Financial Statement Analysis: A Global Perspective

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Harmonised aggregate financial statements are published by the European Commission in the BACH database. This information is organised by country, size of firm, and year. Financial ratios obtained from this database are analysed using multivariate statistical techniques in order to explore country and size effects. The data relates to three size groups, eleven countries, fourteen years, and fifteen financial and economic ratios. It is found that ratios reflect the size of the firm, but that the way in which this is reflected varies between the different countries. It is also found that there are no significant size related differences in financial profitability, but that such differences appear when countries are compared.

Financial Statement Analysis: A Global Perspective

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Financial Statement Analysis: A Global Perspective
Thomas R. Ph.D.; Munter, Paul; Grant, Julia Robinson
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIF4WM

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Part of the Justice Series.

Human rights are brought to life by a number of defining principles. This text explores each of those principles in depth through comprehensive, informative and provocative papers written by prominent and distinguished practitioners and legal academics. These papers were first delivered at a series of seminars organised by JUSTICE and University College London.

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Frontiers of Life addresses fields of biology in terms of their frontiers--that is, the areas that will demand the most work in this new century. Because of their standing, the editors have been able to unite the most prestigious and well-informed authorities to place recent scientific advances into the context of their effects on daily human experiences and expectations. They ask, "What frontiers of the biological sciences will constitute the challenges of the next century?" Their first answer is an understanding of the processes and mechanisms that led to the origin of life. They take this answer as the starting point of the first section of the Encyclopedia. They thus proceed throughout the four volumes.
Separating this Encyclopedia form others is its multidisciplinary approach to the "frontiers" theme. While other encyclopedias strive to describe the past and present states of many subjects, Frontiers of Life offers the insights of world-class scientists into their subjects' growth areas.

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A detailed account of the application of modern physical and chemical techniques to the elucidation of the structures and properties of minerals at the atomic level. Strong emphasis is given to the application of computer modelling methods, spectroscopic techniques and both X-ray and neutron scattering methods. Detailed surveys are presented of the contemporary understanding of the equations of state for Mantle minerals; and special attention is paid to the properties of dissolved water in silicate minerals.

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Hilarious Little Book.......2004-10-04

This book had my wife and I in stiches. It is very funny, a little vicious and a must read if you have sat glued to the TV screen watching an episode of the apprentice thinking "why am I watching this?". I'm a real fan of the TV show (probably for all the wrong reasons).

It's not worth the cover price ($9.99), however if you read this it should save you the costs of the books it parodies!!!

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The best book on the Battle of Midway

A Good Sequel

A Turning Point in American History

Interesting, but not the best

The Turning Point of the Pacific War

Miracle at Midway
Gordon W. Prange , Donald M. Goldstein , and Katherine V. Dillon
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback

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Here is the definitive history of the battle of Midway, an American victory that marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific during World War II. Told with the same stylistic flair and attention to detail as the bestselling At Dawn We Slept, Miracle at Midway brings together eyewitness accounts from the men who commanded and fought on both sides. The sweeping narrative takes readers into the thick of the action and shows exactly how American strategies and decisions led to the triumphant victory that paved the way for the defeat of Japan.

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The best book on the Battle of Midway.......2007-07-23

I have read several renditions of the Battle of Midway, but this is by far the most intriguing and interesting one to read. The author writes it like a story and draws you in-it was hard to put down. He has many sources and looks at the battle from both the Japanese and American perspective. This battle was probably the most important one we fought in the Pacific. If we had lost, the Pacific would have been Japanese home waters. The only book you need to read about the Battle of Midway.

A Good Sequel.......2007-05-31

Gordon Prange devoted the second half of his life to researching and writing about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He spent seven years in Japan during the occupation collecting material on this operation. He is the author of the book "Tora, Tora, Tora" and the screenplay for the film of the same name. His masterpiece on the attack is "At Dawn We Slept." He died before he could finish this book and two of his students, Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, turned his unfinished manuscript into a publishable book. In the course of his work on Pearl Harbor, he kept stumbling upon material related to Midway. Prange decided to write a book on Midway as well, which was also unfinished at the time of his death. Goldstein and Dillon finished this book as well.

The strength of "Miracle at Midway" is that Prange tells both sides of the story, American and Japanese. He offers more coverage of the American side for understandable reasons. The Japanese commander, Vice Admiral Nagumo Chuichi died later in the war, and valuable records were destroyed when the four aircraft carriers sank during the battle. Prange, though, makes up for these shortcomings with interviews he conducted during the occupation years with a number of survivors and important pilots and staff officers at this battle like Genda Minoru and Fuchida Mitsuo. On the other hand, developing the American side of the story is pretty easy. All the major figures in this engagement survived the war as did their records and written reports.

Developing the Japanese side of the story is important, because Prange basically argues that Japan lost the battle more than the Americans won it. The problems the Japanese faced were not the work of any one individual, but rather were large, systematic shortcomings like a flawed battle plan that had two conflicting objectives, overconfidence in their abilities, poor command and control, lack of resources, and sloppy intelligence work. The Americans owed their victory more to luck than any other factor. With those points made, Prange gives a lot of credit to Chester Nimitz for knowing how to use his theater resources, to Raymond Spruance and Frank Jack Fletcher. Prange also argues that Nagumo, who is often seen as being indecisive, made the right decision with what information he had at the time in shifting the armaments of his planes.

Luck was what carried the day for the Americans and Spruance admitted as much. The Japanese had little regard for American torpedoe attacks and with good reason. The U.S. Navy had poor equipment and lousy training. It was only Lt. Cmdr. Wade McClusky's decision to use an unconventional search pattern as his fuel was running low that allowed the Americans to pounce on the Japanese at the moment when their ordinance was unsecured and the fighter coverage was too low to stop the dive bombers.

The shortcomings of the book are more minor than substantial: the writing at times seems overly flowery. The story builds slowly. When it gets to the sexy parts, the fighting, it really gets going. The maps vary significantly in quality. Some are quite good, others are atrocious and appear to have been hand drawn.

To wrap it up: this book is a good sequel to Prang's study of Pearl Harbor. It won't be the last word on the subject, but it is an important one.

A Turning Point in American History.......2006-11-02

Very readable and enjoyable, and packed with interesting details. Because of extensive interviews and exhaustive research, the authors have provided us with an authoritative account of the events and people behind a naval battle with no equal. It gives both sides of the picture and pulls no punches. A great and inspiring read.

Interesting, but not the best.......2006-05-26

This book is an interesting account of the Midway battle. It is unfortunate that Gordon Prange did not live to complete it himself. Although "Miracle at Midway" is definitely worth reading, particularly for its coverage of the Japanese viewpoint, I would strongly recommend that anyone interested in the Battle of Midway also read "Midway: Incredible Victory," by Walter Lord. Lord's book is a better presentation of this highly complex sea and air campaign, especially from the American side, and much easier for the reader to follow. Walter Lord is not only a fine historian, but also an incomparable storyteller, and readers wishing a full picture of the Midway campaign should add Lord's "Midway: Incredible Victory" to their library.

The Turning Point of the Pacific War.......2005-07-19

Gordon Prange, author of the acclaimed "At Dawn We Slept", has written a masterful book about how America struck back against the Japanese at a tiny island 1000 miles west of Pearl Harbor: Midway.

By June of 1942, the Japanese had rolled up an incredible list of victories. But beginning with the Doolittle raid in April of 1942 abd followed by the Battle of the Coral Sea in May, the Americans had finally begun to check the Japanese advance. The Japanese, infected with "victory disease", nevertheless felt that if they could draw the U.S. Pacific fleet away from Pearl Harbor, they would be able to destroy the remains and continue on toward Hawaii and perhaps the West Coast.

However, the Americans had one huge advantage over the Japanese. The Americans were able to read the Japanese JN-25 naval code, and this provided a wealth of information as to where the Japanese planned to strike next. Under the command of Joe Rochefort, the code-breakers at Pearl Harbor soon had enough information to predict that the Japanese were going to strike at Midway. The Americans would be waiting for them.

On one fateful day in June, 1942, the tide of the war in the Pacific turned against the Japanese. In the span of only a few minutes, three Japanese aircraft carriers, all veterans of the Pearl Harbor attack, were sunk by American dive bombers. The fourth Japanese carrier was sunk later in the day. The Americans lost the carrier USS Yorktown, but it was a relatively small price to pay for such a smashing victory. American industrial capacity had increased by this time, and new carriers would soon be coming into service, so the loss of the Yorktown was diminished. The Japanese, however, had nowhere near the capacity of the United States. The Japanese never recovered from this terrible blow.

I've read Prange's excellent analysis of Pearl Harbor, and this book does just as good of a job describing the battle of Midway. From the initial sighting of the Japanese fleet to the final withdrawl, Prange describes the battle in a manner that will keep the reader enthralled throughout. Prange earned the title of "The Dean of Pearl Harbor" with his masterful trilogy, now he has added the battle of Midway to that impressive list. I highly recommend this great book. Read it and discover how a small American fleet destroyed a vastly superior enemy force and turned the tide forever against the Japanese.

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Interesting book

Miracle at Midway
Charles E. Mercer
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Miracle at Midway

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Interesting book.......2007-08-23

Our victory at Midway was a miracle and this book explains how it unfolded. I enjoyed the content.

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MIRACLE AT MIDWAY

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An intriguing picture of life during the Civil War, through the newspapers of the period.

Delving into an untapped source to tell the story of the Civil War from an entirely new and fascinating perspective, Fighting Words provides a sweeping history of the conflict through colorful, idiosyncratic, and highly opinionated newspaper accounts from all sides of the conflict. A panorama-in-print of a fractious and frenzied nation through articles, editorials, and illustrations culled from more than eighty Civil War—era newspapers, most with markedly different agendas, Fighting Words is the perfect gift for Civil War buffs.

Coopersmith's innovative new study is a reminder of the way in which, then as now, our understanding of the world is shaped by and powerfully reflected in the media. Lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred facsimile reproductions from the newspapers themselves, many never before available to a contemporary audience, Fighting Words includes accounts of such events as the capture and occupation of New Orleans, the drive toward emancipation, the enlistment of black soldiers, the New York City draft riots, class conflict in the Confederacy, and the assassination of President Lincoln. Educational and entertaining, rousing and often contradictory, it reveals the vastly different priorities, worldviews, and political objectives that shaped the war and its outcome.

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Fascinating, Absolutely Fascinating.......2007-02-02

As I have watched the news on TV or read about it in the morning papers I have often felt that you really have no idea what's going on behind the fancy hair-dos and the giggling laughter. It's only when you read the books some years later that you begin to understand what really went on.

I had presumed that this was a fairly recent phenomena -- I was clearly wrong.

This book shows that it existed at least as far back as the Civil War. In reading news stories from both northern and southern papers you sometimes have to wonder if the two papers are talking about the same events. It is further interesting in that in most conflicts we don't have access to both sides. What, for instance, were the North Vietnamese papers saying?

An absolutely fascinating book. I'd recommend that anyone thinking of journalism as a career read it. But that probably wouldn't do any good, you'd have to get their managers to read it and they only think about ratings, i.e. 'if it bleeds it leads.'

But the world has changed. I think I'll go see what al Jazeera is saying today.

Fighting Words.......2005-05-26

This book is both beautifully written and illustrated, with a fascinating selection of newspaper articles linked elegantly by Coopersmith's crisp and informative prose.

An excellent book.......2005-05-03

I was really impressed with this book. I think it will appeal to a broad range of people; those with general curiosity about war, and those "history buffs" who want to delve even deeper into fascinating documents they probably have never seen before. Not only are the illustrations interesting and unique, but they are beautifully presented. As a middle school teacher, I would encourage students to use Dr. Coopersmith's book as a resource mostly because it is timely, complete and compelling. Moreover, his coverage of both the Union and of Confederacy is thorough and accurate. An excellent book, indeed.

Journalistic History.......2005-05-02

Andrew Coopersmith's Fighting Words is an eminent work of exquisite scholarship. The book is beautifully presented and a welcome addition to my personal library. I recommend it to the general reader for its unique approach to difficult subject. There are many books on the market which tell the story of the Civil War over and over again. They tend to look alike. This book is like no other in the field. The average reader will enjoy the read far more than he may have expected and will quite simply be amazed at the presentation and encouraged toward further reading and understanding of the conflict.

Serious students of the Civil War will find ample material for their own research. History Departments at all levels will find it an excellent text. My highest recommendation, however, is that every School of Journalism should incorporate Fighting Words as a prime text in the study of the impact of journalism on society. The NEWSEUM should look into a presentation of Fighting Words when it opens its new headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Indispensable.......2005-04-16

This book is indispensable for understanding the Civil War. Fortunately, it is also a joy to read. It helps demonstrate how battlefield and home front blended in the nation's most transformative conflict: what happened at home influenced what happened in the field and vice versa, and this book helps readers understand exactly how the two touched each other. Moreover, the book offers readers a glimpse of what it was like to live through the war. What would it be like to have a loved one in the Army and scan newspaper pages anxiously for any word of his regiment? What would it be like to be a soldier in camp, desperate to know what is going on outside the often chaotic confines of army life? More than any other, this book offers insight into those questions. It also helps show how the conflict changed over time. Students respond beautifully to the book. Scholars learn from it. General readers enjoy it. For any audience, this book is a real gem.

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Fragments of Modernity provides a critical introduction to the work of three of the most original German thinkers of the early 20th century. In their different ways, all three illuminated the experience of the modern in urban life, whether in mid-19th-century Paris or in Berlin at the turn of the century or later as the vanguard city of the Weimar Republic. They related the new modes of experiencing the world to the maturation of the money economy (Simmel), the process of rationalization of capital (Kracauer), and the fantasy world of commodity fetishism (Benjamin) - in each case focusing on those fragments of social experience that could best capture the sense of modernity.

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