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From break-even analysis to assessing financial performance, this comprehensive range of tutorials on managing resources provides an extremely flexible package for tutors teaching management courses at Certificate and Diploma level. Part-time and short course tutors will find the pack particularly useful. Managing Financial Resources CD-ROM takes the grind out of preparing teaching materials from scratch, leaving time to structure tutorials to suit the needs of different groups.20 self-contained tutorial sessions each containing a selection of activities session plans and outcomes, clearly mapped to the MCI units and elements instructions and timings for delivering the activities hand-outs, worksheets and case studies OHT masters clearly relating to the notes and handouts guidance on evidence gathering and portfolio buildingCompact and easy- to-use, portableNew and up-dated materialCan be customized for each course taken with own material

Michael Broadbent and John Cullen have completely updated their best-selling textbook and write with customary authority and clarity about the complicated issues of financial planning; these include statistical and cost analysis, basic accounting procedures, methods of improving profitability and techniques of financial monitoring and control. Real examples and case studies are used throughout to illustrate points in a practical context. * brilliantly clear and comprehensive coverage of a difficult, but vital topic for managers to understand * new material includes - use of external databases (such as FAME); updated section on activity-based costing; capital budgeting; more coverage of the public sector and the hotel sector; completely new chapter on pricing. * numerous exercises and worked examples (with answers, when applicable)* real-life case studies and topical references. This book is designed to provide the underpinning knowledge and understanding required for any competency-based management course. It is based upon the Management Charter Initiative's Occupational Standards for Management NVQs and SVQs. This book is designed to provide the underpinning knowledge and understanding required for any competency-based management course. It is based upon the Management Charter Initiative's Occupational Standards for Management NVQs and SVQs. Michael Broadbent is Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance at Manchester Metropolitan University and has published numerous articles and co-authored the distance learning unit on Cost Management Accounting for the Open College. John Cullen is Principal Lecturer in the School of Financial Studies Sheffield Hallam University and is the author of numerous articles and case studies on budgetary control, acquisitions, costing and auditing. brilliantly clear and comprehensive coverage of a difficult, but vital topic for managers to understandnew material includes - use of external databases (such as FAME); updated section on activity-based costing; capital budgeting; more coverage of the public sector and the hotel sector; completely new chapter on pricing.numerous exercises and worked examples (with answers, when applicable)

Managing Financial Resources continues to be a must read for any student/manager seeking knowledge and understanding of the application of accounting to organisational situations. Now in colour with updated case studies throughout the text to illustrate key concepts, this book guides non-finance students logically through the principles of Management Accounting.This fourth edition includes new topics such as Strategic Management Accounting which brings together themes from other chapters into a coherent whole to include ABC, ABB, ABM performances measures, value drivers and customer profitability. Complete revisions have been made to consider the recent developments in pricing as well as looking at the differences between UK and International Financial Reporting StandardsChapters on performance measurement will take the existing themes from the previous edition but are enhanced with additional material linking to the value based management themes of EVA and CFROI.

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Although catfish have been farmed for about 30 years and catfish farm­ ing is the most successful aquacultural enterprise in the United States, there are those who contend that catfish farming is still as much of an "art" as it is a science. This position is difficult to refute completely, particularly considering that some practices used in catfish farming ap­ pear to have little scientific basis. Skill coupled with a small dose of mysticism certainly playa role in the culture of catfish, and the catfish producer is faced with the unenviable task of rearing an animal in an environment that requires considerable management. Certain aspects may still be an "art" because research and technical information needed to support the industry have lagged behind industry growth; however, the basic principles underlying catfish farming are based on sound scientific evidence whose foundation was laid in the 1950s by work conducted at state and federal fish hatcheries in the southeastern and midwestern United States. Since that time, several university and government laboratories have expanded the scientific base for catfish farming. As a result, considerable information is available, but it is gen­ erally fragmented and exists in a multitude of diverse scientific and trade journals. The material is often too technical or abstract to be com­ prehensible to fish culturists and personnel in allied industries. This book fits the definition of the term handbook in the sense that it is intended as a book of instruction or guidance as well as a reference.

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Product Description: A powerful and moving novel about the ravages war and the need to tell the truth, even in the face of adversity. After the close of a great war, a mysterious stranger arrives in a small European village. He is an artist and he begins sketching the villagers, showing the painful reality of the crimes and betrayals the war left in its wake...read more

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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