Accounting And Finance for Lawyers in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

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The need for an understanding of accounting is now even more critical than ever for lawyers practicing in many areas including securities and corporate law and litigation. In addition, over the last several years, the Financial Accounting Standards Board has made some landmark changes in the accounting rules in areas of interest to lawyers, including the accounting for mergers and acquisitions. The Second Edition of Accounting and Finance For Lawyers includes important material on such areas as accounting for stock options and derivatives and the elimination of the pooling of interests method of accounting for acquisitions. There is a discussion of the accounting implications of the use of so-called special purpose entities. Finally, a chapter on international accounting issues reflects the increasing globalization of business and accounting. As in the First Edition, the basic building blocks of accounting are covered so that the material is accessible and useful to those with any level of accounting knowledge.

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Does its job: Teaches you accounting.......2004-12-08

After fruitlessly attempting to learn accounting from the truly awful casebook we were using in an "Accounting for Lawyers" class, I bought this book off of Amazon after hearing it made the subject approachable. I've generally been impressed by the quality of West's Nutshell series, and this one is no different. The subjects are arranged in a rational order, the book is edited well, and I understood the material after one read-through. This is a typical nutshell book- no superfluous examples or problem sets that no professor actually assigns, just straightforward doctrine. If you're taking an Accounting for Lawyers class or are a solo practicioner looking to delve into some financial statements without hiring an accountant, this should get you by just fine.

Accounting and Finance for Lawyers in a Nutshell (2nd Edition) (Nutshell Series)

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Accounting and Finance for Lawyers in a Nutshell (2nd Edition) (Nutshell Series)
Charles H. Meyer
Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTPK6G

The LLC, C Corp and Sub S decision in a nutshell. : An article from: The National Public Accountant

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The LLC, C Corp and Sub S decision in a nutshell. : An article from: The National Public Accountant
T. Allen Rose
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The National Public Accountant, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 736 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: The LLC, C Corp and Sub S decision in a nutshell.
Author: T. Allen Rose
Publication: The National Public Accountant (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Page: 18(1)

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The Florida land boom was an outgrowth of the industrialization of America, the onset of World War I, and the special natural environment of the state. A place for forts and ports since the days of the Spanish Empire, the presence of military aviation in Florida served to bring attention to the state. Florida came to attract tourists, winter residents, as well as promoters, developers, and speculators. Rich in documentation and illustrated with photographs, this work is an effort to give serious theoretical and factual treatment to one of the great speculation booms in history.

Canada's Highway to hell: the world's last (and dirtiest) oil boom is under way in the bore forests of Alberta. It's destroying a wilderness the size of Florida.: An article from: OnEarth

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Canada's Highway to hell: the world's last (and dirtiest) oil boom is under way in the bore forests of Alberta. It's destroying a wilderness the size of Florida.: An article from: OnEarth
Andrew Nikiforuk
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000WE2FH0
Release Date: 2007-09-24

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This digital document is an article from OnEarth, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 5719 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: Canada's Highway to hell: the world's last (and dirtiest) oil boom is under way in the bore forests of Alberta. It's destroying a wilderness the size of Florida.
Author: Andrew Nikiforuk
Publication: OnEarth (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 29 Issue: 3 Page: 34(8)

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The Florida land boom,
Homer Bews Vanderblue
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00088PTDW

Miami millions: The dance of the dollars in the great Florida land boom of 1925

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Miami millions: The dance of the dollars in the great Florida land boom of 1925
J. Kenneth Ballinger
Manufacturer: Printed by The Franklin press, Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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KEY BENEFIT: This book is an essential tool for paralegal and other legal professionals to bring computer-aided legal research alive. KEY TOPICS: It provides an introduction to computers in the law, reviews and explains sources and evaluation of documents and materials found on the Internet, and features many examples of doing CALR. MARKET: For paralegal and other legal professionals.

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Principles of Dispersal in Higher Plants
L. van der Pijl
Manufacturer: Srpinger-Verlag
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NUROZ6

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Principles of dispersal in higher plants
L. van der Pijl
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0387058818

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Principles of Dispersal in Higher Plants

Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 3540112804

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Aquatic sediments are important sinks of inorganic and organic pollutants as well as of nutrients in highly industrialized and densely populated areas. As many aquatic organisms live in or on the sediments, polluted sediments provide a pathway for the chemicals to food-chain organisms, and finally to man. Sediment-water interactions play a fundamental role in biogeochemical cycling of the elements. One of the most important reactions is the mineralization of organic matter during early diagenesis, which not only leads to anoxic conditions connected with a recycling of nitrate, phosphate, and ammonia but changes the chemical bonding of heavy metals into more soluble species. Our study carried out on freshwater sediments enabled us to show whether heavy metals and nutrients are released into the overlying water under changes in physicochemical conditions. The information is important to water management and sediment dredging activities in harbour areas.

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Although twistor theory originated as an approach to the unification of quantum theory and general relativity, twistor correspondences and their generalizations have provided powerful mathematical tools for studying problems in differential geometry, nonlinear equations, and representation theory. At the same time, the theory continues to offer promising new insights into the nature of quantum theory and gravitation. Further Advances in Twistor Theory, Volume III: Curved Twistor Spaces is actually the fourth in a series of books compiling articles from Twistor Newsletter-a somewhat informal journal published periodically by the Oxford research group of Roger Penrose. Motivated both by questions in differential geometry and by the quest to find a twistor correspondence for general Ricci-flat space times, this volume explores deformed twistor spaces and their applications. Articles from the world's leading researchers in this field-including Roger Penrose-have been written in an informal, easy-to-read style and arranged in four chapters, each supplemented by a detailed introduction. Collectively, they trace the development of the twistor programme over the last 20 years and provide an overview of its recent advances and current status.

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The #1 name in fitness videos, Leslie Sansone, delivers her first audiobook on the principles, exercises, and recipes for healthy livingfor beginners or advanced walkers.

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I love this book.......2007-06-04

This book is easy to follow and helpful and inspirational. Leslie makes it easier than ever to follow an exercise program and makes it fun. She has really inspired me to go for a walk everyday!

Walk Away the Pounds: 6 week Program.......2007-05-15

This is a wonderful program for anyone starting out with WATPs. It includes a DVD to get you started. It explains everything to a tee to get you started on a reasonable walking program, and gives much encouragement along the way. It makes the 6 weeks easy to progress through, by slowing adding things to add to your program. You will love this book if you are just getting started or are an intermediate walker. If you practice this program as it is given, you will be a walking pro in no time!

Plan is achievable........2007-05-14

Although I have not yet completed the plan, I do feel that the material in this book is achievable. She walks (pardon the pun)through the steps at a pace that anyone could work with. I am giving it a try.

Walk Away the Pounds: The Breakthrough 6-Week Program.......2006-08-30

Great workouts I have lost 15 lbs since I started the program about 6 weeks ago.

Walk Away the Pounds by Leslie Sansone.......2006-02-17

Gets us old timers out of the house and in the gym and go at my own pace.

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Surprisingly, I enjoyed it
Interesting tale of love, betrayl and redemption
The Real Bridget Jones Diary
HAD to put down!
Did I like it? I loved it

Playing Away
Adele Parks
Manufacturer: Pocket
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0671775464

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It's sexy. It's roguish. It's hilarious. It's a sensational debut novel from London, a joyously comic take on modern marriage and its fallout. Single people may feel they have it rough...but wait until you see what happens when married folk fall in lust.

Connie Green's life should be perfect. She has a hot career, her wonderful husband, Luke, and a bunch of great girlfriends. But she has just met overwhelmingly sexy John at a business conference. Her head and her heart said, "no way," but her traitorous body shrieked "yes, YES!" Now Connie's deep into a tawdry affair, which is destroying her peace of mind and her grand plan for Happily Ever After. Maybe John is her destiny. After all, she's losing weight. It can't be a bad thing if she's losing weight, can it?

Connie longs to confide in her girlfriends. They've always discussed their sex lives before, preferably over cocktails. But this infidelity thing makes it a trifle awkward. Connie's not quite sure what she wants. And that's exactly the trouble.

A novel for every woman juggling the untidy mix of work, romance, sex, and marriage, Playing Away shimmers with equal parts comic relief and penentrating insight. Adele Parks has crafted a cunningly revealing portrait of the lives of hip, urban women, poised at the cusp of a millennium.

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Connie Green's life should be perfect. She's got a hot career, her wonderful husband, Luke, and a bunch of great girlfriends. But Connie has a big problem. She's just met overwhelmingly sexy John at a business conference. Her head and her heart said, "no way", but her traitorous body shrieked, "yes, Yes!" Now, Connie's deep into a tawdry affair and she doesn't know what to think. Maybe John is her destiny. After all, she's losing weight. It can't be a bad thing if she's losing weight. Can it?

Connie longs to confide in her girlfriends. They've always discussed their sex lives before, preferably over cocktails. But this infidelity thing makes it a trifle awkward. What Connie wants is.... Well, Connie's not quite sure what she wants. And that's just the trouble.

A novel for every woman juggling the untidy mix of work, romance, sex, and marriage, Playing Away shimmers with equal parts comic relief and penetrating insight. As Connie and her brave, silly, colorful friends search for answers along the precarious paths of love and lust, we glimpse more than a little bit of ourselves. With bold strokes both moving and outrageously funny, Adele Parks has crafted a stunningly revealing portrait of hip, urban women's lives poised at the cusp of a new millennium.

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Surprisingly, I enjoyed it.......2006-06-18

This is no great feat of literature - a novel about an affair which is little more than an obsessive ego trip, with a fairly transparent storyline, and main characters which are not entirely likeable -they run the range from too perfect (and arrogant with it) to downright frumpy by way of really annoying...

Despite all of this, however, I did enjoy the book - the subject matter (adultery) is unusual for what is essentially a romantic novel and it is dealt with honestly, though not sympathetically, and if you're looking for a fun read for the beach, it fits the bill.

Interesting tale of love, betrayl and redemption.......2005-07-27

Connie Baker has the kind of fairytale life that other women envy: she is beautiful, has great fashion style, a great job, wonderful friends, and a loving husband of just barely a year.

Then she embarks on a passionate affair with a slutty male colleague. Instead of taking it for what it is - a bunch of shagging - she thinks that John is her destiny, and starts to fall in love with him, not giving a second thought to her devoted husband Luke, who has been putting in too much time in his thriving restoration business.

When she discovers that she is not the only one in John's life, she is devastated. I guess his comment that she is his 100th lover and the fact that they only get together once a week has slipped by her... Anyhow, after this devastating news, and the fact that he is suddenly distant, they end the affair and life goes on. News that her best friend's husband has run off with another woman cuts deep - especially to Luke who cannot forgive his friend for the infidelity.

John suddenly wants Connie back and Luke finds out about the deception. Once Luke is gone, she realizes that she was her destiny all along, and will have to leap through hoops to regain his love and trust again.

It is hard to like Connie. Despite seemingly having it all, she is so full of herself, which makes if difficult to feel she deserves a second chance. I would also have liked to see the characters of John and Luke more fleshed out. Particularly Luke, as he garners more than a casual mention throughout the book - no real time is spent to define his character. It is not the definitive book on the subject, but a quick and interesting character study nonetheless.

The Real Bridget Jones Diary.......2004-12-05

For us yanks, there just isn't anything this pervy and laced with that marvelous Masterpiece theatre dialogue in the American publishing scene. A romance novel for the new millenium.

HAD to put down!.......2004-08-01

Boy, was this book a mistake to buy. I've read about twenty pages and just don't want to read another word.

When the story opens, the protagonist is meeting and flirting with a man she's met at a business affair (pun intended). First thing that annoyed me -- why would she get drunk and raunchy with a guy in front of her colleagues? Would any of them respect her at the next business meeting??

Connie is a self-adoring, obnoxious, spoiled woman who doesn't deserve what she has. Married to Luke, blessed with good health, good looks, good job, great apartment, her life is filled with sex, parties and happiness.

So what would any intelligent woman do in this circumstance? She has an affair with a guy who has slept with ninety nine women (ewwww) and wants to make her happy 100th. Not that Connie is so pure herself. We hear in great detail that she slept with pretty much anything that walked for any reason whatsoever before she got married.

One would think she'd have gotten it out of her system, eh.

The story may very well end up being one where Connie gets what's coming to her, but I don't care to hang around for another 330 pages to find out. It's not a moral issue, it's more that Connie is completely unappealing to me. She's an embarrassment to womankind and there seems to be nothing redeeming about her. She's the kind of woman where if she were a guy a woman's book would never expect you to sympathize.

I have another book of Ms Parks' to read. Maybe that one will be better. Sure hope so.

Did I like it? I loved it.......2003-09-03

You know when you watch a film you absolutely adore: you relate to the characters, you're entertained by the script and the undercurrent of creative energy? So you go back and watch the different scenes again and again? Well this was the first book which I had to leaf through to replay the events once I had read it and wished I could be back in the company of the characters. Grateful for the last two pages which at least gave us some hope and sympathy for Connie- oh give over, that ending was for the reader, not the character. Loved it again and again- and I'm a single,unmarried bloke - perhaps a different market altogether.

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Interesting nonfiction

Playing Away
Michael Mewshaw
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Authors | Arts & Literature | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

Travel | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0743213076

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Interesting nonfiction.......2007-08-15

Michael Mewshaw's 'Playing Away' is mostly about an American author's living experiences in Rome. It has the 'to the point' nonfiction approach and brings out hilarious effect like only fiction could.

Mewshaw travelled a lot. He says, "in some inchoate way, I equated curiosity with creativity, mileage covered with imagination improved". Despite whatever he believes, the mileage does reflect in his writing.

Mewshaw has written well on what works in Rome and what doesnt, how effective the rules are. He catches the spirit of the place in the celebration around. When he talks about how much of logic and moral suspension you have to do to live in Rome, it is one place where you can easily make the decision of going there to just visit or stay.

In a very effective way he says how 'name dropping' changes to 'difficult-to-visit place' dropping.

The essay revealing drastic steps of feeding poisonous substances to pigeons to control their population made me wonder if someday humans would be exterminated too.

Expatriates would find a voice for their confusion of 'To stay or not' in his writing.

I like the essays on his interaction with Graham Greene and Gore Vidal best, even better than Greene's work.

Fantastic T.V.-Movie Songs: The Professional Touch Piano Solos

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Fantastic T.V.-Movie Songs: The Professional Touch Piano Solos

Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Performing Arts | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000QDUAPG

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26 pop tunes arranged for finished piano performances (no lyrics or guitar chords), including such as Eye Of The Tiger, How Do You Keep The Music Playing?, Love The World Away & Song From M.A.S.H.

How to Be a Great Grandparent Even If Your You Are 100 Miles Away (It's All in the Cards)

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How to Be a Great Grandparent Even If Your You Are 100 Miles Away (It's All in the Cards)
Beth Mende Conny , and Judith Korotkin
Manufacturer: Peter Pauper Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Grandparenting | Family Relationships | Parenting & Families | Subjects | Books

General | Parenting & Families | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0880883138

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Playing Away
Adele Parks
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ97CO

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Playing Away
Chris Sykes
Manufacturer: Josef Weinberger Plays
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0856762857

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PLAYING AWAY

Manufacturer: Atheneum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HVU0G6

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Playing Away
Caryl Phillips
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0571145833

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Playing Away
Hunter Davies
Manufacturer: Puffin Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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