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[[Category:New Reviews|Business and Finance]]__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Bill Ridgers (Editor)|title=The Economist Book of Business Quotations|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=It's not so much a book of business quotations as a book of business aphorisms. There's a prime example on the dust cover: J Paul Getty's 'My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil.' It's arranged alphabetically by subject matter from Accountants and Accountancy ('Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions' A A Latimer) through to Work<!-- Remove -Life Balance ('For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.' Lily Tomlin). Most entries are short and pithy and few run to as much as half a page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685931</amazonuk>}}
<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies0241636604|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2012The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Now If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in its 27th year of publicationyour mind, the Great Britain Concise Catalogue provides a comprehensive listing of all issues from the 1d black and 2d blue of May 1840 you're unlikely to the Children’s Comics issue think of 20 March 2012someone like Gary Stevenson. As a halfway house between the very basic ‘Collect British Stamps’ A hoodie and jeans replaces the multipin-volume specialised edition, this lists stripe suit and his background is the main variations of each issueEast End, alongside miniature sheetswhere he was familiar with violence, special first day poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of issue postmarks, postage dues, booklets, Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and the regional issues from Waleshe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, Scotlandessentially, Northern Irelanda card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as well as the Channel Islands and Isle of Man prior to their postal independence in 1969 and 1973 respectivelya trader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane VassFiona Parashar |title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2012/2013A Beautiful Way to Coach
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|summary=In its annual report H M Revenue So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and Customs announced that being audacious enough to review it will shed many more staff by the year 2015 so ? Truth is I bought it's now more important than ever to ensure that you are paying the right amount out of tax and that you are claiming all the allowances and reliefs to which you are entitledcuriosity. I spent most of my working life in HMRC and was at an on-line launch for the dedication book and professionalism Fiona’s description of the staff is second her Vision Days appealed to none but when resources are spread more thinly it's difficult to say that something will not giveme. You can, of course, go I wanted to the [http:see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping /supporting /wwwtrying to mentor – without committing them to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow.hmrc.gov.uk/ HMRC] site where you will find I also wanted to see if I could give myself a lot of help Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and information - and it's freeback to my own. You might wonder then, why you should buy a book which, on the face of it, does the same job?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846686296</amazonuk>103211603X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John B Thompson303091657X|title=Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business Disaster in the Twenty-First CenturyBoardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson
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|summary=The publishing industry has been with us since the fifteenth century, but the major changes have manifested themselves Boards must act in the twentybest interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-first century managed and John B Thompson, Professor financially secure. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of Sociology at which have resulted in death or the University collapse of Cambridge, has taken a detailed look at major company - have left interested parties asking what the state of trade publishing (that's board was doing. Where were they? Occasionally the type boards were unaware of book you're likely what was happening or they preferred to find in your local library or bookshop)turn a blind eye, the influences leaving watchers wondering which have brought it to that state and the outlookwas worse - ignorance or criminality. This might sound rather dry The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but, trust me, it's not. It wasn't what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a fast readvery readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, but only because there were so many things to think about, prejudices to readjust the South Sea Bubble and information to absorbeven tulip mania. I read it over a week - and for a reviewer that's a rare luxuryOver three centuries we seem to have learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745661068</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Poundstone1529393930|title=Are You Smart Enough To Work At Google?Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester
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|genre=Business and FinanceCrafts|summary=I find recruitment fascinating. I started my career on a top 10 graduate scheme whose recruitment process included a 24 hour simulation of life in the role, and now some years later I'm on the other side of the table, taking part in the recruitment of the next generation. Prior to that I worked everywhere from multinational software companies to British high street department stores and over the years I've heard everything from the boring (''What are your strengths and weaknesses?'') to the predictable (''Tell me about Starting a time you worked as part of a team and encountered conflict'') to the quite frankly brilliant, in my mind (''How many piano tuners are there in Barcelona?creative business has never been easier.'') Once I had to come up with a variety of uses for a cocktail shaker after first gaining points for being able to identify the item correctly, despite being a tee-total teen at the time. If interviews are a time to shine, I prefer the latter two tasks to the first two because they let you show what you can do, and how you would approach a task, rather than just making you prattle off a prepared response.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1851689176</amazonuk>}}
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|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholas Shaxson0008350388|title=Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the WorldWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=45
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|summary=Most people think about the subject of tax havens ''To be a dark- if they need skinned Black woman is to think about them at all - be seen as something which is unlikely ever to concern them less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and that they're for the superultimately less valuable than my light-rich and celebritiesskinned counterparts. What might surprise them is that more than half of world trade as well as most international lending is routed through them and that many common items in your everyday shopping will come to you via a tax haven. And we really should be thinking about them because tax havens are ensuring that wealth in unprecedented amounts is being transferred from the poor to the rich - greatly exceeding the aid which flows in the opposite direction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Levy, Judy Bartkowiak|title=Secrets of Success in Brand Licensing|rating=3|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Brand licensing is a huge business, with the annual worth estimated at 150 billion USD. It's hard to avoid Hello Kitty, Thomas the Tank Engine, Peppa Pig or Dr Who. One sometimes wonders if it's even possible ''We Need to buy non-character pyjamas for a six year old. ItTalk About Money's not just kids' brands, either (though these dominate the lucrative licensing market). From socialites (Paris Hilton) to actors and pop stars (Hale Berry, Britney Spears), football clubs and individual footballers (Beckham, Pele), magazines (Playboy, National Geographic), TV series (Simpsons) and pure graphic design (Smiley, Hello Kitty), brand licensing and brand extensions surround us on a scale unprecedented in human history. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218959</amazonuk>}}by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Hefferreed3|title=Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it mattersWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed|rating=45
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|summary=As Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a child I was taught English grammarbonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I began by resenting it but gradually I appreciated 've come to this some 6 years after reviewing the subtlety original book and nuances of expression that could be achieved by my life has changed significantly in the correct use of languagemeantime. I loved the fact that I could say something precisely and convey exactly what I meant 'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for a few wordsdown-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. And then I was stunned can therefore relate to find that there was no longer the same emphasis on grammar first point made in schools, this chapter namely that freedom of expression was encouraged without worrying about the form it took – independence and now I regularly encounter official letters, even books where the English language is subjected flexibility are core skills that employees need to grievous bodily harm. It isn't difficult to get right – it just requires a little knowledge, a logical mind and practicehave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099537931</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Johnson3110706075|title=Start It UpMaking a Difference: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You Think|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Luke Johnson is one of our busiest tycoonsLeadership, with a personal fortune which runs into nine figures. He's been the driving force behind Pizza Express and Channel 4 Change and has a renowned column in Giving Back the 'Financial Times'. He's done all this over a couple of decades, so he obviously knows what the score is in terms of getting businesses up and running – and then turning a profit. So, 'Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You Think' is going to be perfect for my friends Mr and Mrs Cook, who want to open a restaurant, Mr Plumb, who's been havering about splitting from the builder who employs him and Miss Baker who think that our prosperous village is ripe for an artisan bread shop? Well, perhaps…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919411</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIndependent Director Way|author=The Economist|title=Pocket World in Figures 2012Gerry Brown
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|summary=There are some books which it's very difficult to review and 'You'Pocket World in Figures 2012'' is a perfect example. Each year The Economist completely updates all the figures and reissues them in a format which, even if it won't fit into every pocket, is certainly going re not there to be no problem in a briefcase or readily available in a desk drawer. And it is run the type of book which you're going to want to have readily availableorganisation. It's not a reference book You are there to have tucked away on a shelf – once you find make sure that it is superbly easy to use you're going to want to have it to handrun properly. The problem is that the book is a very similar format every year, just as essential as the year before and still the book which it's unwise to loan to anyone as there's a strong chance it won't return.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684730</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies3030513025|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2012The Independent Director in Society: Commonwealth Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970Filipe Morais
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|summary=Each edition of the Independent Director: 'Gibbons Commonwealth' catalogue of the sterling era, a job for which covers the era no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of pounds, shillings and pence up to the end board of 1970 directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with a few exceptionsthe company, sees several changes. The 114th edition (2) is no exception. Reflecting market trends and demand during the previous few months, many price increases affecting almost all areas and periods have been made, including the more modestly priced items as well as some not part of the company'blue chip' pieces. One of the latter now makes historys executive team, as following and (3) is not involved with the recent sale day-to-day operations of an 1847 'Post Office' Mauritius 2d blue, this and its 1d red partner become the first stamps in the Gibbons catalogue to be priced at £1,000,000 or morecompany. As we are told in a note underneath the listing, most known surviving examples are now in permanent museum collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598130</amazonuk>}}(Corporate Finance Institute)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies0241453585|title=Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2011Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden
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|summary=Such are Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in the complexity, throes of recovering from the sheer variety 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and number of permutations possible she was one of postage stamp issues in the 21st century, first to realise that any catalogue compiler is faced with an almost impossible taskbanks needed to do things differently. Producing AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a genuinely concise book is largely branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a matter terminal. Boden took things a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of what to include and what to leave outpeople, would soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598084</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Vass3110641119|title=Daily Mail Tax The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide 2011/2012to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave
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|summary=H M Revenue and Customs is now bigger than ever – itI had no idea what 'journey mapping's taken on more work – was until I read this playbook but at any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the same time it's having to shed staff, many of them being book and acting on the ones with experience and inevitably something will have to givecontents. In the light of this the author rightly concludes that itYou's now more important than ever re going to keep learn how to run a close eye on workshop to discover what it feels like to be one of your tax affairsown customers. DonAt this point, please don't assume for example that your PAYE coding say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is correctgoing to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684722</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Webster3110641291|title=Polar Bear Pirates The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Their Quest to Engage the Sleepwalkers: Motivate Everyday People to Deliver Extraordinary ResultsAllen Alexander|rating=45
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|summary=I'd like So, why bother? Every time you set out to introduce do something new you to end up with the polar bear piratessame thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. They're the people who believe in life before death – the people who can deliver extraordinary results despite being Why not just ordinary people like you and me. leave it as it is? WellAfter all, me anyway. Theyit's ''re the manager who can motivate their staff to achieve those extraordinary results – even if their staff are sleepwalkers who live on planet complacency, amps or vamps. We wonroughly't mention the potholers. This is a management book like no other – you're going to laughworking, cry just occasionally when you realise that youisn've been seen through and come away with plenty to think about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857081276</amazonuk>}}t it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kay1472962044|title=ObliquityCreating Value Through Technology: Why Our Goals are Best Achieved Indirectly|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Sometimes the shortest route to a destination isn't Discover the quickest way to get there. Take crossing central America for example. Instinctively, you think Tech that the best way to navigate your way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific is to travel directly from east to west. It may seem counter intuitive but the designers of the Panama Canal realised that the easiest way to make the journey was in fact to use a thin strip of land and then go in seemingly the wrong direction from west to east. Architects and cartographers found that the obvious route wasn't the best way to solve the problem put in front of them. An indirect or oblique approach would prove to be far more successful. That in a nutshell is noted economist John Kay's concept of obliquity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682894</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Lewis|title=The Big Short|rating=4|genre=Can Transform Your Business and Finance|summary=So. The subprime mortgage crisis, the worldwide financial crisis, people losing their jobs, their money, their houses, their security. Unregulated greed, that went on and on and on. And the people who caused it all got rich during and after, very few felt any sort of consequences, and millions of other people worldwide suffered greatly. Strip away all the intentionally confusing terminology and it all amounts to bets with unbelievable amounts of money. How did it all come about and how did it play out? Michael Lewis explains the mess as only he can. Just as his earlier excellent work {{amazonurl|title=Liar's Poker|isbn=0340839961}} encapsulated the excesses of Wall Street in the 1980s, so does ''The Big Short'' perfectly tell the tale of Wall Street in the 2000s. In fact, given the extent of the current global clusterfuck, it makes the shocking ''Liar's Poker'' look positively mild by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043539</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler|title=The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic ThinkingAndrew Hampshire
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|summary=This littleI was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, black book with its gold lettering on the front cover is beautifully presentedso there's been a lot of technology in my life. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Truly pocketTimes - thankfully -sized to make it easy to refer to at any time, any placehave moved on. Divided into four neat sections dealing with 'Nowadays the problem is that someone running a business doesn't have the self'' time to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. It'others'' (others in s also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the main being say business partners, colleagues or like-minded people) these fifty working models are designed to give knowledge of the individual both self-awareness and ammunition, if you likerequired technology, so they start off in order to cope with various business/political and even social scenariosconversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need help, for examplebut they frequently don't know what help they need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683955</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley Gibbons1526362759|title=Stamps of the World 2011Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande
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|genre=Business and FinanceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=In describing reference books the word ''bible'' has been used too frequently What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of late. Slim booklets on a particular subject have the word emblazoned on their coverwhat it is, why it matters, which makes how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it rather difficult when you encounter a book – or in this case a set 've managed to get hold of six books – which merits the wordit. Stanley Gibbons Your reasons for wanting money don'Stamps of the World 2011' is genuinely t matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a bible – saver (you might even become an essential tool for a dealer ''investor'') and the serious collectorthere might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. ItThere's now available also the possibility of using to do good in six soft-bound volumes and is rightfully the company's flagship publicationworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597894</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen Lambert and Eli HolzmanLinda Scott|title=Undercover Boss: Inside the TV Phenomenon That is Changing Bosses and Employees EverywhereThe Double X Economy|rating=3.5|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=I guess I have to admit to '' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a certain weakness bold statement for a certain type of reality TV – an opening chapter, but it's far from hyperbole as the following pages explain. This book shines a long time since I watched Big Brother light on what is happening in different places, and I've not been sucked into watching talent contests – but I do quite like programmes the impact on the local and world economy. What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in which the participants swap places and/or step out west? What can be done about the selling of their normal lives toyoung women into marriage, allegedly, see how someone else lives.and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0470916001</amazonuk>0571353606
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Prince's Trust0349424926|title=Make it Happen: The PrinceLife's Trust Guide Work: 12 Proven Ways to Starting Fast-Track Your Own BusinessCareer|author=James Reed
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|summary=Who hasn't dreamed Do you have a guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the rest of being able your life? Do you have no need to work , either for themselves, be their own boss, and not have income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of those questions then you really ought to worry about the drag of a 9 read ''Life's Work': 12 Proven Ways to 5 job? Of course, the reality of starting your own business is Fast-Track Your Career''. If you're not yet in work or considering that there are rather a lot of things you might need to consider before getting started, as my sister found out when she started selling her own handmade greetings cards. Thankfully, make some changes then this is the book was on hand to help her get things going you need. James Reed is the chairman and shechief executive of REED, Britain's found it a really invaluable toolbiggest and best-known name in the recruitment industry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857080458</amazonuk> Who better to give you the advice you need?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert AshtonAnne Boden|title=How to be a Social Entrepreneur: Make The Money and Change the WorldRevolution
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|genre=Business and Finance|summary=This book Money is aimed at those individuals amongst us who want to make a differencechanging. They may have an idea of what they want to achieve but It might not sure of how to take that vital first step. This is where this book comes be in, says Ashton in his conversational stylethe ways you think. He takes We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have you ever even found a country that offers anything different to the reader by 1, 2, 5 model?) We’re getting a lot more digital with payments, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and the hand and guides him/her through homeless on the business maze. And before we go any furtherstreet, what, exactly do we mean by but although this book has the subtitle that includes the perhaps woolly phrase of word ''digital'Social Entrepreneur'? Many think , it’s not really about this either. Instead, it means doling out charity of some description to vulnerable individuals. Not quite. It's all about helping people to help themselves - and in doing so, they in turn are helping their families by lifting them out the ''management'' of povertyyour finances, joblessness or even hopelessness. And I found that the inspirational elements of this book were upliftingand how to take control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857080601</amazonuk>1789660610
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Stewart1949395324|title=The Management MythFinancial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy4th Edition|author=Kalpesh Ashar
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|summary=Stewart's book 'Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a company the knowledge to understand the accounts which show how the company is subtitled "Debunking Modern Business Philosophy"doing. It is a criticism (and I mean criticism not critique) of the management consultancy business since its inception The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, then moves on to the close give an excellent overview of the first decade types of accounting systems which will be encountered and the 21st centuryterms used. Matthew Stewart is a former management consultant We then look in detail at the balance sheet, so he should know what he's talking about. On the other hand, by his own admission he made a more than reasonable profit out of management consulting, income statement and he is now doing likewise out the statement of showing what a sham it all iscash flows.. Make of that what you will.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338525</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies1946383627|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Commonwealth Cost Accounting & Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2011Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers|rating=4.5
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|summary=Over the years the I'Gibbons Commonwealth' catalogue has seen many changes. This is the second edition since Gibbons compacted its listings to cover the era m capable of pounds, shillings drawing up a profit and pence up to loss account (income statement in the end of 1970USA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisation. (This is fair as The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss and I can look at the currency in Britain expenses and various other territories goes, see what looks as though Canada and her territories went decimal it could be trimmed back in the mid-nineteenth century)future years. This boundary is extended My problem was that the accounts didn't really give me any help in a few instancesmaking decisions, such as the Barbuda British monarchs serieswhich was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and Management'', issued at regular intervals over an eighteen-month period spanning 1970part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-1, but by Learning and large this is what we might call the sterling era catalogueManagement series...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597975</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Bibb1072549271|title=The Right ThingSimple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: An Everyday A Simple Step by Step Guide to Ethics in Business|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=4.5
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|summary=Bibb wastes no time in highlighting key areas of I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the whole ethics debate. Whattraditional houses, exactly, does but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the word mean ..big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if they've considered Kindle and why should it matter the answer is, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to us anyway? start. She starts by informing the reader I can empathise with that ethics (which is a branch of philosophy) is usually the poor Cinderella. Overlooked in favour of the more glamorous areas ie: big, fat, profits Despite having used a computer for the business or businesses concerned. Bibb wants us to think more about the ethical side thirty years, running most of things my life ''and perhaps less about the balance sheet'' a website online, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. She gives an example most of us will be aware of. Two words. Fred Goodwin. Bibb comments that had he applied his moral compass in his leadership role, perhaps, just perhaps, I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for the Royal Bank of Scotland may not have fallen so far from gracefirst time. That was why Iwas very interested when ''m aware that many will now be foaming at the mouth at the mention The Simple Act of FG (myself included)Self Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047068853X</amazonuk>
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