Straightforward Guide To Living And Working Abroad

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Short-term financial management skills are increasingly important. Written by authors who both hold Certified Cash Managers credentials, this comprehensive book offers broad coverage of treasury and working capital management, while using valuation and the cash flow timeline as integrating themes. Its complete coverage includes current developments in treasury management, banking deregulation, globalization of financial services delivery, e-commerce, international cash management and foreign exchange risk - all with a decision-making emphasis throughout. In addition, Short-Term Financial Management highlights examples of companies using the Internet for treasury management and other emerging trends.

Short-Term Financial Management: Text and Cases

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Short-Term Financial Management: Text and Cases
Ned C. Hill , and William L. Sartoris
Manufacturer: Macmillan Coll Div
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Readings on Short Term Financial Management

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Readings on Short Term Financial Management
Keith V. Smith , and George W. Gallinger
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Short-Term America: The Causes and Cures of Our Business Myopia

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Short-Term America: The Causes and Cures of Our Business Myopia
Michael T. Jacobs
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Short-term financial management: How to improve financial results, now!

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Short-term financial management: How to improve financial results, now!
Frank C Wilson
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Warren, Gorham, & Lamont Handbook of Short-Term/Long-Term Financial Management

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Warren, Gorham, & Lamont Handbook of Short-Term/Long-Term Financial Management
Warren , Gorham , and Lamont
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One of five paperback readers broken out from the Warren, Gorham, Lamont (WGL) "Handbook of Modern Finance". These paperback readers can be used as supplements in any introductory or advanced finance course, providing opportunities for students to see how the principles they are learning in class can be applied to real-world financial problems.

Arkansas Capital Corp. outpaces state's banks.: An article from: Arkansas Business

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Arkansas Capital Corp. outpaces state's banks.: An article from: Arkansas Business
James Little
Manufacturer: Journal Publishing, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Journal Publishing, Inc. on February 23, 1998. The length of the article is 687 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Arkansas Capital Corp. outpaces state's banks.
Author: James Little
Publication: Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 23, 1998
Publisher: Journal Publishing, Inc.
Volume: v15 Issue: n8 Page: p18(1)

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Arkansas Capital Corporation: forging partnerships for progress. (Company Profile): An article from: Arkansas Business

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This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Journal Publishing, Inc. on August 16, 1993. The length of the article is 708 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Arkansas Capital Corporation: forging partnerships for progress. (Company Profile)
Publication: Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 16, 1993
Publisher: Journal Publishing, Inc.
Volume: v10 Issue: n32 Page: pC19(1)

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A holistic framework for short-term supply chain management integrating production and corporate financial planning [An article from: International Journal of Production Economics]

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A holistic framework for short-term supply chain management integrating production and corporate financial planning [An article from: International Journal of Production Economics]
G. Guillen , M. Badell , and L. Puigjaner
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This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Production Economics, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Traditional approaches for SCM usually focus on process operations and neglect the financial side of the problem. In this work we present a novel approach for holistically optimizing the combined effects of operations and finances in SCM. To achieve such integration between different business areas, it is derived an integrated model for SCM, which incorporates process operations as well as budgetary constraints. The novelty of this formulation lies not only in the insertion of financial aspects within a SC planning formulation, but also in the choice of a financial performance indicator, i.e. the change in equity, as the objective to be optimized in the integrated model. The main advantages of this mathematical formulation are highlighted through a case study, in which the results obtained by the integrated model are compared with those computed by the traditional sequential strategy, in which the operations are firstly computed and the finances are fitted afterwards. The obtained results show the importance of devising broader modeling systems for SCM leading to increased overall earnings and providing further insights on the interactions between operations and finances.

Management accounting--decision management: in the first of two articles, Tim Thompson introduces the case of a company that's facing a tricky short-term ... An article from: Financial Management (UK)

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Management accounting--decision management: in the first of two articles, Tim Thompson introduces the case of a company that's facing a tricky short-term ... An article from: Financial Management (UK)
Tim Thompson
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Title: Management accounting--decision management: in the first of two articles, Tim Thompson introduces the case of a company that's facing a tricky short-term quality problem--and invites you to solve it.(PAPER P2)
Author: Tim Thompson
Publication: Financial Management (UK) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
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"A readable and enjoyable book of interest to the lay public, litigators and aficionados of trials alike...well worth reading."
— CBA Record

out"Delightful and insightful...He knows how to tell a story, and he knows that facts depend on perceptions."
— ABA Journal

"Lubet's ability to downplay advocacy techniques while emphasizing the rich context of facts, story, and personalities is superb"
—Choice

"A delightful and insightful book [that] entertains as it instructs."
—ABA Journal

"This excellent set of essays, both scholarly and imaginative, offers a rare bridge between the parallel universes of legal scholarship and courtroom practice. There is no better guide to the enterprise of storytelling in the law than Steve Lubet."—Marianne Wesson, Professor of Law, University of Chicago

Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives.

Critics of the adversary system, of course, have little patience for storytelling, regarding trial lawyers as flimflam artists who use sly means and cunning rhetoric to befuddle witnesses and bamboozle juries. Why not simply allow the witnesses to speak their minds, without the distorting influence of lawyers' stratagems and feints?

But Lubet demonstrates that the craft of lawyer storytelling is a legitimate technique for determining the truth and not at all coincidentally for providing the best defense for the attorney's client. Storytelling accomplishes three important purposes at trial. It helps to establish a "theory of the case," which is a plausible and reasonable explanation of the underlying events, presented in the light most favorable to the attorney's client. Storytelling also develops the "trial theme," which is the lawyer's way of adding moral force to the desired outcome. Most importantly, storytelling provides a coherent "story frame," which organizes all of the events, transactions, and other surrounding facts into an easily understandable narrative context.

As with all powerful tools, storytelling may be misused to ill purposes. Therefore, as Lubet explains, lawyers do not have carte blanche to tell whatever stories they choose. It is a creative process to be sure, but every story must ultimately be based on "nothing but the truth." There is no room for lying.

On the other hand, it is obvious that trial lawyers never tell "the whole truth," since life and experience are boundless and therefore not fully describable. No lawyer or court of law can ever get at the whole truth, but the attorney who effectively employs the techniques of storytelling will do the best job of sorting out competing claims and facts, thereby helping the court arrive at a decision that serves the goals of accuracy and justice.

To illustrate the various challenges, benefits, and complexities of storytelling, Lubet elaborates the stories of six different trials. Some of the cases are real, including John Brown and Wyatt Earp, while some are fictional, including Atticus Finch and Liberty Valance. In each chapter, the emphasis is on the narrative itself, emphasizing the trial's rich context of facts and personalities. The overall conclusion, as Lubet puts it, is that "purposive storytelling provides a necessary dimension to our adversary system of justice."

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Entertaining But Not Very Deep.......2003-03-02

Steven Lubet seeks to defend the art of "storytelling" at trial against the charge that it inevitably leads lawyers to spin creative fictions designed to obscure the truth and hoodwink gullible juries into favoring their clients. At least, that's what Lubet says he's doing (p. 2), and indeed, the first chapter does illustrate how lawyers can legitimately and honestly help their clients frame stories and select facts so that their testimony falls within the appropriate legal framework. The really interesting point in this first story (which Lubet does not dwell on) is that both sides can essentially agree on all of the "hard" facts, but have completely different stories about what those facts mean. This, to me, could be the springboard to a really fascinating discussion about what it means to tell the truth, but Lubet quickly passes on to his next story.

What this book really amounts to is a retelling of a number of interesting trials or other legal proceedings (the Mortara case, the real trials of John Brown, Wyatt Earp and Sheila McGough, the literary trial of Tom in "To Kill a Mockingbird," and Lubet's imagined trial of the man who shot Liberty Valance). The stories themselves are entertaining; Lubet does a particularly good job of placing the Brown and Earp trials in their historical context. His observations about strategy and storytelling in the Earp trial, and his defense of Atticus Finch's obligation to defend Tom even if Tom was guilty are pointed and entirely successful. On the other hand, in a book about telling the truth, Lubet completely fails to notice (much less to discuss) the larger implications for "the truth" of some of the other values that we have built into our criminal trials -- the presumption of innocence, the privilege against self-incrimination and the prosecution's burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

"Nothing But The Truth" is a fast and entertaining read for lawyers and non-lawyers, and will give non-lawyers some insight into how trial lawyers put their cases together. Trial lawyers can read it for the war stories, but won't get much more out of it.

Thoughtful, thought-provoking, with wide applicability.......2002-03-28

This is a wonderful and delightful book. It contains very enjoyable, digestible, especially well-written, insightful and highly instructive discussions of six real, or almost real or at least fabled or fancied, well-known "cases" from the vantage point and context of the formulation of "stories". These are developed in the context of trial preparation and presentation. The ever-present subtext is "truth," open-textured, informed by and very susceptible to strategy, bias and device.

The development has far wider applicability beyond the strictly "legal," extending to all forms of persuasion. In addition to its very clear value in and relevance to the legal arena-at-large, including advocacy, this book will be of considerable interest to those practitioners of "theory", philosophy, ethics, language and communication, among other intellectual pursuits and disciplines. The introduction and concluding chapters encapsulate and position the text well.

The astute, conscientious and imaginative reader will be amply rewarded with heightened insight into the role of story-telling as a perennial current pervading not only much of Anglo-American jurisprudence, but also everyday forms of human "intercourse", including "he said, she said" conversations, journalism and the media, fundraising, advertising, the pulpit and all forms of persuasive or advocatory writing and discourse.

Truth and Lawyers.......2001-06-25

Steven Lubet's new book presents seven entertaining and thought-provoking essays on how lawyers tell their clients' stories in trials. The book is bound to appeal to lawyers, but it deserves to be a hit among the general public too. It is admirably written -- concise, clear, fair-minded, free of legal jargon, and often funny.

Lubet starts with "Bif and Me," inspired by an airport incident. A man angrily told Lubet that he had sat down in a seat the man was reserving for his father. Lubet prepared to move, but as the man continued his aggressive behavior, Lubet made the mistake of saying, "Hold on a minute, mister." The man said, "Don't piss me off" and shook his fist at him, whereupon Lubet skedaddled. Lubet imagines what would have happened if he had consulted a lawyer about suing "Biff" for assault, the legal term for a threat that puts someone in reasonable apprehension of imminent bodily harm. Lubet explains how his own lawyer would have framed the story, then shows how Biff's lawyer would have framed a very different story by picking and choosing from the same evidence. The result, says Lubet, would have been two competing stories, both of them legitimately grounded in the true facts of what happened, but emphasizing different subsets of those facts.

The humor of "Biff and Me" abruptly gives way to the tragedy of the Mortaras, a Jewish family living in the Papal States. In 1853, a Christian domestic servant secretly sprinkled water on one-year-old Edgardo Mortara, uttered the phrases of baptism, and thereby under canon law rendered him a Christian. When they discovered this secret baptism, Vatican authorities raided the Mortaras' house, seized Edgardo, and permanently removed him from his parents' custody, since canon law forbade Christians to be raised by Jews. The parents hired lawyers to frame an appeal to the Pope under the canon law. The appeal failed, although the case stirred international outrage against the Church. Lubet adds a new dimension to this familiar story by focusing on how the law limits the freedom lawyers have in framing their clients' stories. While most people today regard the case as one of kidnapping, no lawyer in the Papal States in 1858 could have framed the story that way. The Mortaras'lawyers had to resort to technicalities challenging the validity of the baptism and other similarly hopeless tactics.

"John Brown" raises troubling questions of whether lawyers may condone lying by their client in the name of an ultimately just cause. John Brown was tried by Virginia for sedition after his failed raid on Harpers Ferry. As in the Mortara case, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. Knowing this, Brown and his lawyers used the trial to present a story to the country at large about the heroic battle of a peaceloving man against the evils of slavery. The peaceloving part was false, and his lawyers knew it. They helped Brown suppress the truth about his real plans for the raid and about his callous disregard for human life during the raid and throughout his abolitionist career.

"Wyatt Earp" dissects the hearing held in 1881 to determine whether Earp and his companions would be tried for murder after they shot three rivals in the "Gunfight at the OK Corral." Lubet uses this trial to pursue his ideas on the importance of "case theory" and "story framing" in trials.

Lubet next turns to fiction to explore the ethical limits on lawyers as they frame a story that will enable their clients to win the case. In "Liberty Valance," Lubet reinvents the movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," imagining what would have happened if a prosecutor had decided to indict the hero, Ransome Stoddard, for murdering Liberty Valance. In "Atticus Finch," Lubet retells the story of "To Kill a Mockingbird" by assuming that the accused black man, Tom Robinson, really did rape Mayella Ewell, his white accuser. If so, was Atticus Finch's bare-knuckles attack on Mayella at the trial within the bounds of proper legal advocacy?

Lubet believes that the adversary trial, and the role lawyers play in it, deserve our respect, and that the framing by lawyers of competing stories in such trials is not only inevitable, but a good thing. Not everyone agrees. In a 1999 book, the journalist Janet Malcolm analyzed the case of Sheila McGough, who was convicted of helping her client defraud a number of companies. Malcolm believes that McGough was innocent. She argues that a miscarriage of justice resulted from McGough's stubborn refusal to play the duelling-stories game that characterizes trials. Lubet disagrees. In "Sheila McGough," he asserts that McGough's downfall resulted not from her respect for the truth but from misguided decisions that prevented the jury from hearing the evidence it needed to sort out the truth. Lubet demurs on whether he believes McGough was guilty, but he clearly believes that if she was innocent, her best chance would have been to let her lawyers do what good trial lawyers do: frame a convincing story through a selective but entirely ethical arranging and presentation of the evidence.

This sketch cannot do justice to the worth of Lubet's book. Trials are important. We resolve great issues and small through them. Yet the adversary trial is an ancient, clumsy, expensive, histrionic device for determining the truth. It relies heavily on lawyers paid to tell stories that favor their client, whatever the real truth may be. As a trial lawyer, I often feel uneasy about whether my trials have arrived at the truth. Many people confidently assert that there must be a better way. Maybe there is. But after reading Lubet's book, I doubt it.

Truth Believer.......2001-05-05

I work in a large law office. All of my colleagues know that many of our most effective trial lawyers are the ones who tell the best stories. As Steven Lubet points out in his cleverly written book, this does not refer to creating a story out of thin air. Rather, it deals with presenting a case to a judge or jury in a way that best represents the client's true position. Through both fictional and real-life examples, the author discusses the inherent difficulties and potential problems a lawyer may have in presenting every single aspect of a client's background. After all, it's not the job of one side's lawyer to do the opposing lawyer's work. But when an attorney presents a truthful account of the client's position in a manner that the court or jury can clearly understand, the likelihood that a particular case may wind up with a just result increases. Lubet's examples include John Brown at Harper's Ferry, Wyatt Earp at the O.K. Corral and Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird," -- great stories in themselves, memorable and instructive to lawyer and non-lawyer alike.

Nothing but the Truth: Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth. (book review): An article from: Trial

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Nothing but the Truth: Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth. (book review): An article from: Trial
William S. Bailey
Manufacturer: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
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This digital document is an article from Trial, published by Association of Trial Lawyers of America on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 643 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nothing but the Truth: Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth. (book review)
Author: William S. Bailey
Publication: Trial (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Volume: 37 Issue: 13 Page: 56(2)

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Communication and Indian Agriculture examines the role of communication in fostering development in Indian agriculture, focusing on research processes, theory, context and providing current examples of knowledge and useful research methods, as well as addressing future research directions in agricultural communication.

Twenty-two researchers present an up-to-date discussion of issues, summarize current knowledge on the topic and demonstrate how research and theory can advance our understanding of the dynamics involved, thus permitting practical interventions in order to create positive social change. Specific chapters address education and training for development, new directions in theory and methods, problems in leadership with a strategy for improvement, an in-depth study of communication in the diffusion of dairy farming technology, and a look at agricultural journalism.

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Communication and Indian Agriculture

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Communication and socio-economic variables related to fertilizer use by Indian farmers (Cornell international agricultural development mimeograph)
Raghubar Singh
Manufacturer: Dept. of Education, New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University
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