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[[Category:New Reviews|Business and Finance]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies0241636604|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2012The Trading Game: Commonwealth A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and Empire Stamps 1840 jeans replaces the pin- 1970stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty 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. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|author=Fiona Parashar |title=A Beautiful Way to Coach

|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You might think 're convinced that as all the stamps in this catalogue have been in existence for at least forty years there can be little more you need to be said about them but this 115th edition do now is acknowledged to be get it published and the most significant money will start rolling in many years? Wrong and wrong again. Most exciting (but probably more so You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to sellers than buyers) is the fact that in a time of economic downturn there are thousands of price increases - and evidence of you had a very lively markettalent for delivering the written word. Demand for good stamps is greater than it has been at any time in the last thirty years according You knew your subject back to editor Hugh Jefferies, although he does add that prices are rising faster in some areas than othersfront. ItNow you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to see how a serious collector - or seller - can change and no one wants to be without an up-the first to-date try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the catalogue for this reason alonebook in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598513</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Lucy TobinOtegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|titlesummary=Ausperity''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: Live it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the Life family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=reed3|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You Want 'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James Reed|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I've come to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my life has changed significantly in the meantime. I'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for Less a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate to the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to have.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3110706075|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown

|summary=Clever title, eh? It's a conflation of 'You'austerityre not there to run the organisation. You are there to make sure that it is run properly.'', of  Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which we must all be sick Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a corporate board, but the back teeth and ''prosperityboard of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charity. He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfam, which Kids Company - we'd all lovere thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. At For this to happen, boards need to have a time wider field of people to choose from when incomes are standing still (unless youthey're very lucky) but costs are going up all the timelooking for an ID. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=3030513025|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified'' For most people this means that it(''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''s An independent director is a member of the pleasurable parts board of life - directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the treats - which get squeezed outcompany, leaving a life that(2) is not part of the company's dull executive team, and rather unrewarding(3) is not involved with the day-to-day operations of the company. Lucy Tobin(Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, personal finance editor Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and the London Evening Standard thinks differentlyindependent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. She's brought together hundreds The function of the independent director is to have general oversight of the executive side of moneythe board -saving tips which might make that holiday possible to spot when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosy, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or suggests cheap experience to understand what's happening or free trips in place of to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the holiday. There are also lots failings and weaknesses of ways in which leadership and governance and you can raise extra money which donmight be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to 'normal't involve but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the past and there has been a dodgy loan that will cost you more general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241453585|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden|rating=5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in interest than you borrowed 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 throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the first placeto realise that banks needed to do things differently. And, yes - there's all AIB thought it was at the information about credit cardscutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things a step further, mortgages and budgeting realising that you need to set you on customers could access their accounts from their homes: the right pathold branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780877684</amazonuk>

You might not have said it, but you've probably thought it. You've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''. It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approach. You've merely kept the business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion in the back of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472962044|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Stuart SterlingAndrew Hampshire|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, so 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. Times - thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays the problem is that someone running a business doesn't have the time to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. It's also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of the required technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need help, but they frequently don't know what help they need.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|author= Linda Scott|title= The Double X Economy|rating=5|genre= Politics and Society|summary='' Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, Brian Duddridgebut it's far from hyperbole as the following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, Andrew Elliottand the impact on the local and world economy. What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the selling of young women into marriage, Michael Conway and Anna Paynewhat can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|isbn=0571353606}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349424926|title=Life's Work: 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career|author=James Reed|rating=5|genre=Business Continuity For Dummiesand Finance|summary=Do you have a guaranteed and more-than-adequate income which will last the rest of your life? Do you have no need to work, either for income or fulfilment? If you even hesitate over either of those questions then you really ought to read ''Life's Work': 12 Proven Ways to Fast-Track Your Career''. If you're not yet in work or considering that you might need to make some changes then this is the book you need. James Reed is the chairman and chief executive of REED, Britain's biggest and best-known name in the recruitment industry. Who better to give you the advice you need?}}{{Frontpage|author=Anne Boden|title=The Money Revolution|rating=4|genre= Business and Finance|summary= Money is changing. It might not be in the ways you think. We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have you ever even found a country that offers anything different to the 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 homeless on the street, but although this book has the subtitle that includes the word ''digital'', it’s not really about this either. Instead, it's about the ''management'' of your finances, and how to take control.|isbn=1789660610}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1949395324|title=Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition|author=Kalpesh Ashar

|summary=When you build ''Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know ''gives people without an accounting background who have risen in a business you set off with unbridled enthusiasm and if you're lucky it does seem as though company the knowledge to understand the accounts which show how the Gods company is doing. The book begins by looking at why financial accounting systems are flying along with necessary, then moves on to give an excellent overview of the types of accounting systems which will be encountered and you holding your handsthe terms used. But they have other calls on their time We then look in detail at the balance sheet, the income statement and at some point something will go wrongthe statement of cash flows...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1946383627|title=Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know|author=Vibrant Publishers|rating=4. It5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I's inevitable. It might be something unforeseeable, something outside m capable of your control, or an event which you really should have prepared drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in the USA) and a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and foranother organisation. In addition to growing this fledgling business youThe accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're now trying to troubleshoot, to second guess making a profit or a loss and eventually you stop moving forward I can look at the expenses and do little but worry about see what can go wronglooks as though it could be trimmed back in future years. ThereMy problem was that the accounts didn's a temptation t really give me any help in making decisions, which was why I turned to try ''Cost Accounting and put it out Management'', part of your mind: why give your nightmares an outing during the day? What you need is a plan Vibrant Publishers' Self- a structured, unthreatening way of looking at what can fail Learning and how you would deal with itManagement series...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1118326830</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vernon Hill1072549271|title=Fans Not CustomersThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: How to create growth companies in a no growth worldA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=34.5

|summary=Vernon Hill is I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the man behind Metro Bank in the UKtraditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the founder of Commerce Bank in the US and the holder of the North American franchise of PetPlanbig bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. When Metro Bank opened in the UK in July 2010 I remember wondering then ask if they've considered Kindle and the world answer is, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life 'really'' needed another Bank and the truth was that it didn't need another Bank-just-like-every-other-Bank-you've-encountereda website online, but I'm still nervous when it did need a fresh approach comes to the business and a sweeping away of all the old rules and prejudicesstarting something new. Hill had proved that I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it could be done with Commerce Bank and in for the last two years hefirst time. That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon''s made a similar impact with Metrocame across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125110X</amazonuk>