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Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Budgeting & financial management
This official ICSA study text has been specially designed to
support students taking the Fund Administration module of ICSA's
Level 5 qualifications in International Finance and
Administration.The text covers the syllabus for each module and is
structured to help in planning a programme of study. Learning
outcomes linked to the syllabus are highlighted to help students
focus on the examination requirements for each module.The text
follows a standard format and includes a range of features to
encourage active learning and to help students apply principles and
theory to real-life business situations, including: case law and
case examples stop and think scenarios worked examples test
yourself review questions and answers glossaries of key termsThe
text provides an excellent guide for students, but also serves as a
useful reference for anyone who needs an accessible and practical
introduction to the subject.
Why do companies exert high effort to reduce the costs of products
that are production? Because they can! Because unnecessary product
costs were not removed during product development. C-O-S-T, short
for Cost Optimization System and Technique, details how a company's
product development teams, their supporting functions, and company
leaders can optimize product costs before production starts and
thereby maximize lifecycle profits. Since product development teams
determine product costs imparted to new products, much of the book
details how these teams optimize product costs. The book also
includes ways company leaders can create and sustain company-wide
engagement in optimizing product costs and keeping the resulting
increased profit margins. The reader is entertained while observing
a three-day workshop where executives of a fictitious company,
Defender Products, Inc. are being taught the C-O-S-T system by its
developers. The story flows like a business workshop with slides,
dialog, and break-out sessions. The content will benefit all
companies that design, develop and manufacture products.
Drawing upon current cutting-edge theories, knowledge and research
findings, this Handbook provides an analysis of the interaction
between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), entrepreneurs
and financial institutions globally. The contributors consider
regional and international perspectives within and between Europe,
North America, New Zealand, the Middle East, as well as South,
Central and East Asia on a chapter-by-chapter basis. In so doing,
they provide a contextualized, up-to-date snapshot of research into
entrepreneurial finance across the world. This book is aimed at
both established and emergent researchers, as well as undergraduate
and postgraduate students looking for avenues of future research
into entrepreneurial finance. It will also be of use to
policymakers and practitioners seeking a global perspective in
their work. Contributors: M. Akoorie, H. Al-Dajani, R. Baldock, Z.
Bika, T. Botelho, C.G. Brush, D. Deakins, D. Demirba , S. Demirba ,
L.F. Edelman, R.T. Harrison, S. Heilbrunn, J.G. Hussain, N.
Kushnirovich, J. Li, C. Mac an Bhaird, S. Mahmood, T.S. Manolova,
C. Mason, H. Matlay, M. Nitani, D. North, I. Peiris, A. Riding, N.
Sandhu, J.M. Scott, P. Sinha, M. Subalova, S. Talbot, G. Whittam
This book is an essential introduction to the world of financing
and investment decision making. With a strong real world focus,
this text aims to help you bridge the gap between the theories
surrounding financial decision making and what happens in the real
business world in an accessible, user-friendly way. Alongside the
book, you can visit the Business Finance companion website at
www.pearsoned.co.uk/mclaney to access a comprehensive range of
student-learning resources, including additional questions, web
links for further reading and a glossary of key terms.
Measure, manage and get the most out of your marketing. Key
Marketing Metrics is the definitive guide to today's most valuable
marketing metrics. In this thoroughly updated and significantly
expanded book, you will understand the pros, the cons and the
nuances of more than 50 of the most important metrics, and know
exactly how to choose the right one for every challenge. With
leading experts, discover how to build your reputation by: Using
marketing dashboards to view market dynamics from multiple
perspectives, maximize accuracy, and "triangulate" to optimal
solutions Applying high-value metrics for virtually every facet of
marketing to maximise the return on your investment and identify
the best new opportunities for profit Building models to assist
with planning to give you the best tools for decision-making In its
third edition, this award-winning book now includes the latest web,
online, social, and email metrics, plus new insights into measuring
marketing ROI and brand equity.
This classic textbook in the field, now completely revised and
updated, provides a bridge between theory and practice. Appropriate
for the second course in Finance for MBA students and the first
course in Finance for doctoral students, the text prepares students
for the complex world of modern financial scholarship and practice.
It presents a unified treatment of finance combining theory,
empirical evidence and applications.
This lecture notes provides an overview of budgeting and financial
management in the public and non-profit sectors. Fundamental
concepts and practices of budgeting, financial management and
public finance are introduced, with special emphasis on state and
local government budgeting and financial management in the United
States. The objectives of courses in Public Budgeting and this
title are to teach the basic concepts and nomenclature of public
finance, to develop an understanding of budget processes as well as
the sources and uses of public revenues, and to make relatively
simple, but useful computations in an intelligent way. Key course
learning outcomes include the abilities to: There are no
indispensable pre-requisites by the reader, and it has been
designed for students from a wide variety of backgrounds and
undergraduate majors. Although this works well as an introductory
text to a broader public administration curriculum, it also can
make sense for students to take after some more basic courses in
economics, policy analysis, and public organizations. Issues of tax
incidence and the effect of taxes on economic efficiency can be
covered in greater depth.
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