Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach (7th Edition)

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This popular book on business ethics contains a diverse collection of readings and cases. It begins with an introduction to moral reasoning, and then provides readers with a wide range of opportunities to apply ethical theory to real contemporary managerial situations—including issues facing managers in the next century. Each section contains a case study and relevant theoretical articles that range from classics in philosophy to modern commentaries by business practitioners. Five sections cover general issues in ethics; property, profit, and justice; corporations, persons, and morality; international business; and contemporary business themes. For professionals in the business fields of accounting, finance, marketing, and more.

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Great book.......2003-07-31

Although I only purchased this book for an Business Ethics class, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject.

An enlightening Book.......2000-10-25

It is an excellent book for newcomers to the field of Business ethics.Being a new field the authors have given numerous examples of real life cases for the students to appreciate this field.The cases make understanding more easy.Its to be noted that this field has now drawn a roundtable among the giants of the corporate world.The book deals with the moral issues before going to the business front. Good reading.

Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers

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Ok basic, but not too helpful

Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers
Judith J. Baker , and R. W. Baker
Manufacturer: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0834212064

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Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers is a practical financial management text for those who need basic financial management knowledge and a better understanding of health care finance. Using actual examples from hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home health agencies, this text will enable you to read, analyze, understand, and use financial statements and budgets in today's health care environment.

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Ok basic, but not too helpful.......2006-02-26

This book gives a good basic overview of the health care finance. Its best feature is that it is applied to health care only, so you don't have to go through other business models. I cannot see using it in the future though - if you are planning to manage your office/work on a budget/evaluate your organization from a financial stand point, this is not the book you will need.

Applied Economic Analysis for Technologists, Engineers, and Managers

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easily to understand for students

Applied Economic Analysis for Technologists, Engineers, and Managers
Michael S. Bowman
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0133759326

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This book provides a practical approach to making integrated financial decisions in contemporary organizations. While mathematics is used throughout, it focuses on the application of the math techniques used in real-world settings. Examples, Questions, Problems, and Discussion Cases balance quantitative analysis, team based decisions, technical factors, and qualitative information. A four-part organization covers financial concepts, financial analysis and time value of money, financial decision making, and continuous financial improvement. For those working in design, process and manufacturing engineering, purchasing, and financial analysis in both manufacturing and service organizations; for members of financial improvement teams; and for technical and senior managers.

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easily to understand for students.......1999-03-17

To whom it may concern: Do you publish the applied economic analysis for answers of problem and question in each chapter? We would like to buy this solution book. Which ISBN is the solution of this textbook?

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Who hasn't read, heard or personally experienced the hundreds of dot-coms or e-tailers that have failed in recent years? Although scores of hastily organized and poorly financed e-tailers have disappeared, the Internet business sector is bigger and healthier than ever. What makes some of these businesses successful and others fail? What is the real impact the Internet is having on the business world? Knapp's Introduction to E-Commerce can help you figure out this new sector of the business world.

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Financial Accounting: Issues and Cases
Michael Knapp
Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
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ASIN: B000OU7SB0

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Financial Accounting: Issues and Cases
Michael C. Knapp
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Government Financial Management: Issues and Country Studies

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Government Financial Management: Issues and Country Studies

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ASIN: 1557751498

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This collection of seminar papers and country studies examines recent developments in government accounting and financial management in selected industrial and developing countries. The country studies include Australia, Canada, China, India, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Latin American countries.

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Issues and Cases in Accounting, 13e
Steven D. Grossman
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This book is a compilation of excerpts from current (2004) annual reports, financial statements, and notes to financial statements. The purpose is to give students the opportunity to work with real reports from a variety of companies, both large and small, well-known and not so well-known. The students will see how these reports and statements use different terminology, different layouts, and different ways to present data. The book is organized topically, with such topics as income, balance sheets, inventories, etc excerpted from different annual reports and financial statements.

The accounting profession and financial statement fraud. (CE credit).: An article from: The Forensic Examiner

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The accounting profession and financial statement fraud. (CE credit).: An article from: The Forensic Examiner
Larry Crumbley
Manufacturer: American College of Forensic Examiners
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Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from The Forensic Examiner, published by American College of Forensic Examiners on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 6427 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 accounting profession and financial statement fraud. (CE credit).
Author: Larry Crumbley
Publication: The Forensic Examiner (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: American College of Forensic Examiners
Page: 24(10)

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Bankers' complicity in Enron's fraud.(Trends In Financial Management): An article from: Strategic Finance

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Bankers' complicity in Enron's fraud.(Trends In Financial Management): An article from: Strategic Finance
Alan Levinsohn
Manufacturer: Institute of Management Accountants
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This digital document is an article from Strategic Finance, published by Institute of Management Accountants on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 875 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: Bankers' complicity in Enron's fraud.(Trends In Financial Management)
Author: Alan Levinsohn
Publication: Strategic Finance (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2003
Publisher: Institute of Management Accountants
Page: 63

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A powerful new model for employee performance improvement
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"You have a bad attitude about your job."
"You need to change your priorities."
"You don't understand how we do things around here."

When negative feedback damages an employee's self-image, ego and motivation, the employee often gets mad—and blames the messenger. It doesn't take long for managers to learn not to be the bearers of bad tidings if they can possibly avoid it.

This book explores the limitations of traditional evaluation systems and introduces positive, alternative approaches including a new concept, Self-Directed Feedback.

Now you can offer employees all the performance information they need to grow personally and professionally.

Using forms, questionnaires, case studies, and action plans, the author presents step-by-step guidelines to make feedback about the negative side of performance easier to give—and easier to swallow.

Here's a brief outline of some of the chapters:

Making Performance Feedback Meaningful—10 common pitfalls of performance systems
Feedback Perspectives—the leverage perspective, matters of degree, politics of performance feedback, halos and horns revisited, guidelines for giving negative feedback
Feedback Consequences—formal and informal recognition, psychological effects of performance feedback, truth is a point of view, almost perfect, self concepts
Levels of Performance Feedback—no feedback, no formal feedback or documentation, formal performance feedback including personalized communications, 360-degree feedback, team feedback
Self-Directed Feedback—how it works, learning to accept it, designing your self-directed feedback plan, developing self-directed feedback questions

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Bohr's first acquaintance with the subject of penetration of charged particles through matter was as early as in 1912 when he treated the absorption of &agr; and &bgr; rays on the basis of Rutherford's atomic model. From then on he kept a lifelong interest in the subject, often using it as an important test of the methods of atomic mechanics. His last paper on penetration, written together with Jens Lindhard, dealt with electron capture and loss and was published in 1954.

Part I of this volume follows Bohr's work on penetration theory based on classical mechanics. Part II deals with the general theory of penetration, taking quantum-mechanical considerations into account.

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A Whole New World Of Gorm.......2000-03-15

This book has really opened my eyes to Gorm. The concepts dicussed (the movement of particles through Gorm) are extremely interesting (dare I say arousing..?) and it generally turned me on. GO Jens, GO Gorm, GO GO GO Anders Kohl!

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A world-famous scientist presents a synthesis of modern views on the principles of evolution. The result of twenty-five years of research, "The Meaning of Evolution" follows the rise and fall of the dynasties of life through the 2,000,000,000 years of the history of earth. It explains what forces have been acting to bring about evolution and re-examines human aims, values, and duties in the light of what science discloses of the nature of man and of his place in the history of life. "The clearest and soundest exposition of the nature of the evolutionary process that has yet been written. . . . The book may be read with equal profit and pleasure by the general reader, the student, and the expert."-Ashley Montagu, Isis "This book is, without question, the best general work on the meaning of evolution to appear in our time."-The New York Times

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The dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and others who saw the Constitution as a threat to our hard-won rights and liberties.

Edited and introduced by Ralph Ketcham.

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long over due.......2007-09-11

I read the Federalist Papers when I was in school. Both should be required reading today.

An often neglected companion........2007-07-27

This collection of Anti-Federalist Papers is a must for any serious student of our nation's founding. Too often studies of the period only use the better known essays found in The Federalist Papers. This collection of work brought together by James Madison biographer, Ralph Ketcham, can be used with the companion volume of The Federalist Papers to do the arguments justice. America had a dual founding, both sides, Federalist and Anti-Federalist must be studied.

A lot of history in here.......2007-05-07

So many people today talk about the wisdom of the founding fathers and how they would have believed in this or that. Well, read it for yourself in the founding father's own words - it's all in here, and just as important today as it was over 200 years ago.

Great But Incomplete.......2007-03-05

Everyone is probably familiar with what the Anti-Federalist papers are, and the other reviews do a great job of explaining this aspect for those who aren't, so there is no great need to do it again. Needless to say, familiarity with the basic Anti-Federalist arguments and their general themes is essential to understanding the foundation from which the Constitution arose and the twists its historical development would undertake. Believe it or not, but strains of Anti-Federalism are apparent even in today's politics, like the arguments for state power found in debates about topics like abortion or gay-marriage.

The biggest question to ask before buying this book, then, isn't why the information is important, but why you should pay money for something that can be found for free online. There are several reasons, for which I give this edition 4 stars:

First, it is an accompaniment to the Signet Classics edition of the Federalist Papers, and has a variety of cross-references to it. If you have both, it makes the search for certain topics and both sides' arguments in its regard much easier.

Second, it has a great introduction. The problem with approaching the Anti-Federalists without any editorial priming beforehand (whether from an introduction, a class, or both) is that one becomes liable to think of the group as nothing but a rag-tag group of guys with as many different opinions as there are men professing them, whose only point of unity is their opposition to Federalism. Their negative name--the "Anti-"Federalists--implies this, after all, and Madison himself tries to play off this point in one of his papers. The masterful introduction tries to prevent this, by expounding on the fundamental, unifying vision of the Federalists, the Anti-Federalists, and exactly how the two differed.

Lastly, there is a variety of tables of ideas that make finding specific points of opposition to specific topics that much easier.

For these three reasons, on top of the simple fact that it groups together all the scattered Anti-Federalist essays (making it more likely that you will actually read them), I believe this book is worth the $8 that it costs today.

It does have some issues, however. First, the paper quality is the same as of the Federalist Papers edition I reviewed before, with the same associated defect of leaving ink blotches behind on your finger. For some reason, it actually leaves less ink than the Federalist Papers, but the pulpy texture is still unpleasant. Second, and most important, is the relatively sparsity of the essays included. As it is, if you take a class that touches on this topic, you will invariably end up having to find several essays online that were not included into this edition. There presently seems to be no medium alternative between buying a sparse edition like this and a full anthology that can cost into the thousands of dollars, however, so you're not likely to find anything better.

Needs a footnote.......2006-02-23

Ralph Ketcham certainly some respect I had for him when he, in the middle of Patrick Henry's speech, inserted, "Here Mr. Henry strongly and pathetically expatiated on the probability of the president's enslaving America..."

If it were not for the fact that I've already highlighted and marked up this edition, I would buy a different version and use that as my primary source. Mr. Ketcham's remarks were not in good taste, nor was it proper historical method to simply leave out an argument from Patrick Henry, thereby disallowing a following historian to examine and evaluate its merits.

****Note****: About four weeks after I wrote the post above, I discovered that the insert mentioned above was not Ketcham's doing. But rather, the side note of a journalist present at the time of Henry's speach at the Virginia Convention. My apologies to Ketcham. Although, he should have inserted a footnote to make the readers aware of what appears to be an awful bias. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't allow users to edit their ratings and so this version of the Anti-federalist papers will remain at 1 star from me, although it should be a 4 or 5.

Regards,
Brandon K. Harnish

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Over the course of 13 years and five novels, Louise Erdrich has staked out a richly imagined corner of North Dakota soil--her own Yoknapatawpha, where every character is connected to every other and nothing can be said to happen for the first time. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is no exception. The report in question comes from Father Damien Modeste, who has served the Ojibwe through a century of famine, epidemics, murders, and feuds. But the good priest is not what he appears. The prologue ends with the curiously beautiful image of the old man slowly removing heavy robes, undergarments, and, at last, a bandage wound tightly around women's breasts: "small, withered, modest as folded flowers."

How--and why--could such a deception last so long? That's the first mystery. The second begins when Father Jude Miller (a name familiar to readers of The Beet Queen) arrives to investigate the life of Sister Leopolda (or Pauline Puyat, another familiar name). Was Leopolda a saint? Or its opposite, whatever that is? Miracles, after all, are a part of the reservation's everyday life; for every nun's stigmata there's a secular wonder like the death of Nanapush. Indeed, the chapter detailing this old trickster's demise is the kind of earthy, tragicomic fable Erdrich does to perfection, including as it does an extended trial by moose, death by flatulence, and not one but two lustful resurrections.

Erdrich's writing is at its best when she chronicles the bittersweet humor of reservation life. It's at its worst, sadly, when she cranks up the fog machine and goes for the violins. ("He had the odd sensation that petals drifted in the air between them, petals of a fragrant and papery citrus velvet," she tells us, telegraphing Father Jude's attraction to a woman.) But at least the book's sins are sins of ambition--this is a novelist who revisits the same territory because the capaciousness of her vision demands it. Readers may forgive Erdrich's vagueness about Father Damien's religious calling, but they will never forget her images, as lovely and surprising as figures glimpsed in a dream: the devil in the shape of a black dog, his paw in a bowl of soup; freshly planted pansies, nodding at the priests' feet "like the faces of spoiled babies"; a woman in a billowing white nightdress riding a grand piano through the "gray soup" of a flood. Moments like these are small miracles of their own. --Mary Park

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For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To complicate his fears, his quiet life changes when a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, difficult, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Sister Leopolda's piety and is faced with the most difficult decision of his life: Should he reveal all he knows and risk everything? Or should he manufacture a protective history though he believes Leopolda's wonder-working is motivated by evil?

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Special feature: This PerfectBound e-book contains a reading group guide to The Last Report on The Miracles at Little No Horse and our exclusive interview with Louise Erdrich. For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Compelled to his task by a direct mystical experience, Father Damien has made enormous sacrifices, and experienced the joys of commitment as well as deep suffering. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. He imagines the undoing of all that he has accomplished -- sees unions unsundered, baptisms nullified, those who confessed to him once again unforgiven. To complicate his fears, his quiet life changes when a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, difficult, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Sister Leopolda's piety, but these facts are bound up in his own secret. In relating his history and that of Leopolda, whose wonder working is documented but inspired, he believes, by a capacity for evil rather than the love of good, Father Damien is forced to choose: Should he reveal all he knows and risk everything? Or should he manufacture a protective history? In spinning out the tale of his life, Father Damien in fact does both. His story encompasses his life as a young woman, her passions, and the pestilence, tribal hatreds, and sorrows passed from generation to generation of Ojibwe. From the fantastic truth of Father Damien's origin as a woman to the hilarious account of the absurd demise of Nanapush, his best friend on the reservation, his story ranges over the span of the century.

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One of the best books I have ever read.......2007-02-05

I just picked this book up recently and was instantly drawn into the storyline. I could not stop reading it. I will not go on and on, I just want to say that I think it would make a fantastic movie - I think Louise is an excellent author (never read anything of hers before) and I was sad to see the book come to an end! Great reading! :-)

good but..........2005-04-09

I found this book to be good but also slightly flawed.
I read it for a class (a University English class) and have been blown away by all the books so far but this one hasn't quite hit me the way some of the other novels I've read for the course did.
It started out great, I was really intrigued, but then sometime after page 100 I lost interest and just wanted the book to finish so I could write my paper and be done with it.
I really wish though that the book said somewhere on it that it is basically a part of a series. Until I came to the Amazon website and read a bunch of reviews I had no idea! Maybe reading more of her novels would have helped me get through the novel better in the first place!

Simply Wonderful!.......2005-03-25

This is one great novel. Louise Erdrich weaves stories together to form a unified tale, completely original and plausible. I have never read anything quite like this and was intrigued and interested throughout the entire book. I can't imagine anyone not being spellbound by such a tale.

SHOULD BE 10 STARS!!!!!.......2004-09-18

What an incredible book!! Plot was so unusual - so intriquing - so engrossing - I couldn't put it down! I look forward to reading more by this author - but I wonder if anything can top this story. Read it for the ultimate reader's high!

Unusual story of an unusual priest on a native reserve.......2004-09-05

An unusual life journey - that of Agnes Dewitt originally from rural Wisconsin, briefly a nun, then a passionate affair with Bernt, hostage in a bank robbery and then, after assuming the identity of the deceased Father Damien Modeste, a priest living on an Ojibwe reserve. This is a many layered reading experience with much about the lives of native Americans in the twentieth century, comic scenes to make you laugh out loud, moments of intense passion, and spiritual theme throughout reconciling Ojibwe spirituality with Catholicism. The novel begins with Father Damien at an ancient age being visited by the younger Father Jude Miller who has been sent to interview him about the possible sainthood of a nun from the reserve, Sister Leopolda, finally Father Damien is compelled to revisit events of the past and to tell his story.

At times Erdrich's writing is more like poetry than prose, though the different stories were beautifully told it was all somewhat disjointed for a novel, hard to keep track of the characters. What really held my attention was the idea of someone living as the other sex for an entire lifetime, this is what makes this book unique and unforgettable for me. I was curious all the way through as to what would happen when the "Father" died, that kept me turning the pages and was pleased by way the end finally came for Agnes.

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse : A Novel

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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse : A Novel
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
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