International accounting standards

from UK standards to IAS-an accelerated route to understandibg the key principles

This handbook is a quick reference to International Accounting Standards and is designed for all those who interact with financial information, and need an accelerated route to understanding the key principles of international accounting rules. It is essential reading for all members of the management ...

International risk management

systems, internal control and corporate governance

This book is very practical in its international usefulness (because current risk practice and understanding is not equal across international boundaries). For example, an accountant in Belgium would want to know what the governance regulations are in that country and what the risk issues are ...

Risk aacounting and risk management for accountants

Both Accountants and Auditors are confronted daily with challenges associated with the evaluation of credit risk, market risk, and other exposures. The book provides up-to-date information on the most significant developments in risk management policies and practices. Accountants whose work under International Financial Reporting Standards ...

The economics of airline institutions, operations and marketing

This is the second in a new series of books on the economics of the airline industry. The series is comprised of a collection of original, cutting-edge, research papers from an international panel of distinguished contributors. Volume 2 focuses on topics related to the economics ...

The Sarbanes-Oxley act

costs, benefits and business impacts

The Sarbannes-Oxley Act (SOX) is a mandatory requirement for all listed corporations in the US, whether foreign or not. Compliance is not an option. Other countries are developing similar legislation so the books value is international in scope. SOX is a hot topic and the ...

Fraud risk management

a practical guide for accountants

This book provides a user-friendly guide to current and emerging issues in fraud both internal to the company, and external. It explains the terminology used and sets out the chief risks which management accountants need to be aware of. It then sets out a practical ...

Accounting and business valuation methods

how to interpret IFRS accounts

This book is intended to appeal to junior accountants who need guidance and practical analytical tools for risk assessment when assessing the credit risk of companies they are doing business with. It will also appeal to students taking modules that cover basic accounting techniques such ...

International accounting

standards, regulations, financial reporting

This book includes a wide range of topics that deals with international accounting standards, regulations, and financial reporting. The book is a timely collection of several original research papers written by well-known authors and experts in the field from countries around the globe on very ...

Fundamentals of financial accounting

E-Success is the name for the brand new CDs produced by CIMA Publishing for students taking CIMAs new Certificate in Business Accounting. The Certificate is announced in March 06 and computer based assessments (CBA) start from Autumn 2006. This CD which includes all the CBA ...

Fundamentals of management accounting

"E-Success" is the name for the brand new CDs produced by CIMA Publishing for students taking CIMAs new Certificate in Business Accounting. The Certificate is announced in March 06 and computer based assessments (CBA) start from Autumn 2006. These CDs simulate the CBA with questions ...

Accounting in a nutshell

accounting for the non-specialist

This book is designed primarily for middle and junior managers who deal with financial information without really understanding the content and for students who are studying accounting as a non-specialist subject, for example on a business studies or engineering course. The book will serve as ...

Transparency, governance and markets

INDEX: 1. Theoretical explanations of why banks promise to pay par on demand (G.P. Dwyer,Jr., M. Samartin). 2. Productivity and efficiency measurement using parametric ecometric methods (S.C. Kumbhakar ). 3. Firm, market and strategic factors in venture capital exits (D.J. Cumming, J ...

Panel data econometrics

theoretical contributions and empirical applications

SUMARY: Preface (B.H. Baltagi). Part 1: Theoretical contributions. 1. On the estimation and inference of panel cointegration model with cross-sectional dependence (J. Bai, C. Kao). 2. A full heteroscedastic one-way error components mdel: peudo- maximum likelihood estimation and specification testing (B. Lejeune). 3. Finite ...

Handbook of economic forecasting

volume 1

SUMARY: Part 1. Forecasting methodology. 1. Bayesian forecasting (J. Geweke, C. Whiteman). 2. Forecasting and decision theory (C.W.J.Granger, M.J. Machina). 3. Forecast evaluation (K.D. West). 4. Forecast combinations (A. Timmermann). 5. Predictive density evaluation (V. Corradi, N.R. Swanson). Part ...

Research in economic history. Volume 24

This volume includes seven papers in quantitative economic history. Four were accepted through our regular channels. These include Harald Edquist and Magnus Henrekson on "Technological Breakthroughs and Productivity Growth", Scott Redenius on "New National Bank Loan Rate Estimates, 1887- 1975", Ebru Guven Solakoglu on the ...

Linear factor models in finance

The determination of the values of stocks, bonds, options, futures, and derivatives is done by the scientific process of asset pricing, which has developed dramatically in the last few years due to advances in financial theory and econometrics. This book covers the science of asset ...

Strategic planning and performance management

develop and measure winning strategy

Strategic Planning and Performance Management: Develop & Measure a Winning Strategy shows how to: - Make strategic management simple yet highly effective. - Integrate strategic analysis, strategy formulation and performance measurement. - Compete in three ways - Scale, Scope and Structure and write these 3 S's of Strategy to ...

The political economy of policy reform

essays in honor of J. Michael Finger

Insight in innovation

mannaging innovation by understanding the laws of innovation

Innovation is an ancient art, may be as old as 500,000 years, but managing innovation is a relatively young management technique, only a few decades old, and has received much less attention than other aspects of innovation such as creativity, entrepreneurship or venturing. This ...

Energy

engine of evolution

Energy: Engine of Evolution is a book about evolution, energy and sustainable development. Since the origin of life, five energy revolutions have passed and Earth is again at the threshold of a new era. This highly practical book paves the way in the search for ...