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Effective management of taxable accounts and portfolios rarely gets the attention it deserves from investment managers and advisers, often leaving investors with a larger-than-necessary tax bite. Tax-Aware Investment Management details new research, new analytic tools, and new thinking that can change that. This book punctures received wisdom and dispels misconceptions about how to account for tax effects; how to allocate assets; how and when to buy, sell, and rebalance; and how to communicate with clients and with other professionals involved in managing their assets. Douglas Rogers, widely considered the authority in this growing field, details the trading strategies and fund evaluation criteria essential to the task and presents critical considerations for investment managers. He also covers the expanding area of separate accounts.
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Tax Aware Investing doesn't need to be an oxymoron.......2007-07-10
I have yet to meet a prudent investor that thinks the government would do a better job of spending the money that the investor has accumulated, than they would do spending it themselves.
Doug Rogers' Tax-Aware Investment Management guide is timely. Doug gives you questions to ask your advisor. He provides a historical prospective while injecting humor. Doug even synthesizes the implications of taxation on investment results in a readable fashion.
Wall Street serves institutions (they live in world of relative "better than the benchmark or at least awfully darn close to it so they can keep their job" performance evaluation.
Private clients are often sold what institutions bought 5 or 10 years ago. The individual investor's best interests would be better served by thinking about this topic before, during and after they invest. You can only spend what you have after tax, after fee. I suggest you invest some time in thinking about the wisdom that Doug shares.
Importance of Tax Aware Investing Brought to the Forefront.......2006-03-08
This book could/should be used as a handbook for investment professionals considering tax aware investing. Doug has compiled years of research, insight and practice into a concise "manual" to shed some light on this complicated,and ever-changing aspect of investment management. Billions of dollars are needlessly lost each year from investors' portfolios because investment professionals fail to consider the impact of taxes when constructing and managing investment portfolios.
The book is very well written and organized. Hopefully, more people will realize the importance of taxes on portfolio performance and be drawn to firm's who can add value by having the knowledge and the ability to "play the game". This is especially true in a low return environment where the tax burden can have a meaningful impact in overall returns.
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Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble! (Small Time Operator)
ASIN: 1572484551 |
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This easy-to-read and understand book is invaluable for women (and men) who are already in business or just starting to be self-employed, and who are trying to learn exactly what tax responsibilities they have.
Not just a tax-season book, but a year round guide, Minding Her Own Business provides complete tax and recordkeeping information for self-employed people and independent contractors. Readers will learn about the different business entities (sole-proprietor, LLC, corporation, partnership), what the tax differences are between being an employee and a self-employed person, which business expenses are deductible and what proof the IRS expects to see, how to reduce your chances of being audited, whether you need to make quarterly estimated tax payments (and how to calculate the amount to send), how to deduct a home office (or should you?), whether you can deduct your business vehicle (and what records you need), how to choose a tax preparer or a bookkeeper, what taxes self-employed people pay, which tax forms are filed by sole proprietors, whether it's a good idea to prepare your own return using a tax preparation program, how to set up a simple record keeping system, and much much more.
This recently published 4th edition of Minding Her Own Business contains the general information you'll need to prepare your own 2004 tax return (or to get ready your materials for your preparer) and also for doing your 2005 tax planning.
Unlike some tax books, Minding Her Own Business is not an academic book. It is not written in legal language. It was written by a tax preparer (enrolled agent) who has been preparing tax returns for self employed people for more than 25 years. She has prepared over 8,000 tax returns and currently has 400 tax clients with whom she uses this information every day! The author has also been teaching small business tax seminars throughout the country for more than 20 years so she has a very good idea of what questions self-employed people have about taxes. You'll find those questions (and the answers) inside Minding Her Own Business.
Terry Savage in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote about Minding Her Own Business, 'If you have your own business or are thinking about starting one, you need this book.'
Paul Tulenko in The Atlanta Business Chronicle wrote: 'Clearly written and superbly easy to use. One of the best I've seen on the essentials of keeping books and paying taxes.'
Anna Marks, publisher of Bay Area BusinessWoman wrote "Women business owners should not be without this book. It's like having a tax professional by your side at all times."
Small business columnist Jane Applegate wrote, "Minding Her Own Business is a great addition to anyone's business library. Zobel has the ability to explain financial issues in a clear and understandable manner."
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Excellent resource for small business owners.......2007-07-13
This book is the best I have read when it comes to breaking down financial information needed to run your own business. I used this book in every step of my business setup.
Great book.......2007-03-15
Highly recommended. Everything is described very simple and clear. And oh, boy, when it comes to taxes, there is a reason we hire someone to prepare the documents. Now I know so much, I am going to do it myself this year.
Great book to add to your library.......2005-09-30
I found this book easy to read and understand. Each of the topics were described in just enough detail - enough to give you the essentials needed to keep your books, yet not so much that you got lost in irrelevant details. I read it in one day. Sure to be referenced for years to come.
The monetary basics every business owner has to know.......2005-04-06
Now in an updated fourth edition, Minding Her Own Business is a guide to taxes and financial records written especially for self-employed women, but highly recommended for entrepreneurs everywhere regardless of gender. Written in plain and simple terms, Minding Her Own Business covers licenses and permits, bank accounts and credit cards, records the IRS expects one to have, ledger books and recordkeeping systems, 1099 Forms, identifying deductible expenses, filling tax forms and much more. A thorough overview of the monetary basics every business owner has to know.
One of my 'Top Ten Books' for entrepreneurial women........2005-03-15
One of my 'Top Ten Books' I list in the resources of all my books for self-employed and entrepreneurial women " Priscilla Y. Huff, 101 Best Home-Based Businesses for Women, 3rd. ed.
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Covers principles in business taxation, corporate taxation, taxation of capital gains, compensation, and corporate reorganizations.
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Edward J. McMillan
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A fresh perspective on the HR function, High Performance HR challenges the traditional view of HR as a service function and replaces it with a new vision of HR as an internal business accountable for the return on investment of essential corporate assets—people and organizational processes. High Performance HR not only challenges HR’s traditional role, but also provides practical strategies for leveraging HR’s role, priorities, accountabilities, and organizational design.
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HR transformation.......2001-12-01
In all sectors of the economy competition has increased and changed, for instance by technological developments and vanishing trade barriers. The world of work changes like never before. Anybody who works is confronted with new work circumstances, new tasks and new demands. Old rules no longer apply. Organizations desperately look for new formulas of success. The human resources function, too, has to reflect on its own role and future, amidst all of this turbulence. That is what is happening now. HR slowly but surely has begun to transform itself fundamentally in many companies. This book is about that revolution.
The professionalization of the personnel function (nowadays usually called HR) first expressed itself in the development and implementation of procedures and systems for recruitment and selection, appraisal and reward, job descriptions and job evaluation and career development. At the same time the HR-person became the one who guarded the compliance with employee rights legislation.
In the last decade, the HR-function has increasingly become a target of criticism. The criticism is that the HR-function is too bureaucratic, controlling, too operationally focused, reactive and powerless. The author of this book, Weiss, says that HR indeed has not kept up with developments elsewhere in organizations. He says that HR professionals have become numb by the monopoly position they long enjoyed.
Weiss describes in High Impact HR not only how he views the role and positioning of HR in the future but also how HR can transform itself. An entire chapter even deals with the question how HR can systematically get rid of old activities by disposing of them, postponing them, or outsourcing them.
The role of HR can, according to the author, become a very important one, that of a strategic business partner responsible for the return on investment in personnel and organisation. As main contributions of HR the following remain:
1) Business transformation processes: the cultivation of a flexible culture, alignment of initiatives, the implementation of changes and transition and the return on investment in human capital.
2) Organization value added processes: HR technology processes, creation of a continuous learning environment, organization development and consultancy.
3) Core people processes, for instance recruitment and selection, performance development, compensation, etc.
To a lesser extent than before, HR will play a purely operational, administrative and service delivery role. Administration and execution remain important but a considerable part of these activities will be automated or outsourced to external suppliers. HR then becomes more a distributor than a producer of services. Another part of the HR activities will disappear through new technology applications. HR-information systems for example, take over routine tasks by automating the processing transactions and administration. Further, personnel itself will more and more be able to retrieve information from and change information in databases.
I find this book interesting bu not great. Not all ideas in this book get clearly worked out, for instance how HR could play a role in facilitating adding value to external customers. Another point of criticism is that Weiss defines the role of HR very broad. He states for instance that HR can help the company in developing excellence in managing relationships with its suppliers. Must HR be involved in everything and have expertise on everything? Weiss marks out the role of HR too broadly and vaguely, I think. The book contains several other examples of this. I think has little chance of becoming a classic. It does address, however, a very interesting and (still) timely topic. It also offers some useful and relevant knowledge. And, there are not too many other books on this. For that reason I think it is worth reading for HR people (in particular of larger organizations).
"High-Impact HR" Delivers Strategic Value!.......1999-05-14
A fresh perspective on the HR function, "High-Impact HR" challenges the traditional view of HR as a service function and replaces it with a new vision of HR as an internal business accountable for the return on investment of essential corporate assets - people and organizational processes.
"High-Impact HR" not only challenges HR's traditional role, but also provides practical strategies for transforming HR's role, priorities, accountabilities, and organizational design. It positions the human resources function as a key business partner in helping any organization achieve its strategic goals.
"High-Impact HR" also focuses on what 'not' to do - how and why HR should abandon specific types of work for a better fit with the company's strategic goals. It then provides a roadmap for executives and HR leaders attempting to transform the HR function for competitive advantage.
The book has been widely endorsed by major leaders in the field of HR. Here are some examples of endorsements:
"It is brilliantly insightful" Lynn Evans, Vice President Nortel Networks
"Finally a book that shows us how to build the HR function into one that is truly valued as a strategic business partner - a must-read for all business leaders." James Marchant, Vice President C-MAC Industries
"Don't miss this important new book- a must read for the forward-looking HR professional." Dr. Carol Beatty, Queen's University
"High-Impact HR" was the best selling book at the 1999 Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario Conference.
The National Post listed "High-Impact HR" as the #1 Human Resources bestseller at Books For Business on April 1, 1999 and on April 29, 1999.
The Globe and Mail listed "High-Impact HR" as the #8 best-selling business book at Books For Business.
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The Law of Primitive Man: A Study in Comparative Legal Dynamics
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A classic work in the anthropology of law, this book offered one of the first ambitiously conceived analyses of the fundamental rights and duties that are treated as law among nonliterate peoples (labeled "primitive" at the time of the original publication). The heart of the book is a description and analysis of the law of five societies: the Eskimo; the Ifugao of northern Luzon in the Philippines; the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne tribes of the western plains of the United States; the Trobriand Islanders of the southwest Pacific; and the Ashanti of western Africa. Hoebel's lucid analysis reveals the variety and complexity of these societies' political and legal institutions. It emphasizes their use of due process in adjudication and enforcement and highlights the importance of general explicit standards of conduct in these societies. In offering these detailed case studies of societies studied by other anthropologists, and in outlining an influential approach to the subject, it remains an illuminating book for both scholars and students.
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Spacecraft such as the Pioneer, Vela, and Voyager have explored the interplanetary medium between the orbits of Mercury and Pluto. The insights derived from these missions have been successfully applied to magnetospheric, astro-solar, and cosmic ray physics. This book is an overview of these insights, using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows as the framework for interpreting objects and processes observed in the interplanetary medium. Topics include various types of MHD shocks and interactions among them, tangential and rotational discontinuities, force-free field configurations, the formation of merged interaction regions associated with various types of flows, the destruction of flows, the growth of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and formation of a heliospheric vortex street, the development of multifractal fluctuations on various scales, and the evolution of multifractal intermittent turbulence. Students and researchers in astrophysics will value the data from these missions, which provide confirmation of many theoretical models of the interstellar medium.
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Large-scale structure & dynamics of the heliosphere.......2003-07-30
The first two books in this Oxford University Press series on Astronomy and Astrophysics are E.N. Parker's "Spontaneous Current Sheets in Magnetic Fields with Applications to Stellar X-rays" and C. F. Kennel's "Convection and Substorms: Paradigms of Magnetospheric Phenomenology." This third book, "Interplanetary Magnetohydrodynamics" is primarily intended for advanced graduate students and scientists who are not specialists in interplanetary physics.
My own particular interest in interplanetary physics was sparked by the incredible journeys of the Voyager spacecraft to the edge of our Solar System and beyond. This book describes some of the fundamental structures and processes of the interplanetary medium that these brave voyagers helped to measure. It deals with specific properties of the heliosphere (the region extending from the sun to the termination shock) as measured by the Voyagers and other spacecraft, and treats the interplanetary medium as a Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow.
(While the exact location of the termination shock is not known, it is now estimated to be located at about 90 ± 10 Astronomical Units (AU). Voyager 1 should reach 90 AU by the end of this year (2003). What will it experience when it ventures beyond the solar system's interplanetary magnetic field and into interstellar space?)
"Interplanetary Magnetohydrodynamics" was published in 1995 and relies primarily on data from various Pioneers, Mariners, Helios 1 & 2, Vela 3, and Voyager 1 & 2, rather than a newer generation of spacecraft such as the rechristened RHESSI - the Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, which became operational on 02/12/2002, SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration), and TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer spacecraft). As a result, there is for example, no mention of the exciting new research on solar flares and the theory that they may be 'powered' by magnetic reconnections (a reexamination of the forty-year-old Sweet-Parker model).
However, this is more a book about the really large-scale structures of the heliosphere: the solar wind and the interplanetary magnetic field, the streams and interaction regions that corotate with the period of the sun's rotation, the shape of the heliospheric current sheet and its boundary conditions, and large-scale periodic fluctuations in the plasma and magnetic field.
Dr. Burlaga was a co-investigator on several of the magnetospheric and plasma cloud experiments performed by Helios 1 & 2, Voyager 1&2, Giotto (Comet Halley), etc., and is currently a Goddard Senior Fellow at the Interplanetary Physics Branch, Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
If you're at all interested in solar sailing and want to know 'what the weather is like out there,' and if you have a good background in physics and calculus, "Interplanetary Magnetohydrodynamics" presents a detailed picture of our Sun's exotic and interesting environment.
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