During the first decade of the 21st century, the world has witnessed a plethora of corporate scandals, global economic crises, and rising environmental concerns. As a result of these developments, pressure has been mounting on businesses to pay more attention to the environmental and resource consequences of the products they produce and services they deliver. Recent Developments on Creating Sustainable Value in the Global Economy contains a collection of pioneering research on the integration of issues of sustainability within the traditional areas of management. While highlighting topics including green marketing, circular economy, and sustainable business, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, environmentalists, economists, business professionals, researchers, academicians, and students in disciplines including marketing, economics, finance, operations management, communication science, and information technology.

Mastering Managerial Accounting helps students learn critical concepts in managerial accounting through consistent and engaging practice. The text encourages students to work through problems and identifies clear procedures for completing each problem successfully. The heart of each chapter features an appropriate method for solving problems, an illustrative example, and an introductory stop-check problem for immediate application. There are also practice exercises paired with note-taking space for class use, step-by-step exercises for selective practice, whole problems requiring use of the entire target method, and an assignment problem. Those wishing to work at a more advanced level can complete challenge problems. Detailed answers are provided for self-evaluation. Topics include the operating budget, variance analysis, capital budgeting under uncertainty, cost and service department allocation, job and process costing, pricing, and production under constraints. The second edition features new learning objectives for most chapters. Based on student feedback, the textbook content has been reorganized into 20 shorter chapters to present key concepts more clearly. Extensively class-tested, Mastering Managerial Accounting is an ideal resource for courses within the discipline.

Although the concept of international public goods has been established, new international public needs arise by the day. For example, while there are many taxation problems and debates that have not yet been resolved internationally, many new tax-related problems like international transfer pricing, taxation of virtual profits, and taxation of electronic commerce are being added. These issues require studies that will discuss a new agenda and propose solutions for these dilemmas and problems. Global Challenges in Public Finance and International Relations provides an innovative and systematic examination of the present international financial events and institutions, international financial relations, and fiscal difficulties and dilemmas in order to discuss solutions for potential problems in the postmodern world. Highlighting topics such as international aid, public debt, and corporate governance, this publication is designed for executives, academicians, researchers, and students of public finance.

Accounting systems and sustainability management are vital for company management and performance. This is particularly difficult for small businesses. As such, it is necessary to understand the features and issues of sustainable accounting systems, with a particular focus on small business. Maintaining Sustainable Accounting Systems in Small Business is a critical scholarly resource that explores sustainability accounting systems with small businesses and how the economic, social, and environmental aspects are related to each other in the company's management and performance. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as management control system, integrated reporting, and small and medium enterprises, this book is geared towards entrepreneurs, business managers, academicians, business professionals, and graduate-level students seeking practical information about the different sustainable accounting systems from strategic, organizational, and accounting perspectives.