Book Description
Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, this popular study guide25,000 copies were bought of the first edition! covers everything from financial analysis and forecasting, planning and budgeting to leverage and capital structure, mergers and acquisitions and multinational business finance. This closest-thing-to-a-personal-tutor includes many problems with fully worked out solutions and a comprehensive exam. It's ideal for independent study, as preparation for CMA and CFA exams and for professional review.
Customer Reviews:
Effective reminder ... Efficient reference.......2007-01-07
I recommend this text to financial professionals I teach ... VERY helpful to clear the cobwebs several years after college!
Good Study Material but Some Sloppy Errors.......2005-03-11
I read this book to supplement my CFA curriculum studies. Compared to other Schaum's books, Financial Management by Shim and Siegel merits a rating of between 3 and 3 1/2.
Four chapters covering topics of Risk Return & Valuation, Capital Budgeting, Capital Budgeting Under Risk, and Cost of Capital were excellent. Other chapters were also well written. The problem sets solidified concepts and were a pleasure to work through.
The authors present the material in a straight forward and easy to understand manner. They provide numerous examples of how to apply the concepts which are truly beneficial.
My main complaint is that there are dozens of errors throughout the book, which indicate sloppy proofreading. This can potentially frustrate readers new to the field of financial management. Calculation errors (!), misapplication of formulas (Do vs. D1) and mislabeling of charts (time lines / cash flows) were particularly frustrating and can be confusing.
I welcome the authors to contact me if they plan to release an updated edition (this book copyrighted 1998). I'll be glad to share with them the errors (at least I think they are!) I found.
It would also have been nice if the authors utilized financial calculators for some of the TVM (time value of money) applications and indicated the keystrokes. A break-out box showing the steps on a Texas Instrument BA-II or HP12-C (two popular financial calculators) would be helpful.
In sum, Financial Management is a very readable book. It is comprehensive, practical, and provides a good depth of discussion without getting too theoretical. Just watch out for the silly mistakes.
great resource.......2004-11-03
I don't know what that reader below is saying.?? This book was very helpful to me when I used this for a finance class. It's great because it has quizzes/exams, definitions, key terms, a useful index, many many sample problems, and formulas in bold. When you are a busy person and are using this as a refresher, or in conjunction w/ a textbook, it's very helpful to have this paperback workbook to go through for a quick reference.
I've referred to it many times while reading through my textbook, doing homework problems, or studying for a test.
Love the schaum's series - this one in particular has been very useful to me.
Financial Management y Schaum's.......2003-07-21
This work is a good supplement to the class text. It has hundreds
of solved problems depicted. In addition, the Schaum's covers
international financial management problems which are not always
found in the standard texts. This is a good practice
workbook to reinforce the current text and class notes.
Complex cash flow problems, present value and return on investment problems are shown with accompanying diagrams to aid
in the visual presentation. This text is excellent in order to
prepare for formal licensing exams and other comprehensive
tests .
lack of knowledge.......2003-05-27
just open the first sample page. you see that the author does not even understand what profit maximization, as defined by economists, is. i would be careful if i were you.
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Study faster, learn better-and get top grades with Schaum's Outlines
Millions of students trust Schaum's Outlines to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.
Use Schaum's Outlines to:
- Brush up before tests
- Find answers fast
- Study quickly and more effectively
- Get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks
Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!
This Schaum's Outline gives you:
- An easy-to-follow guide to all topics in the second-level course in Intermediate Accounting
- Over 400 fully solved problems, including new “real-world” examples
- Topic coverage completely updated to comply with recent FASB changes
Chapters include: Long-term Liabilities * Stock Ownership * Stockholders' Equity: Retained Earnings o Dilutive Securities and Earnings Per Share * Investments: Temporary and Long-term * Revenue Recognition Issues * Accounting for Leases * The Statement of Cash Flows * Accounting Changes and Correction of Errors * Accounting for Pensions * Net Operating Loss Carrybacks and Carryforwards: Deferred Income Taxes * Appendix
Book Description
An ideal key to mastering bookkeeping and accounting essentials, this book also offers practical guidance. It teaches the real-world applications of the concepts discussed via a broad range of 724 answered questions and problems with detailed solutions. Students will also find abundant examples of different types of ledgers and worksheets and how they're used. The exams included, typical of those given at the high school and 2- and 4-year college levels, provide an excellent opportunity to check understanding and boost test performance.
Customer Reviews:
Very helpful for "survey" and "college accounting" courses.......2005-08-21
This well-written text closely tracks the content of "Survey of Accounting" and "College Accounting" textbooks and courses offered at many community and 4-year colleges. ("Principles of Accounting" courses are similar, but they contain more theory than the other two. This book is still good, but might need some supplements.) The exercises and problems are excellent, and the solutions appear right after them so it's easy to check your work. I would have given 5 stars if there were a few more memory aids and helpful hints to make learning the material even easier. But overall, very good and easy to follow.
What a Lifesaver.......2000-08-01
Just what I was looking for. College accounting was long ago and unused for many years. This book is a great one for dusting off the brain cells. It is well written, easy to understand, and even has T account diagrams. It's like college in the comfort of my own home. The exercises are to the point and provide ample worksheet space. Much better and certainly more affordable than many textbooks.
Book Description
Study faster, learn better-and get top grades with Schaum's Outlines
Millions of students trust Schaum's Outlines to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.
Use Schaum's Outlines to:
- Brush up before tests
- Find answers fast
- Study quickly and more effectively
- Get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks
Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!
This Schaum's Outline gives you:
- 1042 solved problems, including step-by-step solutions
- Hundreds of additional practice problems, with answers supplied
- Clear explanations of financial management concepts and practices
- A comprehensive exam to test your mastery of the material
Chapters include: * Introduction * Financial Analysis * Financial Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting * The Management of Working Capital * Short-Term Financing * Time Value of Money * Risk, Return, and Valuation * Capital Budgeting (Including Leasing) * Capital Budgeting Under Risk * Cost of Capital * Leverage and Capital Structure * Dividend Policy * Term Loans and Leasing * Long-Term Debt * Preferred and Common Stock * Warrants, Convertibles, Options, and Futures * Mergers and Acquisitions * Failure and Reorganization * Multinational Finance
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This is a text for the traditional course in managerial economics offered in most business and economics programs. The primary aims of the text are:
To provide a unifying theme of managerial decision making around the theory of the firm.
To introduce an international dimension into managerial economics to reflect the globalization of production and distribution in today's world.
To present many new topics and managerial tools not discussed at all or discussed only superficially in other managerial econ texts.
To show how managerial decisions are actually made in the real world.
Customer Reviews:
Fairly Useful Refresher for a Graduate Level Student........1999-06-15
To be fair to the true value of the book, I would like to say that this book is a very useful, concise and all-round assortment of all the pre-existing economic concepts and techniques in their simplest and the most intuition-friendly form.
An undergraduate reader might find it a little challenging, but for a graduate level reader already seasoned in every aspect of economics, this would not only be an easy reading, but a very clear and insightful guide to economic rationale behind the theories they had taken for granted w/o giving its practical application much thought.
The beauty of this book for a graduate student, I think, is not in the treatment of highly advanced and feindishly complicated top of the line economic theories, but in the simple and insightful plain-langauge treatment of all the technical aspects of economics commonly and conventionally practiced in the economics discipline.
The value of this book for an undergraduate student majoring in economics or business may not be immediately evident w/o working hard at it, but rather would probably be appreciated a lot later when they are more comfortable w/ matrix algebra, calculus and econometrics.
Overall I rate this book a rare piece that balances well in the middle of the road between both graduate and undergraduate level audiences.
Fairly Useful Refresher for a Graduate Level Student........1999-06-14
To be fair to the true value of the book, I would like to say that this book is a very useful, concise and all-round assortment of all the pre-existing economic concepts and techniques in their simplest and the most intuition-friendly form.
An undergraduate reader might find it a little challenging, but for a graduate level reader already seasoned in every aspect of economics, this would not only be an easy reading, but a very clear and insightful guide to economic rationale behind the theories they had taken for granted w/o giving its practical application much thought.
The beauty of this book for a graduate student, I think, is not in the treatment of highly advanced and feindishly complicated top of the line economic theories, but in the simple and insightful plain-langauge treatment of all the technical aspects of economics commonly and conventionally practiced in the economics discipline.
The value of this book for an undergraduate student majoring in economics or business may not be immediately evident w/o working hard at it, but rather would probably be appreciated a lot later when they are more comfortable w/ matrix algebra, calculus and econometrics.
Overall I rate this book a rare piece that balances well in the middle of the road between both graduate and undergraduate level audiences.
Very complex with overlapping ideas.......1998-09-24
I am currently using the book for a managerial economics class and find the information confusing . Certainly a review of supply and demand (chapter 3) and its application of middle level managers is crucial and should have been placed before optimizing techniques (chapter 2). The assumption is the student or reader has just finished an introduction economics course and all the information is still fresh in the mind. Personally, I review all principles in this book with basic economic principles for a much clearer understanding of the topics.
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The definitive guide for the coming M-commerce age
"Invaluable insight into the mobile economy. Kalakota and Robinson get right to the core of the emerging mobile landscape. . . . A must read."Patricia Seybold, author of Customers.com and The Customer Revolution
Knowing a change is coming is one thing; predicting its exact shape and form is something else entirely. In m-Business, renowned Web visionary Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson succeed at both, exploring mobile commerce and providing the definitive roadmap for strategic business decisions in a world transformed by mobility.
From innovative business models and next-generation applications to customer experience creation and leadership initiatives, this book provides cogent, convincing analysis of the products and knowledge that business leaders will need to thrive in the new M-commerce arena.
The first book to clearly explain the M-commerce revolution in the language of a broad business audience, m-Business provides a simple three-step plan for navigating the mobile minefield more quickly than competitors. Readers get comprehensive coverage and insights on topics including:
- Emerging business trendsconsumer, service, enterprise applications, and infrastructure
- New business modelslocation-based models, real-time supply chain models, enterprise extension models, and voice portals
- New solution enablersmobile platforms, voice platforms, wireless application service providers (WASP), and mobile application integration
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In m-Business, renowned Web visionary Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson explore mobile commerce and provide the definitive roadmap for strategic business decisions in a world transformed by mobility.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book About Mobile Solutions.......2005-11-28
This book provides all the technical knowledge that is need for busy executives to seriously ponder about how to integrate moble solutions into their company's operations. What is amazing is the simple language that is used.
My favourite chapter is the Art of Mobility (Chap. 10).
Buy this book and it will give you immediate ROI!
Highly Recommended!.......2002-05-23
Authors and consultants Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson emphasize that the mobility revolution is in its early stages and provide insights on its anticipated stages of development. This insightful and authoritative book is well written and well organized. We from getAbstract recommend it to executives, managers and information-technology specialists, though general readers with a jones for high tech also will be blown away.
Nice Executive Overview of Mobile Applications.......2002-05-11
This book presents an excellent executive overview of the mobile applications landscape. The strength of the book is the unique perspective of extending "E-business" investments to the "M-business" -- mobile/multichannel -- environment. It presents the business side of mobile - CRM, SCM, Mobile Office and Mobile portals - without getting mired in the alphabet soup of 3G, GPRS, UMTS etc.
Insight into Mobile Enterprise Applications.......2002-04-27
The landscape of mobile enterprise applications is covered extremely well in this book. Unlike other books that talk primarily about consumer applications, the authors focus on leveraging existing investments in E-business and extending them into the mobile arena. Highly recommend this book if your company is beginning to think about Mobile Applications and next generation IT investments.
Great Overview of Mobile Area.......2002-02-24
I am a newbiew to the whole mobile world. I was intimidated by all the technical jargon that was being thrown around. This book helped cut through the fog and provide a business perspective of "why businesses should care?" and "what apps make sense". I highly recommend this book.
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Foodservice Organizations: A Managerial and Systems Approach (6th Edition)
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Book Description
Create, manage, and grow a successful foodservice operation in any cultural institution
The Complete Guide to Foodservice in Cultural Institutions provides insight, strategies, and information needed to run an appealing, efficient, and profitable foodservice operation that lives up to the commitment, standards, and quality expectations of any cultural institution. It is a unique and invaluable resource for administrators charged with ensuring the quality, profitability, and safety of foodservice operations in any cultural institution.
A series of case studies recounts the problems and shortcomings encountered by a number of cultural institutions' foodservice programs. These studies demonstrate how to achieve improved financial performance, management efficiencies, visitor satisfaction, and integration with each institution's mission and culture. Through presentation of these case studies, this comprehensive guide shows administrators at museums, zoos, and other cultural institutions how to:
- Use catered special events to encourage membership and sponsorship
- Develop and market a private special events program
- Create a restaurant that enhances the visitor experience
- Evaluate and assess in-house restaurants and special events programs
- Renovate or expand an existing foodservice operation
- Ensure food quality and safety
Customer Reviews:
5 stars for these fresh ideas for a complete marketing strategy in a modern arts venue.......2006-02-25
Sometimes there are publications, which are long awaited by professionals, and people wonder why no author had the idea earlier to cover this topic. The Complete Guide to Foodservice in Cultural Institutions is such a book. Dedicated to high frequented attractions like art museums, concert halls, or Zoos, it serves as a key guide to offer services which are in fact the secret of hospitality and visitor orientation in a cultural venue.
Arthur M. Manask, a foodservice consultant in California, introduce both easy-to-understand issues and unexpected opportunities of how to develop an own service in catering, offer refreshments and organize regular special events combined with meal and drinks. As simple it sounds, as hard it might be for smaller organisation with limited staff. Manask introduces some solutions as a combination of internal and external human resources. Catering companies are growing not only in the US, so the chance to find appropriate partners whose assist in establish successful food services, is high.
The publication cares not only about exclusive content, it has an exclusive outfit, too. We can strongly recommend to buy this book - fresh ideas for a complete marketing strategy in a modern arts venue. We can award it with 5 stars - like for a restaurant.--Dirk Heinze, Arts Management Network
Book Description
Putting Emotional Intelligence to Work offers a new paradigm of communication for the 21st-century workplace. Beginning with the thoughts of communication pioneer Carl Rogers, this book covers the origins and history of emotional intelligence, why it is essential at this point in the changing marketplace, how to delegate and negotiate more effectively, and how to change yourself to become a more effective player. An EQ (Emotional Quotient) survey helps you determine where you are on the scale of executive intelligence.
Putting Emotional Intelligence to Work leaves you with a greater understanding of the new work ethic for 21st-century leadership, its business and personal benefits, how to teach it in a corporate setting, and how to build self-managed teams with the right mix and match of personality types. Dr. Ryback's book brings many resources together to consolidate an approach to business that combines the practical with the thoughtful, emotional, and intuitive. A new paradigm for leadership in the 21st century is demonstrated clearly and incisively.
David Ryback, Ph.D. is a management consultant and speaker on personal and organizational success. His experience encompasses business management and government consulting, as well as teaching at Emory University's School of Business. His diverse client base includes the US Department of Defense, government legal offices, financial institutions, manufacturers_both domestic and international, health care organizations, and national retail outlets. In Putting Emotional Intelligence to Work, Dr. Ryback brings many resources together to consolidate an approach to business that combines the practical with the thoughtful, emotional, and intuitive. A new paradigm for leadership in the 21st century is demonstrated clearly and incisively.
A new emotionally intelligent approach to delegation and negotiation.
Captures the shift from traditional workplace hierarchy to the new self-managed teamwork.
Self survey for measuring your EQ (Emotional Quotient).
Customer Reviews:
Putting Emotional Intelligence to Work by David Ryback.......2007-04-26
While I found the material in the book to be useful, the idea of emotional intelligence is not a new concept. I found it interesting that there are many occassions where the author quotes Carl Rogers and his knowledge of emotional intelligence. I found this interesting because the concept of emotional intelligence was not put forth by Carl Rogers, rather it was put forth by Howard Gardner who believed standardized IQ tests do not fully measure a persons cognitive ability.
Carl Rogers, on the other hand, put forth the concept of client-centered therapy later changing the name to the person centered approach. A key to Rogers approach was giving the client or person unconditional positive regard. Now, I don't disagree with this approach and I think Rogers had a great deal of emotional intelligence. But when I saw the title contained "Emotional Intelligence," I expected the book to mention Gardner or Thorndike or Daniel Goleman who popularized the concept in the mid 90's. In Gardner's theory, he suggests that perhaps the part of the brain that controls emotional intelligence is more developed in some individuals than others. That is the theory behind the various intelligences he put forth.
As I was reading the conversations between the author and Rogers, it is obvious (to me) that Rogers used his person centered approach. Again, creating an atmosphere where the author could say anything and he didn't have to fear rejection from Rogers. This is the unconditional positive regard. This is the concept the author is attempting to get across to business executives. Create an atmosphere where employees feel free to express their ideas without fear of rejection. The idea may not be something that could be used, but if they feel their ideas are valued and will not be laughed at, it will increase their creative input. Rogers was also noted for not giving advice, rather, he would reflect back to the person what they said, let them think about it and come to their own conclusion.
The author also mentions Theory Z in the book, which is a Japanese style of managment. While he praises this management style, what he fails to mention or get across is the cultural difference. Japan is a collectivist culture whereas America is an individualistic culture. For the collectivist, it is a group effort and if one individual succeeds it is the whole group who is recognized.For the individualist, it is an individual effort and if the individual succeeds, the individual is recognized. Considering the cultural differences, would it be possible to successfully implement this management style within an individualistic culture.
Simply put, what it all comes down to is how well does one get along with others? To me, the book is filled with old concepts but repackaged and sold in a different way. Perhaps all we really needed to know we learned in kindergarten?
Refreshing!.......2005-03-27
Dr. Ryback's walk on the beach with Dr. Carl Rogers is perhaps one of the highlights of this book. Their walks end up to be enlightening and refreshing.
His conversations with Dr. Rogers about the role of emotions, how relationships evolve, and the depth of "emotional experience" have transformed an ordinary banter to a profound exchange of ideas.
In general, the book has explained the emotional intelligence concept in a clear and simple style.
The book has a specific chapter on the subject of Executive Intelligence and its ten attributes such as nonjudgmental attitude and perceptiveness. Succeeding chapters have focused on some practical strategies in developing the various emotional skills relevant in the workplace and beyond.
Dr. Ryback's suggestion that everyone should live an "emotionally intelligent lifestyle" shows appreciation of the emotions' role in daily living. Dr. Ryback's book is indeed superb.
When Feelings Mean Business.......2002-05-03
This book is a straight-shooting, reader-friendly guide to making applicable the new theory of Emotional Intelligence. Dr. Ryback's conversational style quickens our understanding of this new and important theory and makes accessible the steps to take to enhance leadership on or off the job. With special assessment tools and explanations, PUTTING EI TO WORK brings to real life what is necessary to lead in the Global Economy. To be specific, Ryback demonstrates how to bring the brain and the heart work together in a thinking way and proves that successful leaders know how they themselves tick emotionally.
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