This book describes the role of the controller in a nonpublic company (small business), and provides a detailed ‘how to’ guidance of the various duties and responsibilities the controller of a nonpublic company may be required to assume. It describes the functions many small business controllers usually perform. The audience for this portfolio is new controllers for small business and/or those aspiring to become controllers.
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are becoming the benchmark accounting standards for companies listed on international stock exchanges. The SEC treats them as equivalent of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and is even contemplating allowing their use instead of US GAAP. They are mandatory in Europe, Australia and South Africa. Canada, China, Brazil, Japan and India are planning to use them from 2011. Anybody interested in companies listed on the US stock exchanges needs to know something about them because hundreds of foreign companies are already using them to report in the US. Anybody interested in international business has to know these benchmark financial reporting rules. This book will explain the complex inter-relationships between the International Accounting Standards Board (the creator of IFRS), the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Canadian Accounting Standards Board (AcSB), their work programme and their plans for the future.
It will look at a series of central accounting issues such as revenue recognition, liabilities, pensions, off-balance sheet vehicles, impairment, intangible assets etc. and discuss how IFRS differ from US and Canadian GAAP. It will explain the organisational structure and background of the IASB and it will look at the potential impacts to financial reporting by American companies.
Sustainable (and green) business seems to have become mainstream practically overnight. This growth in interest in sustainable business practices stems from changing societal expectations and a growing awareness that sustainability creates a win-win situation for the business and humanity alike. Sustainable Business: An Executive’s Primer is a brief introduction to sustainability as it applies to business. This book will offer an overview of how sustainability is applied throughout the organization.This book is a brief introduction to sustainability as it applies to business and offers an overview of how sustainability is applied throughout the organization. Chapters are organized by familiar departments or functions of the business and cover the applications and terminology of sustainability throughout each area. Whether you are an executive, an entrepreneur, an employee, or a business student, this book will help you understand the big picture of what it means to be a sustainable business.
Congratulations to Knight and Cavusgil for winning the 2014 JIBS DECADE AWARD — …recognizing the most influential paper published in the Journal of International Business Studies one decade before the current conference. In order to be considered for the award, a paper must have been included among the five most cited papers published in the 2004 Volume of JIBS. This year’s winner is “Innovation, Organizational Capabilities, and the Born Global Firm” by Gary A. Knight and Tamer Cavusgil.” This book helps managers and scholars understand the born-global phenomenon. We offer a comprehensive treatment of born globals, from distinctive features of these companies, to strategies that they use for international success, to implications of the phenomenon for international small- and medium-sized enterprises. We review useful theories and frameworks, as well as introduce a new field based on the born-global phenomenon – international entrepreneurship.
Don’t know a blog from a tweet? After reading this book, you’ll not only understand these terms, you’ll be able to use them to market your business! This book is your introduction to Marketing 2.0. It shows you how to leverage new media tools like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and the New Media Press Release to grow your business and your followers, as well as how to participate in meaningful conversations with past, present, and future customers
This outstanding new title introduces at a high level the actual relationships between branding, strategy, and corporate performance. It provides a fresh perspective on, and approach for, developing robust customer-focused strategy and describes the important role of the brand in competing successfully for stakeholder choice. Developing Winning Brand Strategies adds significant value providing a holistic, in-depth understanding of the business dynamics and consumers’ selection criteria enabling management to make informed strategic decisions.
This book is your guide to knowledge management for the future leaders of your organization. In other words, it ensures that they will know what you know and be able to apply your experiences to similar encounters in their time. It is replete with examples of successful knowledge management (with an eye toward the future) in current times and provides simple, time-tested steps. This book is your guide to ensuring future generations know what you know and can apply it in their time. This book is your guide to knowledge management for the future leaders of your organization. In other words, it ensures that they will know what you know and be able to apply your experiences to similar encounters in their time.
This book defines social networking and social capital and helps you understand the relationship between them. Learn how to leverage the logic and structure of social networks through extensive discussions of current successful models in action and enhance your strategies and competitive advantage. This book is a single concise resource that covers both social network and social capital and helps you understand the relationship between them.
This book outlines a critical approach to developing employee talent within your company-strategy dynamics. It removes the shroud of mystery from effectively attaining desired performance outcomes by clearly defining the links between people issues and performance. It is well illustrated and provides real-world examples along with action checklists to drive and monitor results.
This book uses a balanced blend of frameworks and illustrations to teach you how to tackle the challenge of driving performance into the future. This book shows you where the levers are that you control and how to choose what to do, when, and how much to achieve your specific goals. This book effectively outlines the dynamics of strategy, how you drive performance – past, today and into the future. It shows what causes performance to improve or deteriorate and what you can do to change this trajectory for the better.