The Project Manager's Desk Reference

The Project Manager's Desk Reference

James P. Lewis,  

 Publisher: MgH | ISBN: 007134750X | edition 1999 

 PDF | 581 pages | 14,9 mb

 Strategies to keep every project on time, under budget...and problem-free. More than 50 percent of the work in a typical organization is done in a project format. While each of these projects must be managed, too often the employees named to manage them are given little if any training in the skills they will need to successfully complete the project. The Project Manager's Desk Reference, Second Edition, uses results-oriented language and easy-to-understand examples to detail how you can complete any project on time, within budget, and at the desired performance level.

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Principles of Economics

Principles of Economics
By N. Gregory Mankiw
So.uth-Wes.tern Col.lege Pub 2008 | ISBN: 0324589972
PDF | 5 MB | 904 Pages |

With its clear and engaging writing style, PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS, 5E, continues to be one of the most popular books on economics available today. Mankiw emphasizes material that you're likely to find interesting about the economy (particularly if you're studying economics for the first time), including real-life scenarios, useful facts, and the many ways economic concepts play a role in the decisions you make every day.

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Principles of Marketing (14th Edition)

Principles of Marketing (14th Edition)
Philip Kotler, Gary Armstrong,
Prentice H all | 2011 | ISBN: 0132167123
744 pages | PDF | 33 MB

Learn how to create value and gain loyal customers.

Today’s marketing challenge is to create vibrant, interactive communities of consumers who make products and brands a part of their daily lives. To help readers understand how to create value and gain loyal customers, Principles of Marketing presents fundamental marketing information in a comprehensive format, organized around an innovative customer-value framework.

The fourteenth edition includes coverage on sustainability and a focus on marketing in today's challenging economic climate.

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Book Keeping & Accounting for the small business

Book Keeping & Accounting for the small business
PDF | 190 Pages | 6.30 MB

Accounts are just as important as any other aspect of a business, and can be crucial to its prosperity and even survival. In "doing the books" you will be at the very heart of the business, with your hands on the controls. You will be involved in the management of its assets and liabilities, its expenses and its profit margins. The more control you have over these, and the records and figurework on which they are based, the better you will be able to control your own business.

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Managerial Accounting

Managerial Accounting: 

An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses
10 edition -Michael W. Maher, Clyde P. Stickney, Roman L. Weil
S..th-W.stern C..ge Pub | 2007 | ISBN: 0324639767
624 pages | PDF | 3,3 MB

Now you can focus on the concepts, methods, and uses of managerial accounting that will prepare you to become an effective manager in today's business world. This classic MBA text balances managerial accounting coverage with a strong emphasis on management decision-making. You learn how to truly use the financial information, rather than simply perfect your accounting techniques. Core managerial accounting concepts combine with the latest cutting-edge material that's important to today's managers and decision makers.

You'll find an emphasis on international issues within today's globalized business environment, the strategic effects of decisions, a focus on ethics that reflects this area of increasing scrutiny, and emphasis on new management accounting trends. Numerous realistic examples and application problems help emphasize process improvement and the integration of financial reporting issues for management decision-making. You also learn to apply managerial accounting tools to the emerging service sector, government, and nonprofit organizations for ongoing business success.

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The Art of Condolence

The Art of Condolence :
What to Write, What to Say, What to Do At a Time of Loss
288 Pages | 1.8 MB | PDF

Time and again we stumble for words and actions that will reflect our feelings of compassion and our desire to be of comfort. Based on the authors' extensive research, their workshops, and their professional experience, and filled with personal stories and anecdotes, this heartfelt, practical, and easily accessible resource covers the three most common areas of concern: \"What can I write?\" \"What can I say?\" and \"What can I do?\"

The authors address such issues as:
Special circumstances -- sudden death, suicide, the death of a parent or child How to compose a letter of condolence -- including a variety of sample letters How to be of service - from ideas for thoughtful gifts, to assisting with business affairs and funeral arrangements, to suggested ways of helping in the aftermath When more help is needed - the benefits of grief therapy and support groups, with a listing of recommended reading and other resources.


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101+ Complaint Letters That Get Results

101+ Complaint Letters That Get Results PDF | 306 Pages | 1.95 MB

You can modify these letters for your personal use. Simply choose the letter that you feel most accurately represents your situation, and change all of the information to fit your own particular needs. You can even use them over and over again, or choose a different letter if  another situation arises that warrants action.

This package includes MS Word version of the sample letters.


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Mergers & Aquisitions:

Mergers & Aquisitions: 

An Insider's Guide to the Purchase and Sale of 

Middle Market Business Interests.
413 pages | PDF | 4,2 MB

If you are looking beyond all of the technical jargon that clutters the world of investment banking, and focusing on the key elements of how deals actually get done, this is the book for you. This books provides refreshing outlook engaging real world teachings and clever
insights.


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Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel:

Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel: 

A Practical Guide for Business Calculations
By Alastair Day
FT Press (September 18, 2005) | ISBN-13: 978-0273688662
PDF | 368 Pages | 6.72 MB

Provides financial managers, finance professionals and finance students with a quick, easy and practical guide to using Excel for financial mathematics.
Financial mathematics can be applied more quickly and easily in Excel than any other package, there is therefore demand for a book in this field.
Will improve financial managers’ abilities with Excel and provide them with solutions to their financial problems.
Highly practical : includes a library of templates, exercises and solutions as an illustration of the methods.
Part of the highly respected and recognised Mastering series.
Positioning: Will use simpler models to illustrate the formulas and methodology than Mastering Financial Modelling and Mastering Risk Modelling.
Benchmark: 1. Mastering Financial Calculations (Steiner). Similar book, but for professionals in financial markets, and with less emphasis on Excel.
Benchmark 2. Paul Wilmott’s Quantitative Finances (Wiley) is in this space but is a high-level academic text and is less practical and easy to absorb. The exercises and solutions in ours will significantly cut down learning time. Ours also focuses wholly on Excel, which is a standard for all financial managers and students, this is what they want and need to know.

From the Back Cover

Tools enabling managers to carry out financial calculations have evolved in the last 20 years from tables through calculators to programs on PCs and personal organisers. Today, the majority of those in finance have Excel on their desks and increasingly on their laptops or pocket computers.
Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel provides a comprehensive set of tools and methods to apply Excel to solving mathematical problems. Alastair Day clearly explains the basic calculations for mathematical finance backed up with simple templates for further use and development, together with numerous examples and exercises.
Providing an explanation of key financial formulas and subject areas, the book includes a CD which:
· allows you to work step-by-step through each of the chapters and examples

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Oracle Data Warehousing

Oracle Data Warehousing
and Business Intelligence Solutions
PDF | 409 Pages | 12.01 MB

Written by a team of Oracle insiders, this authoritative book provides you with the most current coverage of the Oracle data warehousing platform as well as the full suite of business intelligence tools. You'll learn how to leverage Oracle features and how those features can be used to provide solutions to a variety of needs and demands. Plus, you'll get valuable tips and insight based on the authors' real-world experiences and their own implementations. Avoid many common pitfalls while learning best practices for:

Leveraging Oracle technologies to design, build, and manage data warehouses Integrating specific database and business intelligence solutions from other vendors Using the new suite of Oracle business intelligence tools to analyze data for marketing, sales, and more.

Handling typical data warehouse performance challenges
Uncovering initiatives by your business community, security business sponsorship, project staffing, and managing risk.


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Microsoft Data Mining:

Microsoft Data Mining:
Integrated Business Intelligence for e-Commerce and Knowledge Management
PDF | 336 Pages | 5.45 MB

Microsoft Data Mining approaches data mining from the particular perspective of IT professionals using Microsoft data management technologies. The author explains the new data mining capabilities in Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 database, Commerce Server, and other products, details the Microsoft OLE DB for Data Mining standard, and gives readers best practices for using all of them. The book bridges the previously specialized field of data mining with the new technologies and methods that are quickly making it an important mainstream tool for companies of all sizes.

Data mining refers to a set of technologies and techniques by which IT professionals search large databases of information (such as those contained by SQL Server) for patterns and trends. Traditionally important in finance, telecommunication, and other information-intensive fields, data mining increasingly helps companies better understand and serve their customers by revealing buying patterns and related interests. It is becoming a foundation for e-commerce and knowledge management.

Unique book on a hot data management topic
Part of Digital Press’s SQL Server and data mining clusters
Author is an expert on both traditional and Microsoft data mining technologies


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MBA in a day: what you would learn at top tier Business Schools

MBA in a day: what you would learn at top tier Business Schools
PDF | 320 Pages | 1,32 Mb

The same critical information top business schools teach. Based on Professor Stralser's popular seminar series, MBA in a Day? is specifically designed for the busy professional (physician, attorney, architect, nonprofit executive, etc.) or entrepreneur/small business owner, who needs to know about the "business-side" of their practice, organization or business. With comprehensive coverage of vital business topics, important concepts and proven strategies taught at top graduate schools, this handy book offers a complete business education without the hassle of enrolling in an MBA program.

Divided into four sections covering management and policy; economics, finance, and accounting; marketing; and systems and processes; this straightforward guide is easy to navigate and simple to use. Packed with illustrative examples, helpful anecdotes, and real-world case studies, this commonsense guide covers everything busy professionals would learn at the very best business schools-if they only had the time.

Steven Stralser, PhD (Phoenix, AZ), is Clinical Professor and Managing Director, The Global Entrepreneurship Center at Thunderbird: The American Graduate School of International Management and founder and CEO of The Center for Professional Development, Inc., an organization dedicated to post-graduate training and education of today's professionals.


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