Would you walk into the fight of your life without a weapon? If you're planning for your retirement but don't know how to create a secure retirement savings that can provide income for life, you're doing exactly that. Retirement You Can't Outlive cuts through the hype, challenges the conventional wisdom of the stock jockeys and focuses on conservative, reasonable, and sane ways that savers can approach the process of saving for retirement. Using plain language and a lot of common sense that's been missing from financial planning sessions for decades, Retirement You Can't Outlive helps you restore the dreams you once had of your retirement years being truly golden.

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Controlling, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Seminar fur allgemeine BWL und Controlling), language: English, abstract: "Warren Buffett swallows Heinz: Sauce for the sage" - a typical takeover announcement was published lately on 14th February 2013. Warren Buffett, a well known inves tor, acquired along with the financial investor 3G Capital the H. J. Heinz Company for $ 28 billion. This is likely to become the largest transaction in the food industry. The company's stock price rose more than 20.0 percent after the publication which is a very characteristic reaction to deal announcements. Hence, the important question is, if transactions, such as the takeover of the H. J. Heinz Company, affect the corporate performance consistently. In general, the core idea about mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is to generate additional future growth if for example organic growth is limited. If two companies merge or a target is bought by another company (the acquirer), shareholders believe in synergy effects. These are revenue enhancements, cost reductions, tax gains and reduced capital requirements leading to business growth and thus to a higher value of the new company. However, it is questionable if this theory can also be experienced in the real world. Ever since the effects of M&A have been analysed, the market of the United States (US) was used as data source. This is plausible due to the fact that the very first information was well recorded for US companies. It is remarkable that literature contributes very little research on Europe, although the number of announced European transactions is comparable to those of the US. For example, in 2007 the European deals volume overtook the one from the United States of America (USA) for the first time. Moreover, research on single European countries almost never exists or only rarely. One exception is the United Kingdom (UK) with an early takeover history begin

Financial and Managerial Accounting is a concise introduction to fundamental accounting principles for students who are new to the subject matter. Many standard accounting textbooks include more materials than can easily be covered in a one-semester approach. Financial and Managerial Accounting focuses only on the topics students need to master at the introductory level. The book begins by explaining the importance of accounting in businesses and making students aware of accounting ethics. Then, through distinct and incisive chapters, students begin to master specific topics and skills, such as how to record business transactions, merchandising operations and inventory, assets, liability and equity, and internal control and cash. The particulars of managerial accounting are addressed in chapters on cost-management systems, capital investment systems, and master and flexible budgets. Written to be both accessible and readily applicable, as well as highly practical in nature, Financial and Managerial Accounting is an excellent foundational textbook. It is well-suited to courses in principles of financial accounting and managerial accounting.

Scholarly Research Paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Controlling, grade: -, University of Cooperative Education Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: For every sales organization it is important to understand how their business is running in order to manage it. The management needs significant data in order to pursue their targets and take the right decisions. Appropriate controlling methods in order to better understand running businesses are the issues of KPIs and KPI systems. The thesis picks up the issue of KPI systems in order to develop a KPI system which is tailored on the economic reality by illustrating basic comprehension about KPI systems as well as by introducing a sales-related KPI system.

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Controlling, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Seminar fur allgemeine BWL und Controlling), language: English, abstract: Since the beginning of the 90s research on issues referring to analysts' practise grew rapidly to such an extent that even several publications are concerned with giving an overview of this development. Besides the principal-agent problematic between the firm's managers and the equity investors, investors are dependent on analysts' information in times where equity trading soared and the trading turnover in 2008 was 35 times higher than in 1980. That is why shareholders are not able to analyse the amount of information regarding a company due to lack of time or ability. Therefore analysts advise investors to make a profitable decision by publishing a report including for instance stock recommendations or earnings forecasts. Another reason why there is so much research about analysts' practise is the fact that their information influences investors' trading behaviour. Thus, it is crucial to know how reliable those statements are and accordingly to be able to assess the quality of the outputs. However, to answer the question of analysts' process of transforming various information of stock recommendations have to be examined in detail. Recent investigations rather focus on the single properties of analysts' analyses as earnings forecasts and stock recommendations, but did not connect those two values. Prior studies deal with research questions like the effect of earnings forecasts on the stock prices or the use of stock recommendations to foretell abnormal return. Bradshaw (2004) is the first research paper which follows the question whether there is a link and if so how analysts incorporate the earnings forecasts into their stock recommendation. Because of the importance of Bradshaw (2004), this paper reviews the main issues and embeds them into the existing literature concerni

Glossaries of accounting terms in both English and Spanish to be used by students and professionals of accounting, finance and taxation

The author has had over 25 years in mutual fund investing. He favors Small Cap Mutual Funds over Large Cap Mutual Funds. To prove his case, he shows year by year, the average total returns in each of these categories for the years 1999 through 2010. The average total yearly returns were provided by Lipper. Small Cap Value and Blend funds returned 9.0% and 8.1% respectively and were clearly superior to the abysmal returns for Large Cap Value and Blend funds, 3.5% and 2.5% respectively, even when continued through the 2000 and 2008 recessions. Later, the author illustrates comparisons of outcomes over 25 year periods with various investment returns using a hypothetical initial investment of $5,000 and assuming monthly contributions which add another $5,000 per year. In order to safeguard assets at the onset of recessions, he examines easily accessible online private and governmental monthly reports. By using such reports, investors shouldn't hesitate to move their assets to Money Market Funds. Such action will prevent prevent serious erosion of accumulated assets and improve long term investment returns. He is critical of the very limited choices of funds available in 401k and 403b plans compared to those open to IRA investors. However, investors could be in both types of plans. For individuals comtemplating or are already in IRA plans, the author favors using Morningstar to guide their selections. Monitoring their portfolio with Quicken or its equivalent, investors in IRAs using Morningstar's ranking system, have the opportunity to increase their returns by 3% or more over fund averages. Over time, this difference can greatly enhance total retirement assets. The author is a former CEO of a metal stamping company. He is married with two children. Education: B.A.Manchester University, England.