An updated guide to the essential discipline of financial statement analysis In Financial Statement Analysis, Fourth Edition, leading investment authority Martin Fridson returns with Fernando Alvarez to provide the analytical framework you need to scrutinize financial statements, whether you’re evaluating a company’s stock price or determining valuations for a merger or acquisition.
This fully revised and up-to-date Fourth Edition offers fresh information that will help you to evaluate financial statements in today’s volatile markets and uncertain economy, and allow you to get past the sometimes biased portrait of a company’s performance.
Reflects changes in the financial reporting landscape, including issues related to the financial crisis of 2008-2009
Provides guidelines on how to interpret balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements
Offers information for maximizing the accuracy of forecasts and a structured approach to credit and equity evaluation
Filled with real-life examples and expert advice, Financial Statement Analysis, Fourth Edition will help you gain a firm understanding of the techniques that will help you interpret financial statements, which are designed to conceal more than reveal.
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Author: Martin S. Fridson; Fernando Alvarez Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9781118064207 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2011 416 pages
The narrative deals with the psychology of a man who is the victim of social injustice yet does not take any action to alter his fate. His failure to realize that there are others like him increases his feelings of alienation. An elaboration of the inferiority complex that is suffered by him is given by dwelling on his personality traits.
Redundancy: The Law and Practice explores redundancy law from a practical but also authoritative and analytical standpoint. Containing sections on redundancy payments, unfair dismissal, and collective redundancies, as well as a number of practical tools, the book is an invaluable resource for practitioners working in the area.Now in its third edition, the book has been fully revised and extended to accommodate the extensive changes in legislation that have been implemented since the publication of the second edition in 2001.It analyses the wealth of recent case law and legislative changes, particularly with reference to unfair dismissal, discrimination, collective consultation and voluntary serverance arrangements.Redundancy: The Law and Practice is an invaluable reference for any practitioner working in the area of employment law.
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Author: John McMullen Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 9780191622151 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2011 327 pages
As human beings, we possess one common desire: the need for happiness and a meaningful life. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the ability to find true fulfillment lies within each of us. Now, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, Nobel Prize winner, and bestselling author helps readers begin the path to enlightenment in a very special book — an easy-access reference for daily practice as well as stunning illumination of the timeless wisdom of His Holiness.
How to Practice will guide you toward opening your heart, refraining from doing harm, maintaining mental tranquility, and more. Divided into a series of distinct steps that will lead spiritual seekers of all faiths toward enlightenment, this accessible book is a constant and daily companion in the quest to practice morality, meditation, and wisdom. The Dalai Lama shows us how to overcome our everyday obstacles, from feelings of anger and mistrust to jealousy, insecurity, and counterproductive thinking. Imbued with His Holiness’ vivacious spirit and sense of playfulness, How to Practice offers the Dalai Lama’s own sage and very practical insight into the human psyche and what binds us all together.
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Author: His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Jeffrey Hopkins; Jeffrey Hopkins Publisher: Atria Books ISBN: 9780743442572 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: February 2002 240 pages
Social Media in Disasters and Time-Critical Situations
Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this information struggle with an avalanche of social media messages that exceeds human capacity to process. Emergency managers, decision makers, and affected communities can make sense of social media through a combination of machine computation and human compassion – expressed by thousands of digital volunteers who publish, process, and summarize potentially life-saving information. This book brings together computational methods from many disciplines: natural language processing, semantic technologies, data mining, machine learning, network analysis, human-computer interaction, and information visualization, focusing on methods that are commonly used for processing social media messages under time-critical constraints, and offering more than 500 references to in-depth information.
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Author: Carlos Castillo Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781316694510 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
Tahiti is one of the Society Islands which, with the Gambiers, the Tuamotus, the Australs, and the Marquesas, make up French Polynesia. This archipelago spread out over several million square miles of the south central Pacific is a mixture of high volcanic islands and low coral atolls. Moorea, the land mass you can see in the distance from Papeete, is 12 miles away. It’s a lovely 82-square-mile triangular-shaped island of sharp peaks, deep valleys, beaches, and bays. The 6,000 people who live there are dependent on pineapple, vanilla, and tourists. The town of Afareatu on the southeast coast is their administrative center. Moorea is the second-most popular destination in French Polynesia and with good reason. The most dramatic way to see Moorea is by hiking. The footpaths among the Marae of Opunohu are excellent, but the best walk is the trek from Vaiare west across to Pao Pao at the bottom of Cook’s Bay. It’s a longish trek, but the abundant flora are delightful and the views magnificent. Bora Bora – you can see it like a stage drop in the distance from Raiatea – is 160 miles from Tahiti. The pearl of all islands, it has a beauty borne of lagoon, reef, and green mountains. Nine miles long by eight miles wide, with a population of 2,575, it’s understandable that tourists have discovered the island. Bora Bora is the scene of paddling, peddling, snorkeling, walking, climbing, dancing, drinking and eating well. If you’re willing to sacrifice hotel life, plan to visit one of the dIstant motus (islets) off Rangiroa. Ask Air Polynesie to help, then spend several days living within the discipline of atoll life. Wander among nesting birds, watch sharks patrol a channel to the sea, see manta rays and leaping tuna. Live for a few days under sImple shelter, eat what the sea and thin soil provide. It’s a sobenng experience, but you’ll be the better for it. In the Marquesas, Nuku Hiva Island with a population of 1,800 is the administrative center for these 12 islands. Nuku Hiva, like most of the others, is majestically mountainous and beautiful. Growing and export of oranges is the main activity. Hiva Oa, according to Robert Louis Stevenson, was the loveliest and most ominous spot on earth. And it was there that Paul Gauguin spent his last years. Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas has a population of 400, is lonely, green, and precipitous. The inhabitants there, as on the other islands, live along flowing water in the deep narrow valleys. The Cook Islands, named after the British Captain who seems to have been everywhere in the Pacific, are scattered like tiny jewels over a large stretch of sea between Tahiti and Samoa. Rarotonga, the principal island, is 2,500 miles due south of Honolulu – as far south of the equator as Honolulu is north of it – a similarity that provides both places with ideal climates. The natural beauty, particularly on Rarotonga with its forest-covered mountains, verdant coastal plain, and fringing reef, is profound. It’ll take your breath away when first seen and some writers, with complimentary comparison in mind, insist that Rarotonga is a miniature English-speaking Tahiti. Tonga too has many attractions – the king’s palace, the beaches, lagoons, flying foxes, blowholes, ruins, exquisite outer islands, and convenient transport. There’s good food, perhaps the best in the Pacific, and the weather is cooler than many other Pacific islands. Tonga has good things to bring home: tapa cloth, wood carvings, beautiful baskets, mats and, best of all, prices for everything are low. Tongans are friendly people, a quality Captain Cook recognized 200 years ago when he dubbed this group “The Friendly Islands.” All the detail you will need about these Pacific islands is in the guide – the hotels, restaurants, what to see and do, how to get around, the history and the culture. Plus there are color photos throughout the book.
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Author: Thomas Booth Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 9780935161977 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2012 340 pages
In the common course of events, people choose houses. Sometimes, though, it doesn’t work that way. Sometimes houses choose people: They reach out, they whisper, they entice and enfold.
Novelist Emma Roth was convinced that New York City was the only place to live, until the day she encountered the old Victorian mansion overlooking the Long Island Sound. Her husband, Roger, a chaos physicist, was entranced by the ever-changing convergence of land, water, and air; their son, Zack, by a backyard large enough for a real game of soccer. But for Emma, it was the octagonal tower library, whose panoramic view suggested a sort of omniscience no writer could resist.
Yet no sooner do they move into their dream house than the seemingly impossible occurs. Characters in a computer game address cruel personal remarks to Emma. Her manuscript is tampered with, her home invaded, her family threatened. Before long it is obvious that her tormentor not only has access to her home and her computer’s hard drive, but also to her innermost thoughts, secrets, and fears. Hers is an intimate enemy, both vicious and elusive.
Because these things happen only when Emma is alone in the house, she is driven to question her own sanity. Could Roger be right when he hints that it’s all in her head? Local rumor has it that the house is haunted, but Emma, a writer of ghost stories herself, no more believes in real ghosts than professional magicians believe in magic. As the trespasses into her life grow more bizarre and more dangerous, suspicion is cast in ever-widening arcs, until Emma is left to question every relationship she has, including her marriage.
Suspicion is an irresistible and addictively compelling tale about a woman who is both haunted and hunted.
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Author: Barbara Rogan Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 9781451699982 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2012 352 pages
A tour de force examination of the historical conflict between Native and Anglo Americans by critically acclaimed author Leslie Marmon Silko, under the hot desert sun of the American Southwest.
In this virtuoso symphony of character and culture, Leslie Marmon Silko’s breathtaking novel interweaves ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas as told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Touching on issues as disparate as the borderlands drug wars, ecological devastation committed for the benefit of agriculture, and the omnipresence of talking heads on American daytime television, The Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale, a sweeping epic of displacement, intrigue, and violent redemption.
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Author: Leslie Marmon Silko Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 9781476737461 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2013 832 pages
The fourth and fifth centuries AD were an era of religious conflict, political change and military conflict. The responses of contemporary historians to these turbulent times reflect their diverse backgrounds – Christian and pagan, writing in both Greek and Latin, documenting church and state.
This volume is the first to offer an accessible survey of the lives and works of these varied figures. The first half of the book explores the structure, style, purpose and nature of their writings. The second half compares and contrasts the information the historians provide, and the views they express on some central topics. These range from historiography, government and religion to barbarian invasions, and the controversial emperors Julian ‘The Apostate’ and Theodosius.
Author: David Rohrbacher Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781134628841 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2013 333 pages
The first of its kind, this unique text identifies the knowledge needed by current and aspiring school district CEOs to become high performers.
Author: John R. Hoyle; Lars G. (Gordon) Bjork; Virginia Collier; Thomas Eugene Glass Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 9781483351919 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2004 280 pages
