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Presents an overview of financial risk modeling, with a focus on practical applications, empirical reality, and historical perspective. Covering the mean-variance analysis and the capital asset pricing model, this title offers an account of factor models, which are the key to successful risk analysis in every economic climate.

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Helps you kick habits such as trying too hard to please, acting up to get attention, or playing the brown-nosing game. The author's proven framework identifies four "power types" and the family systems that generate them, and then using stories from her clients shows the best ways to think about your interactions with peers, and bosses.

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"Previously published in hardcover in 1999 by Career Press...Originally published as Secrets of Power Negotiating for Salespeople."--Title page verso.

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For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. This title examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ventured down the coast of Africa in the 1430s to America's conflicts in the Middle East.

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Describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century - fueled by coal and steam engines - redrew the economic, social, and geopolitical map of Europe and the world.

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To be effective, managers have to be skilled at acquiring power - and using that power to persuade others to get things done. This guide offers methods for commanding attention, changing minds, and influencing decision-makers up and down the organizational ladder.

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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.