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I am currently writing my PhD dissertation on alliance management and success. For the literature review part of my project, I have read many sources related to inter-organizational issues. I have found many of them relevant to my dissertation. However, since it is very challenging to find a source which relates academic studies to business practice, I have had hard time to justify my points. Mark Darby's "Alliance Brand" is such a source that you can find many recent alliance practice examples; besides, the book provides many well-established and well-recognized academic publications. I was very fascinated when I found well-cited academic journal papers in the "Alliance Brand." I made more sense of the current alliance practice in today's chaotic business world. Writing a PhD dissertation in business is very challenging, because, as my research philosophy, you have to show that there is something "outside" regarding your hypotheses. You need rigid empirical results for your proposed hypotheses. "Alliance Brand" has assisted me in this process. I was very joyful when I saw my thoughts in this book. I highly recommend this book to all researchers interested in alliance management and practice. It is a great guidance to researchers and, it is very well-written and structured.

This almanac uses 50 performance indicators to compare financial information on 192 industries. Industries included in this reference work include agricultural production, coal mining, ship and boat building, electrical contractors, fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty food manufacturing, and furniture and related product information. The information listed on these industries is in numerical format and includes revenue (such as net sales, rents, roytalties) operating costs (such as taxes paid, advertising, operating margin) and selected financial ratios (such as total asset turnover, inventory turnover, cash flow to total debt). ....

When faced with the hard truth of dealing with numbers for your business, you can either hire someone to do it for you - easy, but expensive - or learn to do it yourself. "Alpha Teach Yourself Bookkeeping in 24 hours" will educate you on how to be a competent bookkeeper for your small business in a crash course of twenty four hours of education teaching you to Establish a bookkeeping system that's in compliance with general principles, reviewing money saving tax strategies, processing payroll reports correctly, and finding the best software, among other invaluable information. "Alpha Teach Yourself Bookkeeping in 24 hours" is essential to business community library collections and for any small business owner just starting out.

This is a classic textbook which introduces students to the fundamentals of analytic geometry. In order to understand calculus, one must have a thorough background in analytic geometry. Unfortunately, the current trend in math publishing is to forgo this great subject and present students with an motley mix of topics in a course called PreCalculus. Trigonometry and analytic geometry end up getting the short shrift, with greater emphasis being placed on algebraic manipulation. This is a tragic loss for students on a number of levels. They need analytic geometry in order to succeed in even first semester calculus, and yet for many analytic geometry is relegated to the second or third semester of a calculus class in college, or in one chapter (or less) in a precalculus book! Also, the analytic geometry allows the high school student a glimpse of mathematical beauty, of how things in mathematics work together: that mathematics holds up as a subject and is not just an assortment of tricks for various situations. Hopefully, the trend will turn around and this will not be the last of a dying breed: that others will continue to offer and write expository works on this subject for the benefit of students who wish to continue on to higher mathematics.

I found this article to be an invaluable aid. Mr. Ciszczon demonstrates a mastery of the subject.

This is a very well written book from an MBA's perspective. In other words, the emphasis is more on intuition rather than the underlying mathematics of option pricing. The book in fact starts with the Binomial Tree approach to option pricing - a method that is much more intuitive and powerful compared to Black-Scholes. The author walks you through certain arbitrage relationships before developing the binomial tree approach. Black-Scholes is introduced once you have obtained a thorough understanding of the binomial tree approach. There is a decent treatment of Forwards, Futures and Swaps and a very elegant proof for how CAPM weaves into option pricing. I strongly recommend the book to anyone starting out in option pricing. Once you have developed sufficient competence with trees and formulae, you can move to Hull's book which is much more technical but provides robust treatment of exotic options.

This was the most fun investing book I've read, and it also made a lot of sense to me. It gave me practical advice that I can apply to my own investment strategy and will aid me in building a portfolio. I loved the examples of how to do evaluation. All in all I would highly recommend this book for being both interesting and informative.

Anyone who is seeking to understand IASs & IFRSs could not have hoped for a better book! It explains the standards in language which is easy to understand, it supplements the examples in the standards with real-world examples, it explains why a particular treatment is being recommended or is the preferred treatment.

The book's philosophy is that IASs & IFRSs are not documents or rules which need to be memorised or learned by rote; they are pronouncements which need to be understood! And the authors try their level best to explain the standards to the reader.

They do a great job of it! Real world examples are supplemented by relevant extracts from the financial statements of corporates around the world. And there are end-of-chapter discussion questions, graded exercises and detailed problems too.

I don't think that most students/practitioners could have asked for a better guide to IASs & IFRSs. This is perhaps the best book that is currently on the market. It needs much greater publicity!!!

The move to IFRSs is big business and there are many not-so-good texts out there. But the authors of this book are very clearly not motivated by monetary motives alone; they have a lot of knowledge and experience and they try their level best to impart that knowledge in a manner which is refreshingly easy to understand.

This book definitely stands head and shoulders above the also rans. Very highly recommended!

Architect's Guide to QuickBooks Pro is very helpful and easy to follow. I was referred to it by the AIA and it has been one of the best investments that I have made all year long.

This reprint of the 1995 edition can be very useful to those who study charting and technical analysis - or just dig in to it. Especially for the British market, you can see it even as a book of the LSE history.