Understanding Partnership Accounting (Second Edition)

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Understanding Partnership Accounting (Second Edition) is an investment partnership accounting guide written by Advent Software and the Financial Services Industry Group of American Express Tax and Business Services. The book covers the accounting and legal services that investment partnerships require. It also describes how investment partnerships allocate the results of their investments to the partners, including tax reallocations for performance fees, and other tax and reporting issues.

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A good book for one to understand partnership accounting.......2007-05-13

The book is well organized. Practical. A nice starter's book for accountant who wants to get in the door of private equity fund's accounting world.

it's OK as an introductory book.......2006-12-31

The book provides an introductory overview of partnership accounting. All the calculations and formulas cited in the book are from its own software. Those similar formulas are also provided in other softwares which are much more commonly used, e.g. MS Excel. Lots of time spent on the tax allocations rather than on the P&L allocations. There're also apparent errors in the formulas as well, such as the annualized return calculation on P. 246.

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Understanding Partnership Accounting
American Express , and Advent Software
Manufacturer: Advent Software Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0931187001

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Understanding Partnership Accounting is an investment partnership accounting guide written by Advent Software and the Financial Services Industry Group of American Express Tax and Business Services. The book covers the accounting and legal services that investment partnerships require. It also describes how investment partnerships allocate the results of their investments to the partners, including tax reallocations for performance fees, and other tax and reporting issues.

Understanding the mechanics of minimum gain.: An article from: The Tax Adviser

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Understanding the mechanics of minimum gain.: An article from: The Tax Adviser
Albert B. Ellentuck
Manufacturer: American Institute of CPA's
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Tax Adviser, published by American Institute of CPA's on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 995 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Understanding the mechanics of minimum gain.
Author: Albert B. Ellentuck
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2004
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 35 Issue: 10 Page: 653(2)

Distributed by Thomson Gale

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Best execution, market integration, and other major financial market issues have traditionally been dealt with as separate matters requiring individual solutions. In Achieving Market Integration the author demonstrates the interrelated nature of these and other imperative problems, and sensibly reduces them to their common fundamental principles. Beginning with an in-depth examination of best execution in today's multiple-market environment, the book moves logically into an examination of market structure and the problems of achieving genuine integration. The book makes the case that order interaction is fundamental to addressing each of these issues, and develops a unified regulatory approach to achieve true market integration based on intermarket linkages and a cross-market best execution policy. This unique approach culminates in a coherent set of policy recommendations and an innovative framework for assessing the effectiveness of future policy proposals.

*The first book on this important subject for the finance community
*Explains the aims and proposes solutions to the difficulties of establishing a stock market that integrates the diverse national exchanges around Europe
*Provides a discussion point for those lobbying the European Commission on formulating regulation for an integrated European capital market

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Required reading .......2005-10-18

As far as I can tell, this is the only book which really covers the issue of best execution, and certainly the only which makes the connection between execution and integration. The author does an outstanding job of discussing the practical as well as theoretical implications, contrasting the approaches in different regions ('rules-based' vs 'principles-based').

With the public debates on these two subjects reaching a fever pitch, this book provides a concise but thorough analysis of the issues. Must reading.

My only reservation is the price - quite high for this type of book.

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Energy perspectives in plantation industry: Proceedings of the First International Workshop held at Coonoor, India from February 10-12, 1993

Manufacturer: Interline Publishing
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 8172960131

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R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida-and a lot that's rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, large-mouth bass tournaments. Here Decker will team up with a half-blind, half-mad hermit with an appetite for road kill; dare to kiss his ex-wife while she's in bed with her new husband; and face deadly TV evangelists, dangerously seductive women, and a pistol-toting redneck with a pit bull on his arm. And here his own life becomes part of the stakes. For while the "double whammy" is the lure, first prize is for the most ingenious murder.

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First Rate Hiaasen.......2007-09-26

I've read every novel Hiaasen has written. I've loved them all, but this is the one I always steer neophytes to for the best (and most sure to hook the reader) introduction to the author. It's what I think is his best, although I also loved "Striptease," which was made into a horrible movie with Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds. Read the book. It doesn't suck.

I just re-read "Double Whammy," and even after many years away, it was superb!

If you've never encountered Hiaasen, read this book. You'll be an addict.

If you know Hiaasen and have never read this book, read the damn thing!

And, for more Florida madness, try Tim Dorsey. Start from the beginning, but fasten your seatbelts before you engage. Dorsey is like Hiaasen on steroids. Serge Storms is a character for the ages.

Twisted Hilarity!.......2007-07-29

I'd never read any of Carl Hiaasen's books before, but after reading the reviews here, I got curious and bought "Double Whammy" and "Sick Puppy". After just finishing the first one last night, I can't wait to get into the second one and will definitely be back for more! This kind of hilariously twisted, "dark" writing is right up my alley. Plus I like the way he worked in ecological issues without any preachiness whatsoever...but still getting it said. And SKINK! What a great character!!! I loved every bit of "Double Whammy" and plan on ordering all the other of his books I don't have yet. "Good stuff" doesn't even begin to describe what I thought of it!

If I had to pick... this is my favorite Hiaasen!.......2007-07-10

As an avid fisherman and native Floridian this was a great read! Hiaasen created one of the most memorable characters in Skink the former Gov and a whole cast that only he could put together. There are some scenes that he describes that had me crying with laughter. Anyone who likes fishing and/or Florida and/or laughing and/or fun needs to read this book. I would imagine that everyone should have a copy of Double Whammy on their shelf.

James A. Forrest - Eye of the Storm

Interesting read that'll pull you to the finish........2007-04-07

No spoilers

I'll start of by saying that Double Whammy was my first Hiaasen book, and I went into it thinking it would be good based off of his apparent fan base here on Amazon. I had to read this book for an English class on American Comedy, and because I mostly read psychological thrillers/mysteries, I wasn't quite sure how I'd embrace it.

Having said that, the is a fun book to spend a couple of lazy afternoons or evenings with because the flow of the story is such that it's easy to keep turning the pages, and without realizing it, you get sucked into the plot and how it will turn out. If you read the summary and are scared away because you're not a fishermen, don't worry because I'm from DC so neither am I by a long shot. This is just a funny book with a VERY likeable protagonist and other main characters, and VERY unlikeable antagonists. I recommend this book for lots of smile, a few laughs out loud, and an overall easy reading session.

entertaining.......2007-03-19

Carl Hiaasen never disappoints me. I hope he never stops writing. This book was hilarious. I couldn't put it down until I finished it.

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Wow! This book has everything!

Double Whammy! (Slam Dunk Series)
Tess Eileen Kindig
Manufacturer: Concordia Publishing House
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0570071429

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Wow! This book has everything!.......2006-09-08

Humor, great characters, lovely moral-of-the-story, and basketball! You'll want to get the whole series. Great gifts for all the boys in your family, too.

Gaslighting, the Double Whammy, Interrogation and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Analysis

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A must read for anyone involved in therapy.
The book about lemon therapists.
There are many surprises in reading Gaslighting.

Gaslighting, the Double Whammy, Interrogation and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Analysis
Theodore L. Dorpat
Manufacturer: Jason Aronson
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ASIN: 1568218281

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In treatment, the psychotherapist is in a position of power. Often, this power is unintentionally abused. While trying to embody a compassionate concern for patients, therapists use accepted techniques that can inadvertently lead to control, indoctrination, and therapeutic failure. Contrary to the stated tradition and values of psychotherapy, they subtly coerce patients rather than respect and genuinely help them.

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Excellent.......2006-04-29

I am absolutely not a therapist, but this book has helped me so much in my views of interpersonal dynamics. The folks who wrote reviews before me do an excellent job of explaining the issues the book tackles, but I just wanted to add that from just a human perspective this book is inspiring, insightful and I feel like a better person having a good focus on these topics.

A must read for anyone involved in therapy........2004-12-25

This is the most insightful book on psychoanalytic theory I have ever read. There is a modern tragedy occurring in psychotherapeutic offices throughout the land. Many patients are being treated as sick and diseased human beings who are for all practical purposes irretrievably abnormal. The thesis of this work is that psychotherapy can only be successful when the patient is treated as an equal. This is a very profound statement.

Many patients enter treatment with the unconscious belief that they are flawed, that their perceptions are grossly distorted, and in fact the therapists are happy to confirm this by enforcing their rigid theories of the patients unconscious on the patient. The therapist claims access to a completely undistorted view of reality that the patient is lacking (thus "flawed").

Dorpat astutely recognizes the importance of Weiss proposal that "psychopathology stems from unconscious pathogenic beliefs of the dangers if the patient were to pursue certain important goals."

This is an amazing work that should be of central importance to anyone involved in any way with psychotherapy (students, teachers, therapists, patients, etc.).

The cover of the book touched me only after I had read it. A person on the cover is depicted as being choked by a hateful, angry person, and this is exactly what happens all too often in psychotherapy (though unconsciously).

The book about lemon therapists........2003-12-27

If you have concerns about therapy this book may help you to recognize if a particular therapist is not good for you. And if you no longer trust therapists, this may restore your confidence. Believe it or not, mind control techniques are used by SOME therapists, it is not appropriate and it is NOT therapy! This book examines therapists who do not understand the patient, therapists themselves who are extremely invested in their own rigid perceptions due to subconscious motives. These therapists can cement dependency into a patient to continue treatment and even incapacitate a clients correct judgment to find a better therapist. Real, competent therapy does not restrict and confine the mind. This book exposes a bad therapist for what one is. A bad therapist is one without the expertise to treat a particular person, but rather than referring a client to another therapist, they instead control, destabilize, and eventually make a naive client conform to be a patient that fits their expertise!

My personal experience is described perfectly by Dorpat: the therapist my very dysfunctional parents sent me to early in adolescence. Even though I was the sane one in the family, that therapist wrongly believed the parents, failed to grasp the truth of the situation, and proceeded to break down my healthy and very appropriate defenses (called it "resistance"), and invited self-doubt, fear and uncertainty to invade (called it improvement). The effects of his incapacitating "anti-therapy" gave my sadistic and dominating parents even more freedom to control, shame and intimidate me. That therapist's work really did turn me into a patient, and I became the defenseless work slave on a farm which was exactly what my sadistic parents wanted. My peers at school that I should have gained strength from distanced themselves from me, that therapist was setting me up to be his life-long meal-ticket. Not realizing the true cause of my difficulties, I returned to that monster over and over! When I finally decided leave years later because inside I felt like an empty void due his "therapy", he asked me if I was "cured"!

Much later I found a real therapist and recovered my "self" from that truly incompetent and manipulative therapist, never mind the parents. During that time, this book was vindication and put me far ahead in describing what was going on then - it was twisted un-therapy! Incompetent professionals (of all types) can be very good at covering up their flawed work and keeping the victim from recognizing the truth while continuing to benefit financially. And also tragically, victims are likely to be victimized again by other incompetents and opportunists. Among the examples Dorpat examines are two cases from Freud which are real horror stories of failed therapy. So Freud wasn't perfect. But Dorpat shows that the pattern of the failed therapy has been consistent from the beginning.

That said, I found the writing style to be well flowing and reasonably well organized. The book includes many references to other writers on the subject. There seems to be some repetition of ideas, but I found in this case it was actually good for understanding the concepts and seeing the theme as a whole. To compliment this book, I recommend reading about "countertransference" and "narcissism".

There are many surprises in reading Gaslighting........2001-01-28

In this work, Dorpat sets out to rescue psychoanalysis and psychotherapy from the temptation to take covert control over the patient's mental life. Most often, such domination enters the consulting room unrecognized. There are, of course, some psychotherapeutic systems, such as behavior modification, in which control and shaping behavior are not bad words, but avowed objects. However, in psychoanalytic therapies, freedom of thought is a most valued element. Yet even in the analytic therapies, Dorpat demonstrates how subtly, yet powerfully, covert control and indoctrination do occur - and how commonly. The author's deep conviction and concern are apparent in his writing, and the book delivers a caveat for even the most seasoned psychoanalysts. Part of his thesis is that the essence of psychoanalysis is its method. It is a beautiful method, making it possible for patients to have the freedom to discover and get to know their inner world of experience, so that they can understand how they construct their reality and who they really are. All methods of control and domination are antithetical to that essence. Moreover, the exercise of power and indoctrination is a violation of an individual's personal dignity and humanity, whether in psychotherapy or in everyday life. As such an exercise of power enters therapeutic work, the patient becomes compliant to being controlled and loses touch with the creativity of the dreaming mind. The first part of this book defines the field of inquiry; which is the covert influence on and control of other people's mental lives, often carried out unconsciously. This list includes gas lighting, which induces self-doubt through shame, guilt, and fear, and substitutes the views of the gas lighter for those of the victim; brainwashing, which is similar; and methods such as questioning, intimidation, confrontation, indoctrination, and behavior modification. Most of these techniques have the intended effect of gaining control over the patient's mind, Dorpat writes, and are abusive, antitherapeutic, and contrary to the spirit of psychoanalysis. His evidence makes it apparent just how commonplace and serious they are. In Chapter Two, Dorpat details the intrusion of gas lighting into psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and its grave effects in restricting patients' capacity to think and in bringing about depresses moods and even suicidal depression. Dorpat introduces the reader to gas lighting in its sinister, deliberate forms, in cults and totalitarian regimes. Dorpat shows the parallel between the cult's brainwashing techniques on the one hand, and pressures too often imposed in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, on the other. He describes actual cults that have sprung up among therapists and analysts, groups known to have violated personal and sexual boundaries of patients and colleagues. The second section of the book contains its main thrust: the many ways that psychotherapy has succumbed. Dorpat's thorough review of relevant literature and of his own original studies sets the stage for the presentation of his evidence about brainwashing in the consulting room. His material is convincing, and it has the effect of making readers more conscious of pitfalls of control in their own practices and teaching of analysis. There are many surprises in reading Gas lighting. One discovers that there are a lot of opportunities to commit a breach of the patient's freedom of thought, even with the most constructive intentions. The elementary prototype of such a breach described by Dorpat is the analyst who offers interpretation, often on scanty evidence, and, if the patient does not accept it, regards the patient's objection as "resistance", after which the analyst spends the rest of the hour attempting to overcome this resistance. The methods of overcoming it are very often some form of gas lighting, i.e., getting such patients to doubt their ability to understand what is, after all, unconscious, so that they submit to the analyst's "insight", although that insight is often based on conjecture. Dorpat lovingly describes the heart of psychoanalytic work , as he conceptualized it, as fostering the analysand's freedom to know his or her own thoughts and have free association, with an emphasis on freedom. The author is able to demonstrate the immediate and long range effects of breaches of the patient's freedom of thought and of trust in the patient's own mental activity. The effect, which he demonstrates through vignettes, is that those breaches shut down the patient's creative thinking and bring about mechanical and depressed responses, which fail to advance the analysis. The very last chapter is especially noteworthy. Dorpat reminds the reader of the kind of give and take that makes up the psychoanalytic process. It is one in which openness and safety engenders the appearance of primary process derivatives or thoughts arising from the dreaming part of the mind as responses to interpretations. These expressions, when understood, inform the analytic couple of the deeper effects of an interpretation, regardless of what verbal statement the patient might have made upon hearing it. Dorpat suggests that this is a criterion for freedom rather than control; responses that are primary process derivatives provide evidence that psychoanalysis is taking place, rather that creation of a cul-de-sac caused by gas lighting. The author painstakingly and vividly portrays damage to the psychoanalytic method caused by covert control and indoctrination , especially gas lighting , which discredits the patient's mental capacities and constricts his or her ability to think freely. Yet such modalities are tempting because of the analyst's desire for security and effectiveness; and they are so easy to rationalize or overlook. Dorpat's work stands as a reminder of the vital importance to analytic work of a free and open channel of exploration into the deepest recesses of the psyche.

3 Book Set By Carl Hiaasen; Skinny Dip; Double Whammy; Hoot.

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3 Book Set By Carl Hiaasen; Skinny Dip; Double Whammy; Hoot.
Carl Hiaasen
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3 Book Set By Carl Hiaasen; Skinny Dip; Double Whammy; Hoot.

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Double Whammy
Carl Hiaasen
Manufacturer: Warner Books Inc
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ASIN: B000NY5W7O

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Double Whammy
Carl Hiaasen
Manufacturer: Putnam
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FSK3CW

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Double Whammy
Carl Hiaasen
Manufacturer: Warner Books Inc
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Double Whammy (First Edition-first Printing)

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Double Whammy (First Edition-first Printing)
CARL HIAASEN
Manufacturer: PUTNAM
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KPS89U

Double Whammy:Y2K and the Coming Recession

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If I'd only read it three years ago!!

Double Whammy:Y2K and the Coming Recession
Robert G. Logan
Manufacturer: Roi Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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This book provides today's investor with an objective view of the current economy and stock market. With the goal of capital preservation, readers are given a wakeup call in the midst of stock market furor. A review of historical economic periods puts today's market in perspective, and methods are provided by which to track the economy and stock market and determine their course. The action plan will help minimize any damage that Y2K could inflict on a portfolio. For the aggressive investor, ways to profit from market panic are itemized.

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If I'd only read it three years ago!!.......2002-01-03

This is a great book. If I'd read it three years ago when it first came out, I'd be very wealthy today. However, I did just the OPPOSITE of what this book said to do, thus, I lost a lot. Robert Logan's book, is a great learning tool. It is concise, to the point, and very prophetic. Here we are in the midst of one the worse recessions in history, and one of the worse bear markets in history, and Logan saw it coming 3 years go. Great book!! I wish he'd write another one about the NEXT 3 years (2002-2005).

The Powerpuff Girls Double Whammy, #1 (Comic Book)

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The Powerpuff Girls Double Whammy, #1 (Comic Book)
CARTOON NETWORK
Manufacturer: DC COMICS
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000Q0N3JY

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