Economics of cost is a study of the identification, estimation, allocation, and control of cost.

The book proposes a new financial judgment model which assumes both that a cognitive process guides judgments, and that the schemata underlying this process are shaped by the crucial factors of cultures, language, ande contractual agreements.

The book examines the nature of firms and their relationships to the economy and society in general based on progressive paradigms that includes: a) an economic paradigm; b) a rectification paradigm; c) an ethical paradigm; d) an economics of social issues; and e) a differentiation of firms in the economy based on the dual labor markets, the growth opportunities factor, and pollitical risk

This book explicates the antecedents and consequences of information management.

The book shows that earnings opacity is prevalent internationally, and is due to slack behavior, fraud, income smoothing, and earnings management.

Five stories of love and obsession with passion winning at the end

The main objective of this book is to explicate the various models that can be used to assign value to countries, people, wealth, assets, liabilities and equity.

The stories deal with the toll caused by love and obsession. In the first story, labeled MEKTOUB (WRITTEN), a woman becomes obsessed with her daughter's lover. Fate, which brought her to this obsessive state, results in disaster. In the second story, labeled SHAME, a middle-aged curator falls in love with his sister-in-law. He sees his life shattered by his own irrational actions. His life will go on, delivered, but with shame. In the third story, labeled CONJUGAL BLUES, a man is called on to solve the murders of homeless men as well as the problem of the disappearance of his wife and thwart the actions of a group bent on destroying a landmark. The story resounds to the throbbing beat of Chicago blues as it explores the dark sides of conjugal love.

This book argues for the superiority of value added eporting. It is argued that value added is an ideal concept for the measurement of wealth, financial analysis, event and behavioral prediction, and taxation policy.

Social status is the ultimate object of desire. Learning what it means, its antecedents, and its consequences will help the reader adjust his or her life to secure its benefits and avoid its costs.

The novel is about a Chicago triangle. In one corner of the three-sided affair is the beautiful Sherazade Downing, whose life is haunted by violence. The second member of the triad is Samir Zribi, a handsome foreign curator, whose objective is to recreate his student into his own design. Sherazade acquiesces to his teaching, both spiritual and physical. Samir obtains for her a job interview with the alderman-Frank Camelli-who completes the triangle- a member of the museum's board of directors and Chairman of the Cook County Democratic party and machine. Sherazade loves Samir and Frank both, but for different reasons. The rivals are consumed by their desires for her distracted from their respective world. The solution: Sherazade must die, and die she does not. She is saved by both lovers from an attempt to kill her by her father's murderer.

Producers and users of management accounting information are confronted with crucial behavioral phenomena--factors that can affect the communication of this information and its use. Riahi-Belkaoui shows what these factors and phenomena are and how to understand and cope with them. In doing so, he shows how producers and users together can improve the efficiency of management accounting itself.

He explains the judgment process in management accounting, identifies and explains the major behavioral phenomena, and then provides ways to use them for the firM's benefit. Thoughtful and comprehensive, his book is important reading for executive decision makers in almost all organizations throughout the public and private sectors.

Drawing upon cost accounting, mathematics, operations research, economics, and the behavioral sciences, Riahi-Belkaoui answers the call for a unique, multifaceted approach to the study of management accounting. His goal: to enhance performance in the essential tasks of cost estimation, allocation, planning, control, and performance evaluation. He covers the traditional techniques, but expands into quantitative methods and applications, then extends further into the behavioral unification of these techniques. His book is state of the art, ingenious in the way it adapts quantitative methods' solutions to traditional cost accounting topics, and innovative in its use of the behavioral implications. The result is an important resource for professionals, academics, and upper-level students in the field.

Riahi-Belkaoui arranges his various techniques chapter by chapter. First, he looks at cost allocation and then at cost-volume profit analysis under stochastic conditions. In Chapter three he treats regression for cost estimation; in Chapter Four, the learning curve for the same purpose. He takes up advanced planning analysis in Chapter Five, advanced control analysis in Chapter Six, and decentralizing and performance evaluation in Chapter Seven. He then finishes with an important discussion of transfer pricing.