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Accountant's Guide to the Internet |
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The publisher, John Wiley & Sons: This book addresses the specific interests of accountants, auditors, and financial professionals; directs them to the areas on the Internet that will save them research time and allow them to spend more time on billable hours. Shows accountants, auditors, and finance professionals how to locate such resources as IRS forms, CPA societies, and publishers of accounting literature. Explains how to add material to newsgroup to market services. Written in language the target audience can understand. |
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CPAs That Sell : A Complete Guide to Promoting Your Professional Services |
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Book News, Inc.: Shows CPAs how to develop sales skills and actively promote their services. Chapters on professional attitudes toward sales, the buying and selling process, adapting to a prospect's personality, overcoming objections, and closing techniques include self-assessment questions, numerous checklists, examples of fact-finding questions, and sample planning forms.
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The Bankers - The Next Generation |
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Amazon.com Books: Martin Mayer wrote the book on banking more than twenty years ago. The Bankers is a completely rewritten and completely enthralling story of the payments system and the new generation of technology that is revolutionizing finance. Mr. Mayer examines the financial world like an expert entomologist, turning over institutions and exposing fascinating creatures that seldom see the light of day. He moves from a basic exposition of banking fundamentals to two fact-loaded chapters on technology and the Internet, pointed pieces on the Barings collapse and the Savings and Loan scandal, and a thoughtful essay on the future of banking. This is a great read written from a unique perspective, with enough inside stories to please banking know-it-alls and clear explanations of the industry that will capture even the lay reader. |
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| Accounting & Auditing in a New Environment : A Guide to Personal Survival Skills and Professional Growth | |
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Synopsis: This guide to the non-accounting side of auditing can help anyone in corporate accounting, banking, and public or private practice develop vital skills. Harnois shows readers how to assess the reliability of records; deal with difficult people and group conflicts; improve attitudinal, listening, and communication skills; negotiate; manage stress, time, and multiple priorities; understand verbal and non-verbal communications; handle corporate politics and organizational conflict.
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Dictionary of Accounting Terms (Barron's) |
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Synopsis: This updated edition defines approximately 2,500 terms specific to accounting and other business-related practices. It makes an ideal quick-reference handbook for business managers, accountants, bookkeepers, and business students. It also features a glossary of abbreviations and acronyms and a handy set of compounded value tables.
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The Rain on Macy's Parade - How Greed - Ambition - and Folly Ruined America's Greatest Store |
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Amazon.com Books: As evidenced by its idyllic portrayal in Miracle on 34th Street, Macy's always represented more than a mere department store. Millions enjoyed roaming its aisles each year, and thousands--including lawyer William Kunstler and actor Burgess Meredith--considered themselves lucky to work there. But it wasn't immune from the corporate upheaval that marked the 1980s, and Jeffrey Trachtenberg's The Rain on Macy's Parade: How Greed, Ambition, and Folly Ruined America's Greatest Store describes its downfall with style and insight. |
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| 101 Business Ratios : A Manager's Handbook of Definitions, Equations, and Computer Algorithms : How to Select, Compute, Present, and Understand | |
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Synopsis: Easy-to-use, common sense methods to better understand a company. "This is the best, no-nonsense numbers book of the past two years."--(Journal of Business Strategy). "One of the best introductions to managerial finance I've come across." says George Gendron, Editor-in-Chief, INC.
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| How to Market Your Accounting Services : Implementing Your Plan | |
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Synopsis: For accounting professionals who have developed a working knowledge of marketing principles and a marketing plan with Volume 1, this book is the next step. A purely practical, step-by-step guide to implementing an effective marketing plan, this volume moves beyond theory to get the plan up and running. Accountants will find out how to design a firm logo, select corporate colors, conduct market research, write an effective direct mail letter, write and lay out advertisements, and more.
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| Financial Warnings | |
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The publisher, John Wiley & Sons: The authors identify the financial traits of firms which precede unanticipated and typically disastrous reductions in corporate earnings and forecasted cash flow to help users of financial information recognize these potentially catastrophic financial characteristics. Explains how to understand and implement corrective tactics to reverse sizable reductions in earnings and cash flow as well as blunt their accompanying impact. Includes illustrative case studies, numerical examples, and sample debt restructuring agreements.
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| Accounting Desk Book : The Accountant's Everyday Instant Answer Book (10th Ed) | |
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The publisher, Prentice Hall:
The ultimate time-saver for accountants -- now completely updated and revised. Over 150,000 copies in print! This renowned answer book provides concise ready-to-use information for accountants in a broad spectrum of practice areas. This completely updated edition includes all recent changes in accounting rules. Structured by subject, it includes hundreds of subject areas plus checklists, guidelines, sample journal entries, examples, tables, and more.
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The Aicpa's Uniform Cpa Exam |
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Synopsis: For the 120,000 applicants per year who take the Uniform CPA Exam, here is an invaluable, one-of-a-kind study aid with hundreds of actual questions from recent exams with answers authorized by the actual creators and graders of the test. Reviewed throughout by the AICPA's own Board of Examiners, this is the guide no CPA test-taker will want to miss.
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| The Accountant's Handbook of Fraud and Commercial Crime | |
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Book News, Inc., 06/01/93: Provides accountants in industry, government, and private practice with the basic tools and raw materials to build an overlying practical structure of fraud knowledge, an investigative mentality, and rules of evidence. The handbook is divided into four major parts on understanding fraud, general techniques for prevention, preventing specific types of fraud, and crisis management. Includes a glossary and an appendix of professional studies and pronouncements. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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| Accounting for Success | |
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Card catalog description While histories of companies abound, little has been written on America's professional service partnerships such as those in the accounting or legal fields. Now in Accounting for Success, Allen and McDermott help close the gap with an absorbing account of the century-old distinguished accounting firm of Price Waterhouse (PW). Written in a crisp and engaging style, this book traces PW's rise to leadership through three distinct periods. The first period (1890 to mid-1920s) encompasses the growth of the firm from a one-man outpost for a British parent to a successful, Americanized partnership in its own right. These years mark the beginning of PW's trademark relationships with blue chip clients as well as the formation of some of the firm's most distinctive characteristics: its decentralized structure, dispersed offices, autonomous partners, and generalist orientation. With the coming of the securities laws of 1933 and 1934, the reader witnesses the dawning PW's golden second period which continues through the next forty years as the firm dominates in its role of auditor to America's largest corporations. The market upheavals of the 1970s usher in PW's third and current period - a time in which the firm, like much of American business, finds itself having to adapt and change in the face of a globalized economy, heightened competition among firms, and an explosion of information technology and nonaudit services. Throughout Waterhouse's illustrious past century, six central themes recur that offer valuable perspectives for those looking toward the future, the impact of the "professionally autonomous partner" on the firm's strategic outlook, the significant role that the law and litigation play in shaping the profession's rights and responsibilities, the changing nature of accounting, the shifting markets for professional services, the highly visible public face of the firm's leadership and PW's worldwide approach to its business.
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The New Portable MBA |
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Synopsis: It all started with one book that had a simple goal: bring the wisdom of today's top MBA professionals into the home libraries of business professionals everywhere. Retaining the same organization that made the original so popular, The New Portable MBA pools the insights and ideas of an all-star team of faculty members at leading business schools.
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| Accounting History from the Renaissance to the Present : A Remembrance of Luca Pacioli (New Works in Accounting History) | |
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Book News, Inc.: Papers from a 1994 seminar celebrate five hundred years of Luca Pacioli's influence on accounting, presenting broad reviews of historical developments from the 1600s to the present. Topics include a recent history of financial reporting in the UK and the US; a history of management accounting; the impact of advances in manufacturing and information technology; and a history of the professionalization of accounting.
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