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A readable and structured guide for the increasing numbers of
people each year who consider setting up a small business or
becoming self-employed. 'Business Planning' outlines the options
and risks involved in setting up a business. The importance of
thorough planning is often overlooked and only becomes evident if
the business fails. This is highlighted in a recent study by the
SFEDI of 486 bankers and accountants where lack of planning was the
most common reason cited as to why businesses fail. 'Business
Planning' shows how to avoid this failure by focusing on the
planning stage and building on this framework as the business
develops. This is the only book based around the Small Firms
Enterprise Development Initiative (SFEDI) for first time
owner-managers. It contains all the underpinning factual
information required to prepare and present a successful Business
Plan for presentation to a bank manager, or an alternative
potential source of finance, or for use in an NVQ portfolio. It is
in line with the major syllabuses for Business Start-Up, and can be
used as a course book for anyone completing a formal NVQ level 3
qualification in this area, with tips on NVQ structure and
assessment.
'Business Development' provides a readable and practical book for
the growth and development of businesses. This is primarily a
textbook for the NVQ4 Business Development qualification, the
Institute of Management Certificate in Owner Management courses,
and HND Small business modules, but the text is also an invaluable
practical guide to owner-managers of small businesses.
All businesses pass through several stages of growth and it occurs
for a number of reasons, such as change in the commercial market,
increased customer demand for services or product, higher numbers
of customers. Business Development shows how to make the most of
this growth and also how to deal with the different types of
problems that are encountered along the way.
The book is structured to follow a logical sequence of questions
that makes it readily accessible: Where are we now? Where do we
want to go? What resources are needed to get there? What sales and
marketing policies do we need to develop? It examines the personnel
and staffing implications, the efficiency of the current financial
management process, and the owner's own abilities to make it all
happen. Most important of all it makes the owner-manager takes a
long, hard look at the business and where it is really going.
First textbook to relate closely to the NVQ4 and IM Certificate
course
First textbook to relate closely to the NVQ4 and IM Certificate
course
A readable and structured guide for the increasing numbers of
people each year who consider setting up a small business or
becoming self-employed.
'Business Planning' outlines the options and risks involved in
setting up a business. The importance of thorough planning is often
overlooked and only becomes evident if the business fails. This is
highlighted in a recent study by the SFEDI of 486 bankers and
accountants where lack of planning was the most common reason cited
as to why businesses fail. 'Business Planning' shows how to avoid
this failure by focusing on the planning stage and building on this
framework as the business develops.
This is the only book based around the Small Firms Enterprise
Development Initiative (SFEDI) for first time owner-managers. It
contains all the underpinning factual information required to
prepare and present a successful Business Plan for presentation to
a bank manager, or an alternative potential source of finance, or
for use in an NVQ portfolio. It is in line with the major
syllabuses for Business Start-Up, and can be used as a course book
for anyone completing a formal NVQ level 3 qualification in this
area, with tips on NVQ structure and assessment.
Covers all the essential information for preparing a business plan
for funding applications, or as part of an NVQ
Endorsed by Tony Robinson at SFEDI and designed around approved
good practice in this area.
Written in clear English with practical examples and tips for
assessment
This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the
environmental and engineering aspects of the management of
rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban
Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new
systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing
infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice and
research, this new edition has significant new material on
modelling, resilience, smart systems, and the global and local
context. The two new authors bring further research and
practice-based experience. This is an essential text for
undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and researchers in
water engineering, environmental engineering, public health
engineering, engineering hydrology, and related non-engineering
disciplines. It also serves as a dependable reference for drainage
engineers in water service providers, local authorities, and for
consulting engineers. Extensive examples are used to support and
demonstrate the key issues throughout the text.
Starting a new business takes a lot of energy and organization. The
failure rate is alarmingly high and the task can look herculean at
the outset. This new textbook provides a simple guide to help plan
a successful new business, taking entrepreneurs and students
through the steps required to avoid pitfalls and get a business
going. Unlike most entrepreneurship textbooks, the author avoids
dwelling on theories in favour of providing effective and practical
guidance on how to start and manage a profitable business, with a
focus on new ventures operating in high-growth, innovative sectors.
Written by an expert with experience in academia and business
consulting, this concise textbook will be valuable reading for
students of entrepreneurship, new ventures and small business. The
practical focus of the book means that it will be useful both for
students in the classroom and for entrepreneurs wanting to start a
new business.
Sustainable Water Services: A Procedural Guide is the result of the
Sustainable Water industry Asset Resource Decisions (SWARD)
project, undertaken by a consortium of UK academics in
collaboration with water service providers in Scotland, England and
Romania. It has been developed to act as a practical tool to assist
with the explicit inclusion of ?sustainability? in the
decision-making processes of those responsible for providing water
services. The book contains a framework that comprises a set of
decision support processes that can be used by water service
providers to explicitly incorporate sustainability considerations
into their decision-making procedures, through the use of
sustainability principles, criteria, indicators and processes.
These principles and criteria can be applied at an overall
corporate strategic level, for example in the service provider?s
mission statement, or at an application level, where these
strategic principles are being applied to a particular decision.
Sustainable Water Services is designed to inform and to provide
support for strategic activity, both as a resource containing
information about sustainability, and by employing feedback from
application to inform the strategic processes of the water service
provider. Presents an inclusive and generic set of sustainability
criteria for use in water industry decision making processes;
Discusses the legislative drivers for sustainable decision making
for the UK water industry; Presents clear case study examples of
the sustainability framework in action; Discusses the use and
applicability of a wide range of tools and techniques for
undertaking environmental, economic and social analyses, e.g. life
cycle assessment, multi-criteria analysis.
This collection of papers is aimed at both the research community
and the professional involved with water supply systems within the
context of integrated urban water systems as a whole. Based on both
field expertise and research results, this book offers a range of
innovative techniques such as diagnostics, demand management,
uncertainty analysis and transients models, alongside more
traditional methods such as optimisation and network analysis,
designed to enable the practitioner to devise the most sustainable
and cost-effective solutions. Topics discussed include data
management; management and detection of leakage; analysis, design
and rehabilitation of distribution networks; water quality
management; effectiveness of water conservation; water economics;
consumption trends and demand forecast; specific country
experiences with demand management.
Enterprise Planning and Development outlines the options and risks
involved in setting up a business. It shows how to avoid this
failure by focusing on the planning stage and building on this
framework as the business develops. The book contains all the
underpinning factual information required to prepare a successful
Business Plan for presentation to a bank manager, or an alternative
potential source of finance, or for use in an NVQ portfolio. It is
in line with the major syllabuses for Business Start-Up, and can be
used as a course book for anyone completing a formal NVQ level 3
and 4 qualification in this area, with tips on NVQ structure and
assessment. Enterprise Planning and Development shows how to make
the most of business growth and also how to deal with the different
types of problems that are encountered along the way. All
businesses pass through several stages of growth and it occurs for
a number of reasons, such as change in the commercial market,
increased customer demand for services or product and higher
numbers of customers. The book is structured to follow a logical
sequence of questions that makes it readily accessible: Where are
we now? Where do we want to go? What resources are needed to get
there? What sales and marketing policies do we need to develop? It
examines the personnel and staffing implications, the efficiency of
the current financial management process and the owner's own
abilities to make it all happen
'Business Development' provides a readable and practical book for
the growth and development of businesses. This is primarily a
textbook for the NVQ4 Business Development qualification, the
Institute of Management Certificate in Owner Management courses,
and HND Small business modules, but the text is also an invaluable
practical guide to owner-managers of small businesses. All
businesses pass through several stages of growth and it occurs for
a number of reasons, such as change in the commercial market,
increased customer demand for services or product, higher numbers
of customers. Business Development shows how to make the most of
this growth and also how to deal with the different types of
problems that are encountered along the way. The book is structured
to follow a logical sequence of questions that makes it readily
accessible: Where are we now? Where do we want to go? What
resources are needed to get there? What sales and marketing
policies do we need to develop? It examines the personnel and
staffing implications, the efficiency of the current financial
management process, and the owner's own abilities to make it all
happen. Most important of all it makes the owner-manager takes a
long, hard look at the business and where it is really going.
Enterprise Planning and Development outlines the options and risks
involved in setting up a business. It shows how to avoid this
failure by focusing on the planning stage and building on this
framework as the business develops.
The book contains all the underpinning factual information required
to prepare a successful Business Plan for presentation to a bank
manager, or an alternative potential source of finance, or for use
in an NVQ portfolio. It is in line with the major syllabuses for
Business Start-Up, and can be used as a course book for anyone
completing a formal NVQ level 3 and 4 qualification in this area,
with tips on NVQ structure and assessment.
Enterprise Planning and Development shows how to make the most of
business growth and also how to deal with the different types of
problems that are encountered along the way. All businesses pass
through several stages of growth and it occurs for a number of
reasons, such as change in the commercial market, increased
customer demand for services or product and higher numbers of
customers.
The book is structured to follow a logical sequence of questions
that makes it readily accessible: Where are we now? Where do we
want to go? What resources are needed to get there? What sales and
marketing policies do we need to develop? It examines the personnel
and staffing implications, the efficiency of the current financial
management process and the owner's own abilities to make it all
happen
* New topical material on innovation, intellectual property and
exit strategies
* Includes current issues of entrepreneurship such as the relevance
of family support, entrepreneurial characteristics, enterprise
cultures inorganisations.
* Practical and relevant start-up text that provides the necessary
follow-on development material.
This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the
environmental and engineering aspects of the management of
rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban
Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new
systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing
infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice and
research, this new edition has significant new material on
modelling, resilience, smart systems, and the global and local
context. The two new authors bring further research and
practice-based experience. This is an essential text for
undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and researchers in
water engineering, environmental engineering, public health
engineering, engineering hydrology, and related non-engineering
disciplines. It also serves as a dependable reference for drainage
engineers in water service providers, local authorities, and for
consulting engineers. Extensive examples are used to support and
demonstrate the key issues throughout the text.
Originally published in 1983, Democracy and Elections analyses the
main electoral systems of modern democracies, and places them in
their institutional and historical context. A distinguished group
of contributors provide interpretations of the electoral systems of
the EEC countries and Japan, and assess the ways in which different
electoral systems affect the political practice of each country. If
the book has a single theme, it is that one should be sceptical
about attributing fixed qualities to electoral systems. Although
amongst the quantifiable of political phenomena, they do not
conform to mechanistic rules, but must be understood in terms of
the historical experience and cultural outlook of different
societies. What is striking is the great variety of ways in which
different countries have attempted to meet the problem of
translating votes into seats.
Starting a new business takes a lot of energy and organization. The
failure rate is alarmingly high and the task can look herculean at
the outset. This new textbook provides a simple guide to help plan
a successful new business, taking entrepreneurs and students
through the steps required to avoid pitfalls and get a business
going. Unlike most entrepreneurship textbooks, the author avoids
dwelling on theories in favour of providing effective and practical
guidance on how to start and manage a profitable business, with a
focus on new ventures operating in high-growth, innovative sectors.
Written by an expert with experience in academia and business
consulting, this concise textbook will be valuable reading for
students of entrepreneurship, new ventures and small business. The
practical focus of the book means that it will be useful both for
students in the classroom and for entrepreneurs wanting to start a
new business.
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Selected Poems (Paperback)
Fernando Pessoa; Translated by David Butler
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Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was one of the major poets of the 20th
century, one of the major names in Portuguese writing, and one of
the most enigmatic figures in world literature of any period. In
his introduction to this dual-language Selected Poems, first
published in 2004, David Butler arranges the poems thematically,
setting Pessoa's various voices or personae "in active and
immediate dialogue with one another," thereby providing real
insight into a poet of "astonishing post-modernity." "Butler's
version of the Selected Poems is as good an introduction to the
enigmatic character of Pessoa's poetry as exists in English.
-Michael Smith, The Irish Times "These translations of Pessoa are
outstanding." -Fernando d'Oliveira Neves, former Ambassador of
Portugal in Ireland
This learner's dictionary has an emphasis on the language used in
hospitality, tourism and business situations involving Japanese
language in general. The dictionary should suit users who have some
knowledge of the language but who are not comfortable reading
written Japanese. It therefore uses a romaji script. The Japanese
vocabulary and expressions have been chosen to emphasize natural
rather than strictly literal translations of their English
equivalents, and helpful examples of phrases common in hospitality
situations are given. Unlike most other dictionaries, this
dictionary concentrates on spoken rather than written language.
Both everyday and more polite expressions are given, allowing
hospitality providers to master the language that Japanese visitors
and clients should find appropriate, and avoiding embarrassment
from inappropriate usage. Useful appendixes explain some detailed
topics, and the introductory notes contain helpful information
about speech styles, structure and pronunciation.
A thrilling tale of passion, courage and determination. Michael
Collins became a hero: a soldier, a freedom-fighter, a ghost:
Ireland's Rebel Son. In life, in death, a legend. Raised on songs
and stories of Irish heroes and the struggle for Irish
independence, young Michael Collins was sworn into the IRB in
London by Sam Maguire. As Joseph Plunkett's aide-de-camp he took
his place in the GPO at Easter 1916. He rose through the ranks in
the universities of Revolution, the prisons of Stafford and
Frongoch, and returned to the work of independence when released.
Mick was the man behind the scenes: creator of the Intelligence
network, the Squad and orchestrated the war against the British.
When De Valera demanded he take his place as a negotiator of the
Treaty, he did his duty, and then defended his beliefs as the
country degenerated to Civil War. Cut down by his countrymen in his
own country, the Big Fella died on 22 August 1922 at Beal na
mBlath, but his legend continues to grow. This graphic novel
chronicles the life and legacy of the legendary Michael Collins.
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