The Guide to Understanding Financial Statements

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The Guide to Understanding Financial Statements
S. B. Costales , and Geza Szurovy
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There's no mystery to understanding company financial statements Even if you have no financial or accounting background, you can read those intimidating-looking financial statements as easily as A-B-C. The second edition of The Guide to Understanding Financial Statements, by S.B. Costales and Geza Szurovy, makes all the numbers and jargon absolutely clear. In seconds you'll spot a company's strengths and weaknesses, see how its performance measures up, and have a solid basis for judging future prospects. The material is so easy to grasp, you'll know it all on first reading, Discover: what a balance sheet really reveals; the true significance of a profit and loss statement; what the six most important financial ratios are, and what each can tell you; how to tell when the numbers are favorable or not; how to spot fraud; how to discover whether the stated value of certain asests is true; much more.

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Great Buy!!! Easy to Read and Understand.......2002-06-27

This book was a big help to me. Having only a basic education in accounting, this book laid it out for me in a simple, easy-to-read manner. Definately a good buy!

A Hands Down Great Book For Beginning Managers.......2000-11-16

This book is amazing in that it gives a comprehensive,consise, and simple explanation for finicial statements. I have read many such books, yet this tops them all for its relative simplicity while still being able to get across its point. I would recommend this book to any beginning accountant, manager, or investor. This book shed light on information overlooked by unexperienced businessmen and is a great buy.

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Balance Sheet Structures

Manufacturer: Woodhead Publishing, Published with The Association of Corporate Treasurers
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ASIN: 1855732475

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Balance Sheet Structures is a practical and comprehensive guide to balance sheet issues. The book begins by covering the financial theory necessary for an understanding of the debt versus equity issue and then focuses on real world issues by discussing answers to the questions Why do companies have balance sheets structured as they are? Do industry differences rule the structure? Does a multinational differ greatly from a domestic company? Does management's attitude to risk have any effect?

Economic Government of the EU: A Balance Sheet of New Modes of Policy Coordination (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

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Economic Government of the EU: A Balance Sheet of New Modes of Policy Coordination (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

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The creation of Monetary Union marked a major step in the evolution of the European Union. Is the EU now taking the next step toward a full-fledged economic government? This book seeks to answer this question by studying the evolution, execution and performance of new modes of economic policy coordination as potential stepping-stones towards more institutionalized forms of economic governance.

Financial Structure: An Investigation of Sectoral Balance Sheets in the G-7 (National Institute of Economic and Social Research Economic and Social Studies)

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Financial Structure: An Investigation of Sectoral Balance Sheets in the G-7 (National Institute of Economic and Social Research Economic and Social Studies)
Joseph P. Byrne , and E. Philip Davis
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Differences in financial structure result in contrasting financing and economic behavior. This book confronts theory and empirical research with aggregate financial data across the G7, spanning 1970 through 2000. It compares the contrasting patterns and development of financial structures with the main theoretical and empirical results in economic literature. The resulting data analysis traces portfolios over a turbulent period characterized by considerable economic and financial instability, marked financial liberalization, far-reaching technical change and volatile asset prices.

Balance sheet structure and the managerial discretion hypothesis: An exploratory empirical study of New Zealand life insurance companies (Discussion paper series)

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Balance sheet structure and the managerial discretion hypothesis: An exploratory empirical study of New Zealand life insurance companies (Discussion paper series)
M Adams
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Effect of foreign acquisition on the balance sheet structure and earnings performance of American banks (Staff papers)

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Effect of foreign acquisition on the balance sheet structure and earnings performance of American banks (Staff papers)
Blair B Hodgkins
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How to Read a Balance Sheet

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ASIN: 0788125710

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A manual on how to interpret balance sheets for public & private enterprises. The subject is presented here in such a way that even people with limited time for personal study will be able to master it easily. The program introduces the structure & language of a balance sheet & describes how the information given in the various financial reports can be used to access the financial position of an enterprise. It also illustrates the structure of the resources of an enterprise & explains the enterprise's responsibilities to, & relations with, owners & other bodies

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Humans are not native to the Earth. So posits astronautical engineer Bob Zubrin in the opening of Entering Space. We're native to just a small sliver of it, the spot where our species originated in tropical Kenya. We set out from that paradise about 50,000 years ago, north into "the teeth of the Ice Age," and all the ground we've gained since then has been thanks to our tenacity and our tools.

Zubrin reasons that it's time we cover a little more ground. Written with a boyish enthusiasm and formidable techie know-how, Entering Space urges us to realize "the feasibility, the necessity, and the promise" of becoming a space-faring civilization, of colonizing our own solar system and beyond. And Zubrin, author of the influential and widely acclaimed The Case for Mars, knows his stuff--NASA adapted his plans for near-term human exploration of Mars, and Carl Sagan gave the author no less credit: "Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." Entering Space plots the second and third phases of humanity's course--now that we've mastered our own planet, Zubrin says we must first look to settling our solar system (beginning with Mars) and then to the galaxy beyond.

With its practicable visions of using "iceteroids" to terraform Mars and harnessing the power of the outlying gas giants ("the solar system's Persian Gulf"), Entering Space succeeds at making the fantastic seem attainable, the stuff of science fiction, science fact. --Paul Hughes

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The man celebrated as "the Christopher Columbus of Mars" brings us to the very brink of human exploration.

Using nuts-and-bolts engineering and a unique grasp of human history, Robert Zubrin takes us to the not-very-distant future, when our global society will branch out into the universe. From the current-day prospect of lunar bases and Mars settlements to the outer reaches of other galaxies, Zubrin delivers the most important and forward-looking work on space and the true possibilities of human exploration since Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

Sagan himself said of Zubrin's humans-to-Mars plan, "Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." With Entering Space, he takes us further, into the prospect of human expansion to the outer planets of our own solar system--and beyond.

"An exhilarating and informative ride." --The San Diego Union-Tribune

"Robert Zubrin is a true engineering genius like the heroic engineers of the past." --Frederick Turner, American Enterprise

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Great balance.......2007-05-21

It is a great balance between scientific technospeak and general ideas. It's easy to follow though, because if you aren't really into and/or understand things like velocity and chemistry, you can continue reading and he explains it in another way. As you read it, many of the questions that pop up in your mind are soon answered. He does sound a bit bitter and frustrated on some NASA related manners, though it seems understandable. However, I do sense a hint of derision about the other sometimes important aspects of the federal budget that is sometimes annoying. He makes a convincing case about the ability and necessity of going into space.

The single most authoritative book on the potential human future in space.......2006-05-12

Astonishingly imaginative and technically authoritative, this is the single best and most important book that exists right now on the possibilities for the human future in space. Full disclosure: I have written articles for books Zubrin has edited. Dr. Zubrin, a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering with master's degrees in physics and aeronautics and astronautics, probably did more than any other single person to change everyone's thinking, including NASA's, about human missions to other planets, with the mission architecture he came up with for sending humans to Mars.

With Entering Space, he lays out a full overview of the human exploration and settlement of space, beginning with a penetrating look at the lack of progress in our human spaceflight capabilities over the past few decades, and progressing through manned missions to the Moon, Mars, the asteroids, throughout the solar system, and then to other star systems. His vision is of a thousand people on Mars a hundred years from now, and millions of people on thousands of planets a thousand years from now. There are plenty of other books covering at least some of these topics, to wildly varying degrees of plausibility. But Zubrin has the technical expertise to walk through the physical and engineering arguments to show how thoroughly plausible his ideas are.

His wide-ranging attention also extends to economic evaluations, historical analogies, and references to past ages of exploration and to Enlightenment ideals of freedom and democracy. He embraces confidence in science and the human capability to engineer our surroundings to our benefit, rejecting the now common pessimism toward those ideals. The result is an encouraging outlook: the world is what we make of it - whichever world that may be.

A detailed technical manifesto.......2004-12-25

If you're like me, you've always felt that it would be pretty cool (and useful) to be able to travel through space like we currently jet around the globe. If that's the case, then you've probably also ran up against a huge wall of "who cares?" whenever you try to express your excitement about the possibilities inherent in space travel. This cogent, well-researched book will help you do two things: Convince your friends that a spacefaring civilization is possible in the few decades or so, and that it is worthwhile. Believe you me - I have always thought that the problems involved in getting ourselves to Mars were more political than technical, but Zubrin makes it abundantly clear how we can get to Mars, the asteroids, and accomplish a host of other tasks, and all for pennies on NASA's current dollar estimates. Furthermore, he outlines the possible benefits to such programs, including the literally astronomical mineral wealth of the asteroids, technological drives, and the intangibles that go along with a new human push towards the frontiers. This book has rekindled the vision of space for me and every one of my friends who has taken the time to read it.

Highly recommended.

A touch preachy, speculative and stodgy.......2004-01-14

Robert Zubrin is obviously dissatisfied with the state of affairs with NASA. He complains about the lack of funding for certain programs and the lack of direction from the top brass. He makes his point but he should have cut it short.

The author seems to overlook potential pitfalls in his ideas. On using nuclear fusion for propulsion, Zubrin states that exhaust speed could reach 5 percent lightspeed, therefore Alpha Centauri could be reached in 86 years. This assumes that extra time for acceleration is negligible. For acceleration time to be negligible, the power involved would be well beyond what current research in fusion power suggests is reasonable. This oversight makes be doubt the feasibility of his much wilder proposals.

I appreciate technical details but Zubrin uses a pedantic style of writing more suitable for a textbook than a leisurely read. Zubrin's previous work, The Case for Mars, was never so tedious.

However, Zubrin does a good job on explaining many principles and concepts that would be of great interest to the space enthusiast--mainly on how to best exploit the solar system's resources while achieving inspirational goals for humanity. He also gives a concise overview of the debate on extraterrestrial intelligence an their detection.

I do recommend this book for space enthusiasts, but they should take it with a grain of salt.

Check the numbers!.......2003-06-03

I have only read the first seven chapters of this book so far, but I feel compelled to point out some errors of information. Zubrin attacks any idea that doesn't go to Mars directly without proper research. A few hours of web searching have shown that his pessimistic numbers about solar power and lunar agriculture are not up to par. Zubrin is a rocket engineer, and so he thinks only in terms of rockets. So far in my reading I haven't seen anything about light sails or his own magnetic sail idea (for an interesting breakthrough on magsails, run a web search for M2P2). Zubrin really, really wants to go to Mars right now, and so he tries to discredit any colonization ideas that don't accomplish that objective. Personally, I don't know why we would go to all of the trouble to escape one gravity well only to go and crawl down another one.

On the good side, the initial chapters have educated me on the reasons why space travel is so expensive, and I am looking forward to the chapters about colonizing the outer solar system. The book is very well written, with a comfortable level of technical detail, and even its negative aspects have caused me to learn much more than I expected to get out of this book when I purchased it. Absolutely worth the money, but I can only give it four stars becasue of Zubrin's unreasonable treatment of other people's ideas.

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Entering Space. Creating A Spacefaring Civilization
ROBERT ZUBRIN
Manufacturer: Jeremy Tarcher
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Entering Space : Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
Robert Zubrin
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This authoritative and comprehensive multi-author volume provides a useful summary of updated knowledge on polymer composites in general, practically integrating experimental studies, theoretical analyses and computational modeling at different scales, i.e. from nano- to macro- scale. Detailed consideration is given to four major areas: structure and properties of polymer nanocomposites; characterization and modeling; processing and application of macro-composites; and mechanical performance of macro-composites.

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This volume presents information on mineral resources of non-ferrous metals, with a particular emphasis on practices in the former USSR. The author reviews the geographical distribution, geology, mining and ore processing plants of the former Soviet Union. Non-ferrous metal ores are classified in the text, and mineral processing technologies are described. Those technologies include gravitation, flotation, magnetic separation, leaching and other types. Non-Ferrous Metal Ores reviews the developments in Russia's mineral processing technology. A range of scientists and industry professionals can benefit from this text, including geologists, mineralogists, mining engineers and specialists in mineral processing and ore treatment.

Annotated Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Europe, Part 1: Northern Europe, Including Examples from the USSR in Both Europe and Asia

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Annotated Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Europe, Part 1: Northern Europe, Including Examples from the USSR in Both Europe and Asia
John Drew Ridge
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Mineral Deposits of Europe
F. W. Dunning
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science Ltd
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Mineral Deposits of Europe: Northwest Europe (Mineral Deposits of Europe, Vol 1)

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Mineral Deposits of Europe: Northwest Europe (Mineral Deposits of Europe, Vol 1)

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Mineral Deposits of the Alps and of the Alpine Epoch in Europe: Proceedings of the Iv. Ismida, Berchtesgaden, October 4-10, 1981 (Special Publication ... ... Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, No. 3.)

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Good old "hands-on" Geoscience

Mineral Deposits of the Alps and of the Alpine Epoch in Europe: Proceedings of the Iv. Ismida, Berchtesgaden, October 4-10, 1981 (Special Publication ... ... Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, No. 3.)
International Symposium on Mineral Deposits of the Alps 1981 berchtes
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Good old "hands-on" Geoscience.......2000-12-06

Now, that my own son has taken up geology (against my will!), I have tried to hunt down my own contributions: Mineral Deposits of the Alps (for which I co-authored one of the introductory articles) collects 39 articles written at a time, when geosciences was not anymore in the "Old" pre-"Kuhnian" stage of paradigmatic thinking, but still not yet totally "taken over" by plate tectonics. How refreshing, some 20 years on, to see how much original thinking went into geoscience prior to the advent of "gizmos" that quantify everything and replace original thoughts by "evidence" of numerical nature! Hope that Springer re-issues this slim and "racy" volume!

The Rhenish Massif: Structure, Evolution, Mineral Deposits and Present Geodynamics (International Monographs Series on Interdisciplinary Earth Scien)

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The Rhenish Massif: Structure, Evolution, Mineral Deposits and Present Geodynamics (International Monographs Series on Interdisciplinary Earth Scien)
A. Vogel , and H. Miller
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Annotated Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Europe-Part 2-Western & South Central Europe,

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Annotated Bibliographies of Mineral Deposits in Europe-Part 2-Western & South Central Europe,
John Drew, Ridge
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Mineral Deposits in Europe
Rickard
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Mineral Deposits of Europe Southwest & Eastern Europe With Iceland

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Mineral Deposits of Europe Southwest & Eastern Europe With Iceland
F. W. Dunning , P. Garrand , H. W. Haslam , and R. A. Ixer
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Zur Minerogenie des hydrothermalen Baryts in Deutschland (Monograph series on mineral deposits)

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Zur Minerogenie des hydrothermalen Baryts in Deutschland (Monograph series on mineral deposits)
Richard Hofmann
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Electronic structure problems are studied in condensed matter physics and theoretical chemistry to provide important insights into the properties of matter. This graduate textbook describes the main theoretical approaches and computational techniques, from the simplest approximations to the most sophisticated methods. It starts with a detailed description of the various theoretical approaches to calculating the electronic structure of solids and molecules, including density-functional theory and chemical methods based on Hartree-Fock theory. The basic approximations are thoroughly discussed, and an in-depth overview of recent advances and alternative approaches in DFT is given. The second part discusses the different practical methods used to solve the electronic structure problem computationally, for both DFT and Hartree-Fock approaches. Adopting a unique and open approach, this textbook is aimed at graduate students in physics and chemistry, and is intended to improve communication between these communities. It also serves as a reference for researchers entering the field.

Structure and Approximation in Physical Theories

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Structure and Approximation in Physical Theories
Germany) Colloquium on Structure and Approximation in Physical Theories (1980 : Osnabruck , A. Hartkamper , and H. J. Schmidt
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Structure and Approximation in Physical Theories.
A. Hartkamper
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Smack Dab in Dog Crossing
Ed Grisamore
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The first word Ed Grisamore ever said was "boat." He doesn't remember saying it. That's just what he was told. His grandfather had a boat on a small pond in Hawkinsville.

The first word he ever learned to spell was "Pepper." It was on the blackboard in Mrs. John's first-grade classroom at Harwell Elementary in LaGrange.

Since then, words have shaped his life. He has written them. He has spoken them. He has read them. And, in his career as a columnist for The Telegraph in Macon, Ga., he has shared them with a loyal readership.

In Ed's fourth book, "Smack Dab in Dog Crossing," he has assembled a collection of columns that will make you laugh, cry, think and feel. Ed is one of those writers who believes there is a story waiting for him around every bend in the road. That's why he has been referred to as the "Charles Kuralt of Middle Georgia."

Hang around Ed for a while, and you'll meet preachers, teachers and assorted creatures. You'll travel to a few places you've never been or even heard of — from Mauk to Musella, from Blount to Eudora and from Dry Branch to, of course, Dog Crossing.

It's all here, from a story about a former Miss America to a homeless man who roams Macon`s downtown streets. The legend of Hogzilla. The Shake `N Bake twins. The lady who has a museum with Elvis' wart and toenail. The preacher who preaches from a casket. Macon's most famous caveman. And the lowdown on outhouses.

If you're a fan of Ed Grisamore's columns, then you've been anxiously waiting for his third collection of columns. If you are new to his writing, then you're in for a treat.

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