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.

The mix of debt and equity called capital structure, representing major claims against a corporation's assets, has been the subject of a long debate focusing on its determination, evaluation, and accounting. Riahi-Belkaoui uses both theoretical and contingency approaches to examine the question of whether capital structure really can be determined. Using a bond rating model he looks at the evaluation of capital structure and the resolution of issues pertaining to equity and liabilities and their contribution to the quality of capital structure reports. The book will be of special value to corporate financial officers and to graduate students and their teachers in accounting and finance.

Riahi-Belkaoui presents, first, the popular theories underlying the potential optimality of capital structure, the most popular of which is based on agency costs, asymmetric information, product/input market interactions and corporate control considerations. He then examines the same problem, first under a contingency of diversification and then a contingency of multinationality and investment opportunity. Since the evolution of capital structure rests on the ratings of a corporation's bonds, Riahi-Belkaoui offers a model that can be used for the prediction of industrial bond ratings. He concludes with an examination for equity and accounting for long-term liabilities.

A well developed system of internatinal accounting is essential, if an accounting order, one that serves as a basis and guarantee for the conduct of business and economic growth, is to be created. Similarly, essential to the creation of an economic order is economic development. Riahi-Belkaoui explicates the relationship between accounting and economic order and between that and the determinants of accounting development. He then studies the relationship between accounting and economic development, and between their respective determinants. Accountants, specialists and executives concerned with economic development will find the book an important addition to their most necessary professional resources.

Riahi-Belkaoui provides evidence for the determinants and implications of economic development, and the role and the determinants of disclosure adequacy along seven dimensions: human and economic development; political, financial, and economic risk; human and economic development; managerial, academic, and professional influences; welfare of the common man; economic, political, and civil indicators, and the determinants for predicting performance of earnings forecasts. He also examines the role of country return and risk in such matters as disclosure adequacy, the prediction of performance of earnings forecasts, and the levels of financial disclosure by European firms. He then discusses the role and impact of cultural determinism and its affect on the systematic risk of global stock exchanges, compensation practices, professional self-regulation in attounting. and the perception of accounting concepts.