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Can Do Writing: The Proven Ten-Step System for Fast and Effective Business Writing

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Title: Can Do Writing: The Proven Ten-Step System for Fast and Effective Business WritingAuthors: Daniel Graham

Judith Graham

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A simple, ten-step system for mastering the art of effective, persuasive business or technical writing

“The Grahams’ system is the best way to transform data and ideas into meaningful information necessary to make profitable decisions. Their system works every time.”
—Steven Laposa, PhD, MBA, Loveland Commercial Endowed Chair in Real Estate, Colorado State University

“The Grahams’ straightforward program helps my teams create clear and concise reports, letters, and other documents with minimal effort. I want this program to become the standard for my teams.”
—Bill Walter, Senior Vice President, Government and Infrastructure Division, KBR

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Owning Up: The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask

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Title: Owning Up: The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask

Authors: Ram Charan

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“This book is a most important contribution for both new and experienced directors, addressing contemporary corporate governance. The 14 practical questions represent the most vital issues that boards need to proactively address and are particularly crucial now as boards deal with the aftermath of the global financial tsunami.”
Thomas J. Neff, chairman, U.S., Spencer Stuart

“If Corporate America’s board members had answered these questions, the crisis of ’08 would have been avoided. The book is that powerful. It should be required reading in every boardroom, executive suite, and business school on the planet. This book with its singular wisdom could change the face of corporate governance—with huge dividends to shareholders and society.”
Ralph Whitworth, principal, Relational Investors LLC

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Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System (Wiley Finance)

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Title: Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System (Wiley Finance)

Authors: LASTNew York University Stern School of Business

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An insightful look at how to reform our broken financial system

The financial crisis that unfolded in September 2008 transformed the United States and world economies. As each day’s headlines brought stories of bank failures and rescues, government policies drawn and redrawn against the backdrop of an historic Presidential election, and solutions that seemed to be discarded almost as soon as they were proposed, a group of thirty-three academics at New York University Stern School of Business began tackling the hard questions behind the headlines. Representing fields of finance, economics, and accounting, these professors-led by Dean Thomas Cooley and Vice Dean Ingo Walter-shaped eighteen independent policy papers that proposed market-focused solutions to the problems within a common framework. In December, with great urgency, they sent hand-bound copies to Washington. Restoring Financial Stability is the culmination of their work.

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CIMA Official Learning System Management Accounting Decision Management, Fifth Edition (CIMA Managerial Level 2008)

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Title: CIMA Official Learning System Management Accounting Decision Management, Fifth Edition (CIMA Managerial Level 2008)

Authors: Jo Avis

Louise Burke

Colin Wilks

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The new edition of CIMA’s Official Learning Systems has been written in conjunction with the Examiner and the CIMA faculty to fully reflect what could be tested in the exam.

Updated with new case studies and worked examples, the Learning Systems provide complete study material for the May and November 2009 exams.

The fully revised paperback editions feature full colour throughout and include:
* practice questions throughout
* complete revision section
* topic summaries
* recommended reading articles from a range of journals

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Computational Methods for Option Pricing (Frontiers in Applied Mathematics)

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Title: Computational Methods for Option Pricing (Frontiers in Applied Mathematics)

Authors: Yves Achdou

Olivier Pironneau

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Here is a book for anyone who would like to become better acquainted with the modern tools of numerical analysis for several significant computational problems arising in finance. The authors review some important aspects of finance modeling involving partial differential equations and focus on numerical algorithms for the fast and accurate pricing of financial derivatives and for the calibration of parameters.

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Dictionary of Accounting Terms (Barron’s Business Guides)

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Title: Dictionary of Accounting Terms (Barron’s Business Guides)

Authors: Joel G. Siegel

Jae K. Shim

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The updated edition of this quick-reference short-entry dictionary defines more than 2,500 accounting, bookkeeping, and tax-related terms. General areas covered include financial accounting, managerial and cost accounting, auditing and financial statement analysis, and information technology (IT) terms. Also included are many terms from related business disciplines that the accountant must know, such as finance, personal finance, investments, Internet, economics, quantitative tools, and international business.

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