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The essays of Warren Buffett

lessons for investors and managers

Ed. Lawrence A. Cunningham. Experienced readers of Warren Buffett's letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc have gained an enormously valuable informal education. This book features letters that distill in plain words all the basic principles of sound business practices.

Sell short

A simpler, safer way to profit when stocks go down

In "Sell Short", author Michael Shulman demystifies the art of short- selling and reveals how investors can successfully use this approach to profit from busted stocks in both up and down markets. "Sell Short" provides readers with a comprehensive overview of how to capture significant ...

The perfect portfolio

a revolution approach to personal investing

"The Perfect Portfolio" offers investors the knowledge, structure, and resources they need to create a portfolio that meets the challenges of today's investing environment. It challenges the conventional wisdom that there are only three asset classes and redefines the outdated concepts of risk and ...

50 psychological experiments for investors

'Great book! Mickael has done a great job of explaining the insights from over 50 groundbreaking psychological experiments. You will learn how to avoid many of the psychological mistakes made by most investors. He teaches you to watch out for overconfidence and the momentum bias ...

The Panic of 1907

lessons learned from the market's perfect storm

Foreword by William J. Bernstein. 'Before reading "The Panic of 1907", the year 1907 seemed like a long time ago and a different world. The authors, however, bring this story alive in a fast-moving book, and the reader sees how events of that time are ...

Computer-aided fraud

prevention and detection

With CD-ROM. Using software to detect improper transactions are techniques that have grown in importance for fraud examiners. This book provides fraud examiners and auditors with step-by-step guidance on using data extraction and software to detect and prevent fraud. Its implementation guidance is supplemented by ...

The complete guide to auditing standards and others professional standards for accountants

Aut. Nick A. Dauber...[et al]. This practical and effective step-by-step guide helps auditors and CPAs apply and comply with authoritative auditing standards. It explains the standards and their requirements fully, using technical terminology only when necessary. It represents a comprehensive, up-to-date compendium of current ...

Analysis of economic data

Econometrics is concerned with the tasks of developing and applying quantitative or statistical methods to the study and elucidation of economic principles. "Analysis of Economic Data" teaches methods of data analysis to readers whose primary interest is not in econometrics, statistics or mathematics. It shows ...

Developing university-industry relations

pathways to innovation from the west coast

Praise for "Developing University-Industry Relations": 'This timely book is an excellent read and a very useful guide for those who work in the increasingly important area of the interface between universities and industry. It is a highly recommended collection of articles from several of the ...

Asset allocation for dummies

This is an expert guide to the often-confusing process of mixing assets. Asset allocation is vital for investors because it has a major impact on reaching financial goals. If one doesn't include enough risk in a portfolio, investments may not earn a large enough ...

A gift to my children

a father's lessons for life and investing

"When I was a boy, my father often pulled me aside to convey lessons intended to build what we generally refer to as 'character'. Often his advice was very simple - work hard, think for yourself, do right by others - but I believe those lessons provided ...

Contagion

The financial epidemic that is sweeping the global economy... and how to protect yourself from it

Tough times are ahead and Talbott argues that the coming recession will be on a global scale, affecting economies across the world. We have had no real growth in GDP for the last ten years if purchases with government and personal debt are excluded. In ...

Capital ideas evolving

'A lot has happened in the financial markets since 1992, when Peter Bernstein wrote his seminal "Capital Ideas". Happily, Peter has taken up his facile pen again to describe these changes, a virtual revolution in the practice of investing that relies heavily on complex mathematics ...

Spent

sex, evolution and cosumer behavior

Whole industries have sprung up to attempt to understand - and exploit - our buying habits, although for the most part they have been based on glib, trendy, and ultimately disposable formulas. But recently, evolutionary psychology - the compelling science of human nature - has begun to identify the ...

Accounting control best practices

Now in a Second Edition, "Accounting Control Best Practices" encompasses all of the major accounting and operational processes presented in basic, intermediate, and advanced layers, from those needed for a very basic paper-based system, to computerized systems, to the use of advanced enhancements in computerized ...

Brink's modern internal auditing

a common body of knowledge

Today's internal auditor is responsible for creating higher standards of professional conduct and for greater protection against inefficiency, misconduct, illegal activity, and fraud. Now completely revised and updated, "Brink's Modern Internal Auditing, Seventh Edition" is a comprehensive resource and reference book on the ...

The impartial spectator

Adam Smith's moral philosophy

D. D. Raphael provides a critical account of the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, presented in his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Whilst it does not have the same prominence in its field as his work on economics, The Wealth of Nations, Smith ...

Managed by the markets

how finance re-shaped America

The current economic crisis reveals just how central finance has become to American life. Problems with obscure securities created on Wall Street radiated outward to threaten the retirement security of pensioners in Florida and Arizona, the homes and college savings of families in Detroit and ...

The fat tail

the power of political knowledge for strategic investing

Civil wars, acts of terror, seizures of private industries--the world is a dangerous place for investors. Indeed, it is more dangerous today than ten or twenty years ago, because of the growing importance of emerging and frontier markets. Even many relatively passive or risk averse ...

Global good Samaritans

human rights and foreign policy

In a troubled world where millions die at the hands of their own governments and societies, some states risk their citizens' lives, considerable portions of their national budgets, and repercussions from opposing states to protect helpless foreigners. Dozens of Canadian peacekeepers have died in Afghanistan ...