Thursday, January 27, 2005

Paying Less Tax 2005/2006 For Dummies
Author:Tony Levene

Find taxes taxing? You’re not alone! With rules and regulations constantly changing, and some of us having to work out our tax bill for ourselves, it's no wonder that three quarters of us pay too much tax every year. Help is at hand, however, as Tony Levene, a financial journalist with over 30 years experience, gives you the insider's guide to understanding tax, and paying less of it. This book outlines the basics of the tax system in plain English and shows you how you could save money by avoiding those tax pitfalls and reducing your tax bill. All aspects of tax are covered from child credit, to savings, to pay as you earn schemes, and practical advice is given to show you how your tax savings could soon add up. If you are looking for a light hearted and easy to understand introduction to keeping more of your hard earned cash, look no further!

The Insurance Pocketbook 2005
This is the 11th edition of the Insurance Pocket Book, following its highly successful launch in 1993. The Insurance Pocketbook has rapidly established itself as a key reference work for insurance and risk management professionals. It contains a large variety of helpful statistics and background information on one of the UK's leading industries, with general economic and demographic data to set it in context.

The principal focus of the book is on the United Kingdom insurance market. To this end, there are sections on life assurance, on friendly societies, on life reassurance companies, on the general insurance company market, and on Lloyd's and the London Market. There is also a section on risk management and one on specialised insurance carriers. However, the world beyond these shores is not ignored, and a survey of the major overseas markets is included.

Each section contains a range of statistical information and discussions of the background of the data. To assist those who may wish to undertake further research, the sources of all information have been given.
Intellectual Property
Author:Gordon V Smith

This book is designed to simplify the process of attaching a dollar amount to intangible assets, be it for licensing, mergers and acquisitions, loan collateral, or investment purposes. It provides practical tools for evaluating the investment aspects of licensing and joint venture decisions, and discusses the legal, tax, and accounting practices and procedures related to such arrangements; examines the business economics of strategies involving intellectual property licensing and joint ventures; and provides analytical models that can be used to determine reasonable royalty rates for licensing and for determining fair equity splits in joint venture arrangements.
Why Globalization Works
Author:Martin Wolf;

A bestseller in hardback, this book offers a powerful defence of the global market economy. Martin Wolf explains how globalization works, critiques the charges against it, argues that the biggest obstacle to global economic progress has been the failure not of the market but of governments, and offers a realistic scenario for economic internationalism in the post-9/11 age. For this paperback edition, Wolf provides a new introduction to update the debate.
Financial Market Complexity
Author:Neil F. Johnson;Paul Jefferies;Pak Ming Hui

- Scientific analysis of today's financial markets

- Theory of complex systems applied to financial markets

- Provides full mathematical details

- Covers wide range of econophysics topics

- Addresses finance practitioners and academics

This book takes a fresh look at understanding how financial markets behave. Using recent ideas from the highly-topical science of complexity and complex systems, the book provides the basis for a unified theoretical description of how today's markets really work. Since financial markets are an excellent example of a complex system, the book also doubles as a science textbook.