Was most of the growth seen in company profits during the late 80s, and in some cases in the early 90s, due to the improved efficiency of British industry - or was it generated from the manipulation of profits by creative accounting? This new edition of ACCOUNTING FOR GROWTH is a ruthless exposure of the accountancy practices - not illegal - which are used to bemuse the investi...(展开全部)

Accounting for Value teaches investors and analysts how to handle accounting in evaluating equity investments. The book's novel approach shows that valuation and accounting are much the same: valuation is actually a matter of accounting for value. Laying aside many of the tools of modern financethe cost-of-capital, the CAPM, and discounted cash flow analysisStephen Penman retur...(展开全部)

Accounting for Value teaches investors and analysts how to handle accounting in evaluating equity investments. The book's novel approach shows that valuation and accounting are much the same: valuation is actually a matter of accounting for value. Laying aside many of the tools of modern financethe cost-of-capital, the CAPM, and discounted cash flow analysisStephen Penman retur...(展开全部)

Economists generally accept as a given the old adage that there is no accounting for tastes. The author of this text disagrees, and confronts the problem of preferences and values: how they are formed and how they affect our behaviour. He argues that past experiences and social influences form two basic capital stocks: personal and social. He then applies these concepts to asse...(展开全部)

Second edition of the celebrated guide to investing from renowned fund manager Terry Smith, with new content covering 2020–2025. Buy good companies. Don't overpay. Do nothing. Some people love to make successful investing seem more complicated than it really is. In Investing for Growth, an anthology of essays and letters written between 2010–25, leading fund manager Terry Smith...(展开全部)

Libby/Libby/Short wrote this text based on their belief that the subject of financial accounting is inherently interesting, but financial accounting textbooks are often not. They believe most financial accounting textbooks fail to demonstrate that accounting is an exciting field of study and one that is important to future careers in business. When writing this text, they con...(展开全部)

The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In Accounting for Capit...(展开全部)