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Offers a complete appraisal of analytical tools available to managers to assess performance. This resource allows you to pick and choose the tools you need to best assess your organization's performance. It provides a tool for measuring corporate performance.

Mergers & Acquisitions: A Condensed Practitioner's Guide provides the reader with a complete view of the mergers and acquisitions process in 300 pages. Includes separate chapters for the primary steps of valuation, due diligence, the purchase transaction, and integration.

GAAP Policies and Procedures, Second Edition shows how to convert GAAP rules into an operational implementation, including related policies and procedures, controls, forms, and record keeping requirements.

Now in a Seventh Edition, Accounting Best Practices includes 50 new best practices in chapters on Accounts Payable, Billing, Credit, Collections, Finance, General Ledger, and General Best Practices. Each chapter includes a corresponding podcast on its associated website, with a new podcast offered regularly.

Provides new controllers with a foundation in the concepts of managing the accounting department, locating GAAP information, and analyzing and knowing what to do with key accounting information. This title also provides an overview of the controller's responsibilities.

Provides an overview of the functions and responsibilities of the controller/management accountant in a corporation. This title explores how controllers can better perform their jobs. It defines the role, functions and responsibilities of the managerial accountant in a corporation.

The definitive guide to all things IFRS IFRS Made Easy provides complete, easy-to-navigate coverage of all International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) with concise explanations and hundreds of supporting examples.

The Vest Pocket Bookkeeper includes dozens of best practices that give bookkeepers insights into how to be more efficient and effective in their jobs. The book reveals the key controls needed to reduce the risk of fraud. ? A handy pocket problem-solver for today's busy bookkeepers, accountants, and other financial professionals.

Quick answers to your GAAP questions The Vest Pocket Guide to GAAP is the handy pocket problem-solver that gives today's busy financial executives the GAAP advice they need in a quick-reference format.

The comprehensive guide for CFOs who need an overview of leadership basics from strategies to management improvement tips Filled with pragmatic insights and proactive strategies, The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Third Edition is destined to become your essential desktop companion.

? Best practices can be anything that increases the existing level of efficiency and can also lead to improved levels of reporting for use by other parts of the company such as activity-based costing, target costing, or direct costing reports in the costing function.

The ultimate guide to investor relations Your one-stop resource for everything pertaining to your company's dealings with the investment community, Running an Effective Investor Relations Department provides investor relations professionals with essential day-to-day information.

Treasury management involves the proper handling of a company's cash, debt, equity, and a variety of exotic derivative products. Unlike other books on treasury management, this book is written by a corporate financial professional to his peers.

Discover the tools for knowing the costs your company should cut, without impacting its ability to deliver goods and services New from Steve Bragg, this book provides the tools for determining which costs a company should cut, without impacting its ability to deliver goods and services.

* Running a Public Company describe the concepts behind each securities law, and builds a compliance structure for it that itemizes specific policies, procedures, controls, forms and reports. Provides detailed policies and procedures for complying with SEC regulations.

First published in 1952, this revised edition will continue to cover all aspects of management accounting from the controller's perspective including internal control, profit planning, cost control, inventory, and reporting.

Allowing readers to gain a more detailed understanding of the financial underpinnings of their businesses, Accounting and Finance for Your Small Business, Second Edition provides the key accounting and finance tools that a small business owner needs to operate and analyze the operations of his business.

* Details how cost accounting systems work and how the resulting information can be used. * Includes a list of the most common costing problems, along with recommended solutions. * Provides case studies on costing issues and sample journal entries for the most common cost entries. * Includes a dictionary of cost accounting terminology.

More and more companies in today's growing economy are failing for an odd reason-they cannot keep up with the sudden success of their products. Managing Explosive Corporate Growth addresses the reasons for the success or failure of companies that are confronted by explosive growth situations.

Control systems are needed to ensure that a company's assets are used in the most productive manner, and that they are not lost through fraudulent activities. The only alternatives available to managers who need to examine their control systems are to hire consultants, conduct an internal audit review, or pore through textbooks.

Now in a fifth edition, Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual: A Blueprint for Running an Effective and Efficient Department is a how-to guide on creating an effective and efficient accounting department policies and procedures manual. .

Sarbanes-Oxley requires a faster delivery of the 10-Q, so everyone is scrambling to find ways to release financial information and statements sooner. Also, this is a major efficiency issue for the accounting department, which can get bogged down in financials issuance for weeks.

A one-stop resource for setting up or improving an existing payroll system! The most comprehensive resource available on the subject, Accounting for Payroll: A Comprehensive Guide provides up-to-date information to enable users to handle payroll accounting in the most cost-effective manner.

Praise for Management Accounting Best Practices "It doesn't matter where you start reading, even the most experienced accountant will find some useful ideas. " -Alan H. Boycott, Chartered Accountant, Dusseldorf, Germany "This is one of the best books about new accounting practices in practical accounting.

"The latest edition goes beyond ho-hum analysis techniques and provides concrete problem solving. The text is sprinkled with real-world problems (and the analytical tools to solve them) that will be familiar to accounting professionals everywhere. A must-have for anyone looking to improve their company's decision making...

Praise for Throughput Accounting: A Guide to Constraint Management "Throughput Accounting provides managers with a fresh set of eyes to identify and control bottlenecks. The drum, buffer, and rope will become part of the cost accounting lexicon in the future. " -Geoffrey Garland, Controller, StacoSwitch, Inc.

In these tough economic times, all companies want to have better planning and to control their costs. This is the first book in the marketplace that focuses entirely on helping controllers plan and control their operations.

Controllera s Guide to Costing is a comprehensive source for all issues related to cost accounting, detailing aspects of creating costing systems, how cost accounting systems work, interpreting the results, and how the resulting information can be used, including:* Provides an overview of various costing methodologies.

Dramatically improve inventory accuracy with bestselling author Steven Bragg's step-by-step guidelines Inventory Accounting is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to setting up an inventory accounting system and keeping it running at maximum efficiency.