Modern auditing

assurance services and the integrity of financial reporting

Auditing counts! With recent incidents at WorldCom, Enron, Xerox, Tyco, and other companies, auditing has never been so important. Auditing is perhaps our single best defense in ensuring the integrity of our financial reporting system. That's why this new Eighth Edition of Boynton and ...

The economics of banking

The Economics of Banking describes and explains trends and operations in banking within an accessible microeconomic framework. It incorporates theory with the practical aspects of banking so as to set banking within the economics paradigm. A primary section on trends within banking leads on to ...

Core concepts of accounting information systems

Offering concise, user-friendly coverage of core topics, this essential text provides a strong foundation for courses in Accounting Information Systems and gives instructors the flexibility they need to meet their individual course objectives. The text is an excellent stand-alone resource for a shorter course in ...

Financial accounting

a valuation emphasis

Financial Accounting: A Valuation Emphasis integrates an understanding of valuation concepts with accounting principles. The authors place considerable emphasis on the economic consequences of accounting practices. You#ll develop a solid background in basic accounting processes and disclosures, and the critical role of accounting in ...

Exotic option pricing and advanced Lévy models

Since around the turn of the millennium there has been a general acceptance that one of the more practical improvements one may make in the light of the shortfalls of the classical Black-Scholes model is to replace the underlying source of randomness, a Brownian motion ...

Managerial accounting

tools for business decision making

Weygandt Managerial Accounting Third Edition gives students the tools they need to succeed, whether as accountants or in other career paths. With a framework in decision-making, Weygandt 3/e covers all the necessary techniques and concepts for a one semester, undergraduate managerial accounting course. Many ...

Finance

introduction to institutions, investments, and management

The Twelfth Edition of this successful book provides a survey of the foundations of the finance discipline. The authors covers the three major financial areas: Institutions & Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, helping you develop an integrated perspective of the different foundations of finance.

Practicing leadership

principles and applications

Put all the pieces of effective leadership together. One piece of a puzzle on its own is meaningless. But when all the pieces come together, a picture takes shape, and the puzzle makes sense. The same is true in studying leadership. If you try to ...

Financial accounting in an economic context

Fully updated and revised, the sixth edition of Financial Accounting explores important concepts from an economic perspective. By focusing on three elemental themes--economic factors, measurement issues, and decision-making perspective--you will gain a better understanding of the relevance of principles as applied in the real world ...

Financial institutions, markets, and money

Ever wonder how interest rates are determined? Would you like to know how to read actual financial data? Want to know what makes the financial sector really tick? You'll find answers to these questions and more in Kidwell, Blackwell, Whidbee, and Peterson's Ninth ...

Fibonacci and Gann applications in financial markets

practical applications of natural and synthetic ratios in technical analysis

There are many books covering Fibonacci from an artistic and historical point of view and almost as many suggesting that Fibonacci retracements and numbers can be successfully applied to financial market time series. What is missing is a book that addresses the common errors in ...

Fischer Black and the revolutionary idea of finance

This vignette-based business biography captures the essence of an extraordinary man and a giant in the world of finance. After years of research and cooperation from nearly all of Black's associates, family members, and friends, author Mehrling explains the ground-breaking impact Fischer Black had ...

Exploring the digital library

a guide for online teaching and learning

"Exploring the Digital Library", a volume in "The Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning series", addresses the key issue of library services for faculty and their students in the online learning environment. Written by librarians at Athabasca University, a leading institution in distance education, this book ...

Analysis of financial time series

Gain the statistical tools and techniques you need to understand today's financial markets with the Second Edition of this critically acclaimed book. You'll find a comprehensive and systematic introduction to financial econometric models and their applications in modeling and predicting financial time series ...

MBA in a day

what you would learn at top-tier business schools (if you only had the time!)

Contents : Preface. Acknowledgements. SECTION I: PEOPLE, MANAGEMENT, AND POICY. Chapter 1. Human Resources. Chapter 2. Organizational Behavior. Chapter 3. Leadership and Team Building. Chapter 4. Ethics. Chapter 5. Negotiation. SECTION II: MONEY; ECONOMICS, FINANCE, AND ACCOUNTING. Chapter 6. Accounting and Finance. Chapter 7. International, National ...

The business of brands

This is not a 'how to' book about branding. Instead it outlines approaches that will increase the accountability of marketing spending and provide tools to support investment decisions. Drawing on the world's largest database of brand research, The Business of Brands outlines the ways ...

Volatility and correlation

the perfect hedger and the fox

The new edition of Volatility and Correlation has been thoroughly updated and expanded with over 80% new or reworked material, reflecting the changes and developments that have taken place in the field. The new and updated material includes: empirical and theoretical analysis of the smile ...

Strategic market management

Completely revised and updated,David Aaker's authoritative book approaches strategy development from an external perspetive driven by a structured analysis of customers,competitors,market trends,and the broader environment.It shows how to build on strategic analysis to create business strategies that will be ...

Scenarios

the art of strategic conversation

Scenario planning enables managers to face up to this uncertainty by evolving from the idea of finding the #best strategy# to one of mobilising the #best strategizing process#. In this long-awaited new edition of his bestselling classic, Kees van der Heijden shows you how to ...

The psychology of the foreign exchange market

This book demystifies the foreign exchange market by focusing on the people who comprise it. Drawing on the expertise of the very professionals whose decisions help shape the market, Thomas Oberlechner describes the highly interdependent relationship between financial decision makers and news providers, showing that ...