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[[Category:New Reviews|Business and Finance]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> __NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Brummer0241636604|title=Britain for SaleThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Buy BritishIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, weyou're constantly told, unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and many people do jeans replaces the pin- stripe suit and his background is the FrenchEast End, the Germanswhere he was familiar with violence, Qataris, Chinesepoverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. If you want to buy British you'd be hard pressed to use a British electricity company, the He also realised that most rich people expect poor people shifting North Sea oil to you might be foreignstupid. It was his ability at what was, the trains near you may be foreign-operatedessentially, and so much of what's in the shops you buy from would of coursed be sourced from abroad, and shipped through foreign-owned portsa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Whether or not the country is going to hell in Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a handcart, it's moving in piecemeal stages to exterior business interests, and the British citizen gets the worst of the dealtrader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847940757</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bill Ridgers (Editor)Fiona Parashar |title=The Economist Book of Business QuotationsA Beautiful Way to Coach |rating=45
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|summary=It's not so much a So what am I doing reading this book of business quotations as a , using this book , and being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out of business aphorismscuriosity. There's a prime example I was at an on -line launch for 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 book and Accountancy ('Budget: a mathematical confirmation Fiona’s description of your suspicions' A A Latimer) through her Vision Days appealed to Work-Life Balance ('For fast-acting reliefme. I wanted to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a full day, try slowing downwhich I know would send them scurrying for their burrow.' Lily Tomlin). Most entries are short I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision and pithy and few run back to as much as half a pagemy own.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846685931</amazonuk>103211603X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies303091657X|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2012Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson
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|summary=Now Boards must act in its 27th year the best interests of publication, the Great Britain Concise Catalogue provides their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secure. This might seem obvious but a comprehensive listing series of disasters - some of all issues from which have resulted in death or the 1d black and 2d blue collapse of May 1840 to a major company - have left interested parties asking what the Children’s Comics issue of 20 March 2012board was doing. As a halfway house between the very basic ‘Collect British Stamps’ and the multi-volume specialised edition, this lists Where were they? Occasionally the main variations boards were unaware of each issue, alongside miniature sheets, special first day of issue postmarks, postage dues, bookletswhat was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminality. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and the regional issues from Wales, Scotland, Northern IrelandRandall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, as well as the Channel Islands South Sea Bubble and Isle of Man prior even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to their postal independence in 1969 and 1973 respectivelyhave learned very little.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Vass1529393930|title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2012/2013Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie Rochester
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|genre=Business and FinanceCrafts|summary=In its annual report H M Revenue and Customs announced that it will shed many more staff by the year 2015 so it's now more important than ever to ensure that you are paying the right amount of tax and that you are claiming all the allowances and reliefs to which you are entitled'Starting a creative business has never been easier. I spent most of my working life in HMRC and the dedication and professionalism of the staff is second to none but when resources are spread more thinly it's difficult to say that something will not give. You can, of course, go to the [http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ HMRC] site where you will find a lot of help and information - and it's free. You might wonder then, why you should buy a book which, on the face of it, does the same job?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686296</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnochasuppl_stafl|title=The Start-up of YouSupply Chain 20/20: Adapt to A Clear View on the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your CareerLocal Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund
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|genre=LifestyleReference|summary=In decades gone bySo, educated workers in many industries could view their careers as an elevator – rising through the ranks of a company before stepping aside and settling into a comfortable retirement. In todayyou's vastly different job market, with much less loyalty from both employers ve finished writing your book and employees, your career you think the hard work is more likely all done? You're convinced that all you need to follow do now is get it published and the model of some promotions mixed money will start rolling in with frequent sideways moves to other companies and perhaps even completely different industries. Time, then, for a new guide to how to handle your employment prospects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184794079X</amazonuk>}}?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Owen0008350388|title=Leadership Rules|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Owen's latest addition We Need to the management self-help canon is subtitled ''50 Timeless Lessons for Leaders''. Fifty lessons in under 250 pages? You have to know that the genuine newness of the insights might be on the disappointing side of fabulous. That's not to completely write off ''Leadership Rules''. I enjoyed reading it. Given its structure of short sharp snipes which might be aimed at the dip-in-and-out brigade, I can also say that it reads well as a sit-down-and-consider book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857082388</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTalk About Money|author=Nicholas Shaxson|title=Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the WorldOtegha 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 ''We Need 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>}}Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Monneryreed3|title=Safe As HousesWhy You? A Historical Analysis of Property Prices|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Neil Monnery was asked to become a trustee of a local charity with most of its assets in local residential property. Over the years this had yielded good results and the charity was concerned as to whether or not they should continue on the same basis or diversify and Monnery said that he would look into this. That discussion was the genesis for this book as he began to research the history of house prices – in the UK and elsewhere – for as far back as he could go to establish whether or not house were, well, as safe as houses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907994017</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Heffer|title=Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=As a child I was taught English grammar. I began by resenting it but gradually I appreciated the subtlety and nuances of expression that could be achieved by the correct use of language. I loved the fact that I could say something precisely and convey exactly what I meant in a few words. And then I was stunned to find that there was no longer the same emphasis on grammar in schools, that freedom of expression was encouraged without worrying about the form it took – and now I regularly encounter official letters, even books where the English language is subjected to grievous bodily harm. It isn101 Interview Questions You't difficult to get right – it just requires a little knowledge, a logical mind and practice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099537931</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=Luke Johnson|title=Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business is Easier Than You ThinkJames Reed|rating=3.5
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|summary=Luke Johnson Six years on from the original edition, the book is one of our busiest tycoons, being re-issued with a personal fortune bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which runs into nine figuresincludes an additional 10 questions. He I's been ve come to this some 6 years after reviewing the driving force behind Pizza Express and Channel 4 original book and my life has a renowned column changed significantly in the 'Financial Times'meantime. HeI's done all this over a couple of decades, so he obviously knows what the score is m no longer working in terms of getting businesses up and running – and then turning middle-management having opted for a profitdown-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. 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 I can therefore relate to open a restaurant, Mr Plumb, who's been havering about splitting from the builder who employs him first point made in this chapter namely that independence and Miss Baker who think flexibility are core skills that our prosperous village is ripe for an artisan bread shop? Well, perhaps…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919411</amazonuk>employees need to have.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economist3110706075|title=Pocket World in Figures 2012Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry 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 and Their Quest to Engage the SleepwalkersThe Radical Innovation Playbook: Motivate Everyday People to Deliver Extraordinary Results|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I'd like to introduce you to the polar bear pirates. They're the people who believe in life before death – the people who can deliver extraordinary results despite being just ordinary people like you and me. WellA Practical Guide for Harnessing New, me anyway. They'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 Novel or vamps. We won't mention the potholers. This is a management book like no other – you're going to laugh, cry just occasionally when you realise that you've been seen through and come away with plenty to think about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857081276</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGame-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Jakob Lovstad|title=Going Mental: Reaching Your Goals in Business Olga Kokshagina and Sports - Full Contact NLP Coaching from a Full Contact Fighter|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=Some books seem determined to put you off. Unless it's literary fiction 'Going Mental' suggests something that I've gone to great lengths to avoid. The man on the cover is bald, bloodied and apparently screaming. I've been avoiding men like that too. '…not for the soft and sensitive!' it says and whilst I wouldn't describe myself as either I do wonder whether allowing Jakob Lovstad to mess with my head is the wisest thing I've ever done. When I realise that he's a cage fighter I'm ready to run. What has that got to do with my business? Because that's what this book is about – reaching your goals in business and sports.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685588</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Kay|title=Obliquity: Why Our Goals are Best Achieved IndirectlyAllen Alexander|rating=45
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|summary=Sometimes the shortest route to a destination isn't the quickest way to get there. Take crossing central America for example. InstinctivelySo, why bother? Every time you think that the best way set out to navigate your way from do something new you end up with 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 same thing in fact to use a thin strip of land slightly different form 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 quite a bit of themmoney spent. An indirect or oblique approach would prove to be far more successful. That in a nutshell Why not just leave it as it is noted economist John Kay? After all, it's concept of obliquity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682894</amazonuk>}}''roughly'' working, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler1472962044|title=The Decision BookCreating Value Through Technology: Fifty Models for Strategic ThinkingDiscover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew 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 is subtitled "Debunking Modern Business Philosophy". It is 'Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a criticism (and I mean criticism not critique) of company the management consultancy business since its inception knowledge to understand the close of accounts which show how the first decade of the 21st century. Matthew Stewart company is a former management consultant, so he should know what he's talking aboutdoing. On the other hand, The book begins by his own admission he made a more than reasonable profit out of management consultinglooking at why financial accounting systems are necessary, and he is now doing likewise out then moves on to give an excellent overview of showing what a sham it all is. Make the types of that what you accounting systems which will.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393338525</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hugh Jefferies|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Commonwealth & Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2011|rating=5|genre=Business be encountered and Finance|summary=Over the years the 'Gibbons Commonwealth' catalogue has seen many changesterms used. This is We then look in detail at the second edition since Gibbons compacted its listings to cover balance sheet, the era of pounds, shillings income statement and pence up to the end statement of 1970cash flows. (This is fair as the currency in Britain and various other territories goes, though Canada and her territories went decimal in the mid-nineteenth century). This boundary is extended in a few instances, such as the Barbuda British monarchs series, issued at regular intervals over an eighteen-month period spanning 1970-1, but by and large this is what we might call the sterling era catalogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597975</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Bibb1946383627|title=The Right Thing: An Everyday Guide to Ethics in BusinessCost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers|rating=4.5
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|summary=Bibb wastes no time I'm capable of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in highlighting key areas of the whole ethics debate. What, exactly, does the word mean ... USA) and why should it matter to us anyway? She starts by informing the reader that ethics (which is a branch of philosophy) is usually the poor Cinderellabalance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisation. Overlooked in favour of the more glamorous areas ieThe accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: big, fat, profits for the business I know whether we're making a profit or businesses concerned. Bibb wants us to think more about a loss and I can look at the ethical side of things expenses and perhaps less about the balance sheet. She gives an example most of us will see what looks as though it could be aware oftrimmed back in future years. Two words. Fred Goodwin. Bibb comments My problem was that had he applied his moral compass the accounts didn't really give me any help in his leadership rolemaking decisions, perhapswhich was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting and Management'', just perhaps, the Royal Bank part of Scotland may not have fallen so far from graceVibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management series.. I'm aware that many will now be foaming at the mouth at the mention of FG (myself included).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>047068853X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Davies1072549271|title=The Presentation CoachSimple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: Bare Knuckle Brilliance For Every PresenterA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis
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|summary=With plaudits all over I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the covers like a rash; plaudits from welltraditional houses, but when I suggest self-known people such as Nick Robinson, Political Editor of publishing they explain that they don't have the BBC, Daniel Finkelstein of 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 the Times and Boris Johnstonanswer is, current Mayor of Londoninevitably, this bookthat they wouldn's bar is set pretty hight know where to start. I can empathise with that. Straight away and yesDespite having used a computer for about thirty years, I was asking the usual question - why another one running most of these seemingly endless my life ''and'how-to' manuals? My first impression is of no-nonsense, time is precious but also a little in-your-facewebsite online, American style er, presentation of the book. But thatI's goodm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like thatsomeone to hold my hand as I go through it for the first time. ItThat was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon's all the wishy-washy books in this genre and similar that I don't likecame across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085708044X</amazonuk>
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