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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Intimidated by corporate finance? The numbers (and the jargon) can feel overwhelming-but you have to understand them to manage effectively. Finance Basics explains the fundamentals simply and quickly, introducing you to key terms and concepts such as: - How to navigate financial statements - How to weigh costs and benefits - What's involved in budgeting and forecasting - How to gauge a company's financial health Don't have much time? Get up to speed...
82) Outrage
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Sandford and Michele Cook follow up their New York Times bestseller, UNCAGED, with the next nail-biting installment in The Singular Menace series. Perfect for fans of The Maze Runner! Shay Remby and her gang of renegades have struck a blow to the Singular Corporation. When they rescued Shay's brother, Odin, from a secret Singular lab, they also liberated a girl. Singular has been experimenting on her, trying to implant a U.S. senator's memories...
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The book that fills the practitioner need for a distillation of the most important tools and concepts of corporate finance In today's competitive business environment, companies must find innovative ways to enable rapid and sustainable growth not just to survive, but to thrive. Corporate Finance: A Practical Approach is designed to help financial analysts, executives, and investors achieve this goal with a practice-oriented distillation of the most...
Author
Series
Mercenary librarians volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Nina is an information broker with a mission--she and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America. Knox is the bitter, battle-weary captain of the Silver Devils. His squad of supersoldiers went AWOL to avoid slaughtering innocents, and now he's fighting to survive. They're on a deadly collision course, and the passion that flares between them only makes it more dangerous. They could burn down the...
85) Starter villain
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie....
86) What the CEO wants you to know: using business acumen to understand how your company really works
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
87) Fuzzy nation
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Jack Holloway, prospecting on Zara XXIII for ZaraCorp, finds an immensely valuable stream of sunstone. But when he forwards footage of the planet's catlike, native "fuzzies" to a biologist friend --who believes the "fuzzies" are sentient--hired company thugs, murder, and arson soon follow to protect ZaraCorp's mining interests.
89) Pleasantville
Author
Series
Jay Porter novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this new thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A passionate attack on the monopolies that are throttling American democracy. Every facet of American life is being overtaken by big platform monopolists like Facebook, Google, and Bayer (which has merged with the former agricultural giant Monsanto), resulting in a greater concentration of wealth and power than we've seen since the Gilded Age. They are evolving into political entities that often have more influence than the actual government, bending...
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Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
"This Element is an excerpt from Technical analysis: the complete resource for financial market technicians, second edition (ISBN: 9780137059447) by Charles D. Kirkpatrick III, CMT, and Julie Dahlquist. Do price cycles come in waves? An objective look at the evidence-and what it means to investors."--Resource description page.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
"This Element is an excerpt from Technical analysis: the complete resource for financial market technicians, second edition (ISBN: 9780137059447) by Charles D. Kirkpatrick III, CMT, and Julie Dahlquist. Where technical analysis works-and where it doesn't."--Resource description page.
93) Scanners
Series
Criterion collection volume 712
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Author
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
A detailed guide to the discipline of corporate valuationDesigned for the professional investor who is building an investment portfolio that includes equity, Corporate Valuation for Portfolio Investment takes you through a range of approaches, including those primarily based on assets, earnings, cash flow, and securities prices, as well as hybrid techniques. Along the way, it discusses the importance of qualitative measures such as governance, which...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Corporate wealth creation stands at the center of our national economic prosperity. Most of us work for businesses. And it turns out that the richest among us did more than simply control spending, avoid debt, and accumulate investment assets. The very wealthiest Americans either made their money by owning a business or by inheriting money from family members that did. The investment assets they accumulated were centered in their own business endeavors....
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
An objective framework for assessing management's effectiveness in deploying capital to increase shareholder value. Shareholders' lack of direct control over cash flow represents a blind spot in traditional cash flow-based valuation. Management might deploy a company's free cash flow in many ways that don't add shareholder value. Management controls the balance sheet, retaining discretion over assets and power to borrow against future cash flows....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Intimidated by corporate finance? The numbers (and the jargon) can feel overwhelming, but you have to understand them to handle them effectively. Finance Basics explains the fundamentals quickly and easily, introducing key terms and concepts such as: How to navigate financial statements How to weigh costs and benefits What budgeting and forecasting entails How to measure the financial health of a business? you have a lot of time? Quickly pick me up...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
If there's one thing that's consistent in today's business world, it's rapid change. So how do you not only stay steady but actually grow'and quickly enough to stay safely ahead of your competitors? Built for Growth delivers specific solutions to create a brand and presence that generates true customer passion, as you lay a solid foundation for long-term success. Author Arthur Rubinfeld was a major driver in Starbucks' unprecedented retail expansion...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Many companies fall into the trap of paying an excessively large premium to close an acquisition. The authors analyzed nearly 2,000 acquisitions by U.S. companies over a period of more than 20 years and found that companies were less likely to overpay if their CFO had certain characteristics that allowed them to wield greater influence in strategic decision-making. Those common characteristics are markers of informal power based on a CFO’s breadth...
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