Practical Financial Modelling: A Guide to Current Practice (CIMA Professional Handbook)

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This book is for all financial professionals whose work, to a greater or lesser degree, involves complex spreadsheets and financial models. This includes investment bankers, commercial banks, accountancy firms, property firms, public sector including local government and healthcare, PFI/PPP enterprises, financial managers and financially literate general managers. Junior/middle management, where the focus would be on cash flow forecasting and budgeting tasks, will also find this book of value.

For the vast majority of people involved in this subject, financial modelling is an activity, a task requiring skills. Once people have the ability to structure the model, they have a better starting point from which to address the financial problems. This new book proposal intends to offer that starting point.

Theory is limited to the absolute essentials that aid understanding; thus the focus with this new book is very practical - this is "how-to-do-it", showing best practice, and is illustrated with many practical worked examples.

* Practical financial modelling- all the essentials in one book
* How-to approach, with numerous worked examples
* Explains the techniques and functions of Excel most use in financial modelling and budgeting

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This book is the guide to how to maximize revenues, control expenses, and optimize financial objectives. Its practical “hands-on” approach facilitates immediate application to all types of foodservice operations. Used for illustrative purposes, the included forms can be reproduced and implemented. Chapter topics cover the control process; food cost/food cost percentage; inventory management; requisitions and transfers; purchasing functions; receiving merchandise and processing invoices; quality standards, specifications, yield analysis, and plate cost; food production control; menu sales analysis; beverage cost/beverage cost percentage; bar and inventory control; beverage production control and service; controlling payroll costs and the cost of employee turnover; measuring staff performance and productivity; control practices applied to human resources issues, gratuities, wage laws, and working conditions; monitoring the sales process; pricing and sales forecasts; and self-inspections, customer feedback and nonfood inventories. For management personnel in the foodservice industry.

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Foodservice Profitability
Edward E./ Hill, Timothy H. Sanders
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall 1/10/2000
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Foodservice Profitability: A Control Approach

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Foodservice Profitability: A Control Approach
Northwest Hospitality News Timothy Hill , Cen Edward Sanders
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
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Foodservice Profitability: A Control Approach (Book/Disk)

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Foodservice Profitability: A Control Approach (Book/Disk)
Timothy H. Hill Edward E. Sanders
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
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ASIN: B000OIQM9Q

Foodservice Profitability: A Control Approach, 2e

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Foodservice Profitability: A Control Approach, 2e
Northwest Hospitality News Timothy Hill , Cen Edward Sanders
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OI9UBS

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In Law and Community, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., and Robert M. Ackerman explore the connections between individualism and communitarianism in American law. The authors argue that, though tort law is dominated by individualistic language, it has significant communitarian influences.

The pullet surprise: A year on an urban farm
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The pullet surprise: A year on an urban farm
Michael Kluckner
Manufacturer: Raincoast Books
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ASIN: 155192109X

The Pullet Surprise: A Year on an Urban Farm
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The Pullet Surprise: A Year on an Urban Farm
Michael Kluckner
Manufacturer: Raincoast Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O2DBNM

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Now NT compatible! Version 2.0 of the Dynamic Human CD-ROM combines three-dimensional graphics, vivid animation, fluid motion, and the human voice to give users a keen understanding of the living body. Incredibly easy to use with loads of content, a fully integrated web site, and easy navigation, this is the most comprehensive and engaging learning tool available.

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Human Body Systems 2 CD-ROM
Ernst Klett
Manufacturer: Cambridge-Hitachi
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ASIN: 1845650301

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Human Body Systems is a set of three CD-ROMs from the MediaLibrary series. It provides a wide range of media tools to support science teaching, including clear animations of challenging science concepts, video clips of experimental and real life science, photos and diagrams to illustrate concepts, and activities to consolidate understanding. The topics covered will be relevant to advanced courses in biology, human biology and health sciences. Standard navigation options are simple and easy to use. In addition, an innovative navigation web shows how topics inter-relate allowing you to explore linked topics and resources with ease. Human Body Systems is ideal for use on a whiteboard or data projector. Students can also use the discs on their own for revision or reinforcement.

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Human Body Systems 2 CD-ROM
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
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A wandering tale which doesn't lead where you think......

A memorable tale

Island of Lost Marbles

Interesting historical information, crime comes in second

Story could have been written in 10 pages

The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Miles Harvey
Manufacturer: Broadway
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0767908260
Release Date: 2001-09-04

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In 1995, a watchful patron alerted a librarian at Johns Hopkins University that another patron, a middle-aged and well-dressed man, was behaving suspiciously. The librarian called the police, who discovered that the man, a Floridian named Gilbert Bland, had cut four maps from a set of rare books. On investigation, the police were able to attribute dozens of similar thefts to Bland, thefts that had taken place at a score of the country's best-regarded--and, presumably, best-protected--scholarly institutions.

Like countless other readers, Miles Harvey, a writer for Outside magazine, encountered the news of Bland's arrest as a brief item in the back pages of the morning newspaper. The story stayed with Harvey, who wondered why otherwise law-abiding people behave so badly around antiquities. In The Island of Lost Maps, a wonderfully rich excursion into the demimonde of what might be called cartographomania, Harvey follows Bland's tracks from library to library, reconstructing the crimes of the man he deems the Al Capone of map theft, following the contours of Bland's complex, sinister character. Along the way, Harvey examines the history of cartography generally, and the ravenous market for old maps--once the quiet province of a few knowing collectors, now invaded by speculators. These maps are just another corner of the overpriced status-symbol commodity market--and one that richly rewarded Bland's nefarious work.

Harvey's winding narrative, full of learned detours, adds up to a superbly rendered tale of true crime (and, many readers might object, of insufficient punishment), one that will appeal to book lovers and mystery buffs in equal measure. --Gregory McNamee

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The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had gone virtually undetected until he was caught in 1995–and was unmasked as the most prolific American map thief in history. As Miles Harvey unravels the mystery of Bland’s life, he maps out the world of cartography and cartographic crime, weaving together a fascinating story of exploration, craftsmanship, villainy, and the lure of the unknown.

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A wandering tale which doesn't lead where you think.............2006-09-25

This is an interesting tale of a writer getting lost. The author embarked on a mission to find the story of a thief who stole valuable maps from right under the noses of unprepared rare book collections. While he was well on the journey, he found his subject to be uncooperative and not particularly interesting. Nonetheless, the writing flows, and the book gives a brief but interesting look into cartographic history, the antique map-dealing subculture, and the gentle madness of map collectors. The book does seem a bit stretched, and it is more the story of the author's quest to write the book than the nature of cartographic crime, but I liked the diversions, and the writer does an excellent job of making a foriegn topic accessible. The book is both engaging and meandering, and doesn't go where you think it is going.

A memorable tale.......2006-06-28

Explores a whole different world....that of the rare map collector and those who become a bit too much obsessed with possessing them.

I found it a delightful read with lots of good detail about a little-known but fascinating world.

Island of Lost Marbles.......2006-04-28

Author Miles Harvey describes the bizarre world of map thieves (including explorers, cartographers, collectors and vandals) as "deliciously offbeat," and so it is. Perhaps a fascinating narrative on cartographic crime could be culled from these 350 pages. Sadly, Harvey structured his book around Gilbert Bland, a petty crook whose life is remarkable only for its sheer dullness. With all the build-up in the introduction, the reader hopes for more.

Also, Harvey can't resist the urge to write about HIMSELF. He constantly interrupts mesmerizing tales of New World discovery with drivelly personal thoughts better confined to LiveJournal. Lest we forget, Harvey is a Professional Journalist On Assignment Interviewing People! And he likes maps, and his mother often cried when he stayed out late, blah blah blah.

Worst of all, Harvey constantly compares Bland and himself to reckless explorers like Pizarro, Fremont "the Pathfinder", Sir Walter Raleigh and even Christopher Columbus. Considering the absolute mediocrity of Harvey and Bland, such metaphors ring false and are in fact ludicrously disingenuous. At one point Harvey describes the violent fates of certain explorers (including cannibalism, decapitation, mutiny and the murder of thousands). Then--with a straight face--he draws a parallel between these outrageous events and his own drive down I-85 to Hardee's. I'm NOT kidding.

Harvey makes the case that he and Bland are similar people, and there I must agree. Both are utterly boring people. Bland conned dealers into buying stolen maps, while Harvey conned me into buying this book.

In short, the explorers and cartographers of old make for rich subject matter. Librarians and map collectors of the modern age do too, for the most part. As for Bland, I cringed whenever his name popped up, and Harvey's self-indulgent reveries nearly drove me to hurl the book against a wall. Too bad "Island of Lost Maps" is mostly about Harvey and Bland as opposed to all those wonderfully weird, historical characters left in the margins.

Interesting historical information, crime comes in second.......2006-02-20

Until I read some of the other reviews here, I was unaware that this was a "True Crime" book. I really enjoyed the historical information in the book and thought that the modern day crime story added some interest, particularly because it brought into play the value of antique maps in todays market.

I also felt that the ease with which Mr. Bland (truly a perfect name for him)was able to remove maps and other documents from public institutions points to a severe problem in local libraries and historical societies. These, often underfunded, institutions lack the money for everyday expenses, much less high tech security systems. What is to prevent their collections from ending up on e-bay? Not much if you follow this story.

Mr. Bland may not have been the interesting character some readers may desire, but the historical information and the importance maps hold in history is facinating.

Story could have been written in 10 pages.......2005-12-28

Diverges from the main point for about 300 pages. I kept reading out of hope that I would find out what happened to the map thief. Only bought the book because it was on clearance - a total waste of a $1.99.

ISLAND OF LOST MAPS: A TRUE STORY OF CARTOGRAPHIC CRIME

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ISLAND OF LOST MAPS: A TRUE STORY OF CARTOGRAPHIC CRIME
MILES HARVEY
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Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Miles Harvey
Manufacturer: RANDOM HOUSE @ TRADE
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Binding: Paperback
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Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Miles Harvey
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THE ISLAND OF LOST MAPS. A True Story of Cartographic Crime.
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Review Copy)

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Manufacturer: Random House
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Complex liquids constitute a basic element in modern materials science; their significant features include self-assembly, mesoscale structures, complex dynamics, unusual phases and enormous sensitivity to perturbations. Understanding their nature and properties are a great challenge to modern materials science that demands novel approaches. This book focuses on nonlinear dielectric phenomena, particularly on nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy (NDS), which may be considered a possible successor to broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS). NDS phenomena directly coupled to mesoscale heterogeneity fluctuations, so information obtained in this way is basically complementary to BDS tests. The book also discusses the application of NDS in a set of complex liquid systems: glassy liquids, liquid crystals, liquids with critical point phenomena, and bio-relevant liquids. The complementary application of NDS and BDS may allow the discovery of universal patterns for the whole category of complex liquids. Written by specialists in the field of nonlinear dielectric studies, theoreticians and experimentalists, ranging from solid state physics to biophysics, the book is organized so that it can serve as a basic textbook for a non-experienced reader.

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