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    A practical guide to published accounts for non-specialists

    Understanding and Interpreting Accounts is designed for those with no formal training in accounting who need to know what company accounts can reveal.Using non-technical terms to explain the concepts, it identifies the links between individual parts of the accounts in order to facilitate the analysis and prediction of company performance. The reader will rapidly gain sufficient understanding of ... Read more

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  • Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance

    An Integrated Approach

    Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance explains how the real world of corporate governance works. It offers new definitions of governance and new conceptual models for investigating governance and corporate behaviour, based on both practical experience and academic investigation. In examining the historical development of corporate governance, it integrates issues of company law, regulatory ... Read more

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  • Absolute Essentials of Corporate Governance

    Series series Absolute Essentials of Business and Economics
    This shortform textbook, a concise overview of the development and current state of corporate governance, provides a critical narrative on the field.Beginning with insightful historical background, the author shows how value-adding corporate governance involves more than unthinking compliance to a recitation of statutes, regulations and principles, devoid of context. Features include basic ... Read more

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  • The Sweetness of Freedom

    Stories of Immigrants

    The Sweetness of Freedom presents an eclectic grouping of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants' narratives and the personal artifacts, historical documents, and photographs these travelers brought on their journeys to Michigan. Most of the oral histories in this volume are based on interviews conducted with the immigrants themselves.Some of the immigrants presented here hoped to gain ... Read more

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