Understanding Finance
Author:Karen Halpern;
Combining theory and practical knowledge of finance, this comprehensive yet accessible First Edition provides students with a text that is grounded in real business. Focusing on financial issues in local businesses and small- to medium-sized companies rather than Fortune 500 corporations, this text delivers a user-friendly introduction to the world of finance that answers the many basic what and why questions, furnishing students with a solid understanding of this intricate area of business that they can apply in the working world.
Who, What, Where Guide to Back Office Systems and Suppliers 2004
This comprehensive directory provides an overview of the leading back office systems and their suppliers across a broad range of areas including wholesale, retail, private banking, lending, trade finance, general ledger, global custody, capital markets. It covers the history of the company, the history of the system, system functionality, and user base.
Since 1999, this publication has become the essential reference guide to this sector. As always, it has been completely rewritten and updated. All of the editorial is independent, so it gives the 'warts and all' view of each player and its offerings.
The new edition is bigger, spanning over 100 of the major international systems for wholesale banking, retail banking, private banking, capital markets, lending, derivatives, asset management, and trade finance.
There is a detailed entry for each supplier setting out its history and current situation, its future strategy and the functionality of its systems, plus a customer list.
The Country Analysis shows the usage of all systems by country.
All buyers receive regularly emailed updates to the guide for one year from date of publication.
Schaums Easy Outlines: Bookkeeping and Accounting - Crash Course
Author:Joel Lerner;
What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form.
Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.
- Designed to appeal to underprepared students and readers turned off by dense text
- Cartoons, sidebars, icons, and other graphic pointers get the material across fast
- Concise text focuses on the essence of the subject
- Deliver expert help from teachers who are authorities in their fields
- Perfect for last-minute test preparation
- So small and light that they fit in a backpack!
Keeping the Books
Author:Linda Pinson;
The premier resource for basic bookkeeping and business record management, Keeping the Books is a comprehensive, yet down-to-earth treatment of one of the most important and often neglected aspects of running a business.
Over the years, hundreds of thousands of business owners have benefited from the practical and easy-to-use concepts in Keeping the Books. In this new edition, business-planning expert Linda Pinson shares a time-tested recipe for mastering record-keeping essentials.
User-friendly and packed with easy-to-understand illustrations, worksheets, and forms, this popular financial reference tool is completely updated and includes a variety of IRS forms entrepreneurs have to be familiar with. Keeping the Books also includes a business resource section and glossary of accounting terms, along with proven processes for smart financial recordkeeping.
The Bluffer's Guide to Accountancy
Author:Liz Fisher; John Courtis
Audits
The bread and butter of the accountancy profession is the statutory audit. Audits are like funerals. They are needed but nobody actually wants them, except the accountants and the undertakers.
Deep depression
One of the main reasons why accountants in commerce and industry go into a deep depression just before and just after the end of the financial year is that this is the time when the chickens come home to roost and it becomes apparent even to the meanest intellect that there is a yawning gulf between the real figures (the books of account, which lead via the financial accounts to the annual statutory report) and the figures on which management has been relying for the past 11 months, so that the generally favourable impression these have created is totally erroneous.
Creative accounting
You are allowed to be ambivalent about creative accounting, indeed this is the preferred posture. Being wholly in favour of it would imply an eagerness to walk the tightrope, or the plank.
Checks and balances
Remember that the high point of accountancy is double-entry book-keeping, whose unique merit is that the debits are balanced by credits in other accounts; not the same ones, or the limited intellectual challenge would have vanished altogether, unless of course the second half of the transaction is cunningly disguised as something else.
Actuals
The ugly truth is that the actuals always prove the budgets wrong. (Always call the actual results 'the actuals'.) The massive authority generated by the sophisticated compilation process is eroded as soon as the first few months of the year have passed and flaws are visible.
Author:Karen Halpern;
Combining theory and practical knowledge of finance, this comprehensive yet accessible First Edition provides students with a text that is grounded in real business. Focusing on financial issues in local businesses and small- to medium-sized companies rather than Fortune 500 corporations, this text delivers a user-friendly introduction to the world of finance that answers the many basic what and why questions, furnishing students with a solid understanding of this intricate area of business that they can apply in the working world.
Who, What, Where Guide to Back Office Systems and Suppliers 2004
This comprehensive directory provides an overview of the leading back office systems and their suppliers across a broad range of areas including wholesale, retail, private banking, lending, trade finance, general ledger, global custody, capital markets. It covers the history of the company, the history of the system, system functionality, and user base.
Since 1999, this publication has become the essential reference guide to this sector. As always, it has been completely rewritten and updated. All of the editorial is independent, so it gives the 'warts and all' view of each player and its offerings.
The new edition is bigger, spanning over 100 of the major international systems for wholesale banking, retail banking, private banking, capital markets, lending, derivatives, asset management, and trade finance.
There is a detailed entry for each supplier setting out its history and current situation, its future strategy and the functionality of its systems, plus a customer list.
The Country Analysis shows the usage of all systems by country.
All buyers receive regularly emailed updates to the guide for one year from date of publication.
Schaums Easy Outlines: Bookkeeping and Accounting - Crash Course
Author:Joel Lerner;
What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form.
Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.
- Designed to appeal to underprepared students and readers turned off by dense text
- Cartoons, sidebars, icons, and other graphic pointers get the material across fast
- Concise text focuses on the essence of the subject
- Deliver expert help from teachers who are authorities in their fields
- Perfect for last-minute test preparation
- So small and light that they fit in a backpack!
Keeping the Books
Author:Linda Pinson;
The premier resource for basic bookkeeping and business record management, Keeping the Books is a comprehensive, yet down-to-earth treatment of one of the most important and often neglected aspects of running a business.
Over the years, hundreds of thousands of business owners have benefited from the practical and easy-to-use concepts in Keeping the Books. In this new edition, business-planning expert Linda Pinson shares a time-tested recipe for mastering record-keeping essentials.
User-friendly and packed with easy-to-understand illustrations, worksheets, and forms, this popular financial reference tool is completely updated and includes a variety of IRS forms entrepreneurs have to be familiar with. Keeping the Books also includes a business resource section and glossary of accounting terms, along with proven processes for smart financial recordkeeping.
The Bluffer's Guide to Accountancy
Author:Liz Fisher; John Courtis
Audits
The bread and butter of the accountancy profession is the statutory audit. Audits are like funerals. They are needed but nobody actually wants them, except the accountants and the undertakers.
Deep depression
One of the main reasons why accountants in commerce and industry go into a deep depression just before and just after the end of the financial year is that this is the time when the chickens come home to roost and it becomes apparent even to the meanest intellect that there is a yawning gulf between the real figures (the books of account, which lead via the financial accounts to the annual statutory report) and the figures on which management has been relying for the past 11 months, so that the generally favourable impression these have created is totally erroneous.
Creative accounting
You are allowed to be ambivalent about creative accounting, indeed this is the preferred posture. Being wholly in favour of it would imply an eagerness to walk the tightrope, or the plank.
Checks and balances
Remember that the high point of accountancy is double-entry book-keeping, whose unique merit is that the debits are balanced by credits in other accounts; not the same ones, or the limited intellectual challenge would have vanished altogether, unless of course the second half of the transaction is cunningly disguised as something else.
Actuals
The ugly truth is that the actuals always prove the budgets wrong. (Always call the actual results 'the actuals'.) The massive authority generated by the sophisticated compilation process is eroded as soon as the first few months of the year have passed and flaws are visible.
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