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Intangibles are harder to measure, harder to quantify, often more difficult to manage, evaluate, and account for than tangible assets. There is no common language for sharing information about intangible sources of value, and the language used tends to be descriptive rather than quantitative and concrete.

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Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. This book takes a comparative look at the development of commercial banking systems over the years in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia.

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From bestselling author and marketing guru Harry Beckwith, a guide to deciphering what it takes to motivate customers to choose you over all the rest of the competition.

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While Big Steel has been shrinking, minimills have been growing, and they now turn out about one-fifth of the raw steel produced in the United States. In this study, Donald F. Barnett and Robert W. Crandall present a comprehensive survey of US minimills - their operations, methods, costs, growth, and competitiveness.

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Captivating yet devastating, Upheaval is an under-the-hood look at Australian journalism as it faces seismic changes. Sharing first-hand stories from Australia's top journalists - including David Marr, Amanda Meade, George Megalogenis and more - Upheaval reveals the highs and the lows of those who were there to see it all.

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Urban Illusions is the best first-hand account I know of the struggle to solve the employment problem in American cities.

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This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the technologies that allow cities to move large numbers of people around.

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Claiming that urban transportation planning is more sophisticated, costly, and complex than its highway and transit planning predecessors, the book demonstrates how urban transportation planning evolved in response to changes in such factors as environment, energy, development patterns, intergovernmental coordination, and federal transit programs.

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(Hardback)

The past several years have brought economic, commercial, and investment revolution to China where a consumer society is beginning to emerge.

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It pinpoints the reason why competitive intelligence is on hold in corporate America and offers practical advice and solutions to position competitive intelligence systems as the systems of choice for intelligence users.

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The author thinks constantly about the most pressing issue in business: how can businesses can use digital to thrive He has studied what the businesses succeeding have in common. This title teaches us to recognise that it's not just customers who interact with the digital version of our organisations.

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Using Secondary Data in Marketing Research discusses thoroughly the use of secondary data in marketing research. It explains the underlying reasons why secondary data are less expensive than primary data, the technology associated with secondary data, how to evaluate the quality of secondary data, and how to locate secondary data.

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Few people realize that one of the nation's largest health programs runs through the tax system. Reformers of all stripes propose to modify current tax rules as part of larger programs to increase coverage and control costs.

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An explanation of methods, benchmarks and techniques for assigning a monetary value to intangible assets. It explores the strategic context for intellectual property valuation in global companies. The special needs of the software and pharmaceutical sectors are addressed in separate chapters.

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It is clear that value added methods provide relevant, useful information for financial analysis, market valuation, and financial decision making in corporate settings.

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Riahi-Belkaoui shows that the value added statement can be easily derived from the income statement and is therefore easily adaptable to the needs of U.S. companies.

To illustrate the usefulness of the value added statement, Riahi-Belkaoui devotes Chapter 1 to a thorough discussion of its many benefits.

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Value and Strategy: Competing Successfully in the Nineties presents fresh ideas, concepts, and practical suggestions for decision makers who must sustain growth and profitability in today's competitive business environment. Shenkman thus begins by showing how a valuing process is used in everyday life: how a buyer thinks about value;

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Explains the changes in patterns of profitability as the television industry enters the digital age, and describes what networks need to do to remain viable.