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Accounting Best Practices & Essentials

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Best Practices
Accounting Best Practices, 3rd Ed.
Steven M. Bragg highlights the dos and don't of best practices implementation, and a new reference system renders the expansive collection of best practices readily accessible. A reference for accounting and financial managers, internal and external auditors, and consultants.
Accounts Payable Best Practices
Mary S. Schaeffer provides businesses and other organizations with a strong sense of where they stand against industry leaders and shows them how to take their services and organizational processes to state-of-the-art levels. Every chapter features a brief explanation of the process or topic being addressed to accompany the discussion of best practices.

Best Practices in Planning and Management Reporting
David Axson's forward-thinking text defines clear action plans for successfully developing, implementing, and profiting from the strategic applications of key performance metrics.
Excellence in the Boardroom: Best Practices in Corporate Directorship
"Bill Dimma dares to open the boardroom door to show us governance in action, commenting with clarity and humour! He engages the veteran director while informing a broader audience about the challenges of the boardroom."

Unaccountable: How the Accounting Profession Forfeited a Public Trust

Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices
A comprehensive collection of the best strategies and techniques being used to control costs across virtually every business function. Case studies illustrate this expert guide from the Institute of Management and Administration.

Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Lessons from the Collapse of Enron and Other Major Corporations

Inventory Best Practicess
Examines best practices for the inventory function and shows methodologies that can be implemented in order to ensure that proper controls are in place as well as techniques that can be used to drive costs down. (Available Sept. 2004)

 

Essentials

Essentials of Business Process Outsourcing
Provides the fundamentals of business process outsourcing for the busy executive who needs to get up to speed. Includes checklists, tips and techniques, and case studies.
Essentials of Financial Risk Management
Identifies risk-mitigation policies and strategies; suggestions for determining an organization's risk tolerance; and sources of risk associated with currency exchange rates, interest rates, credit exposure, commodity prices, and other related events.
Essentials of Shared Services
"Shared Services is a business model with which every CEO should be familiar... Bryan Bergeron’s book provides a solid, easily absorbed, and practical overview of shared services. It belongs on every CEO’s bookshelf."
Essentials of Corporate Performance Management
Shows how managers can structure their activities and investment base to obtain the highest possible ROI. Examines essential concepts of ROI, including the advantages of using certain techniques and the limitations associated with them.

Essentials of Credit, Collections, and Accounts Receivable
"This book is filled with wisdom, common sense, and practical solutions. Mary Schaeffer is right on when she states that credit is part science, part art, and part gut feel."
Essentials of Cash Flow
"Essentials of Cash Flow is a great cash flow primer. Mr. Schaeffer effectively takes us from the basics to the essentials of cash flow using down-to-earth dialogue and real-world examples. I can see this book becoming a must in the library of all entrepreneurs and business managers."
Essentials of Intellectual Property
"This critically important new volume of work not only provides the professional with a greater knowledge of this vast subject, but also the novice with a better understanding and appreciation for the results of their creative abilities."

Essentials of CRM: A Guide to Customer Relationship Management
"Managing relationships with customers has become a critical organizational competency. Bergeron has done a superb job of presenting the breadth, complexity, and nature of CRM. This book provides a fabulous and actionable grounding in CRM for organizational leadership."

Essentials of Payroll: Management and Accounting
"Creating effective procedures, maintaining policies, and streamlining operations are more important now than ever before. This is an excellent reference and useful guide for professionals who manage payroll, compensation, and related benefit issues."

Essentials of Accounts Payable
"A real-world approach, with great insights and practical wisdom on all aspects of the accounts payable process. Essentials of Accounts Payable provides accounts payable professionals with a framework for action in a rapidly changing environment."
Essentials of XBRL: Financial Reporting in the 21st Century
"The accounting industry is in the midst of a technological tsunami in which antiquated closed, proprietary financial reporting systems are being challenged by more cost effective, XBRL-based systems. Bergeron’s book provides an excellent, no-nonsense overview..."
Essentials of Financial Analysis
"Essentials of Financial Analysis is a concise guide with the necessary resource base for improved client selection by any professional whose practice is outside the field of financial analysis. I wish that Essentials of Financial Analysis had been available to me twenty-seven years ago when I formed an engineering firm. Its use is highly recommended."

Essentials of Balanced Scorecard
This book will help to implement the organizations' balanced scorecard strategies into action by defining performance objectives, measures, and targets in four linked and balanced perspectives: Financial, Customer, Internal Process, and Employee Learning and Growth.

Essentials of Cost Management
"The Stenzels effectively capture each of the elements of today’s metamorphoses in cost accounting directed at making it a more valuable contributor to a modern organization’s decision-making processes. Their comprehensive description of the key elements of effective cost management systems is a most valuable contribution."
  

 
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