader to replicate the results featured throughout the book.

By Bernhard Pfaff

Written by a recognized expert in the field of fraud detection and prevention, this effective workbook is filled with interactive exercises, case studies, and chapter quizzes, and shares industry-tested methods for detecting, preventing, and reporting fraud.

By Peter D. Goldmann

Shining a light on the most shocking frauds and financial reporting offenders, this unparalleled guide gives investors the tools they need to spot deceptive financial reporting in the global markets.

By Howard M. Schilit, Jeremy Perler, Yoni Engelhart

Including contributions from leading researchers and practitioners in the field, this thorough resource unifies a number of recent advances made in signal processing and machine learning for the design and management of investment portfolios and financial engineering.

By Ali N. Akansu, Dmitry Malioutov, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni

Financial Statement Analysis Workbook: A Practitioner's Guide allows readers the opportunity to test and hone the skills put forward in Martin Fridson and Fernando Alvarez's Financial Statement Analysis, a resource devoted to providing the analytical framework necessary to make sense of the sometimes misleading numbers put forth by companies.

By Fernando Alvarez, Martin S. Fridson

Providing chapter-by-chapter fill-in-the-blank questions, as well as financial statement and computational exercises, this book will help expand your skills in analyzing financial statements, so you can successfully put your hard-won knowledge to work in the real world.

By Fernando Alvarez, Martin S. Fridson

In Financial Statement Analysis, 5th Edition, leading investment authority Martin Fridson returns with Fernando Alvarez to provide the analytical framework you need to scrutinize financial statements, whether you're evaluating a company's stock price or determining valuations for a merger or acquisition.

By Fernando Alvarez, Martin S. Fridson

Filled with real-life examples and expert advice, this essential guide will help you gain a firm understanding of the techniques that will help you interpret financial statements, which are designed to conceal more than reveal.

By Fernando Alvarez, Martin S. Fridson

This all-inclusive guide will prompt you to carry out a legitimate, goal-oriented assessment of calculating financial statement analysis.

By Fernando Alvarez, Martin Fridson

Including cases submitted by fraud examiners across industries and throughout the world, this comprehensive book illuminates the combination of timing, teamwork and vision necessary to understand financial statement fraud and prevent it from happening in the first place.

By Joseph T. Wells

Straightforward and insightful, this practical guide provides comprehensive coverage on the different ways financial statement fraud is perpetrated, including those that capitalize on the most recent accounting standards developments, such as fair value issues.

By Gerard M. Zack

Financial Statements is a perfect introduction to financial accounting for non-financial managers, investors, business students, lawyers, lenders, entrepreneurs, and more.

By Thomas Ittelson

Using a simple, understandable language with basic transaction examples and a visual approach, this book demonstrates how the balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement work together to offer a "snapshot" of any company's financial health.

By Thomas R. Ittelson

Using a creative, unique approach to explain every kind of financial report a small business owner or manager needs to succeed, this resourceful primer leads users to a clear understanding of how business scores are kept and how to interpret the results.

By Thomas R. Ittelson

Including up-to-date case studies, clear explanations of new technologies and academic frameworks, this book demystifies key technologies, such as blockchains, APIs, AI, machine learning, and cloud computing, in a clear and accessible style.

By Niels Pedersen

Packed with tools, resources, and over 300 exercises, this practical book helps novices get a handle on the complex valuation process, while helping more experienced practitioners organize their engagements.

By James R. Hitchner

Filled with details, practice tips, and examples, this book brings together 30 nationally recognized names in the valuation industry hailing from a variety of professional specializations to provide an indispensable reference on various valuation issues.

By James R. Hitchner (ed)

Taking the mystery out of trade and supply chain finance, this straightforward book balances concept with practical insight, and can help protect the financial interests of companies pursuing opportunity in international markets.

By Alexander R. Malaket

From SBA loans to venture capital sources, this practical guide helps you find ways to combine various types of financing and shows you how to get the money you need.

By James E. Burk, Richard P. Lehmann

Covering everything from basic theory to advanced design and analysis techniques, this one-stop resource will help you discover the ins and outs of designing predictive trading models.

By Igor Tulchinsky

Everything that we know about the world of finance is changing before us. The change is going to keep coming, so we need to get on board with it. This book introduces the basics of FinTech and equips us with the knowledge to get on the cutting-edge of the age we live in today.

By Parag Y. Arjunwadkar

Drawing on 70-plus years of strategy consulting experience and in-depth research, the experts at PwC's Strategy& lay out a winning framework that helps CEOs and senior executives transform their organizations for sustainable, profitable growth.

By Deniz Caglar, John Plansky, Vinay Couto

The book contains a general framework for valuation that is designed to be accessible to both professionals and those new to the field.

By Barbara S. Petitt

Offering practical pedagogical tools, including chapter overviews, outlines, highlights, feature boxes, problems, Web links, technology tools, and key terms and concepts, this book presents a firm understanding and mastery of the principles of cost control in order to run a successful operation.

By David K. Hayes, Lea R. Dopson

Packed with everything you need to know about exchange rate requirements, this easy-to-use, definitive source is an essential tool you can turn to for a clear, concise, practical understanding of multicurrency environments.

By Robert Rowan

Including current examples and case studies throughout, this expert resource offers a complete and accessible guide combining coverage of principle theory with the real and practical needs of the professional.

By Bee-Lean Chew

Demonstrating how to use Access, Excel, and PowerPoint in a forensic setting, this guide reviews and shows how twenty substantive and rigorous tests can be used to detect fraud, errors, estimates, or biases in your data.

By Mark J. Nigrini

Your guide to more efficient, more effective fraud identification, this must-read book takes an advanced approach to fraud management, providing step-by-step guidance on automating detection and forensics using CaseWare's IDEA software.

By Sunder Gee

Including the background of fraud auditing and forensic accounting, this book enables and empowers auditors, CPAs, law enforcement, risk and loss prevention professionals, and all others who have a responsibility related to fraud to better prevent, detect, and respond to fraud.

By Aaron Singleton, Tommie Singleton

Containing important FAQs and answers that cover both theory and practice, this book pulls quantitative finance up from the dumbed-down depths, and drags it back down to earth from the super-sophisticated stratosphere.

By Paul P. Wilmott

Whether you're dealing with debt, uncertain about retirement or simply want to get a grip on your finances, this book can put you on the road to happiness with a simple 11-week journey.

By Jonathan Clements

This book is the authoritative resource for anyone who requires an overview of the asset management industry and up-to-date insights on current and future trends and practices. The book also complements the author's earlier work Funds: Private Equity, Hedge and All Core Structures

By Matthew Hudson

This book provides innovative solutions to fundamental problems in finance, such as the valuation of bond and equity, the pricing of debt, equity and total asset, the determination of optimal capital structure, etc., which are unsolved or poor-solved so far.

By Zhiqiang Zhang

Explaining the jargon and dispelling the mystique that surrounds Lean, this book provides readers with guidance and tips on performing audits or assurance reviews for Lean projects.

By Christopher Wright

Providing robust coverage of problem solving and decision-making skills, this book offers an integrated framework for understanding how value creation relates to all aspects of corporate finance.

By David S. Kidwell, Robert Parrino

Emphasizing the concepts in a logical, sequential fashion, and introducing mathematical concepts only at the relevant times, this comprehensive guide deals with the global financial markets and the instruments in which they trade.

By Sunil Parameswaran

In the newly revised Second Edition of Fundamentals of Financial Instruments: An Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives, renowned finance trainer Sunil Parameswaran delivers a comprehensive introduction to the full range of financial products commonly offered in the financial markets.

By Sunil K. Parameswaran

Fundamentals of Healthcare Finance provides managers with the financial proficiency they need to ensure their department and organization run optimally.

By Kristin L. Reiter, Paula H. Song

Including critical concepts, practical scenarios, self-test questions, industry-practice sidebars, and a running glossary, this easy-to-read book presents a broad overview of healthcare finance, but focuses on tasks that are essential to the operational management of clinical services.

By Louis C. Gapenski

Providing insight into information risk management auditing for those considering a career in information risk management, and an introduction for non-specialists, such as those managing technical specialists, this book discusses the risks and controls that you may encounter when performing an audit of information risk, together with suggested mitigation approaches based on those risks and controls.

By Christopher Wright

Featuring numerous real-world examples of scientific, engineering, and business applications, this thorough resource presents the statistical principles and processes involved in the analysis of the probabilistic nature of queues.

By Carl M. Harris, Donald Gross, James M. Thompson, John F. Shortle

Providing an introduction to the legal and commercial context in which funds are raised and invest their money, this practical book examines the tax and regulatory background, and analyzes the key themes and trends that the funds industry face following the financial crisis.

By Matthew Hudson

By synthesizing and structuring findings from a range of disciplines and over 60 years of the authors' combined practical experience, this thought-provoking book presents simple strategies that any organization can use to master the process of forecasting.

By Steve Morlidge, Steve Player

Presenting the state-of-the-art of cooperative game theory, this book demonstrates what kind of problems, originating in a management accounting setting, may be solved with game theoretic models.

By David Mueller, Ralf Trost (eds)

This book presents a mature view of the foundational role game theory can play.

By Glenn Shafer, Vladimir Vovk

In clear and succinct language, this comprehensive resource equips readers with the knowledge, vocabulary, and understanding they need to interpret financial data and to communicate and work effectively with finance leaders in their organizations.

By Kristin L. Reiter, Paula H. Song

Gapenski's Healthcare Finance: An Introduction to Accounting and Financial Management explores how healthcare organizations manage financial operations to optimally provide patient care.

By Kristin L. Reiter, Paula H. Song

The general ledger is the backbone of your financials system. Learn everything you need for configuring and using the general ledger in SAP S/4HANA. Walk step by step through setting up fiscal years, posting periods, parallel ledgers, and more.

By Anand Seetharaju, Mayank Sharma

Use this logical business guide's tools and techniques to break into the lucrative financial planning field. Learn to build a solid business plan, market your practice, manage and communicate with clients, and more.

By Jeffrey H. Rattiner

Filled with provocative ideas, fascinating stories, and valuable lessons, this engaging book will provide both an insightful interpretation of the last forty years in capital and environmental markets and a vision of world finance for the next forty years.

By Richard L. Sandor

By critiquing the soft law structures dominating international financial regulation and examining the roles of financial innovation and the neo-liberal policies in the expansion of global financial markets, this book offers a new epistemological reading of the causes of the global financial crisis.

By Emilios Avgouleas

From regulatory schemes to individual roles and responsibilities, this invaluable guide details the most pressing issues in today's financial services organizations, and provides expert advice.

By Michael McMaster, Sarah Swammy

Including illustrations of actual financial statements, this thorough text aims to make students aware of the dynamism of government and not-for-profit accounting and of the intellectual challenges that it presents.

By Daniel L. Smith, Michael H. Granof, Saleha B. Khumawala, Thad D. Calabrese

Focusing on the necessity of mainstreaming green and sustainable finance globally, this book will help you apply green and sustainable finance principles and best practice in banking, investment and insurance to aid the transition to a low-carbon world.

By Simon Thompson

This book showcases a collection of recent advances in green finance and FinTech and explores their impact in achieving sustainable finance, investment strategy-making, and portfolio management.

By Ahmed Elsayed, Nader Naifar

Offering strategic guidance for leadership growth for CFOs, this practical book presents essential information for every CFO who wants to play a tactical role in their organization, and includes best practices for building and developing the most effective Finance Team.

By Samuel Dergel

This book develops and grades the Uniform CPA examination, offers specialized credentials, builds the pipeline of future talent and drives professional competency development to advance the vitality, relevance and quality of the procession.

By AICPA

No other management tool provides the operational direction that a well-planned budget does, and no other book provides such a complete guide to preparation, presentation, analysis, and effective use.

By Robert Rachlin (ed)

Discussing the implications of cost measurement and control, this book covers such current topics as balanced scorecard, economic value added, logistics and marketing cost, theory of constraints, inter-organizational costing, and the cost of quality.

By Michael W. Maher, Roman L. Weil

Taking a cross-country perspective, this book offers a comprehensive view of the field including history, technicality, IT, finance, economics, legal, tax and regulatory environments, and discusses all major strategies and tactics associated with digital currencies, their uses, and their regulations.

By David Lee Kuo Chuen (ed)

Striking a balance between theory and practice, this authoritative guide illustrates the practical implementation of simulation techniques in the banking and financial industries through the use of real-world applications.

By H.Y. Wong, N.H. Chan

Including substantial articles by top scholars to set this volume apart from other information sources, this book provides diverse international perspectives resulting in new opportunities for analysis and research.

By Gerard Caprio Jr. (ed)

Offering illustrative case examples, worked equations, and extensive references, this comprehensive resource on the topic of quantitative finance and risk management is global in coverage and includes theories, models and tools, and practical applications.

By Alice C. Lee, Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee (eds)

The Handbook of Research on Challenges in Public Economics in the Era of Globalization evaluates a variety of new challenging issues that have directly affected the world economy in terms of the economic units, institutions, and social life.

By Başak Ergüder, Şahin Akkaya

The "Handbook of Research on Energy and Environmental Finance 4.0" is an international reference that provides understanding and lessons learned in all aspects of EEF in individual, organizational, and societal experiences. This book examines research in the shape of experience, implementation, and application.

By Abdul Rafay

The Handbook of Research on New Challenges and Global Outlooks in Financial Risk Management discusses the financial instruments firms use to manage the difference kinds of financial risks and risk management practices in a variety of different countries. This book offers an international focus of risk management, comparing different practices from all over the world.

By Elisabete Vieira, Mara Madaleno

Describing recent scholarship in corporate finance and asset pricing, this collection of articles concentrates on corporate finance, encompassing topics such as financial innovation and securitization, dynamic security design, and family firms.

By G. M. Constantinides, M. Harris, R. M. Stulz (eds)

With up-to-date coverage of the Affordable Care Act, this up-to-date guide specifically addresses the methods and process for reimbursement, including coding, reimbursement strategies, compliance, financial reporting, case mix index, and external auditing.

By Michael K. Harrington

Taking a unique, streamlined approach to explaining the building blocks of health economics, this book focuses on nine topics that are essential to understanding health economics and its connection to health policy.

By Steph Bernell

Containing short cases designed to link theory to practical, real-world application via active learning, this book provides a series of practice exercises for analyzing, understanding, and applying accounting and financial management concepts across a wide range of healthcare settings.

By Linda J. B. McKee, Thomas E. McKee

Through clear explanations, numerous examples, and realistic practice problems, this essential guide arms future managers with the grounding they need to make financially sound decisions for their healthcare organizations.

By Kristin L. Reiter, Louis C. Gapenski

The finance industry is always in the public eye, and it's one of the few places where the actions of a few - or even a single person - can ripple throughout large populations. This book gives you a closer look at the biggest names that had the biggest impact, for better or worse.

By A. Baldwin

Introducing the accounting and financial reporting issues of hospitals and other healthcare entities, this straightforward guide explains the basic accounting concepts and discusses how to develop internal financial reports.

By Michael Nowicki

Complete with scores of helpful drawings, charts, and tables, this pedagogical toolguide is the ultimate resource for students who need to grasp the principles of financial accounting and learn to apply them to real-world hospitality management.

By Agnes L. DeFranco, Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel

Offering hands-on coverage of computer applications and practical decision-making skills, this book presents fundamental concepts and analytical techniques essential to real-world accounting systems, evaluating operations, and more.

By Catherine E. Ralston, Martin G. Jagels

Authored by EMC Proven Professionals, Knowledge Sharing articles present ideas, expertise, unique deployments, and best practices. This article examines financial fundamentals alongside disruptive technological concepts to showcase how to forecast a shift in both financial markets and financial industry.

By Anthony Dutra, William Lupo

Your mind is an extraordinarily powerful instrument. This guide presents a powerful and precise program for using the visualizing faculties of thought to attain the life you want.

By Joseph Murphy

Most companies develop pricing methods through trial and error. Avoid this costly, frustrating process by using the proven methods in this handbook. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.

By James C. Taylor

Revealing everything you need to know about the psychology of couples in order to serve them better, this one-of-a-kind book offers specific tips and techniques for managing the challenges inherent in advising traditional and nontraditional couples

By Kathleen Burns Kingsbury

A valuable resource for anyone who needs to brush up on their math skills, this book is packed with useful tips and worked examples that will help you understand and answer tough questions without using a calculator and increase your confidence to take that test.

By Heidi Smith

Whether looking to start up or expand, the practical advice in this engaging and accessible book will help anyone to prepare a plan that is tailored to the requirements of their business - one that will get the financial backing they need.

By Edward Blackwell

Whether you're a small-business owner, department manager, individual investor or business student, this practical guide provides the skills you need to make the wisest financial decisions possible.

By Rick J. Makoujy, Jr.

Providing numerous examples and explanations of various types of financial reports and analysis tools, this book enables investors, lenders, business leaders, analysts, and managers to read, analyze, and interpret financial accounting reports.

By John A. Tracy, Tage C. Tracy

Teaching students how to read and analyze the reports that are fundamental to gauging the health of any business, this comprehensive course guide shows how to interpret balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows- and consider the numbers in the context of external economic conditions.

By Michael P. Griffin

Detailing strategies that testers can immediately put to use to reduce costs, this book explains how to make testing nimble, how to remove bottlenecks in the testing process, and how to locate and track defects efficiently and effectively.

By Govind Kulkarni (eds), Matthew Heusser

Describing a business as it proceeds from initial set-up through its first year of trading, this informative book provides a quick course on business finance as it relates to business growth.

By Bob Cinnamon, Brian Helweg-Larsen

With both theoretical and practical contributions, this book provides comprehensive coverage on the complexities and challenges of the learning process in the context of higher education and the role information technologies can play in mobile and distance learning.

By Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Robert D. Tennyson

Revealing best practices from actual cases, this inspiring guide shows you how to build and maximize a performance climate with teams committed to a common purpose, clear values, and shared rewards.

By Bjarte Bogsnes

Presenting an updated version of ISO 9001, the world's leading quality management standard, this comprehensive book will help readers understand the key aspects of the revised ISO 9001:2015 standard, and appreciate how this approach can help in improving as well as assessing or auditing their organisation to the new Standard.

By Jan Gillett, Paul Simpson, Susannah Clarke

While the perfect portfolio is ultimately a moving target based on individual age and stage in life, market conditions, and short- and long-term goals, the fundamental principles for success remain constant.

By Andrew W. Lo

By putting the changes in this burgeoning field into perspective and showing how you can profit from it, this book explains how infrastructure is a composite sector and details its sub-sectors, including transportation, water, waste management, and more.

By Neil S. Grigg

Including case studies of actual results in healthcare innovation from three continents, this book provides concrete examples of the five levels of innovation present in healthcare, and presents new concepts, methods, and tools for advancing processes and operational flow.

By Paul Lillrank (eds), VK Singh

Telling the real stories behind bank failures and financial crises to provide a direct account of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and other bank regulators, this book chronicles it all, from the perspective of a first hand witness inside the agency responsible for calming the storm.

By John F. Bovenzi

Provides a comprehensive perspective on the institutional investment industry.

By Benn Steil, E. Philip Davis

Presenting a collection of actual cases written by fraud examiners out in the field, this entertaining and enlightening book reveals the dangers of insurance fraud and the measures that can be taken to prevent it from happening in the first place.

By Joseph T. Wells (eds), Laura Hymes

Including tools to assess the value of new Intellectual Property (IP), this book provides comprehensive and practical insight into IP, and covers the different aspects, such as patents, trademarks and copyright of IP from a more practical business perspective.

By Benedikt Sas, Philippe Jacobs, Stanislas De Vocht

Written in a highly practical manner, this concise and thorough book provides a technical but practical guide to the post-crisis fixed income markets, examining the business, products and structures and modeling of interest rate instruments.

By Jörg Kienitz

For current or aspiring practitioners in interest rate products, this book provides a sound working knowledge and appreciation of the main features of interest rate products and their pricing and risk management issues.

By Amir Sadr

With accuracy, accessibility, and quality problem material that best prepares students for success on the CPA exam, this book offers up-to-date coverage of IFRS and US GAAP in a presentational format suited to the complex challenges of teaching intermediate finance in these changing times.

By Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Terry D. Warfield

With accuracy, accessibility, and quality problem material that best prepares students for success on the CPA exam, this book offers up-to-date coverage of IFRS and US GAAP in a presentational format suited to the complex challenges of teaching intermediate finance in these changing times.

By Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, Terry D. Warfield

Featuring a rich array of forms, figures, tables, reports, and more, this hands-on book provides comprehensive content that contains all the practical guidance necessary to start, complete and evaluate an internal audit practice.

By Patrick Onwura Nzechukwu

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to better practice internal auditing, this essential resource provides complete coverage of the elements that comprise an effective internal audit quality assurance and improvement program.

By Sally-Anne Pitt

Providing complete guidance toward the latest framework established by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO), this helpful guide shows auditors and accounting managers how to document and test internal controls over financial reporting with detailed sections covering each element of the framework.

By Lynford Graham

Peeling back the layers surrounding the often-complex topic of internal controls for PP&E, this nuts-and-bolts guide provides authoritative, step-by-step guidance on developing a system of internal controls for fixed assets.

By Alfred M. King

Poor controls over data quality can cause financial data to be unreliable, incomplete, and inaccurate-this book helps you control that quality and manage risk.

By Christine H. Doxey

Rich with helpful guidance and global in scope, this comprehensive guide presents the eight actions every private company should take to prepare their company for a successful U.S. or international IPO.

By Frederick D. Lipman

This book is a tool that students, faculty, and practitioners can use to better understand the relationship between US PCAOB auditing standards and IFAC IAASB auditing standards.

By Asokan Anandarajan, Gary Kleinman, Mark Bettner, Michael Coyne, New standards by PCAOB causing divergence with IAASB

Providing checklists of dos and don'ts, this book designates specific responsibilities of an auditor including how to plan an audit; how to evaluate and conclude on the adequacies of internal controls; how to evaluate audit evidence and draw conclusions from it and how to write an audit report.

By Asokan Anandarajan, Gary Kleinman

Including numerous concise and original case studies, this unique book offers thorough coverage of the international monetary system, international financing, foreign exchange risk management and cross-border valuation.

By Laurent L. Jacque

Containing case studies from real-world scenarios like Lehman, CDS, Greece, the London Whale, and Libor to illustrate the concepts presented, this in-depth book focuses on the inspirations behind regulation, and examines the risks and consequences of fragmentation on a global scale.

By Georges Ugeux

Using examples from around the world, this clear and accessible book is essential reading for anyone studying international finance or needing an up-to-date, engaging resource to help them navigate the complicated and ever-changing global financial world.

By Dora Hancock

Written from a practical, financial perspective versus one of pure economic theory, this detailed resource applies the principles of financial economics to explain how international corporate finance decisions are made in the real world.

By Thomas J. O'Brien

Designed to help busy professionals understand and apply the concepts and methodologies essential to accurate financial analysis, this workbook enables readers to test their knowledge and comprehension of the tools and techniques described before putting them to use in real world situations.

By Elaine Henry, Michael A. Broihahn, Thomas R. Robinson, Wendy L. Pirie

Covering all aspects of financial statements, from financial reporting mechanics and standards to understanding income and balance sheets, this book offers a rich, clear reference with the most up-to-date detail for the successful assessment of company performance and financial position, regardless of country of origin.

By Elaine Henry, Michael A. Broihahn, Thomas R. Robinson, Wendy L. Pirie

An essential resource for fraud examiners around the globe, this book is a one-stop resource packed with authoritative information on cross-border fraud investigations, examination methodology, risk management, detection, prevention, response, and more.

By Joseph T. Wells

Authored by financial reporting professionals from the International Financial Reporting Group of Ernst & Young, this guide is an essential tool for anyone applying, auditing, interpreting, regulating, studying or teaching international financial reporting.

By Bruce Mackenzie

With real-world examples that bring theory to life to provide guidance toward everyday application, this book is a comprehensive, practical resource to applying UK GAAP at all levels, including the latest regulations and straightforward advice on usage.

By Steven Collings

This book explores how Buddhist teachings could bridge the divide between our spiritual and material needs and reconcile the tension between doing good for social interest and doing well for financial success.

By Ernest C. H. Ng

This book explains about financial modelling.

By Liam Bastick

Whether your course is oriented to international markets, international investments, or international corporate finance, this book is a resource that will help you quickly understand and navigate the foreign exchange market.

By Thomas J. O'Brien

As managers expand their international business operations, they are confronted by the puzzling and vexing world of foreign exchange (FX) rates. This text is designed as a resource that can help managers quickly understand and navigate the FX market.

By Thomas J. O'Brien

Including discussions of commercial and residential real estate, this book explains how the markets work, why they collapsed in 2008, and what countries are doing to protect themselves from future bubbles.

By Richard Green

Introduction to the Financial Management of Healthcare Organizations offers a fundamental overview of how financial management works in healthcare organizations.

By Michael Nowicki

In straightforward language aimed at students and managers outside of finance, this book includes mini-cases, practice problems, and self-quizzes throughout that reinforce essential concepts, and provides a comprehensive case at the end that brings those concepts to life.

By Michael Nowicki

Including practice and self-quiz problems, as well as mini-cases throughout, this unique book presents financial management in the context of the healthcare organization and the broader healthcare environment.

By Michael Nowicki

Using R for statistical examples, and containing many case studies, this book presents the methods, techniques, and approaches for recognizing, analyzing, and ultimately detecting and preventing financial frauds, especially complex and sophisticated crimes that characterize modern financial markets.

By Marius-Christian Frunza

Spanning the entire spectrum of inventory accounting, this comprehensive, step-by-step guide deftly explores every facet of the field to help professionals eliminate inaccuracies from their inventory accounting systems.

By Steven M. Bragg

Drawing upon state-of-the art practice and research across disciplines including psychology, economics, accounting, and finance, this comprehensive book provides HR professionals and leaders with proven guidelines for evaluating key HR initiatives.

By Alexis A. Fink, John W. Boudreau, Wayne F. Cascio

Written in accessible, easy-to-understand language, this book provides everything you need to identify structures, strategies, and operational aspects of investment banking, and it offers thorough examinations of the operations of the world's most successful firms.

By Michel Fleuriet

This book discusses how-to accounting and auditing advice, including implementation guidance and illustrative financial statements and disclosures

By AICPA

An analysis of whether investors can use publicly-available, insider trading data to their advantage.

By H. Nejat Seyhun

Using real-life case studies, this guide alerts potential investors and other stakeholders to precipitous changes in the investment milieu as a result of constraints on resources and infrastructure, economic and political turmoil, and population growth.

By David Sussman, Lech Kurowski

Written by an experienced and former Investor Relations Officer, this comprehensive guide offers many easy-to-use and reliable educational features, containing proven, effective techniques, expert advice and helpful tips which will be valuable to anyone involved in competing for capital.

By Anne Guimard

This book expands our understanding of the financial secrecy system dominating capitalism today and shows how we can create accountability to restore our democracy.

By Raymond W. Baker

In addition to diagnosing the causes of asset bubbles, this timely resource recommends urgent policy changes to lessen their likelihood and severity?and suggests ways that individuals can decrease their risk before the next bubble bursts.

By Robert J. Shiller

Including three illustrative case studies that bring the covered material to life, this book is the definitive guide to the products offered in the Islamic capital markets (ICM), along with their legal and regulatory requirements.

By Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim, Simon Archer

Taking a comparative approach to the subject, this comprehensive text examines the similarities and differences between Islamic capital markets and conventional capital markets.

By Abbas Mirakhor, Obiyathulla Ismath Bacha

Using illustrations and examples to highlight key points in recent history, this book discusses the causes of financial crises, why they are becoming more frequent and increasingly severe, and how the new financial system will incorporate elements of Islamic finance - whether deliberately or not.

By Tariq Alrifai

This book discusses carefully selected topics in Islamic banking and finance (IBF) in South Eastern Europe (SEE) as one of the fastest growing areas in global finance. IBF originated within various Islamic banks, Islamic windows, investment funds, Takaful companies, and other financial institutions and has resulted in various global products.

By Velid Efendic

Ideal for information security managers, auditors, consultants and organizations preparing for ISO 27001 certification, this book will help readers understand the requirements of an ISMS (information security management system) based on ISO 27001.

By Bridget Kenyon

Your complete and thorough guide to reducing your tax burden, this book gives you the straightforward, no-nonsense information you need to stop overpaying and keep more of what's yours.

By Barbara Weltman

In J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2023: Your Complete Guide to Everything Deductible, expert attorney and small business advocate Barbara Weltman delivers a thorough and carefully researched explanation of the constantly changing tax laws as they apply to ordinary, taxpaying Americans.

By Barbara Weltman

Providing straightforward advice from the nation's most trusted tax expert on small business taxes, this book gives you the answers you need quickly, with clear, concise guidance.

By Barbara Weltman

Providing straightforward advice from the nation's most trusted tax expert on small business taxes, this book gives you the answers you need quickly, with clear, concise guidance.

By Barbara Weltman

In J.K. Lasser's Small Business Taxes 2023: Your Complete Guide to a Better Bottom Line, renowned attorney and small business advocate Barbara Weltman offers a thorough and exhaustively researched roadmap to legally minimizing your tax liability and maximizing your deductions and credits.

By Barbara Weltman

Your essential guide to taking the stress out of tax time, this expert resource walks you step-by-step through the forms, calculations, and deadlines to help you file your taxes without the headaches.

By J.K. Lasser Institute

Providing step-by-step instructions for easy, stress-free filing, this invaluable book walks you through every part of the filing process in plain English, taking the stress out of tax time.

By J.K. Lasser Institute

The newly revised J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax Professional Edition 2023 delivers easy-to-follow, authoritative, and step-by-step instructions to help you guide your clients through the tax filing process.

By J.K. Lasser Institute

Recent years have seen steady growth in investor interest in the Japanese equity market, the second largest in the world. This book describes how the Nikkei works, explains its driving factors and presents a collection of insightful case studies to help you successfully invest in the market.

By Michiro Naito

This book contains a wealth of valuable information for any adult who needs help planning their financial future, from the established professional heading toward retirement, to the young adult looking to understand the basics.

By J. Winston Busby, Stewart H. Welch III

Offering expert interpretation and practical guidance to professionals seeking a complete reference, this invaluable resource examines the procedures, rules, and regulations surrounding joint ventures and partnerships, emphasizing tax-exempt status preservation.

By Michael I. Sanders

Building the case for transforming the purpose of marketing within your organization, this book provides the insight, approaches, and examples you need to understand disruptive forces in ways that turn your marketing from cost center to revenue creator.

By Joe Pulizzi, Robert Rose

Presenting lessons learned from the author's extensive experience as an internal auditor, internal audit manager, and CAE to help internal auditors understand the challenges, issues, and potential alternative solutions when executing the role, this book identifies more than 50 challenges for auditors and discusses potential alternative actions the auditor can take when they experience a similar challenge.

By Lynn Fountain

Highlighting the principles and best practices that define successful internal audit departments, this book explains in detail why adopting lean audit ways of working can enable internal audit to play a much greater role in contributing to organizational success and efficiency.

By James C. Paterson

Including a working model of a production factors spreadsheet for tracking value stream costs, this book offers a combination of principles, philosophies, and technical attributes for a transition to a Lean enterprise and the role of cost management.

By James R. Huntzinger

A discussion of the basics of setting up an accounting system using Peachtree.

By Deborah Bean

A practical, informative guide to banks' major weakness, this book provides essential information for IT, project management and data governance leaders, with detailed discussion of current and best practices.

By Akber Datoo

Corporate finance is a complex field composed of a broad variety of sub-disciplines, each involving a specific skill set and nuanced body of knowledge. This unique text is designed to give you an intuitive understanding of the fundamentals to provide a solid foundation for more advanced study.

By Lawrence A. Weiss, Paul Asquith

Using a unique interactive question and answer-based approach, this book offer an intuitive introduction to fundamental corporate finance concepts and methods.

By Lawrence A. Weiss, Paul Asquith

Enabling you to see, understand, and manage cash flow as never before, this book provides an introduction to capacity management, describes cash flow dynamics, and offers ideas about how to manage both.

By Reginald Tomas Lee

Authored by a team of industry leaders from the Price Waterhouse Coopers Financial Services Regulatory Practice, this book pulls back the curtain on a global approach to liquidity risk management in the post-financial crisis.

By Shyam Venkat, Stephen Baird

Essential reading for those interested in effectively managing liquidity risks, this thorough resource reflects on the current thinking and ideas to provide a roadmap on the new rules, regulations and governance processes for sound liquidity risk management.

By Erik Banks

With deep insight from experts in the field-including valuable advice from the arbitrator's perspective-this invaluable book guides you through the entire process to explore the variables at work.

By A. Vincent Biemans, Gerald M. Hansen

The My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise guide explains that despite its daunting reputation, budgeting is relatively easy to master, and is methodical and essential to achieving strategic goals.

By LID Editorial

Providing a theoretical basis for studying the impact of Enterprise Resource Planning systems on management accounting, this book provides critical insights into the opportunities provided by ERP systems for the most efficient use of management accounting techniques.

By Alan Sangster, Severin Grabski, Stewart Leech

With case studies at the end of each chapter, this practical guide provides introductory-level instruction and a user-oriented approach to management accounting concepts and techniques that help prepare students for managerial work in health care.

By David W. Young

With numerous examples used throughout, this book aims to provide learners with the necessary understanding to input into the financial management of their organization.

By Elearn

Tracking to a typical managerial accounting course and packed with easy-to-understand explanations and real-life examples, this book is the go-to study guide to help you easily master the concepts of this challenging course.

By Mark P. Holtzman

Demonstrating the innovative solutions to managerial issues in the global financial system, this book discusses competitive issues related to globalization, financial system and institutions from a managerial perspective.

By Hasan Dincer (eds), Ümit Hacioglu

Combining state-of-the-art credit risk solutions with the practical perspectives of leading experts who have successfully implemented them, this book introduces some of the most effective credit risk management tools, techniques, and vehicles available.

By Edward I. Altman, John B. Caouette, Paul Narayanan, Robert Nimmo

Concise, authoritative, and lucidly written, this book offers state-of-the-art information on the tools, techniques, and vehicles available today for managing credit risk.

By Edward I. Altman, John B. Caouette, Paul Narayanan

Providing both introductory and in-depth treatment, this book is a comprehensive and practical assessment of the end-to-end management of derivatives contract operations, systems, and platforms that support the trading and business of derivative products.

By Khader Shaik

Readable, coherent, and logical, this plain-English guide shows how extreme risk needs to be handled when the cost of being wrong means the difference between life and death of the institution.

By Karamjeet Paul

Providing case studies to illustrate best practices for moving smoothly from GAAP to IFRS, this one-stop resource will guide you from the history and conceptual basis of IFRS through each stage of the transition process, ensuring expert change management and fluid communication from start to finish.

By Lisa Weaver

Written in plain English, this comprehensive resource is an accessible and much needed guide to financial institutions, equipping readers with the knowledge to better understand how the global financial markets really work.

By Gail Rolland

Based on 12 years of historical testing and real money experimentation, this book offers a proven approach to successful stock trading with seven strategic methods that anyone can master to find the best possible stocks and position your money for growth no matter what happens in the market.

By Thomas K. Carr

Bridging the gap in understanding between financial technology entrepreneurs and credit institutions, this book clearly explains why financial credit institutions need to further innovate within the financial technology arena, and presents a framework for applying innovative strategies in credit services.

By Ioannis Akkizidis, Manuel Stagars

Easy to follow and apply, this concise, user-friendly guide provides CPA candidates with a thorough foundation of the authoritative literature, knowledge of the standards, and strategies for researching the infobases for FAR, AUD and REG.

By Anita L. Feller

Starting from the ground up, this insightful book shows you how to interpret and build financial models in Microsoft Excel that will accurately assess any company's valuation and profit potential.

By Eric Soubeiga

In Mathematical Techniques in Finance: An Introduction, distinguished finance professional Amir Sadr delivers an essential and practical guide to the mathematical foundations of various areas of finance, including corporate finance, investments, risk management, and more.

By Amir Sadr

Including numerous exercises along with solutions, this concise and easy-to-read book provides a practical guide that will help you understand the mathematics and statistics of financial risk management.

By Michael B. Miller

In a concise and easy-to-read style, this indispensable reference to financial risk management introduces readers to practical quantitative techniques for analyzing and managing financial risk.

By Michael B. Miller

The breadth of the topical coverage, the story line approach to the material, the emphasis on the tax and non-tax consequences of multiple parties involved in transactions, and the integration of financial and tax accounting topics make this book ideal for the modern tax curriculum.

By Brian C. Spilker (ed)

The breadth of the topical coverage, the story line approach to the material, the emphasis on the tax and non-tax consequences of multiple parties involved in transactions, and the integration of financial and tax accounting topics make this book ideal for the modern tax curriculum.

By Brian C. Spilker (ed)

With a storyline approach, integrated examples, and a real-world focus, this clear and authoritative book is designed to provide a unique, innovative, and engaging learning experience for students studying taxation.

By Brian C. Spilker (ed)

Including case studies and interviews with supply chain and financial experts, this informative guide provides the supply chain manager and the CFO with the means to link the value of the supply chain to an organization's bottom line.

By Enrico Camerinelli

Rich with helpful guidance that covers the "feel" of the transaction as well as essential tips on technique, this guide examines a wide and disparate range of material to equip sellers to realize the greatest return on their investments.

By Dennis J. Roberts

The power your company can generate in concert with another is immense. With the help of this authoritative and jargon-free book, you'll have the crucial information and versatile tools to make the connection stronger, more durable, and more profitable.

By Andrew J. Sherman, Milledge A. Hart

Taking you step-by-step through the process of using M&A rollups as a key part of your business strategy, this groundbreaking guide will help you lurch past your competition and produce returns that far exceed the investment yields possible from any large transaction.

By Norman W. Hoffmann

With extensive graphs, research, and case studies, this essential resource provides a comprehensive look at the field's growth and development, and places M&As in realistic context amidst changing trends, legislation, and global perspectives.

By Patrick A. Gaughan

Written from a practical and historical perspective, this book carefully analyzes the strategies and motives that inspire mergers & acquisitions (M&As), the legalities involved each step of the way, and the offensive and defensive techniques used during hostile acquisitions.

By Patrick A. Gaughan

Including case studies demonstrating the practical success of theoretical models, this authoritative resource reveals the secrets behind growth through M&A and covers the financial accounting and modeling behind several M&A structures.

By Paul Pignataro

Providing a blend of traditional methodology and the latest research, this reference sheds light on the use of quantitative methods in research relating to common financial applications, from auditing and marketing to stock market price indices and banking.

By N. Balakrishnan (ed)

The book's Strategic Value Framework shows how state elites perceive the strategic value of sectors in response to internal and external pressures. Sectoral structures and organization of institutions further determine the role of the state in market coordination and property rights arrangements.

By Roselyn Hsueh

For decades, nations competed to attract businesses with tax breaks. A new agreement among OECD countries is about to change that.

By Dan Prud’homme, Danielle Rolfes, Vinod Kalloe

Big companies and risk capital can be awkward partners. Here's how to get corporate venturing right.

By Amanda Wang, Ilya A. Strebulaev

A large-sample study of share repurchasing finds that most criticisms against the practice appear to be unfounded.

By Nicholas Guest, Parth Venkat, S.P. Kothari

Research shows that noncompete agreements depress worker wages and mobility and make it harder for new businesses to start, scale, and hire talent. So why are they everywhere?

By Evan Starr, Kaushik Viswanath

Combining traditional and updated theories and applying them to real-world financial market situations, this book will be a valuable and accessible resource for anyone wishing to understand quantitative analysis and modelling in current financial markets.

By Christos Floros, Stavros Degiannakis

Islamic banking has experienced rapid growth over the past decade, a trend that is set to continue given the sector's successful weathering of the financial crisis. This book brings you up to speed on this alternative way of banking, and shows you how it applies within your own current practices.

By Natalie Schoon

Opening with an informative introduction to the concepts of probability and utility theory, this essential resource provides a through guide covering Modern Portfolio Theory as well as the recent developments surrounding it.

By Dongcheol Kim, Jack Clark Francis

Clearly showing business professionals how to deter, detect, and resolve financial fraud cases internally, this nuts-and-bolts guide expertly provides an understanding of the mechanisms, tools to detect issues, and action lists to recover hidden funds.

By Jonathan E. Turner

If you are interested in cryptocurrency, money, monetary theory, or understanding how the applied uses of blockchain technology will change your everyday life, this book is essential reading.

By Thomas J. Anderson

Through vividly illustrated game play, this book shows you how to manage real-life financial challenges using lessons from the iconic board game, Monopoly, and helps you improve the critical skills it takes to succeed financially.

By Philip E. Orbanes

Logically organized and written in a clear, non-technical style, this in-depth book provides a framework for evaluating the many opportunities, costs, and risks of multinational operations

By Kirt C. Butler

By stripping business finance down to its pure and simple basics, this accessible and straightforward guide explains financial principles in easy-to-understand terms and demonstrates how they can be practically applied in your day-to-day job.

By David Meckin

Using up-to-date examples to reveal the key messages of Hill's advice, this book gets straight to the essence of the original, brilliant, tried-and-tested theories in an accessible and modern style.

By Karen McCreadie

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events-and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses

By Robert J. Shiller

This book adds to the discussion on the importance and implementation of ratios and illustrates the essential role that they play in company evaluations and investment screening.

By Yannick Coulon

This guidebook gives R&D professionals an in-depth explanation of ways companies are able to achieve substantially higher levels of development productivity, while better aligning product development with strategy through new practices and systems.

By Michael E. McGrath

Revealing the massive fraud, governmental incompetence, and criminal collusion that changed thousands of lives forever-as well as the world's financial system, this book discusses first-hand how Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths cracked the Madoff Ponzi scheme.

By Harry Markopolos, et al.

Rich in anecdotes, comments from leading industry figures, personal experiences on the part of both authors and findings from original research, this entertaining and rewarding read provides a 13-point manifesto for a new financial services marketing model.

By Anthony Thomson, Lucian Camp

Combining practical applications, mathematically rigorous presentation, and statistical data analysis into a single volume, this book presents detailed instruction in discrete chapters that allow readers to dip in as needed without reading from beginning to end.

By Jussi Klemelä

Presenting everything you need to know to operate your nonprofit according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) - from documenting transactions and budgeting to filing taxes, preparing financial statements, and much more, this hands-on, practical guide will show you how to keep great records and keep your nonprofit running smoothly.

By Sharon Farris

Enriched with numerous screen shots, solved illustrations and practice scenarios, this book helps candidates to understand the intricacies of TALLY operations.

By Tally Education

Explaining how to perform operational audits, what management tools are helpful, and how to use them during internal audits, this book merges traditional internal audit concepts and practices with contemporary quality control methodologies, tips, tools and techniques.

By Hernan Murdock

Transform your approach to oprisk modelling with a proven, non-statistical methodology

By Laurent Condamin, Patrick Naim

Filled with hands-on exercises designed to dramatically increase your knowledge and build your confidence, this in-depth resource provides the necessary tools from which to build a successful options portfolio.

By Sheldon Natenberg

The book looks at how the idea is growing, both in the United States and around the world-and why all sides of the political spectrum support it.

By Corey Rosen, John Case

Do you ignore the financial aspects of your job, hoping they'll go away? Is lack of financial confidence holding you back? This guide will help you quickly learn how to read company accounts as well as pick up sound financial management techniques.

By Alan Bonham

Including carefully selected chapters that provide a thorough understanding of futures, options and numerical methods, this book is an accessible introduction to the classical side of quantitative finance specifically for university students.

By Paul Wilmott

Ideal for those new to the payroll profession, this guide includes review questions and quizzes, reflects the latest payroll compliance changes, and focuses on each specific aspect of payroll administration.

By The American Payroll Association

Including review questions and quizzes, as well as a practice exam, this book reflects the latest payroll compliance changes and covers the content outline for the Fundamental Payroll Certification exam.

By American Payroll Association

Written for anyone who is responsible for a payroll department, this book will demonstrate how to manage payroll functions with maximum efficiency and within compliance requirements.

By IOMA, Vicki M. Lambert

A no-nonsense, straightforward, and holistic view of the financial planning process, this practical book is the one resource you need to become a more knowledgeable saver and translate those savings into the accumulation of future wealth.

By Keith R. Fevurly

The book is clearly and powerfully written and will provoke debate among economists and the general public about the most stubborn problems in the American economy.

By Thomas I. Palley

Ideal for business owners as well as students, this book will help you make sense of the 'daunting' accounts world and will show you how to spot problems in the accounts and explain them to others using the correct terminology.

By Alex Byrne

Containing a wealth of tools and cutting-edge examples, this book explains exactly what it takes to transform a traditional accounting system to one that supports and enhances a company's Lean efforts.

By Brian Maskell, Bruce Baggaley, Larry Grasso

Written for Wall Street professionals and advanced students, this authoritative guide lays out the core financial engineering and risk management concepts and techniques that real-world practitioners use on a daily basis.

By Rupak Chatterjee

Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this comprehensive guide takes a straightforward approach to explaining how today's tax rules may affect your personal finances and how you may benefit from available opportunities.

By Brittney Saks, Mark T. Nash, Richard Kohan

Packed with real-life examples, and written by a practitioner for practitioners, this book delivers the kind of knowledge and skills traders and finance professionals need to fully understand derivatives and price and hedge them effectively.

By Irene Perdomo, Leonardo Marroni

Emphasizing motivation, understanding, and implementation, this book is designed to give students an understanding of why econometrics is necessary and to provide them with a working knowledge of basic econometric tools.

By Guay C. Lim, R. Carter Hill, William E. Griffiths

A comprehensive, broadly-applicable, real-world guide to financial modelling, this book covers the full spectrum of financial modelling tools and techniques in order to provide practical skills that are grounded in real-world applications.

By Michael Rees

Developed for students preparing for careers in food and beverage management as well as hotels and other enterprises where this knowledge is needed, this book is essential for understanding the ins and outs of controlling food, labor, and beverage costs.

By J. Desmond Keefe III, Paul R. Dittmer

Fully illustrated with a step-by-step case study, this professional perspective is equally valuable as an introductory text and as a reference for addressing specific issues that may arise in the process of consolidating group accounts.

By Andreas Krimpmann

A comprehensive guide, this groundbreaking reference offers both insight into Islamic accounting best practices and disclosure for Shariah-compliant instruments.

By Maliah Sulaiman, Nabil Baydoun, Roger J. Willett, Shahul Hameed Bin Mohamed Ibrahim

Offers a balanced view of project financing, integrating legal, contractual, scheduling, and other areas that participate in large multiparty projects, large single-asset purchases, and broad-based financing programs for fleets of assets.

By Edward Yescombe

Productive Economy, Contributory Economy presents an analysis of the factors affecting the evolution of our societal model, emerging from sedentarism, which culminated in the industrial age.

By Genevieve Bouche

Offering advice on effective cost reduction techniques, this guide provides case studies outlining the successful cost reduction drives of a number of major organizations along with a real-world explanation of cost reduction and procurement options.

By Mike Buchanan

Eliminating misconceptions about what is really important for successful project financings, this book shows you how to develop, structure, and implement projects successfully by creating competitive advantage.

By John E. Triantis

Using updated examples and case studies that illustrate how to apply the analytical techniques described in the book, this book covers the rationale for project financing, how to prepare the financial plan, assess the risks, design the financing mix, raise the funds, and much more.

By John D. Finnerty

Including current case studies and sample checklists to help professionals hit the ground running, this practical guide provides the knowledge and skills needed to become proficient in Project Management and maximize the profitability and ROI of any project.

By Gary S. Stetz, Kevin R. Callahan, Lynne M. Brooks

Containing numerous instructional examples, this guide offers a clear understanding of the activities, concepts, techniques, and tools of project scheduling and cost control that can be applied to any industry.

By James C. Taylor

Providing instructions on how to implement Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts in a variety of environments, this book is a step-by-step implementation guide for continuous improvement while creating a solid foundation upon which to build a service excellence culture.

By Jaideep Motwani, Rob Ptacek

Written for quantitative practitioners in banks and asset managers, this insightful book provides a toolkit and robust methodology which will enable practitioners to confront new and unforeseen pricing and valuation challenges.

By Adil Reghai

Providing numerous sample problems, end-of-chapter questions, and clear examples, this thorough introduction is designed to teach students about financial risk management with an emphasis on financial models and mathematical techniques.

By Michael B. Miller

Presenting an essential guide for quantitative analysts, financial professionals, and academic scholars, this invaluable text delivers the information, tools, techniques, and most current research in the critical field of risk management.

By Constantin Zopounidis, Emilios Galariotis

A quantitative analyst's introduction to the theory and practice of ESG finance

By Cino Robin Castelli, Cyril Shmatov

Providing the models, tools, and techniques firms need to build the best risk management practices, this book presents a road map for tactical and strategic decision making designed to control risk and capitalize on opportunities.

By Thomas S. Coleman

Combining eight content-rich books into one complete package, this friendly guide will quickly and painlessly teach you how to use this fan-favorite software program to establish fundamental accounting practices that will keep your company successful and healthy.

By Stephen L. Nelson

With easy-to-follow guidance and plain-English explanations that cut through confusing financial jargon, this friendly book will show you how to install the software and configure QuickBooks for your business needs, set up payroll reminders, download bank and credit card transactions, pay bills online, keep track of your checkbook and credit cards, and so much more.

By Stephen L. Nelson

The go-to guide for anyone looking to gain insight into the latest version of the software, this book is a helpful resource for getting started with QuickBooks 2018, and a reference guide that will provide insight and answers to experienced users as well.

By Stephen L. Nelson

Empowering readers to fight the bad habits and decisions that lead to large debts and minimal or nonexistent savings, this accessible, easy-to-read guide will help you start your journey toward increased savings, lowered debt, and a more secure financial future.

By Stephen L. Nelson

Endorsed by the makers of Quicken, this practical resource shows you, step by step, how to take full advantage of the software's powerful features, including the Quicken mobile app.

By Bobbi Sandberg

A fascinating, behind-the-scenes examination of this closed process, this unprecedented and unique book presents nine company case studies highlighting the process of discussion and negotiation and the methods by which the agreed financial reporting outcome was reached.

By Stella Fearnley, Tony Hines, Vivien Beattie

Packed with new examples that reflect current trends, this practical resource is for investors, traders, brokers, managers, and anyone else who is looking for a reliable, up-to-date guide to reading financial reports effectively.

By Lita Epstein

An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages

By Joel Slemrod, Michael Keen