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Mastering Book-Keeping
by Dr. Peter MarshallDouble-entry accounting can be easy if it's explained well, and Mastering Book-keeping does just that. Now in its updated 8th edition, this popular book has helped thousands of people to get to grips with book-keeping. It explains the principles and practice of book-keeping sequentially, and includes: - The daybooks and ledger accounts - End of year accounting - Sole proprietorships, limited companies, partnerships and not-for-profit organisations - Using computers for accounting - Accounting for VAT - Progressing to more advanced management accounting - The implications of the Data Protection Act 1998 on book-keepers Plus step-by-step guides to compiling a balance sheet, depreciation, accounting for bad and doubtful debts, and much more. Everything is made clear with easy-to-follow explanations. Typical transactions are illustrated throughout to make the information even easier to understand. This book is suitable for those preparing for the examinations of ICB, AAT, IAB, OCR, AQA and all other courses in book-keeping and accounts.
Mastering Book-Keeping: A Complete Guide To The Principles And Practice Of Business Accounting (Small Business Ser.)
by Peter MarshallDouble-entry accounting can be easy if it's explained well, and Mastering Book-keeping does just that. Now in its updated 8th edition, this popular book has helped thousands of people to get to grips with book-keeping. It explains the principles and practice of book-keeping sequentially, and includes: - The daybooks and ledger accounts - End of year accounting - Sole proprietorships, limited companies, partnerships and not-for-profit organisations - Using computers for accounting - Accounting for VAT - Progressing to more advanced management accounting - The implications of the Data Protection Act 1998 on book-keepers Plus step-by-step guides to compiling a balance sheet, depreciation, accounting for bad and doubtful debts, and much more. Everything is made clear with easy-to-follow explanations. Typical transactions are illustrated throughout to make the information even easier to understand. This book is suitable for those preparing for the examinations of ICB, AAT, IAB, OCR, AQA and all other courses in book-keeping and accounts.
Mastering Bookkeeping, 10th Edition: A complete guide to the principles and practice of business accounting
by Dr. Peter MarshallThe book explains the principles and practice of bookkeeping sequentially, including:·The bank reconciliation·Writing up the petty cash book·Extracting a trial balance·Accruals and prepayments·Setting up a limited company·Accounting for VATPlus step-by-step guides to compiling a balance sheet, depreciation, accounting for bad and doubtful debts and much more.The 10th edition also includes significant enhancements to reflect the teachings of the principle bookkeeping institutes as they endeavour to raise the professional competence of their members. For example, accounting staff are increasingly being required to extend their record keeping into management accounts areas. The new edition includes chapters on stock control and budgetary control accounting. In addition, it will include more detailed guidance on the significance and importance of ratio analysis and statements of sources and application of funds, plus the latest available IAB and ICB exam papers.
Mastering Bookkeeping, 10th Edition: A complete guide to the principles and practice of business accounting
by Peter MarshallThe book explains the principles and practice of bookkeeping sequentially, including:·The bank reconciliation·Writing up the petty cash book·Extracting a trial balance·Accruals and prepayments·Setting up a limited company·Accounting for VATPlus step-by-step guides to compiling a balance sheet, depreciation, accounting for bad and doubtful debts and much more.The 10th edition also includes significant enhancements to reflect the teachings of the principle bookkeeping institutes as they endeavour to raise the professional competence of their members. For example, accounting staff are increasingly being required to extend their record keeping into management accounts areas. The new edition includes chapters on stock control and budgetary control accounting. In addition, it will include more detailed guidance on the significance and importance of ratio analysis and statements of sources and application of funds, plus the latest available IAB and ICB exam papers.
Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy
by Ning Ma Dmitry Anoshin Himani RanaBuild world-class enterprise Business Intelligence solutions with MicroStrategy 10 About This Book * Fix the gap between BI tools and implementation/integration processes with big data and predictive analytics using this comprehensive guide to MicroStrategy 10 * Highly practical, example-rich guide that lets you implement business intelligence with MicroStrategy 10 in your organization * Create the best user experience with BI dashboards using MicroStrategy using this up-to-date, comprehensive guide Who This Book Is For This book is intended for BI, DWH, ETL developers, BI/DWH/Analytics managers, analysts, and business users who already have MicroStrategy in their organization and want to take it to the next level in order to increase performance and improve user experience. In addition, it helps the reader to migrate from MicroStrategy 9 to MicroStrategy 10 and to start using the new capabilities. What You Will Learn * Explore various visualization techniques for presenting analyzed data * Customize MicroStrategy in order to meet your business requirements * Develop and design mobile dashboards * Use the advanced techniques such as designing reports, documents and interactive dashboards for building dashboards * Understand the concepts of data discovery and Desktop capabilities * Explore the best practices for Microstrategy system administration * Find and fix issues based on connections, environment or documents * Integrate third party ESRI map tools with MicroStrategy to create geo based reports In Detail Business intelligence is becoming more important by the day, with cloud offerings and mobile devices gaining wider acceptance and achieving better market penetration. MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is an absolute leader in the BI market and offers rich capabilities from basic data visualizations to predictive analytics. It lets you various delivery methods such as the Web, desktops, and mobiles. Using real-world BI scenarios, this book helps you to implement Business Analytics solutions in big e-commerce companies. It kicks off with MicroStrategy 10 features and then covers schema design models and techniques. Building upon your existing knowledge, the book will teach you advanced techniques for building documents and dashboards. It further teaches various graphical techniques for presenting data for analysis using maps, graphs, and advanced charts. Although MicroStrategy has rich functionality, the book will show how to customize it in order to meet your business requirements. You will also become familiar with the native analytical functions that will help you to maximize the impact of BI solutions with powerful predictive analytics. Furthermore, the book will focus on MicroStrategy Mobile Analytics along with data discovery and desktop capabilities such as connecting various data sources and building interactive dashboards. The book will also uncover best practices, troubleshooting techniques for MicroStrategy system administration, and also security and authentication techniques. Lastly, you will learn to use Hadoop for MicroStrategy reporting. By the end of the book, you will become proficient in evaluating any BI software in order to choose the best one that meets all business requirements. Style and approach This book will be focusing on providing extensive guide to plan how to design and develop complex BI architecture for real world scenario, using Microstrategy 10, best practices and collected experience working with BI, predictive analytics, and Microstrategy and big data.
Mastering Business Negotiation
by Roy J. Lewicki Alexander HiamMastering Business Negotiation is a handy resource for any leader or manager who needs practical strategies and ideas when conducting business negotiations. Grounded in solid research, the authors - experts in the field of business negotiation - reduce the huge volume of available information into an accessible handbook for busy executives who need to prepare for everyday negotiations as well as for more demanding and complex negotiation situations.Mastering Business Negotiation offers down-to-earth advice for learning to play the negotiation game and shows how to:Understand the game so you can better control what happensPredict the sequence of negotiation activities and move from disagreement toward agreementIdentify the strategies and tactics of other players in the game.Apply the rules of the game - the "do's and don'ts" that will ultimately lead to success
Mastering Business in Asia
by Kulwant Singh Andrew DeliosIn order to achieve success, managers need to understand the strategic issues in Asia. Strategy for Success in Asia covers areas from the uniqueness of Asia like its economic and cultural diversity to the roles of governments and the importance of alliances. One of the first books to offer a perspective effective company strategy and how local and multinational companies can achieve strategic success in Asia. This important book is for anyone who has a stake in Asia or has plans to do business in it.
Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
by Christine PorathFrom the leading authority on workplace incivility, Christine Porath, shows why it pays to be civil, and reveals just how to enhance effectiveness in the workplace and beyond by mastering civility.Incivility is silently chipping away at people, organizations, and our economy. Slights, insensitivities, and rude behaviors can cut deeply and hijack focus. Even if people want to perform well, they can't. Ultimately incivility cuts the bottom line.In MASTERING CIVILITY, Christine Porath shows how people can enhance their influence and effectiveness with civility. Combining scientific research with fascinating evidence from popular culture and fields such as neuroscience, medicine, and psychology, this book provides managers and employers with a much-needed wake-up call, while also reminding them of what they can do right now to improve the quality of their workplaces.
Mastering Collaboration in a Product Team: 70 Techniques to Help Teams Build Better Products
by David Spinks Glaudia Califano Natasha HampshireThe nature of product development is changing. The most successful innovations are those that come from teams of people who are exploring problems together. Teams that build meaningful releases of their products iteratively and incrementally are opening the door for early feedback so that decisions can be taken to persevere or pivot based on evidence. But how do you make the most out of a team’s different perspectives, experiences and ideas? How can you instill a collaborative mindset in a product development team? How do you find out if your product idea actually has any value? How can you truly understand people’s needs? Mastering Collaboration in a Product Team is a toolbox of proven techniques from the field for the whole product team to use together to find answers to these questions and more. It is filled with practical tools to maximize your team’s chances of success when developing products and services, from identifying opportunities, to the point of being able to confidently go into production.What You'll LearnDefine people’s real problems and needsCollaboratively create innovative ideasValidate product/feature ideas quickly and cheaply as a teamExplore a lightweight introduction to the techniques of modern product developmentWho This Book Is ForProduct Owners, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Development Team Members, Designers, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches or anyone in a role responsible for designing, developing, or sustaining products or services, with the purpose of maximizing their value.
Mastering Collaboration: Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive
by Gretchen AndersonCollaboration is key for organizations in the 21st century, yet few business people have been trained to teach this skill. How do you advance ideas in a collaborative way and then communicate them throughout your company? In this practical book, author Gretchen Anderson shows you how to generate ideas with others while gaining buy-in from all levels of your organization.Product managers, designers, marketers, technical leaders, and executives will obtain better insight into how team members work together to make decisions. Through tangible exercises and techniques, you’ll learn how to turn promising ideas into products, services, and solutions that make a real difference in the market.Use a framework to develop ideas into hypotheses to be tested and refinedAvoid common pitfalls in the collaboration processAlign communication approaches to ensure that collaboration is effective and inclusiveStructure events or meetings for different types of collaboration depending on the people involvedPractice giving and receiving critiques to foster inclusion without resorting to consensus-based decisions
Mastering CommTech: Unlocking the Potential of Digital Transformation in Corporate Communications (Future of Business and Finance)
by Uwe Seebacher Thomas Mickeleit Jörg ForthmannThis edited collection by over 30 industry experts and scholars explores how communication departments can digitize processes to continue contributing to their companies' success. It deals with key questions such as the necessity of digitalizing corporate communication, optimal data for success, KPI reporting solutions, and the role of data storytelling and artificial intelligence. Additionally, it covers future-relevant roles and skills, essential tools and trends, and crucial aspects of upcoming technologies that promise to change the world of corporate communications. A must-read for practitioners at all levels, this book serves as a reference for keen MBA graduates and journalists who are keen to explore corporate communications as a future career option.
Mastering Communication at Work: How to Lead, Manage, and Influence
by Jon Wortmann Ethan F. BeckerMastering Communication at Work provides clear, actionable advice you can put to use right away and simple drills to practice during your next meeting, one-on-one conversation--or even sitting at your desk.
Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from Surviving to Thriving
by Christine PorathFrom the author of Mastering Civility, a thoroughly researched exploration of the impact and importance of building thriving communities, with actionable steps on how to create them in your work and broader life.In her powerful new book, Christine Porath explores how the rise of technology and modern workplace practices have fractured our communications yet left us always &“on&” digitally. Through now common practices like hot-desking and remote work (even without the added isolation of social distancing we experienced during the pandemic), our human interactions have decreased, and so too have our happiness levels. This lack of a &“human factor&” is sparking a crisis in mental health that will have repercussions for years to come, leaving people lonelier and making the bottom line suffer, too. What Christine has discovered in her research is that leaders, organizations, and managers of all stripes may recognize there is a cost, but have no idea as to implement the cure: Community. With her signature depth and grasp of research across myriad industries including business, healthcare, hospitality, and sports, Christine extrapolates from the statistics on the experiences of hundreds of thousands of people across six continents to show us the potential for change. Through sharing information about the community, empowering decision-making discretion and autonomy, creating a respectful environment, offering feedback, providing a sense of meaning, and boosting member well-being, anyone can help a community truly flourish. The applications are endless, the stories are positive and uplifting, and will inspire the reader to establish and grow their community—be it in the workplace or the PTA—and make it thrive.
Mastering Complexity: Adding Coherence Throughout Your Business with Dependency Structure Spreadsheets
by Stephen DenkerMastering Complexity is designed to help readers develop and maintain logical, adaptable solutions to business problems. It demonstrates how to visualize business dependency connections with a square spreadsheet called a Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM). Once the links representing dependencies are visualized in a DSM, it can be used to improve th
Mastering Consensus: A Leader's Guide to Real Dialogues and Finding Common Ground in Five Steps (Business Guides on the Go)
by Heinz W. BeckerAchieving a common purpose begins with diverse ideas and opinions. This book guides managers through a five-step process to transform productive controversy into unified action. Mastering these steps helps managers stay grounded and effective, even in turbulent times. Learn to handle difficult candidates, manage rivalry and hierarchy, and navigate chaotic discussions. The author introduces innovative concepts on hierarchy, authority, and leadership styles. The message of the book emphasizes recognizing and using “magic moments” in discussions and promoting good will without imposing values. The steps provided in the book help unlock the secrets to effective consensus-building and leadership with practical strategies and insights. This book is essential for managers seeking to foster collaboration and drive successful outcomes.
Mastering Consultation as an HR Practitioner: Making an Impact in Small Business (Making an Impact in Small Business HR)
by Jennifer CurrenceHR professionals are uniquely positioned to lead transformation, but doing so requires a consultative mindset. Mastering Consultation as an HR Practitioner equips HR professionals with tools and frameworks to advise leaders, define organizational needs, and implement lasting change. This practical guide offers best practices for data gathering, problem-solving and solution development, all grounded in a consultative approach. Featuring real-world case studies, worksheets and ready-to-use resources, it helps practitioners apply strategic thinking to everyday challenges and elevate their value within the organization.Whether you're supporting a business unit or driving company-wide initiatives, this book shows how to build trust, influence outcomes and lead with impact.
Mastering Corda: Blockchain For Java Developers
by Jamiel SheikhMastering Corda provides you with a consistent, linear, and paced path to learning Corda and building modern enterprise-grade decentralized applications. Using this book, anyone from a complete blockchain beginner to an experienced blockchain or enterprise architect can rapidly understand and write applications like a pro while exploring the technical nuances and intricacies of the Corda platform.Corda is designed for use cases such as finance and investments, supply chain, healthcare, trade finance, insurance, and real estate that require a high-volume of transactions, scalability, and data privacy. If you have basic Java skills, this book will help you understand blockchain and show how you can get started immediately and be involved in the disruption of the future.With this book, you will:Understand Corda's value proposition and alignment with business strategies--particularly relevant to business executives and architectsDive deep into Corda's architecture and blockchain fundamentalsRapidly gain extensive knowledge of and hands-on experience with building Corda applicationsCompare and contrast Corda with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and HyperledgerEffectively prepare for the Corda certification exam and job interviews involving blockchainPerform data analytics and machine learning on Corda nodes
Mastering Corporate Communication: A Modern Guidebook for Future-fit Strategies, Tools and Skills (Future of Business and Finance)
by Anne Katrine Lund Mette Refshauge"Mastering Corporate Communication" is a comprehensive guide designed to assist communication professionals in navigating the new world of stakeholder capitalism. With the rise of new media, corporate responsibility demands and the constant battle for attention, professionals are faced with an array of challenges. The book offers an overview of relevant theories and techniques to help professionals master the new reality of corporate communication. It provides a rare glimpse into the corporate machine room of a global company, offering valuable insights and inspiration to communication professionals. Leading professors from all around the world share their insights and advice, giving readers an opportunity to develop excellent corporate communication skills. The competitive environment requires a new mindset and a necessary agility, and this guide is the perfect resource to help communication professionals thrive in this ever-evolving landscape. With "Mastering Corporate Communication" students and professionals can find inspiration in effective approaches to communication challenges and ways to develop essential tools and competencies to succeed in their careers.
Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials
by Stuart A. MccraryAn essential guide to corporate finance Understanding corporate finance is a necessity for financial practitioners who struggle every day to find the right balance between maximizing corporate value and reducing a firm's financial risk. Divided into two comprehensive parts, Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials presents the material by example, using an extended scenario involving a new business formation. In Part One, present and future value mathematics are introduced followed by a number of applications using the tools. In Part Two, statistics as applied to finance are examined, with detailed discussions of standard deviations, correlations, and how they impact diversification. Through theory and real-world examples this book provides a solid grounding in corporate finance Other titles by Stuart McCrary include: Mastering Financial Accounting Essentials, How to Create and Manage a Hedge Fund, and Hedge Fund Course Covers the essential elements of this field, from traditional capital budgeting concepts and methods of valuing investment projects under uncertainty to the importance of "real-options" in the decision-making process This reliable resource offers a hands-on approach to corporate finance that will allow you to gain a solid understanding of this discipline.
Mastering Crypto Assets: Investing in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Beyond
by Steven A. Schoenfeld Martin Leinweber Jörg WilligA definitive, all-encompassing book on digital assets of all types for investors In Mastering Crypto Assets: Investing in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Beyond, a team of seasoned investors and digital asset strategists presents a comprehensive guide aimed at institutional and professional investors for integrating crypto assets into traditional portfolios. The book offers in-depth explanations of the structure of this new asset class and its impact on investment portfolios. It guides readers on using fundamental and quantitative criteria to select blockchain-based assets, grounded in a robust foundation of knowledge and evidence. The authors demonstrate how to apply quantitative valuation concepts to digital assets like Bitcoin, understanding their role as digital stores of value in a traditional investment portfolio. The book also delves into the unique risk and return characteristics of various digital asset sectors, adapting conventional investing methods to the digital realm. It goes beyond direct crypto asset investments, introducing related equities and strategies for accessing digital assets in restricted settings. It discusses both indexed and active strategies in the context of crypto assets. A key feature of the book is exclusive interviews with industry figures such as Jan van Eck (VanEck), Peter L. Brandt (Legendary Trader), and Fred Thiel (Marathon Digital), with these interviews accessible through QR codes in the book for extended video content. This provides a dynamic and interactive learning experience. Moreover, the book benefits from invaluable research assistance from Figment and CCData, enriching its analytical depth. It also includes insightful guest articles from digital asset experts like Matthew Sigel (VanEck), Marco Manoppo (Digital Asset Research), Marcel Kasumovich (Coinbase Asset Management), Timothy Peterson (Cane Island Digital Research), Gregory Mall and Rohan Misra (AMINA), and thought leaders from Token Terminal. Mastering Crypto Assets is an invaluable resource not just for institutional and individual investors, but for anyone keen on adopting a sound, evidence-based approach to digital asset investment.
Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016
by David J ParkerMaster the art of presenting information visually using Microsoft Visio Professional 2016 and Visio Pro for Office365 About This Book * A complete guide to data visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016 * Visualize information to meet the needs of your business * Get the quick way to learn Microsoft Visio 2016 Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at the departmental-level business intelligence professional or Microsoft Office power-user who wants to create data diagrams with Microsoft Visio that can accurately represent business information visually. What You Will Learn * Add external data from a variety of data sources * Represent information with data graphics * Create custom data-like shapes * Export data from structured diagrams * Present information graphics to non-Visio users * Automate visualizations from data * Develop custom templates and code for others In Detail Microsoft Visio Professional is a data visualization application that is used by many different market sectors and many different departments to represent information visually, from network infrastructure to organization charts, from process diagrams to office layouts. Starting off with a brief introduction to Vision Professional 2016 and then moving on to data storage, linking data to shapes, and working with SQL Server to create a solid foundation. Then we'll cover topics such as refreshing data, working with geographical data, working with various graphics, and diagrams, and more. Finally, you'll find out how to deploy custom stencils, templates, and code. Style and approach This book has real life examples that will let you explore all the new features of Microsoft Visio 2016 and apply them in your daily life.
Mastering Decision-Making in Business and Personal Life: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Making Better Choices
by Hassan Qudrat-UllahThis book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to decision-making, synthesizing perspectives from psychology, business strategy, and system dynamics. Integrating real-world examples with structured decision-making frameworks, it makes complex concepts accessible and practical. The text uniquely bridges personal and professional decision-making, demonstrating their interconnectedness and the universal applicability of sound decision-making principles. Positioned within the literature on cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, and business management, it engages with ongoing debates on the role of cognitive biases, emotional influences, and the importance of structured decision-making processes in achieving sustainable outcomes.
Mastering Ember.js
by Mitchel KelonyeAs businesses shift towards web-based solutions, there's been an increasing amount of customer needs that can only be met by sophisticated web applications. Building these applications is not easy and huge efforts have been invested in order to realize faster delivery of such applications. Ember.js is one of these efforts and acquiring expert knowledge of its key concepts will enable the realization of shorter and profitable web application development cycles. Developing single-page web applications is about to get easier! This book introduces you to web application development using the Ember.js web framework. Mastering Ember.js will help you to utilize its full potential and will show you how to create web applications. You will learn about views, event management, logging, debugging, and error management, always focusing on best practices. Finally, you will test your application and learn how to use WebSockets with Ember.js and end the book by modularizing your project.
Mastering Emergent Strategies: Taking Uncertain Ideas Forward
by Scott D. Anthony Mark W. Johnson Joseph V. Sinfield Elizabeth J. AltmanFollowing what is known as an "emergent strategy" can help companies improve their odds of success by systematically addressing the key risks and unknowns that typify highly uncertain ideas. This chapter describes three simple steps managers can follow to master emergent strategy processes.
Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos Gavin WoodEthereum represents the gateway to a worldwide, decentralized computing paradigm. This platform enables you to run decentralized applications (DApps) and smart contracts that have no central points of failure or control, integrate with a payment network, and operate on an open blockchain. With this practical guide, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood provide everything you need to know about building smart contracts and DApps on Ethereum and other virtual-machine blockchains.Discover why IBM, Microsoft, NASDAQ, and hundreds of other organizations are experimenting with Ethereum. This essential guide shows you how to develop the skills necessary to be an innovator in this growing and exciting new industry.Run an Ethereum client, create and transmit basic transactions, and program smart contractsLearn the essentials of public key cryptography, hashes, and digital signaturesUnderstand how "wallets" hold digital keys that control funds and smart contractsInteract with Ethereum clients programmatically using JavaScript libraries and Remote Procedure Call interfacesLearn security best practices, design patterns, and anti-patterns with real-world examplesCreate tokens that represent assets, shares, votes, or access control rightsBuild decentralized applications using multiple peer-to-peer (P2P) components