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The story of energy and its extraordinary impact on San Antonio, Texas

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The essays contained in this volume canvass a broad range of issues, including accounting theory, accounting history, international accounting, management accounting, internal auditing, and accounting

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The documents in this volume, newly discovered and translated into English for the first time, reveal a previously unknown Preobrazhensky.

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A budget is a financial action plan for an organization. This guide will teach you how to: - Forecast future business results, such as sales volume, revenues, and expenses - Reconcile those forecasts to organizational goals - Obtain organizational support for your proposed budget - Fine-tune your budget over time

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Presentng a model for understanding the relationship between value and experience, this book shows how companies can leverage that knowledge to transform ordinary products and services into experiences that customers consider extraordinary. It helps managers, marketers, and strategists recognize what customers want and how to deliver it.

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Provides a simple framework to organize the debate on what we should do for the future. This title outlines the basic theory of the discount rate and the various arguments that favor using a smaller discount rate for more distant cash flows. It offers a suitable framework for dynamic problems and decision making.

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Subjects covered in this book include: the treatment of agency in economics literature; institutional responses to the generic problems of agency; fiduciary duties, insider trading, and employment contracts; and the means by which an agency facilitates subordinates' autonomy and managers' control.

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Principles of Internal Control is a TAFE Accounting textbook that describes the objectives and practices of internal control. The text incorporates the learning outcomes and content of the TAFE National Accounting Module NAP 717: Internal Control Principles.

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Stephen Nathanson's clear-sighted abridgement of Principles of Political Economy, Mill's first major work in moral and political philosophy, provides a challenging, sometimes surprising account of Mill's views on many important topics: socialism, population, the status of women, the cultural bases of economic productivity, the.

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As retailers have become more powerful and global, they have increasingly focused on their own brands at the expense of manufacturer brands. Rather than simply selling on price, retailers have transformed private labels into brands. This book describes the strategies for private labels that retailers are using.

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"It can be messy and overwhelming to figure out how to solve thorny problems. Where do you start ... Whether you are deciding between colleges, navigating a career decision, helping your aging parents find the right housing, or expanding your business, [this book suggests using the] AREA Method to make complex personal and professional decisions"--Amazon.com.

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Aims to prove that business process improvement is not a fad. This book addresses the backlash against process movements like reengineering, by explaining why businesses can decline even as process reform is creating dramatic efficiencies and savings. It presents an economic model for deciding which business processes are worth the investment.

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Provides numerous examples of firms that have succeeded or failed in combining business change and technology initiatives. This text also highlights the roles of organizational structures and human resource programs in developing process innovation.

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Shows the disastrous consequences of years of bad outsourcing decisions and underinvestment in manufacturing capability. This title details how government must change the way it supports basic and applied scientific research, and promotes the collaboration between business and academia needed to tackle society's big problems.

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Views that how fast and how often a company can develop new products can determine whether or not it survives. This book integrates activities in Research and Development, strategy, product development, and marketing to form a view of the product creation process that leads to value creation for employees, customers, and owners.

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Offers ideas and provides an outlook on critical economic issues facing businesses and governments around the world. Consisting primarily of articles originally published in "The McKinsey Quarterly", each volume combines provides the insights that leaders need to operate effectively in the global economy.

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Most managers assume that surviving, especially in recessions, requires slashing wages, benefits, and other workforce expenses. And lowest-skilled workers are often viewed as the most expendable. This book overturns these assumptions. It demonstrates that lower-skilled employees in call centers, repair services, product assembly aren't expendable.

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"Profit over Privacy gives internet surveillance a much-needed origin story by chronicling the development of its most important historical catalyst: web advertising"--

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O'Flynn demonstrates the way that liberal ideas have served the interests of capitalist development from their very beginning.