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Highly Recommended!
Authors Joel Stern and John Shiely advocate a total revolution in the way companies are valued and measured. They make a convincing case for using EVA ("Economic Value Added") as the primary measure of corporate performance. The authors argue that the SEC's yardstick for corporate reporting, the "Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures" (GAAP), was designed to protect lenders by depicting a company's liquidation value. As such, GAAP provides an overly conservative and only marginally accurate picture of financial health. EVA principles - at least according to the consultants who advise companies on using them - evaluate intangible assets more realistically and correspond more closely to stock market performance. We from getAbstract recommend this book to executives who seek improved corporate financial and market performance, and to investors interested in understanding how value is created and maintained.

Aligning Shareholder and Manager Interests
One of the most difficult questions to answer is what a company's worth is.Two developments in American Capitalism have contributed to the question's complexity.First, shareholders have divorced themselves from the corporations operation, leaving the task to professional managers. EVA from a Senior Management Perspective
EVA Challenge was OK. It is more geared towards senior managers who are thinking about EVA as a model for their companies. In that regard, this books does a fine job.Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Corporate Finance    6. Economic value added    7. Entrepreneurship    8. Management    9. Management - General    10. Managerial Finance    11. Organizational Behavior    12. Business & Economics / Finance    13. Management & management techniques   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Accounting - Managerial    3. Activity-based costing    4. Budgeting    5. Business & Economics    6. Business / Economics / Finance    7. Business/Economics    8. Cost accounting    9. Management Accounting    10. Managerial accounting    11. Budgeting & financial management    12. Business & Economics / Accounting / General   

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prompt delivery
It is important to receive email from seller to confirm the transaction, which he/she did. Prompt delivery. Book arrived in good condition as stated.

Far too general to be of value
Read this one a year ago and found it to be very non specific in the elements necessary to gain compliance.Now after three SOX engagements and having to deal with the intricacies of 404, this book stands as a poor introduction to the enormity of the task to follow.
Poor Information value
I am writing a paper about SOA and read different books about it. In comparison to other books the Manager's Guide by Scott Green gives poor information about the SOA itself and talks about risks and controls most of the companies have realized centuries ago. In addition there are absurd comparisons to foreign laws, which maintain uselessness (for example a german law). I guess Scott Green has never been to Germany and doesn't know anything about Corporate Governance in Europe. I have traveled through Europe and found much better quality in leadership there and articles of most famous business magazins affirm my opinion.
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Subjects:  1. Accounting    2. Accounting - Financial    3. Accounting - Managerial    4. Business & Economics    5. Business / Economics / Finance    6. Business Law    7. Business/Economics    8. Corporate Finance    9. Corporations    10. Corrupt practices    11. Disclosure of information    12. Financial Accounting    13. Law and legislation    14. Business & Economics / General    15. Business ethics    16. Management & management techniques   

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Managerial Accounting
The material came very quickly and was exactly as described.Very Good. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Management Accounting    6. Business & Economics / Accounting / General   

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Debra Smith
Debra knows and applies TOC as well as anyone including Goldratt.This book is still a key part to understanding TOC.

Good book, but stack it with others...
This is a grate book that explains how measurment indicators might confuse management, and make mistakes that really happen in buissness.In states several measurment indicators based on TOC that help in understanding what should be done in the company.
Great TOC book
Debra has done a nice job with this book.I would recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about Theory of Constraints. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Accounting Theory    3. Business & Economics    4. Business / Economics / Finance    5. Business/Economics    6. Entrepreneurship    7. Managerial accounting    8. Manufacturing    9. Theory of constraints (Managem    10. Theory of constraints (Management)    11. Business & Economics / Production & Operations Management    12. Organizational theory & behaviour   

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Your Business at a Glance
This is an excellent book that teaches you to chart: where you would like to go on your business journey; where you are; and what you need to do to adjust your journey towards your profit goals.
Great for the Basics
This is an excellent book for those learning to keep books, or needing to brush up on their bookeeping skills. It is very detailed, and simplified. I found it easy to follow and understand.

Excellent introduction
This book is a very good introduction to bookkeeping. If you majored in finance and are an erolled agent with the IRS, you probably won't need this book. People with a much more limited knowledge of bookkeeping will benefit greatly. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting    2. Bookkeeping    3. Business & Economics    4. Business / Economics / Finance    5. Business/Economics    6. Entrepreneurship    7. Small Business - General    8. Small business    9. United States    10. Business & Economics / Entrepreneurship    11. Management accounting    12. Small businesses & self-employed    13. USA   

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New method of presentation needs to be refined during the next edition
I have just finished a course that used this textbook. To me, it is clear that auditing has undergone a dramatic change. That is, this book lacks clarity and specificity.
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Subjects:  1. Accounting - Financial    2. Auditing - General    3. Business & Economics    4. Business / Economics / Finance    5. Business/Economics    6. Business & Economics / Auditing    7. Management accounting   

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good on theory
the book is good in price theory, but it needs material about practical cases of how to price porfessional projects.

Ron Baker shows us how to price on purpose and with purpose.
This is essential reading for any professional service provider.
you are what you charge.
Pricing on Purpose by Ron Baker is, quite simply, one of the best books on pricing on the market.It revolves mainly around the subjective theory of value as opposed to the theory of cost-plus pricing.Without encroaching on Baker's territory by going into too much detail (a task I fear I would fail horribly at anyway), the subjective theory of value states that price determines costs, and that costs do not determine price.The fact that this simple statement flies in the face of many classical economic theories and in the face of many companies' pricing strategies is well understood by Baker at the onset.As such, almost the first half of the book is devoted to laying the foundation for both value theories historically as well as on a practical level.The summation of this course of discovery, one which Baker himself had to learn the hard way while working as a CPA, is that cost-plus pricing does not optimize profits.The subjective theory of value, on the other hand, enables companies to "price on purpose," or put the customer at the front end of the value chain.The subjective value chain, as I call it, looks like this:
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Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Pricing    6. Sales & Selling - Management    7. Business & Economics / Marketing / General    8. Sales & marketing   

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Good
It is very good book if you are a controller of small to mid-size firm. However, some chapters (e.g. client-server) are written by outside consultants, which are not flowing consistently with other chapters of thebook. Overall the book is a good overview of a controller position. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Controllership    6. Managerial accounting    7. Budgeting & financial management    8. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management    9. Management accounting   

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Valuation Approach Overview
This book provides a good overview of how to value a private company in a merger or acquisition.It provides a solid guide on how to do a comprehensive private business valuation but glosses over the details within the various valuation methods.

Practical, accurate, hands-on book
I'm working on acquisitions of small to medium sized private companies. I found this book to be very practical in going through not just the valuation math, but also the considerations. The book gives a great overview of the whole process, with ideas of how to get more precise with things like Monte Carlo and Real options. On the core pieces, there is a careful step through of multiperiod DCF including terminal value which is very helpful. Also there is a lot of talk about discount rates which I found very helpful. "How-To" Apply Solid Valuation Theory
This book meets important needs of buyers, sellers, valuation analysts, and owners of private companies who want to build value in them. Here are just a few of the important functions that the reader will learn:Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Consolidation and merger of co    5. Consolidation and merger of corporations    6. Corporate Finance    7. Corporations    8. Entrepreneurship    9. Finance    10. Mergers & Acquisitions    11. Valuation    12. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management    13. Takeovers, mergers & buy-outs   

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Where is the rest?
So far I have found two books dedicated to the topic of earned value:this book by Fleming and Koppelman and another book entitled `Using Earned Value' by Alan Webb.Note that I am not listing the earned value `Cliff notes' entitled `Project Management: The Commonsense Approach" by the Lamberts, which will not add to your understanding of earned value management or analysis, and serves, at best, as a memory jogger on the basic concepts.
One of the best books on Earned Value!
The reader that is familiar with Project Management Institute books will find it extremely useful and connected to real life. Presents Earned Value definition and how is possible to organize your projects based on Earned Value principles. If you're interested to have results oriented projects, or if you're interested in project performance, or project monitoring, this book is really helpful. I highly reccomend you to read and use it. If you like "not so academic" books, you might find it a little bit too condensed, and probably you'll need to search for something else. Microsoft Projects offers very good definitions of Earned Value, Cost Performance Index and Schedule Performance Index that you might learn as first steps.

Just Enough
Earned Value Project Management provides project managers with "just enough" to understand and begin using earned value analysis on projects.Koppelman and Fleming have distilled a complex and often intimidating subject and have made it immediately applicable to projects in any industry.I use this book to explain EVM concepts to my students and find it an invaluable tool in my own work as a project manager. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Corporate Finance    6. Cost control    7. Production control    8. Program budgeting    9. Project Management   

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The best book on SOX Compliancy
This comprehensive guide provides a complete methodology for achieving Sarbanes-Oxley compliancy, namely the Sarbanes-Oxley Compliant Key Enterprise Technology (SOCKET) framework. The author is one of the world's leading regulatory compliance experts and Chairperson of the SOX Institute.
Best book on the Subject of SOX Compliance Process
Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for Finance and Information Technology Professionals (Hardcover)
Very useful information
Of all the SOX Compliance books I've read, this one has definitely been the most useful.I appreciate the author's ability to communicate in IT and non-IT terms.The SOX Institute offers SOX training and a CSOX certification.I find myself frequently referring to the SOX Institute and this book for SOX knowledge.It's been an incredible source of information. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting    2. Accounting - Managerial    3. Business & Economics    4. Business / Economics / Finance    5. Business/Economics    6. Corporations    7. Disclosure of information    8. Financial statements    9. General    10. Law and legislation    11. Legal Reference / Law Profession    12. United States    13. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management    14. Data security & data encryption    15. Finance & Accounting    16. Management & management techniques    17. Network security   

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Enterprise Dashboards: Design and Best Practices for IT
I thought it was ok at best. Maybe I just know more than I thought :) But I didn't really get a lot out of this one.

A Dashboard Implementation Primer
This is a book aimed at the experienced business intelligence developer or the C level executive. It provides a sound methodological framework for using enterprise dashboards as a fundamental performance management tool. This is a 'must read' for anyone contemplating dashboard deployment in their organization.

This is a Draft... for the next edition.
I guess this is the first book by Shadan Malik. It looks like a manual written for internal use by a company. It is a "methodology" to develop dashboards, with several paragraphs where the author presents rules that he uses in that activity, like the way he estimates project efforts, lists of items to check for and so on.
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Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Dashboards (Management informa    6. Dashboards (Management information systems)    7. Information Management    8. Management Information Systems    9. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management    10. Management decision making   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Business    3. Business & Economics    4. Business/Economics    5. Computer programs    6. Computers - Spreadsheets    7. Electronic spreadsheets    8. Microsoft Excel (Computer file    9. Microsoft Excel (Computer file)    10. Spreadsheets - Excel    11. Computers / Financial Applications / General    12. Excel    13. Management accounting   

Subjects:  1. Auditing - General    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Environmental Engineering & Technology    4. Environmental Science    5. Environmental auditing    6. Industrial Health & Safety    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. United States    10. Management accounting    11. Non-Classifiable    12. Occupational / industrial health & safety   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Budget in business    3. Budgeting    4. Business & Economics    5. Business / Economics / Finance    6. Business/Economics    7. Handbooks, manuals, etc    8. Budgeting & financial management    9. Business & Economics / Accounting / Management   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business planning    5. Business/Economics    6. General    7. Managerial accounting    8. Management accounting   

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Research book with enormous coverage
Scope of this book is enormous. It is like an encyclopedia - which is why I got the PDF version; cannot imagine carrying it around. It is not like a college book on Internal Audit, where for example, they take you through the business cycles (e.g., revenue cycle), but that be gotten elsewhere. The coverage is excellent on both the Financial and IT side for SOX - and for internal audit departments not following SOX.
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Subjects:  1. Auditing    2. Auditing - General    3. Auditing, Internal    4. Business & Economics    5. Business / Economics / Finance    6. Business/Economics    7. Business & Economics / Accounting / General    8. Management accounting   

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A book for students of budgeting
This book aimes at giving the reader a comprehensive picture of the budgetprocess from the creation of the different parts of the budget to the finished result, and the processes after the completion.Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Budget in business    3. Budgeting    4. Business / Economics / Finance    5. Business/Economics    6. Budgeting & financial management   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - Managerial    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Careers - General    6. Cost control    7. Food service    8. Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism    9. Budgeting & financial management    10. Business & Economics / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism    11. Hotel & catering trades