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Financial Accounting Integrated: A Business Process Approach with Integrated Debits and Credits and Pier 1 Package
Jane L. Reimers
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Financial Accounting: A Business Process Approach attempts to bridge the gap between business and accounting. It starts out by setting the stage with a description of what a business is all about. This provides a framework in which readers can see how accounting relates to and reports on business activities. This book shows how accounting fits into business as a company is created, operated, and expanded. The traditional financial statements and the accounting equation are emphasized, but how accounting relates to business processes is at the core. This version of Reimers introduces debits and credits in Chapter 4 and then contains integrated treatment of debits and credits in all subsequent chapters. It covers merchandising and inventory; integrates statement of cash flows, business risks, and internal controls; emphasizes financial statements; and integrates Excel into every chapter. For financial statement users and preparers.
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Value Based Management brushes aside the often-confusing amalgam of quick-fix management potions, and gives you tested tips and strategies designed to turn your company into an equity-enhancing machine. This long-awaited book describes how, once you have seen and tried the hundreds of different management theories that abound today, one goal will always remain: Enhancing Shareholder Value. Companies that focus on creating and building value become focused, goal-oriented, and successful at building the powerful business machines that are required in todayÕs give-no-quarter competitive environment. Performance measurement consultant James A. KnightÕs eye-opening book provides convincing proof that strategies designed to maximize shareholder value can benefit everyone involved. With its clear-cut diagrams, explanations, and case histories, Value Based Management demonstrates how every decision your management team makes can consistently create shareholder value. Its comprehensive benefits include a clear definition of the nature of corporate value, and how the act of enhancing it can create positive reverberations throughout the entire company; examples of companies that have successfully managed for value and how they have done it, alongside examples of companies that failed to manage for value and how you can avoid their pitfalls; and explanations of how Value Added Management creates the optimal balance between short and long term decisions, and helps your managers balance the trade offs between improved levels of profit and greater growth. Like so many journeys, the toughest step when focusing your company on Value Management is the first step. Take that first step today! Read Value Based Management, focus on the strategy and business questions it raises, then think about how its solutions can be tailored to fit your company. Once you have begun to implement Value Based Management your shareholders, along with your customers and employees, will recognize and reap the profitable benefits of a value based corporate mindset.
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Excellent introduction with detailed solutions.......1999-04-27
I've watched the words "Shareholder Value" creep into our business vocabulary over the past decade or so, and I've heard many explanations of how to optimize it. Unfortunately, there about as many definitions and techniques for measuring and managing it as there are books on the subject. I've read many of these other texts and worked with the other consultants Mr. Knight mentions in his book. But none of them have approached the precision and clarity of this book. Mr Knight starts with why management should understand the shareholder's needs and the proper methods for addressing those needs, then he takes the reader logically through all the steps (including the subtle nuances) of implementing such a program. There is no more comprehensive nor better written book on this subject on the market. If only Mr. Knight had written his book 10 years ago, many of us would have been saved from endless hours of vague and confusing meetings about what we were really trying to accomplish.
A very basic point of view.......1999-03-10
I expected much more of it. Very basic in it's assesments and definition. I cannot get a real signification of EVA until chapter 6. Good for earliers beginners not awaiting for much academic support
A must read book for companies striving for value creation.......1998-07-14
This book shows how to develop and implement strategies regarding value creation for shareholders. It has a very good mix of theory and business cases. The core aspect of this book is the theory behind the imperative link of: Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Financial Reporting and Incentive Compensation. This theory is tested against many sucessful business cases. The author also shows why some companies fail after incomplete or wrong assumptions on the value based management implementation.
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As the Army has implemented initiatives to improve its basic logistics processes, it has found that these processes are hampered by a financial management system that is slow and inaccurate and that creates errors and delays. This report documents analys
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Using a business process approach, this text integrates AIS topics to provide a strong conceptual foundation in accounting systems and controls. Throughout the text, the authors emphasize the relevance of the content to accountants and the roles that they play as designer, user and evaluator of information systems. The text provides numerous problem-solving aids to help students develop competencies in documenting and analyzing transaction cycles and AIS data, identifying risks and controls, using accounting applications, and designing and evaluating AIS. A set of core cases is used throughout each chapter to facilitate integration. There is a comprehensive case at the end of the text that is designed to give students further opportunity for integration of concepts and tools. For instructors emphasizing database design and accounting applications, a database design project is also integrated in the text. A supplement is available to help students learn how a relational database (MS Access) can be used to implement an AIS.
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Good overview of how systems work.......2004-05-23
I was looking for a book that described in depth how the various cycles (e.g., Revenue Cycle) worked in conjunction with the various tables. Does an outstanding job with in-depth details where you not only learn the steps, but how the system is updated at each stage. Good material on controls, especially application controls that need to be built into the system. Normally I never look at case studies and assignments, but in this book, they were useful.
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Financial Accounting: A Business Process Approach attempts to bridge the gap between business and accounting. It starts out by setting the stage with
a description of what a business is all about. This provides a framework in which students can see how accounting relates to and reports on business activities. This book shows how accounting fits into business as a company is created, operated, and expanded. It covers merchandising and inventory; integrates statement of cash flows, business risks, and internal controls; emphasizes financial statements; details accounting procedures with debits and credits, and integrates Excel into every chapter. For financial statement users and preparers.
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8.5x11" paperback, blue cover with white printing. Special edition for Penn State University.
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Yield-Curve Dynamics examines both the advanced theory and practice of these state-of-the-art techniques. Topics include: single- and multi-factor models; applying yield-curve modelling to risk management; forecasting short-term interest rates; unique yield-curve volatility; and trading strategies for different yield-curve environments. This is an important and useful book for anyone involved in, or learning about, risk management, trading, research, options and exotic derivatives, fixed-income, or currency markets.
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Stifled Laughter: One Woman's Story About Fighting Censorship
Claudia Johnson
Manufacturer: Fulcrum Publishing
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A wonderful book about censorship and life in a small town.......2000-03-30
Stifled Laughter was Brilliant! The subject of Censorship was the theme interwoven with details of the authors personal life! A very frank funny book that leads you through the trials of fighting the narrow minded while trying to balance life and marriage with two small children. The threat of censorship to both our classic literature and the continued freedom to practice critical thinking make this a book everyone must read!
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- Completely Bogus
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Jackie Disaster: A Mystery
Eric Dezenhall
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From his office overlooking the Atlantic City boardwalk, Jackie 'Disaster' DeSesto runs Allegation Sciences, a successful crisis management firm. That's why Sally Naturale, America's doyenne of good taste, hires him after a pregnant woman blames her miscarriage on Sally's organic soy milk. Jackie doesn't buy the woman's story, and worse he doesn't buy Sally Naturale's version either. His suspicions are confirmed when assassins try to kill him. So with his crack team (aka the Imps), Jackie embarks on a damage control campaign to vindicate Sally and catch the folks who are trying to drag him down with her. Suspenseful and hilarious, Jackie Disaster is a spin-til-you're dizzy dance through the mysteries of media manipulation and South Jersey.
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Completely Bogus.......2003-10-28
I could only get through 1/4 of this book because of the inconsistencies and outright errors. It spoiled what is decent writing. I live in Atlantic City and work in the gaming industry, so when I saw this book in the library I snatched it up (thank goodness I didn't waste my hard-earned money!).
First of all, his charaterization of Atlatnic City casinos is totally incorrect. He has a mobster owning an AC casino, something that would NEVER happnen in the 25 years of legal gambling in AC. It just can't happen because the regulations are so tight. And the hero, Jackie, is a consultant who has full run of the casino where he works. Again, would NEVER happen. Early in the book Jackie and his cohorts grill a woman in the "Hellivator," a specially adapted elevator to pressure cheaters. What an imagaination! It would NEVER happen.
But OK, for arguement's sake, let's give him some literary license.
The hero, Jackie, is an Italian American who supposedly has a problem early in the book with the "stereotype" of the Wop. But a few pages later, he makes fun of an Italian American who graduated college and is the casino's COO because this gentleman forgot how close he is to Siciily. You can't have it both ways.
And his introduction of characters (all of whom have the typical "mob" nicknames, another inconsistency for someone who doesn't like sterotypes) is like a shotgun. He tries to out-Elmore Leonard Elmore Leonard, and fails miserably.
An extremely disappointing book and for anyone familiar with the South Jersey/Atlantic City area, his errors are unforgivable. And spell check would have indeed helped.
Pass this one by.
Master of Disaster.......2003-08-09
I have just finished reading Jackie Disaster, Eric Dezenhall's second novel, and I feel an urgent need to get this review out immediately, in order to alert my fellow Delaware Valley natives (and more far flung South Jerseyans), to go out and snatch this book - or risk missing some of the biggest laughs of any novel you are likely to bring "down the shore" with you this summer. The new book has all of the page-turning hyper-drive of Dezenhall's first novel, Money Wanders¸ but the laughs are bigger, and the characters this time around are completely out of control.
It is possible that those that did not grow up within a certain distance of the Benjamin Franklin bridge may find some of the characters that Dezenhall has cooked-up to be somewhat over the top, but having come of age in crazy, class-and-ethnicity-obsessed South Jersey, I can vouch for the authenticity of even the most outrageous of these characters (the disgraced plastic surgeon, the obese mobster (wanabee) and the flamboyant queen with a gift for inventing the most absurd nicknames stand-out among some of the more hilarious and twisted characters). Make no mistake, no matter how clever (and sometimes diabolical) Dezenhall's improvisations, the real craft here is careful observation.
But there is much more to Jackie Disaster than just detailed description and belly-laughs. Dezenhall is also able to immerse the reader in a complex and highly nuanced world, where even slight gradations in social class and economic fortunes explain more about the behavior of adults (and, sadly, some children) than any amount of psycho-sexual Freudian theory could ever hope to explain. Dezenhall's trick is to give us enough of the social, economic and religious background of the characters and their environment so that we understand the motivations of the characters as they begin to unravel, without once slowing the down the juggernaut of his plot.
As with many of the best episodes of the Sopranos, Dezenhall knows that what draws in the audience is not simply a string of incredibly brutal acts of the protagonists, but that they live among us in a parallel universe with its own complex moral hierarchy - a code of ethics that allows them to sit next to us and participate at PTA meetings, while at the same time truly believing that murder and mayhem are acceptable (and even just) punishments for not showing the proper "respect" for a small-minded thug who oversees the crimes of other, smaller-minded thugs. Just describing the acts is never enough - you need to see the characters go through their normal routines and have (for them) normal conversations with their peers in order to recognize how deep the evil really runs.
And then there is the plot. It may be that Eric Dezenhall created an entirely new genre - the "public relations/crisis management thriller" - with his first book. In Jackie Disaster, he again gives us a two-layered view of the crisis-management game that keeps us flipping the pages; the high-level strategic and public opinion angle, as well as the street-smart capers that one sometimes needs to employ when the other guys just won't "play by the rules".
It strikes me that this book is required reading for any CEO of a public company in the post-Enron era, where the public now has real-life "proof" that nobody gets rich without cheating, and catching the fat cat with his (or her) hand in the cookie jar is just a matter of time (and the right "crusading" activist or journalist).
I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending Jackie Disaster to anyone who suspects that there is more to the news than facts, and more to New Jersey than a turnpike.
a proofreading disaster.......2003-07-23
I agree with the other reviewers that this book is great fun to read. But apparently no proofreader did so. This publication is absolutely RIFE with typos, punctuation gaffes and distracting errors. SpellCheck isn't enough, Thomas Dunne Books - a live human needs to proof it, too.
superb satire.......2003-06-15
Former professional boxer Jackie "Disaster" De Sesto manages Allegation Services, a crisis-management spin-doctor firm. His offices overlook the gaming floor of the Golden Prospect Casino in Atlantic City, owned by his prime customer and girlfriend, Angela Vanni, daughter of a deceased Mafia boss. Jackie Disaster and his team of Imps handle and often deliver scams and cons to paint a rosy picture of his clients regardless of the truth.
Millionaire Sally Naturale hires Jackie Disaster and associates to restore her and her firm's reputation. Murrin Connolly filed a lawsuit claiming that the organic soymilk that Sally's company produces caused her to miscarry. Expert Jonah Eastman suggests a two front attack. First Jackie Disaster and team need to destroy the credibility of Murrin with a negative dirt smearing campaign and second Sally must act contrite in public as a counter to her posh upper crust living style. Instead of smooth sailing, Jackie lives up to his nickname as nothing goes right especially when Sally vanishes. Jackie and the Imps begin a new counteroffensive.
JACKIE DISASTER is a superb satire that showcases a professional who uses any means including dirty tricks to provide counter cover for the rich and famous. The story line stuns the audience with its relative simplicity that paints a dirty image making game by the in crowd to protect their reputation. A cast, starting with the antihero and his cohorts including his father, niece, girlfriend, and new client make for a wild ride down the Jersey shore. To protect the image of Eric Dezenhall, a sequel is required.
Harriet Klausner
Fast paced fun.......2003-06-11
Last year, I read "Money Wanders" and I enjoyed it so much that I decided to pick up "Jackie Disaster." This book was even better than the first novel by this author. While both books were fun, (I actually laughed out loud many times) "Jackie Disaster" had a really well developed feel to it. The cast of characters was interesting, the plot ran smoothly without telegraphing the ending and I found myself completely caught up in the action. I definitely recommend this one-as well as "Money Wanders." Can't wait for Dezenhall's next book.
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