Business and Personal Finance
Check out the latest additions in business, economics, and personal finance at the
Business & Career Library.
World Right Side Up : Investing Across Six Continents
by Christopher Mayer
ISBN: 9781118171400
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From Brazilian farmlands to Colombian gold fields, from Chinese shopping malls to Indian hotels, from South African wine country to the boom/bust souks of Dubai, Chris Mayer's around-the-world investing field trip explores the nooks and crannies for hidden investment opportunities.
A Rising Tide : Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Firms
by Susan Coleman and Alicia M. Robb
ISBN: 9780804773058
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Women-owned firms represent an increasingly important segment of the small business sector. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 7.8 million women-owned firms in the United States in 2007, generating $1.2 trillion in revenues and providing employment for 7.6 million people. A Rising Tide presents the financial strategies that have helped today's bold and creative women entrepreneurs to succeed.
Save More Tomorrow: Practical Behavioral Finance Solutions to Improve 401K plans
by Shlomo Benartzi with Roger Lewin
ISBN: 9781591844846
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Save More Tomorrow provides that help by focusing on the behavioral challenges that led to this crisis inertia, limited self-control, loss aversion, and myopia—and transforms them into behavioral solutions. These solutions, or tools, are based on cutting edge behavioral finance research and they can dramatically improve outcomes by, for example, helping employees: -Save, even if they aren’t ready to do so now, by using future enrollment. -Save more by showing them images of their future selves. -Save smarter by reshuffling the order of funds on the investment menu. Save More Tomorrow is the first comprehensive application of behavioral finance to improve retirement outcomes. It also makes it easy for plan sponsors and their advisers to apply these behavioral tools using its innovative Behavioral Audit process.
Investing in Real Estate
by Gary W. Eldred, PhD.
ISBN: 9781118172971
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More than ever, investing in property today will set you on track to conquer financial uncertainty and build your long-term net worth. Investing in Real Estate, Seventh Edition offers dozens of experience- proven methods to convert these challenging times into the best of times. Whether you want to fix and sell or buy, improve, and hold, market savvy real estate investor Gary W. Eldred shows you how to achieve your goals. He provides time-tested ways to grow a profitable portfolio and shows you how property investing can deliver twenty-two sources of financial return. You'll learn how to negotiate like a pro, read market trends, and choose from multiple possibilities to finance your properties.
A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined An American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States
by Geoffrey C. Ward
ISBN: 9780679445302
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Ferdinand Ward was the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age. Through his unapologetic villainy, he bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and ran roughshod over the entire world of finance. Now, his compelling, behind-the-scenes story is told—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward.
Get Financing Now : How to Navigate Through Bankers, Investors, and Alternative Sources For the Capital Your Business Needs
by Charles H. Green
ISBN: 9780071780315
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From assessing how much funding you need to projecting your operating statements to navigating the world of loans, Get Financing Now guides you through every financial phase of starting or growing a small business. It's packed with information about: loan qualifications, costs projection, equipment leasing, securing credit, and creative/alternative methods of financing.
Practical Lean Accounting : a Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterprise
by Brian Maskell, Bruce Baggaley and Larry Grasso
ISBN: 9781439817162
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Now suitable for classroom use, the second edition of this preeminent practitioner 's guide to lean accounting helps readers gain hands-on experience working with many techniques and concepts that are useful for solving business measurement problems in lean organizations. For each major example, three similar problems are illustrated: one for instructors to guide students through, one for students to work through on their own, and one for testing purposes. In addition, end-of-chapter questions reinforce learning of basic concepts and deepen thinking about lean accounting principles and the role of lean accounting in the lean business management system.
Starting a Tech Business : a Practical Guide For Anyone Creating or Designing Applications or Software
by Alex Cowan
ISBN: 9781118205556
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Technology-enabled businesses offer one of today's best available means to creating wealth, and the successful application of technology increasingly separates an industry's winners from its losers. Even better, while a decade ago the barriers to creating a technology-enabled business required a pole vault, they've lowered to where a determined step in the right direction is enough to get started. There are many important things prospective entrepreneurs and business enterprises need to know to avoid common pitfalls in the fast-paced world of high tech business. This book provides these practical checklists and frameworks that business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals can apply to any web 2.0 business idea, whether they are developing software and products or beginning a technology-enabled business.
Become a Franchise Owner! : the Start-Up Guide to Lowering Risk, Making Money, and Owning What You Do
by Joel Libava
ISBN: 9781118094020
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With more and more professionals looking for alternatives to traditional corporate employment, Become a Franchise Owner! informs would-be franchise owners of the joys and perils of purchasing a franchise. Authored by a trusted, feisty, tell-it-how-it-is independent franchise industry insider, this book offers straightforward, step-by-step tips and advice on how to properly (and carefully) research and select a franchise business.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Food Truck Business
by Alan Philips
ISBN: 9781615641628
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A guide to starting a food truck business features information and advice on the industry, menu trends, creating a business plan, advertising techniques, hiring the best employees, health and safety issues, and building clientele.
