Finance & Budgeting Terms
Budget January 16th, 2012Finance & Budgeting Terms
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An Introduction to Intelligent Money Management $89.95 Where did my last paycheck go? How can I save when I barely make it through the month? Why is my paycheck less than I expected? Many people enter the job market expecting their paychecks to bring them freedom and unlimited new possessions. In reality, what they find is an inability to control their finances and shock over the speed at which the paycheck disappears. This informative program shows v… |
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Home Budget For Dummies [Old Version] $2.00 Get your finances in shape and start managingyour money the right away! The interactive software for effectively managing your budget. With Home Budget for Dummies, you can organize and manage your accountsstress free! It is as easy as ABC – indicate your sources of revenue andtheir frequency, organize your cash flows, and picture the state of your budget withgraphics to assist you.&nb… |
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Finance for Non-Financial Managers (Briefcase Books Series) $7.82 Financial reports speak their own language, and managers without a strong finance background often find themselves bewildered by what is being said. Finance for NonFinancial Managers helps managers become familiar with essential financial information, showing them how to “speak the language of numbers” and implement financial data in their daily business decisions. In addition, it clarifies how an… |
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The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment $3.77 In their previous book, The Balanced Scorecard, Robert Kaplan and David Norton unveiled an innovative “performance management system” that any company could use to focus and align their executive teams, business units, human resources, information technology, and financial resources on a unified overall strategy–much as businesses have traditionally employed financial management systems to … |
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Principles of Managerial Finance (12th Edition) $30.00 Gitman’s proven Learning Goal System—a hallmark feature of Principles of Managerial Finance—weaves pedagogy into concepts and practice, providing readers with a road map to guide them through the text and supplementary tools. The Twelfth Edition now includes an emphasis on personal finance issues to add currency and relevance to the already cohesive learning framework. Introduction to… |
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How To Make Your First Movie – Phase 2: Budgeting
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Corporate Finance: Capital, Budgeting, and Divisions $24.51 This is an examination of working capital, budgeting, and divisions and it relates to corporate finance. Explores the following topics: cash conversion cycle, return on capital, economic value added, just in time, economic order quantity, discounts and allowances, factoring, capital investment decisions, the investment decision, the financing decision, managerial finance, financial accounting, management accounting, mergers and acquisitions, balance sheet analysis, business plan, and corporate action.Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. Author: Branum, Miles Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 110 Publication Date: 2010/12/14 Language: English Dimensions: 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.23 inches |
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How to Finance Home Life $43.12 1927. The establishment of a home is truly a business. The business of home is to manufacture happiness, contentment and stalwart, upright citizens. This work presents information from firms which have found the correct way to conduct this business of homemaking and home operation. Contents: financial terms; budgets and systems; responsibilities of home partners; first home year; budgeting the children; building the home; importance of adequate insurance; analyzing securities; investing accumulated funds; providing for old age; wills, trusts and estates; have a definite plan. Author: Lloyd, Elwood/ B. C. Forbes Publishing Company, C. Forb Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 248 Publication Date: 2010/05/23 Language: English Dimensions: 8.50 x 11.02 x 0.62 inches |
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Finance: Corporate Finance $23.73 This is part of a series exploring Finance. Examines the following dealing with corporate finance: Structured finance, Capital budgeting, Financial risk management, Mergers and acquisitions, Accountancy, Financial statement, Audit, Credit rating agency, Leveraged buyout, and Venture capital. This is part of a series as a reference guide for various business and economic concerns.Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. Author: Wright, Eric/ Branum, Miles Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 106 Publication Date: 2010/11/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.22 inches |
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How to Finance Home Life How to Finance Home Life $45.31 1927. The establishment of a home is truly a business. The business of home is to manufacture happiness, contentment and stalwart, upright citizens. This work presents information from firms which have found the correct way to conduct this business of homemaking and home operation. Contents: financial terms; budgets and systems; responsibilities of home partners; first home year; budgeting the children; building the home; importance of adequate insurance; analyzing securities; investing accumulated funds; providing for old age; wills, trusts and estates; have a definite plan. Author: Lloyd, Elwood/ B. C. Forbes Publishing Company Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 248 Publication Date: 2010/09/10 Language: English Dimensions: 8.50 x 11.02 x 0.63 inches |
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Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms By Downes, John/ Goodman, Jordan Elliot $19.29 Presents more than 5,000 terms and descriptions related to stocks, bonds, mutual funds, banking, tax laws and more, in an updated edition that includes diagrams and charts and takes into account new financial regulations and recent dramatic swings in equities, credit and other financial resources. Original. Author: Downes, John/ Goodman, Jordan Elliot Series Title: Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms Publication Date: 2010/05/01 Number of Pages: 865 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 1.75 Width: 4.00 Height: 7.00 |
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How to Finance Home Life by Lloyd, Elwood [Paperback] $30.12 The establishment of a home is truly a business. The business of home is to manufacture happiness, contentment and stalwart, upright citizens. This work presents information from firms which have found the correct way to conduct this business of homemaking and home operation. Contents: financial terms; budgets and systems; responsibilities of home partners; first home year; budgeting the children; building the home; importance of adequate insurance; analyzing securities; investing accumulated funds; providing for old age; wills, trusts and estates; have a definite plan. Author: Lloyd, Elwood Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 Publication Date: 2003/06/01 Language: English Dimensions: 11.04 x 8.30 x 0.56 inches |
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Art Finance $58.94 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Art finance and Art finance advisory are terms referring to a set of services provided by some auction houses, banks, and consulting firms, and introduced to appeal to such firms clients who are art collectors or artists. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 72 Publication Date: 2010/09/11 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.17 inches |
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Bond (Finance) $92.4 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles In finance, a bond is a debt security, in which the authorized issuer owes the holders a debt and, depending on the terms of the bond, is obliged to pay interest (the coupon) and/or to repay the principal at a later date, termed maturity. A bond is a formal contract to repay borrowed money with interest at fixed intervals. Thus a bond is like a loan: the issuer is the borrower (debtor), the holder is the lender (creditor), and the coupon is the interest. Bonds provide the borrower with external funds to finance longterm investments, or, in the case of government bonds, to finance current expenditure. Certificates of deposit (CDs) or commercial paper are considered to be money market instruments and not bonds. Bonds must be repaid at fixed intervals over a period of time. Bonds and stocks are both securities, but the major difference between the two is that stockholders have an equity stake in the company (i.e., they are owners), whereas bondholders have a creditor stake in the company (i.e., they are lenders). Another difference is that bonds usually have a defined term, or maturity, after which the bond is redeemed, whereas stocks may be outstanding indefinitely. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Publication Date: 2009/12/10 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.28 inches |
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Finance Ethics: The Rationality of Virtue $63.65 The first book ever to integrate business ethics with financial economics, Finance Ethics shows how ethical behavior fits within the rational, profitmaximizing, finance paradigm. Dobson argues that even in economic terms the finance paradigm has a serious flaw: it views the firm and financial markets in general as contractual nexuses yet it fails to supply any adequate mechanisms for enforcing those contractual relations. Finance Ethics is therefore not just a moral critique of the finance paradigm, arguing that selfinterested profit making must be constrained by ethics. Rather, it is a critique from within that paradigm, in which truth becomes a rational mechanism to enforce contracts, and virtuous behavior is shown to make the most business sense. Author: Dobson, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 1997/03/20 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.46 inches |
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Project Finance $71.7 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Project finance is the long term financing of infrastructure and industrial projects based upon the projected cash flows of the project rather than the balance sheets of the project sponsors. Usually, a project financing structure involves a number of equity investors, known as sponsors, as well as a syndicate of banks that provide loans to the operation. The loans are most commonly nonrecourse loans, which are secured by the project assets and paid entirely from project cash flow, rather than from the general assets or creditworthiness of the project sponsors, a decision in part supported by financial modeling. The financing is typically secured by all of the project assets, including the revenueproducing contracts. Project lenders are given a lien on all of these assets, and are able to assume control of a project if the project company has difficulties complying with the loan terms. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 100 Publication Date: 2010/12/10 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.24 inches |
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Stochastic Processes with Applications to Finance $175.16 In recent years, modeling financial uncertainty using stochastic processes has become increasingly important, but it is commonly perceived as requiring a deep mathematical background. Stochastic Processes with Applications to Finance shows that this is not necessarily so. It presents the theory of discrete stochastic processes and their applications in finance in an accessible treatment that strikes a balance between the abstract and the practical. Using an approach that views sophisticated stochastic calculus as based on a simple class of discrete processes random walks the author first provides an elementary introduction to the relevant areas of real analysis and probability. He then uses random walks to explain the change of measure formula, the reflection principle, and the Kolmogorov backward equation. The BlackScholes formula is derived as a limit of binomial model, and applications to the pricing of derivative securities are presented. Another primary focus of the book is the pricing of corporate bonds and credit derivatives, which the author explains in terms of discrete default models. By presenting important results in discrete processes and showing how to transfer those results to their continuous counterparts, Stochastic Processes with Applications to Finance imparts an intuitive and practical understanding of the subject. This unique treatment is ideal both as a text for a graduatelevel class and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in financial engineering, operations research, and mathematical and statistical finance. Author: Kijima, Masaaki/ Kijima, Kijima Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2002/07/29 Language: English Dimensions: 9.70 x 6.12 x 0.78 inches |
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Structured Finance: Techniques, Products and Market $189.58 First comprehensive book on all structured finance productsComplete information on technical features, roles played by intermediaries, market in terms of demand and offerClear structure of the book makes it suitable as a textbook for students and as a reference book for practitioners Author: Caselli, Stefano/ Gatti, Stefano Series Title: Springer Finance Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 206 Publication Date: 2005/07/26 Language: English Dimensions: 9.38 x 6.44 x 0.67 inches |
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Capital Budgeting and Finance By Marlowe, Justin/ Rivenbark, William C./ Vogt, A. John (EDT) $147.58 Author: Marlowe, Justin/ Rivenbark, William C./ Vogt, A. John (EDT) Subtitle: A Guide for Local Governments Publication Date: 2009/12/15 Number of Pages: 280 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 7.75 Height: 10.50 |
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Collateral (Finance) $92.4 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles In lending agreements, collateral is a borrowers pledge of specific property to a lender, to secure repayment of a loan. The collateral serves as protection for a lender against a borrowers risk of default that is, any borrower failing to pay the principal and interest under the terms of a loan obligation. If a borrower does default on a loan (due to insolvency or other event), that borrower forfeits (gives up) the property pledged as collateral and the lender then becomes the owner of the collateral. In a typical mortgage loan transaction, for instance, the real estate being acquired with the help of the loan serves as collateral. Should the buyer fail to pay the loan under the mortgage loan agreement, the ownership of the real estate is transferred to the bank. The bank uses a legal process called foreclosure to obtain real estate from a borrower who defaults on a mortgage loan obligation. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2010/07/25 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.30 inches |
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Modern Project Finance: A Casebook $301.78 This cuttingedge financial casebook is divided into four modules: Structuring Projects, Valuing Projects, Managing Project Risk, and Financing Projects. The cases have been carefully selected to reflect actual use of project finance over the past five years in terms of geographic location (the cases come from 15 different countries) and industrial sectors. Benjamin Esty, of the Harvard Business School, is one of the leading scholars in project finance. Project finance is becoming the financing mechanism of choice for many private firms. Cases require the reader to integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines when making a single managerial decision. This integration of functional areas such as strategy, operations, ethics, and human resource management encourages the reader to adopt a more integrative perspective and understanding of the interconnectedness of managerial decisionmaking. Author: Esty, Benjamin C./ Esty Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Publication Date: 2003/10/17 Language: English Dimensions: 10.22 x 8.26 x 1.01 inches |
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The Basics of Finance By Drake, Pamela Peterson/ Fabozzi, Frank J. $98.94 An introductory guide to the world of finance The Basics of Finance is an accessible book for those who want to gain a better understanding of this field, but lack a strong business background. It covers essential concepts, tools, methods, and strategies in finance without delving too far into theory. Written by the experienced author team of Frank Fabozzi and Pamela Peterson Drake, this reliable resource discusses everything from financial instruments and markets to portfolio management techniques, understanding and analyzing financial statements, and different types of corporate financial strategy, planning, and policy. Explores, in a basic way, topics such as cash flow analysis, asset valuation, capital budgeting, and derivatives. Provides a solidfoundation in the field of finance, which you can quickly build upon. Explains concepts in various areas of finance without getting too complicated. The Basics of Finance offers essential guidance on financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, portfolio management, risk management, and much more. If youre looking to learn more about finance, this is the best place to start. Provided by publisher. Author: Drake, Pamela Peterson/ Fabozzi, Frank J. Series Title: Frank J Fabozzi Series Subtitle: An Introduction to Financial Markets, Business Finance, and Portfolio Management Publication Date: 2010/09/21 Number of Pages: 604 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 2.25 Width: 6.50 Height: 9.25 |
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Capital Budgeting $60.54 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Capital budgeting (or investment appraisal) is the planning process used to determine whether a firms long term investments such as new machinery, replacement machinery, new plants, new products, and research development projects are worth pursuing. It is budget for major capital, or investment, expenditures. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 68 Publication Date: 2010/12/10 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.16 inches |
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Stochastic Processes for Insurance and Finance $135.84 The Wiley Paperback Series makes valuable content more accessible to a new generation of statisticians, mathematicians and scientists. Stochastic Processes for Insurance and Finance offers a thorough yet accessible reference for researchers and practitioners of insurance mathematics. Building on recent and rapid developments in applied probability the authors describe in general terms models based on Markov processes, martingales and various types of point processes.Discussing frequently asked insurance questions, the authors present a coherent overview of this subject and specifically address: the principle concepts of insurance and financepractical examples with real life datanumerical and algorithmic procedures essential for modern insurance practices Assuming competence in probability calculus, this book will provide a rigorous treatment of insurance risk theory recommended for researchers and students interested in applied probability as well as practitioners of actuarial sciences. An excellent text Australian New Zealand Journal of Statistics Author: Rolski, Tomasz/ Schmidt, Volka/ Teugels, Jozef Series Title: Wiley Paperbacks Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 654 Publication Date: 2009/03/31 Language: English Dimensions: 8.90 x 5.90 x 1.50 inches |
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Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice $65.4 Capital investment decisions are a constant challenge to all levels of financial managers. Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice shows you how to confront them using stateoftheart techniques.Broken down into four comprehensive sections, Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice explores and illustrates all aspects of the capital budgeting decision process. Pamela Peterson and Frank Fabozzi examine the critical issues and limitations of capital budgeting techniques with an indepth analysis of: Classifying capital budgeting proposalsDetermining the relevant cash flows for capital budgeting proposalsAssessing the economic value of a capital budgeting proposal using different techniquesIncorporating risk into the capital budgeting decisionEvaluating whether to lease or borrowtobuy Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice provides the knowledge, insight, and advice that will allow you to handle one of the most important aspects of your firms financial management. Advanced enough for practitioners yet accessible enough for the novice, Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice is your complete guide to understanding and benefiting from the essential techniques of capital budgeting. Author: Peterson, Pamela P./ Fabozzi, Frank J. Series Title: Frank J. Fabozzi Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 243 Publication Date: 2002/02/05 Language: English Dimensions: 9.36 x 6.22 x 0.93 inches |
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Core Concepts of Personal Finance $162.59 Focus on practical approach to financial planning. Text discusses the real personal finance decisions students face and innovatively relies on web resources to provide students with the tools, information and skills to make these decisions. Emphasis on Decision Making. Instead of the use of traditional subtitles in each chapter (e.g., alternative forms of housing,, performing home affordability analysis ), the text uses questions as the leadin for each topic (e.g., should I rent or buy?, how do I bid on the property?) An entire chapter is devoted to the critical topic of time value of money (TVM) and it is integrated into later chapters where appropriate. The solutions to many problems (i.e. How much Life Insurance Should You Have?) are presented through calculators that incorporate time value of money into the computations. Thus, students who have a general concept of what time value of money means but have difficulty doing TVM problems are still able to get through the material deal effectively with the impact of TVM. Text is brief and applied. Instead of long narratives discussing terms and definitions, the text focuses on decisions that the student will be making during his or her lifetime, beginning with graduation and the selection of the first job. Each chapter has a theme of a person or couple needing to make decisions in that topic area. Key material is emphasized by its inclusion in the sample problems and the solutions to the sample problems. Author: Woerheide, Walter/ Woerheide, Walt J./ Woerheide Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 456 Publication Date: 2003/06/12 Language: English Dimensions: 8.96 x 7.28 x 0.73 inches |
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Business Finance by DiCicco, Joel M./ Knight, Rainford $11.14 Any business owner or business student should possess a strong knowledge of the financial tools needed to thrive in today s economy. This 3panel (6page) guide provides an indepth look at several aspects of business finance, including: Types of Business Organizations Financial Markets Balance Sheet Income Statement Cash Flow Corporate Financial Planning Tools Basic Ratio Analysis Time Value of Money Bonds Stocks Capital Budgeting Techniques Risk Return Option Valuation Underwriting Leverage Capital Structure Operating Cash Conversion Cycles Inventory Management Foreign Exchange Markets Rates Hedging Concepts Leasing And more Author: DiCicco, Joel M./ Knight, Rainford Series Title: Quickstudy: Business Publication Date: 2009/05/31 Language: English Dimensions: 11.30 x 8.60 x 0.01 inches |
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HP Platinum Financial Calculator $79.99 Break through mental barriers with the help of this financial calculator that’s ideal for real estate, banking and finance, as well as home budgeting. |
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Congressional Budgeting: A Representational Perspective $110.68 In Congressional Budgeting, Patrick Fisher analyzes the problems inherent in the congressional budget process, and studies why congress makes the budgetary decisions that it does. In their desire to limit the tyranny of the majority, the framers of the Constitution designed a legislature that would be constrained and deliberate. While the institutional structure of Congress (i.e. bicameralism and the committee system) and American government in general (i.e. separation of powers) make the budget process more difficult, it does not make producing a sensible budget impossible. Fisher argues that it is the representational nature of Congress that makes budgeting such a flawed process. Budgeting requires Congress to compromise parochial interests for the well being of the entire nation, focusing on macrolevel budget decisions. It is the parochial nature of congressional budgeting that is key to understanding the predicament Congress confronts when budgeting. Author: Fisher, Patrick Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 194 Publication Date: 2004/12/03 Language: English Dimensions: 5.50 x 8.50 x 0.56 inches |
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Finance Equations Answers by BarCharts Inc $11.14 Students and business owners alike are sure to find that this 3panel (6page) guide is an invaluable source of comprehensive, uptodate information regarding key financial principles and methodologies, as well as the formulas and equations that apply to them. Easytouse icons help users go right to the equations and formulas they need to learn, and call out helpful tips to use, common pitfalls to avoid, and critical points to remember. Subjects covered include: Capital Budgeting Discounted Cash Flow Applications Cost of Capital, Market Returns Portfolio Theory CostVolumeProfit Relationships Ratio Analysis Regression, Statistics Time Series Analysis Securities Valuation Quantitative Models Time Value of Money Business Valuation And much more Author: BarCharts Inc Series Title: Quickstudy: Academic Publication Date: 2009/05/31 Language: English Dimensions: 11.25 x 8.50 x 0.09 inches |
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Finance for Sport and Leisure Managers: An Introduction $293.14 Sport and leisure managers need to understand the financial side of their industry to offer the most costeffective facilities and to make sound business decisions. However, to the nonexpert the language and practice of finance is often bewildering and perceived as complicated, difficult and impenetrable. This textbook guides the reader through the maze of financial terms and concepts, illustrating theory with examples drawn specifically from sportbased contexts to make this the most relevant, transparent and helpful handbook for students of leisure management available.Written by experts in accounting and sport management, this book enables readers to work through the subject at their own pace, with case studies, worked examples and selftests to ensure students can apply their knowledge to industryspecific situations. Ideal for students on sport and leisure management courses, this book will also be valuable to practising managers who need a quickreference guide to everyday financial questions. Author: Wilson, Robert/ Joyce, John Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 162 Publication Date: 2007/12/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.70 x 6.90 x 0.60 inches |
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Pension Finance By Waring, M. Barton $93.99 Defined benefit pension plans are in a severe crisis. With nearly a 4 trillion deficit in the U.S. alone, Canada, the UK, Japan, and Holland also suffer from unfunded liabilities. In short, the pension crisis is nearly global in proportion, and there is little likelihood that plan sponsors will be able to come up with the funds to repair the damage. One of the major problems behind the crisis is the approach: pension plans use actuarial science as the basis of assumptions but are subject to the laws ofeconomic finance in terms of their returns. In short, there is a gap between the world presumed by actuaries who determine funding levels and the world as it come to be as determined by market performance and investment outcomes. Waring tackles this thorny issue head on. Well versed in both economic and actuarial science, he walks professionals through the differences and shows why plan sponsors need to focus on the economic account perspective to meaningfully measure present values. Complete coverage ofcredit risk and the discount rate to determine liability values is examined, contribution levels are then presented based on this revised approach to actuarial accounting. Pension plan sponsors and their employee representatives must face the economics and adjust their accounting and actuarial view to gain a true perspective on achieving sustainable benefit levels. Waring is one of the first investment professionals to tackle this controversial topic head on to present realistic solutions to potentially catastrophic problems looming in the very near term Author: Waring, M. Barton Series Title: Wiley Finance Subtitle: Putting the Risks and Costs of Defined Benefit Plans Back Under Your Control Publication Date: 2011/11/01 Number of Pages: 288 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.25 Width: 6.25 Height: 9.50 |
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Budgeting and Organizational Culture $116.3 Recently, public higher education institutions have increasingly turned their attention to incentive based budgeting models as internal resource allocation models. However, these models have been criticized for bringing market forces, competitiveness, and businesslike perceptions into the higher education environment. In recent years, the literature on incentive budgeting systems has grown; mostly, through institutional case studies. However, most of these studies focused on the formal structures and on the financial outcomes. The literature lacks any exploration of the effects that such changes have on an organizations culture. However, incentive based budgeting systems involve more than simply formulas. They also bring a new frame of mind into higher education organizations. Decentralization of the decisionmaking process is one such change that is attached to incentive based budgeting systems. Thus, incentive based budgeting models affect the whole institution, its formal and informal structures as well as its culture. This study focuses on responsibility center management (RCM) and its perceived effects on the culture of decisionmaking at a higher education institution. Author: Cekic, Osman Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 148 Publication Date: 2010/06/28 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.34 inches |
