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Finally, there's a money guide to help single women survive and
thrive. Single Women and Money is a highly readable guide that
helps single women live a financially secure and successful life.
It's a book for the millions of unmarried women in America who must
make ends meet on a single salary-which is typically less than what
men earn. Using stories of actual women, as well as data and
experts' insights, the book chronicles the financial issues of
single women. It provides the tools needed to tackle their daily
and longer-term needs and probes the issues specific to divorcees,
widows, women who never married, and single mothers. Single women
reveal their moving stories detailing how many have overcome
obstacles. From there, the book provides a wide range of specific
guidance on money issues targeted to singles. These include saving,
spending wisely, managing with children, shedding debt, investing
in line with your values, planning for retirement and long-term
care, navigating Social Security, paying taxes, landing a job after
age 55, protecting financial assets and leaving a legacy. Offering
resources women can turn to in hard times, the authors also suggest
ways society can, and should, assist single women.
For many, starting a business can be an overwhelming experience.
Understanding the financial aspects of running a business can be
even more daunting. Entrepreneurial Finance, Sixth Edition was
written to help a broad range of U.S. business owners understand
the financial aspects of entrepreneurship. Unlike traditional
corporate finance books, this text explains the financial topics
most important to running a profitable small business
suchasinventory control, time value of money, working capital
management, and forecasting. Updated to reflect recent economic
trends, this edition also shows how two popular business tools
(excel and TI BA II Plus calculator) can assist business owners in
problem-solving and decision-making. Features Tackles the financial
aspects of business entrepreneurship-from business planning to
inventory control, to time value of money, to working capital
management, to forecasting and financial planning for both the
entrepreneur and the business. Provides critical background
knowledge-by presenting basic economic and financial concepts early
in the text. Explains the different types of small businesses-by
examining the financial statements for Sole Proprietorships,
Partnerships, LLCs and Corporations. Explains all six time value of
money formulas-and their application in both personal financial
planning and business financial planning. Offers a glimpse at real
small businesses-using short end-of-chapter case studies. Shows how
to solve sample problems-using excel and the Texas Instruments BAII
Plus calculator. Includes time value of money tables-see Appendix
B.
Cost-benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation
that can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or
intervention is worthwhile. In this thoroughly updated and revised
second edition, Robert Brent expands the scope of the field by
including the latest concepts and applications throughout all
regions of the world. This book attempts to strengthen the link
between cost-benefit analysis and the mainstream health care
evaluation field, which is dominated by non-economists. The need to
build a bridge between the two is more important than ever before,
as the general understanding of cost-benefit analysis appears to
have regressed.Case studies are used throughout to explain and
illustrate the various methodologies being examined. In addition,
the author now covers more of the statistical requirements that are
necessary to understand and carry out health care evaluations, and
follows an applied economics approach. Ultimately, he resolves a
number of disputes and makes some new, but subtle, contributions by
reinterpreting, correcting and extending existing work. The book
covers the topic in an accessible manner, from the foundations to
the frontiers of the field, and clearly explains all the necessary
economic principles along the way. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Health
Care Evaluations, Second Edition will be invaluable to students and
researchers of health economics, public policy and health care
policy, as well as policymakers and health care practitioners. It
can also be used as a comprehensive introductory text by anyone
with an interest in cost-benefit analysis. From this perspective,
the new additional final chapter is particularly useful as it
supplies a summary of CBA that highlights the main conclusions of
the text in a single chapter. Contents: 1. Introduction to Health
Care Evaluation 2. Cost Minimization and the Definition of 'Cost'
3. Types of Costs and their Measurement 4. External Costs 5. Social
Cost of Taxation 6. Fundamentals of Cost-effectiveness Aanalysis 7.
Further Issues of Cost-effectiveness Analysis 8. Fundamentals of
Cost utility Analysis 9. Measuring Utilities in Cost utility
Analysis 10. Cost-utility Analysis and Equity 11. Cost-benefit
Analysis and the Human Capital Approach 12. Cost-benefit Analysis
and Willingness to Pay 13. Cost-benefit Analysis and Equity 14.
Methods for Measuring the Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions Index
The main parameters of the EU budget are decided upon every seven
years when the MFF (Multi-annual Financial Framework) is
negotiated. Before the end of 2016, EU institutions will undertake
a mid-term review of the EU's 2014-2020. This comes in a context of
severe turbulences for the EU project: a difficult economic and
social situation in most member states, huge migration pressures
and new security threats stemming from an unstable environment, and
the Britain's decision to leave the EU. At the same time, EU
countries need to face up to climate change and engineer a smooth
transition towards an innovation-based sustainable economic model.
The EU's very survival depends on the ability to respond to these
multiple challenges in the next few years. Making a smarter and
more strategic use of the EURO960 billion MFF has become a
necessity. Can the EU Spend Better? argues that the scope for a
substantial revision of the MFF is limited in the short-term. At
most, pressing issues such as terrorism and the deteriorated social
situation will lead to greater flexibility in the use of existing
envelopes. However, the debate starting in 2017 over the next MFF
provides with the opportunity of more substantial shifts in four
main directions: more investment- and performance-oriented
spending; the expansion of climate conditionality to all spending
areas; more targeted redistributive spending matched with greater
reform conditionality; a more outward-looking budget.
It is critical to improve the asset management system
implementation as well as economics and industrial decision making
to ensure that a business may move smoothly internally. Maintenance
management should be aligned to the activities of maintenance in
accordance with key business strategies, which must be designed
under the comprehensive approach of an asset management process.
After transforming the priorities of the business into priorities
of maintenance, maintenance managers will use their medium-team
strategies to tackle potential weaknesses in the maintenance of the
equipment in accordance with these objectives. Cases on Optimizing
the Asset Management Process explains and summarizes the processes
and the reference frame necessary for the implementation of the
Maintenance Management Model (MMM). This book acts as an overview
of the current state of the art in asset management, providing
innovative tools and practices from the fourth industrial
revolution. Presenting topics like criticality analysis, physical
asset maintenance, and unified modelling language, this text is
essential for industrial and manufacturing engineers, plant
supervisors, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students,
technology developers, and managers who make decisions in this
field.
The need for "back to basics" information about credit risk has not
disappeared; in fact, it has grown among lenders and investors who
have no easy ways to learn about their clients. This short and
readable book guides readers through core risk/performance issues.
Readers learn the ways and means of running more efficient
businesses, review bank and investor requirements as they evaluate
funding requests, gain knowledge selling themselves, confidence in
business plans, and their ability to make good on loans. They can
download powerful tools such as banker's cash flow models and
forecast equations programmable into a cell or tablet. Readers can
punch keys to ascertain financial needs, calculate sales growth
rates calling for external financing, profits required to
internally finance their firms, and ways to position revenue growth
rates in equilibrium with their firm's capital structure - a
rock-solid selling point among smart lenders and investors. The
book's "how-to," practical and systematical guide to credit and
risk analysis draws upon case studies and online tools, such as
videos, spreadsheets, and slides in providing a concise risk/return
methodology.
The series, Contemporary Perspectives on Data Mining, is composed
of blind refereed scholarly research methods and applications of
data mining. This series will be targeted both at the academic
community, as well as the business practitioner. Data mining seeks
to discover knowledge from vast amounts of data with the use of
statistical and mathematical techniques. The knowledge is extracted
from this data by examining the patterns of the data, whether they
be associations of groups or things, predictions, sequential
relationships between time order events or natural groups. Data
mining applications are in marketing (customer loyalty, identifying
profitable customers, instore promotions, e-commerce populations);
in business (teaching data mining, efficiency of the Chinese
automobile industry, moderate asset allocation funds); and
techniques (veterinary predictive models, data integrity in the
cloud, irregular pattern detection in a mobility network and road
safety modeling.)
This Research Collection surveys the main contribution to labor
supply decisions within the family. It covers both theory, from the
initial 'unitary' model that postulates that the family behaves as
a single decision maker, to modern "collective" approaches that
concentrates on differences in preferences and power relationships
and empirical applications. Including an original Introduction by
the Editors, a special emphasis is placed on dynamic approaches, in
particular issues related to intra-household commitment, and on
policy implications.
The U.S. Department of Defense accounts for over half of federal
government discretionary spending and over 3% of GDP. Half of all
federal employees work for the Department. The annual budget for
the military not only provides for those salaries, it covers the
baseline and wartime operating expenses of the force, and hundreds
of billions of dollars of investment in new capabilities and
technologies. Given the materiality of the defense function and
amount of resources it consumes, the processes for budgeting for
defense and managing the funds is important to understand. This
text provides a fully integrated view of defense budgeting. It
takes the position that defense budgeting is a specific instance of
public budgeting, and public budgeting is a specific instance of
public policy. In order to fully understand how the nation budgets
for defense, it first lays a theoretical and conceptual foundation
for public policy and public budgeting. That is followed by an
assessment of the political and policy context for defense,
including the overarching federal budget process and role of
Congress in setting defense policy. Only then does the text explore
the specifics of defense budgeting: how, by whom, and why the
budget is crafted. Beyond the topic of budgeting - formulating,
requesting, andlegitimating the request for funds - the book
tackles financial management topics. Included are discussions of
federal appropriations law, funds management, accounting
requirements, intragovernmental business transactions, and
contemporary topics of defense policy such as funding overseas
contingency operations in an era of deficit control legislation.
This book is an appropriate reference for both students and
practitioners of defense budgeting and financial management. It
would also be appropriate in a general public budgeting course.
Most public budgeting texts focus on state and municipal
governments and there are few that address the federal system. This
book fills that gap and provides a specific example of federal
budgeting.
Traditional financial markets are the most important lever of
social and economic impact that can effectively regulate markets,
industries, national economies, and international economic
interactions, and form global and deeply integrated economic
systems. Due to the global spread of financial instability and
waves of financial crises, the problems of researching effective
financial instruments to ensure national competitiveness becomes
highly significant. Global Trends of Modernization in Budgeting and
Finance is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research
on the impacts of financial globalization in the context of
economic digitalization and national financial markets. While
highlighting topics such as entrepreneurship, international
business, and socio-economic development, this publication explores
modern conditions of rapid technological progress and financial
market integration, as well as the methods of increasing regional
intergovernmental organization efficiency. This book is ideally
designed for policymakers, financial analysts, researchers,
academicians, graduate-level students, business professionals,
entrepreneurs, scholars, and managers seeking current research on
new challenges and developments in national financial markets.
If you are starting or selling your own business, or wanting to
expand your company, business plans are essential. Get expert
guidance on how to make an impact with your business plan and
successfully communicate your strategic vision. Whether it is to
raise finance, sell a business or develop a specific project, this
is your one-stop guide to producing the most professional and
convincing business plan for a new venture. This 7th edition now
features even more practical exercises, useful templates and top
tips to help you write a comprehensive and compelling plan, as well
as content on digital developments such as crowdfunding, online
retailing and digital marketing. The Creating Success series of
books... Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get
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lasting success in your career.
Since 2007, the repeated financial crises around the world have
brought to the headlines financial practices and models considered
to fuel the economic instabilities. Deep Dive into Financial
Models: Modeling Risk and Uncertainty comes handy in demystifying
the underlying quantitative finance concepts. With a limited use of
mathematical formalism, the book explains thoroughly the models,
their hypotheses, principles and other building blocks. A
particular care is given to model limitations and their misuse for
investment strategies, asset pricing, or risk management. Its
reader-friendly nature provides readers with a head start in
quantitative finance.
A selection of republished corporate finance articles and book
chapters that can serve as an advanced corporate finance
supplementary text for courses that use no textbooks. Combining
convenience and an affordable price with retypeset pages and a
high-quality index, the 600 pages of volume two, "Bidding
Strategies, Financing, and Corporate Control," focus on a range of
special topics, ranging from theories and evidence on strategic
bidding behavior (offer premiums, toeholds, bidder competition,
winner s curse adjustments, and managerial overconfidence), issues
arising when bidding for targets in bankruptcy auctions, effects of
deal protection devices (termination agreements, poison pills),
role of large shareholder voting in promoting takeover gains, deal
financing issues (such as raising the cash used to pay for the
target), managerial incentive effects of takeovers, governance
spillovers from cross-border mergers, and returns to merger
arbitrage. Including an index and new introduction, this volume
will simplify and facilitate students interaction with new concepts
and applications.
Provides a status report about modern scientific evidence on
corporate takeoversExposes students to new methods and empirical
evidence while reading high quality primary materialOffers a
concise and cost-efficient package of journal and book articles for
advanced corporate finance students"
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