The Landlord’s Financial Tool Kit will show readers how to truly maximize the profit on their real estate investments. Featuring dozens of ready-to-use forms, worksheets, tables, and checklists, the book helps readers:* pick properties with financial issues in mind* understand concepts such as cash flow and depreciation* set up effective bookkeeping and record-management systems* avoid common mistakes in income reporting* shelter income and reduce income taxes* comply with tax laws and regulations* take advantage of write-offs and loopholesPacked with useful, practical information on tax rules and creating cash flow, The Landlord’s Financial Tool Kit simplifies everything there is to know about managing real estate and being a successful landlord

Read, interpret, and analyze governmental financial statements!Governmental Accounting Made Easy is a complete and easy-to-use guide to a broad range of governmental accounting topics that fall under the new Governmental Accounting Standards Board 34 (GASB 34) financial reporting model.

The GASB 34 reporting model has resulted in a radical change in the way governmental financial statements are presented. For professionals in a diverse range of fields, Governmental Accounting Made Easy is the much-needed tool for making sense of what these new financial statements are trying to communicate.

Your one-stop-shop for unparralled coverage of payroll control systems, best practices, measurements and reports, cost account, and outsourcing. Includes a step-by-step checklist of activities to follow when setting up a payroll system and how to install controls that combat payroll fraud.

The Landlord’s Financial Tool Kit will show readers how to truly maximize the profit on their real estate investments. Featuring dozens of ready-to-use forms, worksheets, tables, and checklists, the book helps readers:* pick properties with financial issues in mind* understand concepts such as cash flow and depreciation* set up effective bookkeeping and record-management systems* avoid common mistakes in income reporting* shelter income and reduce income taxes* comply with tax laws and regulations* take advantage of write-offs and loopholesPacked with useful, practical information on tax rules and creating cash flow, The Landlord’s Financial Tool Kit simplifies everything there is to know about managing real estate and being a successful landlord.

Decoding Financial Statements has a rare combination of wisdom, pertinent, interesting, real world examples, and tips/tricks that are not normally available to the retail investor. Any analyst, portfolio manager and individual investor will learn about a tremendous wealth of current and historical case study examples that illustrate how financial information (reports and press releases) drive stock market prices and valuations.

The big bonus is that this book is NOT written by a CPA, but has a humorous, tongue-in-cheek tone. This makes it entertaining and informative, regardless of your level of knowledge or interest in financial statements, per se.

Trying to trade stock, bond, commodity and currency markets without intermarket awareness is like trying to drive a car without looking out the side and rear windows—very dangerous. In this guide to intermarket analysis, the author uses years of experience in technical analysis plus extensive charts to clearly demonstrate the interrelationshps that exist among the various market sectors and their importance. You’ll learn how to use activity in surrounding markets in the same way that most people employ traditional technical indicators for directional clues. Shows the analyst how to focus outward, rather than inward, to provide a more rational understanding of technical forces at work in the marketplace.

In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, offering the reader a context in which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. The book offers an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full-time day trader. Elvin presents a Comprehensive Model of Trading Competence (the MOT) as well as the concepts of analysis and refutation, the paramouncy principle, and self-sabotaging behaviours such as the Santa Claus syndrome and Bohica effect.

The advent of the Information Society is marked by the explosive penetration of information technologies in all aspects of life and by a related fundamental transformation in every form of the organization. Researchers, business people and policy makers have recognized the importance of addressing technological, economic and social impacts in conjunction. For example, the rise and fall of the dot-com hype depended a lot on the strength of the business model, on the technological capabilities available to firms and on the readiness of the society and economy at large sustain a new breed of business activity. However, it is notoriously difficult to examine the cross-impacts of social, economic and technological aspects of the Information Society. This kind of work requires multidisciplinary work and collaboration on a wide range of skills. Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era addresses this challenge by assembling the latest thinking of leading researchers and policy makers. The book covers all key subject areas of the Information Society and presents innovative business models, case studies, normative theories and social explanations.

Whether your business is just a gleam in your eye, a newly launched operation, or a full-fledged firm that’s humming right along, you’ll never experience real growth without a substantial infusion of cash. Long gone are the days when venture capital groups seemed to pour millions into every “next big thing.” Now it’s clear that there is real competition for investors, and that only the most viable businesses — and carefully executed fundraising — will reap the capital necessary to drive continuous growth.

Raising Capital is the definitive guide for entrepreneurs and growing companies that need to raise capital. The book covers every phase of the growth cycle, and provides tools for building business plans, preparing loan proposals, drafting offering materials, and much more. Now in its second edition, Raising Capital includes a wide variety of updates to reflect the realities of the post-dot-com bust, new trends in private equity markets, and the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a crucial piece of legislation that establishes new corporate governance requirements in the wake of high-profile accounting scandals.

The book takes you through every stage of the capital process, and provides a bevy of alternatives to evaluate in determining your company’s capital strategy. The four parts cover:

* Getting Ready to Raise Capital: capital-formation strategies, plus recent trends; understanding legal and governance structures and how they affect your ability to raise and use capital; and the role your business plan plays in securing capital

* Early-Stage Financing: start-up financing; “bootstrapping,” or doing less with more at a stage in your business where “cash is king”; private placements versus commercial lending; leasing, factoring, and government programs

* Growth Financing: strategies for obtaining venture capital; how venture capital transactions work; preparing for and executing an initial public offering (IPO)

* Alternatives to Traditional Financing: franchising, joint ventures, co-branding, licensing, and other strategic alliances; mergers and acquisitions; plus the Capital Formation Business Growth Resources Directory

Raising Capital provides a huge selection of checklists, charts, sample forms to expedite the capital formation process, and the author relates eye-opening “war stories” and perspectives from the investor’s side of the table that will help you avoid pitfalls and guide your business confidently through every growth stage. Featuring comprehensive coverage of all recognized capital strategies, this timely book will help you navigate the murky (and often rough) waters of capital formation.

Whether your business is just a gleam in your eye, a newly launched operation, or a full-fledged firm that’s humming right along, you’ll never experience real growth without a substantial infusion of cash. Long gone are the days when venture capital groups seemed to pour millions into every “next big thing.” Now it’s clear that there is real competition for investors, and that only the most viable businesses—and carefully executed fundraising—will reap the capital necessary to drive continuous growth.

Raising Capital is the definitive guide for entrepreneurs and growing companies that need to raise capital. The book covers every phase of the growth cycle, and provides tools for building business plans, preparing loan proposals, drafting offering materials, and much more. Now in its second edition, Raising Capital includes a wide variety of updates to reflect the realities of the post-dot-com bust, new trends in private equity markets, and the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a crucial piece of legislation that establishes new corporate governance requirements in the wake of high-profile accounting scandals.