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It has been claimed that management accounting research has failed to produce theories with practical relevance. Interventionist research has been proposed as one means to overcome this problem of relevance. Interventionist research has many links to qualitative research genres. However, interventionist research should be viewed as one distinctive form of case study, in which the researcher is profoundly and actively involved with the object of study. In interventionist research, active participation in the field is regarded as an asset rather than a liability. In other words, access to an empirical setting through active participation is seen as more valuable than the risk of compromising objectivity. Despite the methodological debate about interventionist research, there is lack of empirical evidence on how interventionist research actually helps to produce theories with such pragmatic relevance. This book sheds light on the various nuances of interventionist research and the positions a researcher can occupy when applying interventionist research. It focuses on different aspects of management accounting during the past ten years with interventionist elements in them.In addition, to help scholars increase collaboration with industry, interviews with the key managers involved in these interventionist research projects in order to gather their views on such research approach are included, also motivating managers to engage in such collaboration.

Many years on after the 2007-8 financial crisis, most developed nations still find themselves in a state of weak recovery, high debt pile-up and distributive disparity. The intriguing question that we face is whether the golden days of modern capitalism are over, or if capitalism is just undergoing another period of adjustment characteristic of its past. What is disheartening is that the twin economic goals of sustainable growth and equality, which the world has now come to recognise as of paramount importance but mutually conflicting, remain, more now than ever, illusive and unattainable. Growth Without Inequality attempts to address this issue and to provide a pragmatic solution especially for nations in the current policy gridlock. By offering a unified framework of factors that drive growth, it shows how growth also gives rise to an array of "anomalous market forms" (defined by different degrees of value and risk visibility) that subvert distributive equity between labour and capital. It debunks both the pure free market solution and the mixed economy approach on the ground that they fail to arrest the growth propelling yet subversive power inherent in the "corporate forms" under the present capitalistic regime. Having shown that effective reform can hardly take place within the system itself, this book proposes to build a separate sector (Economy II) and partition it from the existing system (Economy I). The solution is easy to implement and quick to take effect. By one single stroke, this "Non-Marxist" solution can happily achieve the ideals of both "competitive capitalism" and "egalitarian socialism".

'Impeccably researched and sumptuous in its detail... It's a page-turner' The Economist 'Well-paced and cleverly organised' The Sunday Times 'Gripping' Guardian 'A pacy and deeply-reported tale' Financial Times Longlisted for the 2021 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year In this compelling story of greed, chicanery and tarnished idealism, two Wall Street Journal reporters investigate a man who Bill Gates and Western governments entrusted with hundreds of millions of dollars to make profits and end poverty but now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen frauds ever. Arif Naqvi was charismatic, inspiring and self-made. The founder of the Dubai-based private-equity firm Abraaj, he was the Key Man to the global elite searching for impact investments to make money and do good. He persuaded politicians he could help stabilize the Middle East after 9/11 by providing jobs and guided executives to opportunities in cities they struggled to find on the map. Bill Gates helped him start a billion-dollar fund to improve health care in poor countries, and the UN and Interpol appointed him to boards. Naqvi also won the support of President Obama's administration and the chief of a British government fund compared him to Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible. The only problem? In 2019 Arif Naqvi was arrested on charges of fraud and racketeering at Heathrow airport. A British judge has approved his extradition to the US and he faces up to 291 years in jail if found guilty. With a cast featuring famous billionaires and statesmen moving across Asia, Africa, Europe and America, The Key Man is the story of how the global elite was duped by a capitalist fairy tale. Clark and Louch's thrilling investigation exposes one of the world's most audacious scams and shines a light on the hypocrisy, corruption and greed at the heart of the global financial system. 'An unbelievable true tale of greed, corruption and manipulation among the world's financial elite' Harry Markopolos, the Bernie Madoff whistleblower

In this updated, second edition of the highly acclaimed international best seller, "The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures," Richard Duncan describes the flaws in the international monetary system that have destabilized the global economy and that may soon culminate in a deflation-induced worldwide economic slump.

"The Dollar Crisis" is divided into five parts:

Part One describes how the US trade deficits, which now exceed US$1 million a minute, have destabilized the global economy by creating a worldwide credit bubble.

Part Two explains why these giant deficits cannot persist and why a US recession and a collapse in the value of the Dollar are unavoidable.

Part Three analyzes the extraordinarily harmful impact that the US recession and the collapse of the Dollar will have on the rest of the world.

Part Four offers original recommendations that, if implemented, would help mitigate the damage of the coming worldwide downturn and put in place the foundations for balanced and sustainable economic growth in the decades ahead.

Part Five, which has been newly added to the second edition, describes the extraordinary evolution of this crisis since the first edition was completed in September 2002. It also considers how the Dollar Crisis is likely to unfold over the years immediately ahead, the likely policy response to the crisis, and why that response cannot succeed.

The Dollar Standard is inherently flawed and increasingly unstable. Its collapse will be the most important economic event of the 21st Century.

Die 3. Auflage des Lehrbuchs zur Performanceanalyse von Investmentportfolios stellt eine vollig uberarbeitete und wesentlich erweiterte Fassung der erfolgreichen Vorauflagen dar. Am allgemeinen Konzept, grundlegende Anwendungen in der Praxis durch detaillierte Beispiele zu veranschaulichen, wurde jedoch festgehalten. Neu hinzugekommen sind umfassende Darstellungen der Analysemethoden fur Rentenportfolios und Portfolios, die in mehrere Anlageklassen investieren. Ferner werden Analysetechniken fur alternative Anlageklassen wie Hedgefonds eingehend beschrieben. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Darstellung risikoadjustierter Performanceanalysen. Die anderen Kapitel uber Risiko- und Performancemasse, Benchmarks, die Attributionsanalyse von Aktienportfolios und die Global Investment Presentation Standards (GIPS) wurden unter Berucksichtigung der neuesten Literaturbeitrage aktualisiert und wesentlich erweitert."

The Groundwork of Company Valuation for First-time Buyers and Sellers

A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company has helped thousands of first-time buyers and sellers realize a fair, substantiated value for small businesses. Now in its Second Edition, this book covers common valuation techniques and myths, tips for determining tangible and intangible values, sample balance sheets and income statements, and approaches to valuing start-up technology and dot-com businesses.

This nuts-and-bolts guide addresses publicly traded and privately held firms, including traditional brick-and-mortar companies and the intellectual property industry. With a clear, concise writing style, the author walks readers through common practices for valuing, from collecting data to arriving at a saleable figure for all types of businesses, including professional practice, manufacturing, wholesale distributors, and a variety of retail operations. This new edition features perspectives on nontraditional valuation practices, guidance for using an excess earnings method, and an abundance of case studies from actual companies.

In order to make the most profitable decisions, before putting a business on the market or making an offer to acquire one, every beginning business purchaser and seller should read A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company, Second Edition.

The book is aimed at teachers and students as well as practising experts in the financial area, in particular at actuaries in the field of property-casualty insurance, life insurance, reinsurance and insurance supervision. Persons working in the wider world of finance will also find many relevant ideas and examples even though credibility methods have not yet been widely applied here.
The book covers the subject of Credibility Theory extensively and includes most aspects of this topic from the simplest case to the most general dynamic model. Credibility is a lifeless topic if it is not linked closely to practical applications. The book therefore treats explicitly the tasks which the actuary encounters in his daily work such as estimation of loss ratios, claim frequencies and claim sizes.

This book deserves a place on the bookshelf of every actuary and mathematician who works, teaches or does research in the area of insurance and finance.

The reputation of corporate reporting has been in crisis. Trust in the process of financial accounting and auditing has been undermined by a series of high profile scandals involving major corporations, including Enron, Parmalat, Ahold, and Worldcom. In response, regulators and practitioners world-wide have put forward a series of initiatives to repair the damage and restore faith in corporate governance.

In this important book, the European Auditing Research Network analyzes how that response has developed in Europe, with particular emphasis on the field of auditing. Leading international academics review how regulation has been revised in specific European countries to help restore confidence in the contribution of auditing to corporate governance. Various themes are explored, including the growing trend of internationalization in regulation, ethics and auditing, professional liability, and professional education.

Auditing, Trust and Governance is an invaluable volume for students, researchers and professionals working in the fields of auditing, accountancy and corporate governance, and provides a useful basis for further research on the effects of the increased regulation.

Dies ist fur Ratinganalysten das erste Lehr- und Lernbuch in deutscher Sprache. Auch international durfte es kaum einen vergleichbaren Titel geben. Die Aufgaben des "Ratinganalysten" haben zwar in den Finanzsystemen in Amerika, Asien, Europa und auch in Afrika ihren festen Platz, spiegeln sich aber kaum in der Literatur. Auf uber 500 Seiten gibt dieses Rating-Buch eine kompakte Ubersicht mit Lernzielen, Merksatzen, Zusammenfassungen und Ubungsfragen. Mit 35 Autoren folgt es nicht einer einzelnen Lehrmeinung, sondern bildet die Pluralitat ab, die auch fur CRA-Ausbildungsgange kennzeichnend ist."

Kennzahlen werden benotigt, um aus der Flut der Informationen das Wesentliche herauszufiltern, Massstabe aufzustellen, die Situation des Unternehmens objektiv darzustellen und funktionsubergreifende Gesamtzusammenhange herzustellen. Dieses Buch gibt einen umfassenden und praxisorientierten Uberblick uber die Kennzahlen zur Unternehmenssteuerung. Sie erfahren, wie Sie mit diesen Kennzahlen arbeiten und welche Aussagen und Zielsetzungen mit den einzelnen Kennzahlen verbunden sind. Sie erhalten mit diesem Buch einen detaillierten Leitfaden fur die Praxis zum Aufbau und zur Verwendung von aussagefahigen Kennzahlen und Kennzahlensystemen. Mit Hilfe dieses Buches werden Sie in der Lage sein, nicht nur das Unternehmen mit Ist-Werten zu durchleuchten, sondern auch mit Soll-Werten neue Massstabe zu setzen."

Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award! At the heart of Lean and Six Sigma is the same, unique business operating system: hoshin kanri. It is a method of strategic planning and a tool for managing complex projects, a quality operating system geared to ensuring that organizations faithfully translate the voice of the customer into new products, and a business operating system that ensures reliable profit growth. The true power of hoshin kanri, however, is two-fold -- it is a superior organizational learning method as well as a competitive resource development system. Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise, by Tom Jackson, explains how you can implement, identify and manage the critical relationships among your markets, design characteristics, production systems, and personnel to satisfy your customers and beat your competition. This practical workbook provides- A new understanding of hoshin kanri as a grand experimental design implemented through a system of team agreements. Clear explanations of the steps of hoshin kanri. A measure of overall business effectiveness used to determine the focus of corporate strategy. A new, improved X-matrix that incorporates a lean "balanced scorecard" for identifying improvement opportunities and converting them readily into bottom line results as a value stream P&L in terms that financial managers and accountants can understand and support. Downloadable resources containing forms, meeting agendas, and examples of X-matrices that serve marketing and design engineering as well as manufacturing. This workbook will show you the mechanics of implementing hoshin kanri, so that you can systematically improve your brand equity, implement Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma, and integrate your suppliers into a Lean and Six Sigma organization.

A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes from acclaimed professor and documentarian Kelly Richmond Pope. Have you ever wondered why Bernie Madoff thought he could brazenly steal his clients' money? Or why investors were so easily duped by Elizabeth Holmes? Or how courageous people like Jeffrey Wigand are willing to become whistleblowers and put their careers on the line? Fraud is everywhere-from Nigerian "princes," embezzlers, and Ponzi schemers to corporate giants like Enron and Volkswagen. And fraud is costly. Each year, consumers, small businesses, governments, and corporations lose trillions of dollars. We've become so accustomed to hearing about fraud, we accept it as part of the world we live in today-so much so, that our abilities to identify it and speak about it are limited. No more. In Fool Me Once, renowned expert Kelly Richmond Pope shows fraud in action, uncovering what makes perps tick, victims so gullible, and whistleblowers so morally righteous, while also encouraging us to look at our own behaviors and motivations in the hopes of protecting ourselves and our companies. By the time you finish this book, you'll have a better understanding of-and perhaps more compassion for-perpetrators; a renewed connection to victims; and an appreciation for those who blow the whistle. Filled with fascinating stories and insightful analysis, Fool Me Once will open your eyes and challenge your thinking. It will inspire you to question your own preconceived notions and commonly held beliefs about people while providing an insider's view of a phenomenon that most of us fail to understand until it's too late.

A fundamental objective of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the creation of in telligent computer programs. In more modest terms AI is simply con cerned with expanding the repertoire of computer applications into new domains and to new levels of efficiency. The motivation for this effort comes from many sources. At a practical level there is always a demand for achieving things in more efficient ways. Equally, there is the technical challenge of building programs that allow a machine to do something a machine has never done before. Both of these desires are contained within AI and both provide the inspirational force behind its development. In terms of satisfying both of these desires there can be no better example than machine learning. Machines that can learn have an in-built effi ciency. The same software can be applied in many applications and in many circumstances. The machine can adapt its behaviour so as to meet the demands of new, or changing, environments without the need for costly re-programming. In addition, a machine that can learn can be ap plied in new domains with the genuine potential for innovation. In this sense a machine that can learn can be applied in areas where little is known about possible causal relationships, and even in circumstances where causal relationships are judged not to exist. This last aspect is of major significance when considering machine learning as applied to fi nancial forecasting."

The purpose of this book is to set out the basic principles and conceptual issues of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Included in this 'pack' version of the product is the book Corporate Finance: Principles and Practice plus access to MyLab Finance. In this new and fully updated Eighth Edition, the core concepts and topics of corporate finance are introduced in an approachable, user-friendly style. Key principles and mathematical techniques needed for a career in business are clearly explained step-by-step and are put into practice through numerous examples and vignettes which take a closer look at real-world and well-known companies. What's new? Chapter vignettes are refreshed and the accompanying questions are updated, with the aim of deepening student's knowledge of key contemporary issues Up-to-date with the latest changes in regulations and taxation, such as the UK tax treatment of dividends Denzil Watson is a Principal Lecturer and Antony Head is an Associate Lecturer in the Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University. They have extensive experience of teaching corporate finance, managerial finance and strategic financial management over many years and in a wide range of courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional level.

Forensic accounting is gaining considerable attention as a rewarding and exciting field of accounting. Forensic accountants perform both fraud and non-fraud services. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) released its proposed new standards for its members who perform investigation and litigation forensic accounting services in December 2018. This second volume addresses fraud and non-fraud forensic accounting practice and performance. The author discusses forensic accounting roles and processes; forensic accounting techniques roles and responsibilities of corporate gatekeepers, including forensic accountants in creating a corporate culture of integrity and competency in preventing and discovering financial statement fraud. Also presented are challenges and opportunities in forensic accounting, and emerging issues in fraud investigation.

Dieses Lehrbuch zeigt mit Hilfe - eines systematischen, mit zahlreichen Beispielen aufbereiteten Lehrtextes, - mehrerer, teilweise vertiefender Ubungsaufgaben und detaillierter Losungshinweise, - von Formularen zur manuellen und EDV-unterstutzten Nutzung des auf EXEL aufbauenden Standardsystems "STRELAPLAN" Hintergrunde und Rechentechnik einer in den vergangenen Jahren im Dialog von Forschung, Lehre und Praxis entwickelten Prazisierung und Systematisierung der Plan- und Prozesskostenrechnung. Dementsprechend richtet wendet sich das Buch an Studierende und Vertreter/innen aus Unternehmen. Aus dem Inhalt: Einfuhrung in die Plan- und Prozesskostenrechnung. Plan- und Prozesskostenrechnung als System. Entwicklung der Rechenschemata in praktischer Anwendung. Zur Begrundung und Methodik einer praxisgerechten Plankostenrechnung. Ausblick: Entwicklungslinien einer praxisgerechten Plankostenrechnung. Plankostenrechnung als Instrument einer prazisierten Prozesskostenrechnung. Aufgaben und Losungen. Definitionen. Spezialanwendungen. Formulare mit Formelanzeigen."

Tax Havens for International Business is a special management report that shows how the establishment of a tax haven operation, in any of many locations worldwide, can save more money than any internal tax-shelter programme. This volume provides a comprehensive, step-by-step plan that simplifies the myriad complexities surrounding the formation and incorporation of branch offices and subsidiary companies within such tax havens as the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Greece, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Switzerland. In addition, it presents detailed information on each tax haven's economic, legal, political, cultural and geographical aspects, which must be considered if such an enterprise is to operate successfully.

Die Grundungs- und Wachstumsfinanzierung umfasst eine Vielzahl von Massnahmen, die den Unternehmensaufbau- und fruhen Expansionsprozess vor allem junger, innovativer Unternehmen begleitet. Der erste Hauptteil des Werkes enthalt die Darstellung der Beteiligungsfinanzierung, der zweite Hauptteil bringt eine umfassende empirische Analyse des tatsachlichen Entwicklungsprozesses der am Neuen Markt gelisteten Unternehmen unter finanzierungsrelivanten Gesichtspunkten."

In recent years the capital markets have developed into ever more complex areas, and banks have competed with each other to develop more sophisticated and innovative methods of financing. The pace of this innovation has often outstripped the development of rules for financial reporting. Off balance sheet finance is one particular area where the standard-setters are only now catching up. The Accounting Standards Board recently published a further exposure draft on the subject. FRED 4 - Reporting the substance of transactions - and Part 1 discusses in detail how it will affect the accounting treatment of various forms of off balance sheet finance. The exposure draft is reproduced in full in Part 2. Off Balance Sheet Finance will be an indispensable guide for bankers, other financiers, accountants and lawyers.

The audit profession is at a tipping point. Without significant innovation in its business model, staff recruitment strategies and audit execution processes, the audit profession may not remain relevant in the 21st century. The number of claims against auditors has significantly increased over the past twenty years due to the spate of corporate and audit failures early in the 21st century (Enron, Worldcom, Parmalat, etc.). Regulation to monitor professional and ethical standards has increased, leading audit firms to feel under even more financial pressure. In addition, the investor community is calling for greater insight and foresight from auditors. These challenges, coupled with the unlimited liability regime of auditors still applicable in many jurisdictions, are making audit firms and regulators nervous as to the systemic risk of another one of the Big 4 failing. And yet, the audit profession is in place to protect businesses, their wider stakeholder groups, including clients and investors, and society at large. Therefore, this book asks the important question about the profession's future and engages a broad readership in the discussion of audit failure and reform. Intended to help readers to get up to speed with the issues and possible solutions quickly, this book assists directors, investors, business people and regulators, especially those with a non-financial background, to gain a greater understanding of the challenges and threats being faced by the audit profession, which in turn could disrupt the capital market and affect businesses across the globe. The book outlines the critical success factors needed for a sustainable audit profession.

The current degradation of sovereign balance sheets raises very real concerns about how sovereign creditworthiness is measured by credit rating agencies. Given the disastrous economic and social effects of any downgrade, the book offers an alternative and calls for more transparency about the quantitative measures used in calibrating the rating process and how sovereign ratings are validated. It argues that oversight is required and procedures improved, including subjecting methodologies of assessing default to more standardization and monitoring. Sovereign Credit Rating explains the process of sovereign creditworthiness assessment and explores the consequences of possible inaccuracies in the process. Developing an innovative new methodology to assess ratings accuracy, it shows that the announcement of each rating action by the major credit rating agencies show alarming inconsistencies. Written by an internationally recognized author and professor, this unique book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in corporate governance, accounting, public finance and regulation.