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Business Management Controls: A Guide by
THE guide for business managers - improve your business control practices NOW In today's global economy, with more pressure on compliance, cost management and continuity planning, business management control has taken on far more importance to executives the world over. However, while there are many books available that focus on specific controls (financial, quality, production) few contain an integrated set of controls that apply across an entire business. A practical guide and reference Business Management Controls is arranged by functional business area. It is aimed at managers, auditors and professionals who want to know how the assets, transactions, operations, systems activities and investments of their organization may be protected, controlled and improved more effectively and more efficiently. This book will help you to improve your business control practices and show you how to better create, implement and assess your own controls. It will also show you how to develop more streamlined and successful working practices, and how to enable, facilitate and protect your business operations in a more effective way.
Decision-Making: Processes, Behavioral Influences and Role in Business Management by
This book examines various decision-making processes, influences and its role in business management. The chapters describe the original decision-making approach based on joint use of the multi-criteria method and the method of group preferences in business management; a discussion on the internationalization decision-making process of small-medium enterprises (SMEs); and an examination on the efficiency of computer decision support systems by developing a set of universal analytic models for increasing the efficiency of fuzzy input information processing.
Entrepreneurial Finance: Fundamentals of Financial Planning and Management for Small Business by
Featuring key topics within finance, small business management, and entrepreneurship to develop and maintain prosperous business ventures. With a comprehensive and organized approach to fundamental financial theories, tools, and management techniques, Entrepreneurial Finance: Fundamentals of Financial Planning and Management for Small Business equips readers with the necessary fundamental knowledge and advanced skills to succeed in small firm and business settings. With a unique combination of topics from finance, small business management, and entrepreneurship, the book prepares readers for the challenges of today's economy. Entrepreneurial Finance: Fundamentals of Financial Planning and Management for Small Business begins with key concepts of small business management and entrepreneurship, including management tools and techniques needed to establish, run, and lead business ventures. The book then delves into how small businesses are operated, managed, and controlled. General finance skills and methods are integrated throughout, and the book also features: Numerous practical examples and scenarios that provide a real-world perspective on entrepreneurship and small business management A brief summary, list of key concepts, and ten discussion questions at the end of each chapter to prepare readers for the challenges of today's economy A practical guide to the complete life of a small business, from establishing a new venture to training and developing young entrepreneurs tasked with maintaining and developing a prosperous economy An in-depth discussion of the entire process of writing a successful business plan, including the rationale, significance, and requirements Techniques needed to solidify the free enterprise tradition, develop entrepreneurial strategies, and grow small businesses Entrepreneurial Finance: Fundamentals of Financial Planning and Management for Small Business is an ideal textbook for upper-undergraduate and first-year graduate courses in entrepreneurial finance within business, economics, management science, and public administration departments. The book is also useful for MBA-level courses as well as for business and management PhD majors as a resource in methodology. The book is also an idea reference for entrepreneurs, business managers, market analysts, and decision makers who require information about the theoretical and quantitative aspects of entrepreneurial finance.
Handbook of Strategic E-Business Management by
This research handbook provides a comprehensive, integrative, and authoritative resource on the main strategic management issues for companies within the e-business context. It covers an extensive set of topics, dealing with the major issues which articulate the e-business framework from a business perspective. The handbook is divided into the following e-business related parts: background; evolved strategic framework for the management of companies; key business processes, areas and activities; and, finally, emerging issues, trends and opportunities, with special attention to diverse Social Web-related implications. The articles are varied, timely and present high-quality research; many of these unique contributions will be especially valued and influential for business scholars and professionals interested in e-business. Many of the contributors are outstanding business scholars who are or have been editors-in-chief of top-ranked management and business journals or have made significant contributions to the development of their respective fields.
Introduction to Business : A Primer on Basic Business Operations by
Do we need yet another textbook on business fundamentals when every publishing house has stacks of such books ready for sale? No, we do not need another standard textbook. What we need is a new kind of teaching tool that at once accommodates the modern-day classroom and exposes new century students to the contemporary world of global capitalism in which today's businesses operate. In primer form, Dr. Patrice Flynn clarifies the functional areas of business, a term used to describe what every businessperson needs to understand to be successful, from entrepreneurship to small business development, legal structure, going global, finance, big data, marketing, management, and more. This primer demonstrates how a master teacher teaches new century students, thus giving supremacy to pedagogy along with rigorous content. The primer can be used with both business students and the growing number of nonbusiness students interested in learning how business works before entering the world of work. Every student will come away not only with a sense of the business areas that pique their interest but also with a deeper understanding of business from which to craft next career steps.
Small Business Management by
This book gives us a holistic description of all paragons involved in small business operations during crisis years and suggests the necessary steps that need to be taken to help them overcome their problems. The author clearly demonstrates the crisis implications to small businesses by using personal research and real-life examples in addition to a big bibliography from renowned academics. The book contains useful and practical information for small business owners, entrepreneurs from all industries, business students, academics and strategists, business coaches and can be used as a road map during turbulent periods for small business in all industries. The author covers the topic from different approaches, while he tries to have a bird's-eye view of contemporary trends and new approaches. Several concepts like risk management, blue ocean strategy, and turnaround management have been discussed by the author in order to create a crystal clear understanding of why there is no such thing as dead end for small businesses even under the worst possible situations and how they can achieve their sustainable development and grow. This book was inspired by the significant problems that small and medium enterprises faced during the last huge global financial crisis.
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Business Essentials by
For Introduction to Business courses. Focus on the practical skills and important developments in business The recent events in domestic and global economies are presenting unprecedented challenges, excitement, and disappointments for business--and a need for a change in Introduction to Business courses and texts. Business Essentials captures the widespread significance of these developments and presents their implications on businesses today. The Eleventh Edition includes new real-world examples and research findings, helping students to see how entrepreneurs are putting into practice the concepts that they are learning, and making this text the most current and relevant one available on the market today. Also Available with MyBizLab ® This title is available with MyBizLab--an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyBizLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyBizLab search for: 0134473639 / 9780134473635 Business Essentials Plus MyBizLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package. Package consists of: 0134271122 / 9780134129969 Business Essentials 0134150031 / 9780134150031 MyBizLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Business Essentials
Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers by
Overcome your math anxiety and confidently master key mathematical concepts and their business applications with Brechner/Bergeman's CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS FOR BUSINESS AND CONSUMERS, 8E. Refined and enhanced over eight editions, this text continues to incorporate a proven step-by-step instructional model that allows you to progress one topic at a time without being intimidated or overwhelmed. This edition offers a reader-friendly design with a wealth of engaging learning features that connect the latest business news to chapter topics and provide helpful personal money tips. You will immediately practice concepts to reinforce learning and hone essential skills with more than 2,000 proven exercises. Jump Start problems introduce each new topic in the section exercise sets and provide a worked-out solution to help you get started.
Effective Small Business Management: An Entrepreneurial Approach by
For courses in Small Business Management. This practical, applied text focuses on business planning and the day-to-day issues of running a small business. This text stands out from others through its extensive integration of developing a business plan, and specifically through its integration of Business Plan Pro software (the most popular commercial software package used for business plan development).
Enlightened Entrepreneurship: How to Start and Scale Your Business Without Losing Your Sanity by
Through his collection of essays, originally published in Forbes magazine, entrepreneur Christopher Myers shares an honest account of building his company-BodeTree, an online financial management tool for small businesses. He provides invaluable insights and tips for others looking to start a small business. But this is no ordinary how-to book. Instead of proclaiming that he is a know-it-all dispensing the secrets to success, Christopher provides personal stories of accomplishments and failures. His advice is woven into three sections on starting your business, scaling your business, and staying sane. You will not only learn how to take control of your business decision making, planning, and funding, but you will also discover the importance of creating balance in management and in life. Christopher knows firsthand that responsibility overload can lead to anxiety and depression, and he helps readers navigate these issues. "One thing I've come to realize is that everything, good or bad, starts in your mind. What you think is, in fact, what you become," Christopher says. Embrace the characteristics you admire in yourself and your business. It won't be easy, but with the right mentality, you can find happiness and achievement.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by
Available for the first time ever in trade paperback, Dale Carnegie's enduring classic, the inspirational personal development guide that shows how to achieve lifelong success. One of the top-selling books of all time, "How to Win Friends Influence People" has sold more than 15 million copies in all its editions.
Introduction to Management by
This popular core textbook provides an authoritative introduction to business management. Covering all the functional areas of the field, the text provides a robust framework to help students understand the inter-relatedness of different aspects of management and how they fit together in an organization. Strong emphasis is placed throughout on providing students with a thorough and practical grounding in the topic, with a focus on helping them developing effective management skills. Now in its fourth edition, Introduction to Management has been fully updated and expanded to cover new developments in the field. Written by a leading expert with extensive management experience, this is ideal reading for students studying introductory courses in management at undergraduate, postgraduate or MBA level. It does not require prior knowledge of business and management.
Managing by
"This will be an important textbook in classrooms bringing together not only [Mintzberg's] own research and thoughts but also weaving in a century of writings by others. It will also reassure individual managers that what they do is important and not easy, and no doubt provoke some changes in their thinking." --Harry Schacter, Globe and Mail "This is an excellent, must-read book for managers and aspiring managers." --Mary Whaley, Booklist Named one of Library Journal's Best of 2009 Business Books. From management legend Henry Mintzberg comes the most authoritative and revealing study of the the nature of managing in our time. Through a holistic synthesis of existing data and analysis on managers, and by studying a day in the work life of 29 managers, Mintzberg presents a complete picture of what modern managers do, how they do it, the challenges of their jobs, and how they can be most effective. "Perhaps the world's premier management thinker." --Tom Peters "One of the most original minds in management." --Fast Company
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Business Plans Handbook by
Business Plans Handbook is a collection of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America.
The Dictionary of International Business Terms by
Containing over 2000 terms defined with examples, this illustrated dictionary covers key areas such as: global accounting and taxation; exports and imports and global trade; laws and regulations of international organizations; and international finance, banking and investments.
The Encyclopedia of Management by
This revised edition covers 350 topics in management theories and applications, providing first-hand knowledge of such topics as: aggregate planning; business logistics; productivity measurement; and supply chain management.
