Research on Accounting Ethics, Volume 5 (Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting)

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Research on Accounting Ethics is devoted exclusively to the advancement of ethics research and education in the profession and practice of accounting. Its threefold mission is to: advance innovative and applied ethics research in all accounting related disciplines on a global basis; improve ethics education in and throughout the professional accounting and management curricula at the undergraduate and graduate levels; provide a source of information for the professional accounting and auditing community for integrating ethics and good business practices in public firms, business corporations, and governmental organizations. This series features articles on a broad range of important and timely topics, including professionalism, social responsibility, individual morality, accountability, good business practices in public accounting and the litigation crisis. Papers will be empirical or theoretical in nature, and will draw upon paradigms in related disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, theology, economics and sociology.

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Become a successful information technology consultant!

This is the only book on the market that will teach you the crucial "soft skills" of communication, facilitation, and presentation, plus a methodology for applying IT analysis skills to meet your client's business needs. Using an organized, common sense approach based on his 15 years experience as an IT consultant, Rick Freedman presents this landmark method for partnering with clients, collecting and analyzing data, creating recommendations, and delivering business benefits to clients.

You'll learn how to:

Develop rewarding and mutually beneficial client relationships

Help clients visualize the end product of IT systems consulting projects

Negotiate projects that have clear goals, specifications, budgets, and schedules

Market proposals to executives, managers, and users

Plus, the accompanying CD-ROM provides you with customizable job aids for use in your own work.

Never again will you be simply a "technician-for-hire." Whether you're a newcomer to consulting or a seasoned professional, The IT Consultant provides you with a blueprint for developing your advisory skills, providing quality services, and building successful client relationships.

Customer Reviews:

its like getting $2000 training in the form of a book........2006-09-25

This book is a bit dry in places, BUT the content more than makes up for it.
I recommend this to any consultant. It will improve your level of thinking about what you do a whole higher level. Yes, it does have many effective "tips".

Discouraging.......2006-01-24

I was disappointed in the contents of the book. Although some of the information was helpful, each chapter ended with how difficult it was to be an independent IT Consultant. Also, the book is written from a UK perspective and does not focus on many aspects that are specific to the US, including new legislation (SOX) or sub-contracting.

Over-rated.......2002-10-23

This is a good book - but by no means a classic. It is perfect for its target market - geeks who don't know about business and business value and just want to read a summary of information available from more authoritive sources.

Better books include "Managing the Professional Service Firm" or "Secrets of Consulting" by Weinberg.

A great Read.......2001-11-13

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book from cover to cover. It's a sure must for anyone wanting to understand and learn about being an IT consultant. I wish I had this book around when I was a consultant. It describes exactly what an IT consultant is, the roles & responsibilities and attributes needed for this exciting career. Face it, most jobs today are very much IT focused, and we're all into IT in one way or the other. This gets my thumbs-up!

Insightful!.......2001-08-04

Author Rick Freedman spent many years as a consultant and his textbook and accompanying CD offer a lot of orderly advice aimed at both the novice consultant and the veteran consultant who wants to improve. Freedman covers such topics as the business of advice, the IT (information technology) consulting framework and developing superior consulting skills. Freedman's main argument is that consultants should train so that they can be of more help to their clients. Successful consultants, he maintains, rely more on their people skills than on their technical gifts. Freedman also gives aspiring consultants advice on how to remain competitive in securing and keeping clients. He instructs consultants to read a steady stream of periodicals and books to keep up with the vast daily changes in technology. We [...] suggest that you can use his book and CD set to find out everything you ever wanted to know about consulting - including how hard it is - but never knew who to ask.

The IT Consultant : A Commonsense Framework for Managing the Client Relationship

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The IT Consultant : A Commonsense Framework for Managing the Client Relationship
Rick Freeman Rick Freedman
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUBW14

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This study provides an overview of the law and practice of compensation for personal harm in ten European jurisdictions (Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland), each covered by a separate country report. The authors are renowned tort law experts from these legal systems. After addressing the core concepts and foundations of liability in the respective jurisdiction, each report presents an in-depth analysis of the various kinds, as well as the extent, of damages for personal injury and death. Particular attention is paid to recent developments and trends, for example in the area of non-pecuniary loss. A comparative analysis published in German, English and French concludes the volume by focusing on the major differences and similarities among the various jurisdictions.

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In this introduction to the history of astronomy and physics, Richard Berendzen covers everything from the ancient worlds of Greece, Persia, Egypt, and China to the 20th-century space program. He also ruminates on the effect these two sciences have on the planet and on daily lives.

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nice .......2007-01-25

I downloaded this to my Ipod. I love the way Berendzen talks about the development of science since the begining till now, and all the great minds who contributed to it. This is like listening to a vast and mystical drama. I only wish that this was in book form so, I could easily revisit parts of it.

Astrophysics for Dummies.......2002-11-14

It was a wonderful way for an interested layman to get updated on what has been learned in the field of astronomy since space flight has added to our knowledge. Dr. Berendzen is able to bring a wealth of detail into perspective. Also, he added personal information about various key physicists that humanized the subject.

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This study draws on data from numerous sources that support the paradigm of natural hybridization as an important evolutionary process. The review of these data results in a challenge to the framework used by many evolutionary biologists, which sees the process of natural hybridization as maladaptive because it represents a violation of divergent evolution. In contrast, this book presents evidence of a significant role for natural hybridization in furthering adaptive evolution and evolutionary diversification in both plants and animals.

Natural Hybridization and Evolution (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)

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Natural Hybridization and Evolution (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)
Michael L. Arnold
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKN6CA

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Elvis Walks The Bible - High Fantastic.......2006-07-18

Reminds me of James Joyce. Somewhere between Joyce and the creators of The Munsters. Looks just like the New Testament, except there are chapter titles. Like "The Miracle Of The Cheeseburgers" and "Elvis And Jesus Go Surfin'" To paraphrase Woody Allen: "a puckish satire aimed both at the head and the heart".

Elvis Rocks Again.......2002-07-12

Hilarious. I didn't know the New Testament could be so much fun. How Laughlin modernizes the telling of the life of Jesus by substituting Elvis is amazing, and it provides the reader a wild ride. And he does it without compromising the story as told in the actual New Testament. As Bill Murray once said: "How do you writers COME UP with this stuff?"

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As director of the elite Foreign Counterintelligence Activity, author Stuart Herrington was the U.S. Army's top counterintelligence officer. In this thrilling and informative account he details one of the most damaging and delicate cases of espionage ever committed against the United States. Between 1972 and 1988, thousands of highly classified documents were sold to the Soviet Union and her Warsaw pact surrogates. They were secrets so sensitive that had war broken out in Central Europe, our ability to defend our NATO allies would have been seriously compromised. It was up to Herrington and his team to root out the elusive spy ring responsible for this treachery. An intriguing page-turner with more twists and turns than a spy novel, Traitors Among Us guides us through the intricate spy catcher's world of Cold War Berlin, showing us how the "game" was played when the stakes were as high as national survival.

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Well written and exciting thriller.......2005-03-25

Excellent book. I couldn't let it go and managed to read it in 4 days. Written so that you don't have to be a spook to understand it. Again, a very good book. Buy it, read it.

Solid Cold War memoir.......2005-02-01

A meaty, readable memoir of an officer's counterintelligence career during the Cold War. It could get a bit tedious in places, and Herrington has an annoying habit of inserting unnecessary rah-rah patriotism, but overall a solid read. The Clyde Conrad case is one of the most important, but least known, spy cases in U.S. history.

Captivating from cover to cover...fantastic narrative here.......2004-04-14

I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but once I read the first page I was hooked. The author provides two classic cases of the worst treachery the United States military has ever been exposed to, and he writes well because he was involved in both of them. The intrigue and research into the cross-departmental assistance was very informative in light of today's "territorial" exclusiveness. A well written work that is easy for a lay person to follow, I highly recommend this book.

a worthy book, but tedious.......2003-04-20

Perhaps the best thing about this book is the author's obvious desire to obtain recognition for those in his agency whose work, of necessity, had to be secret and hidden; they commonly worked extremely long hours, for months and years, at duties that were tedious and repetitious. They deserve this recognition and our highest respect. Unfortunately, the book shares qualities with the work and often goes on and on giving daily details of surveillance, meetings, briefings, etc, on almost an hourly basis at times. Thus, a suspect is followed here, then there, then back home, then to somewhere else and eventually I found myself turning pages. Also, the author makes excessive use of long paragraphs of the "little did we know then that our suspicions would lead to something that would take years, much money, heartbreak, frustration,..." variety. I finished the book because the story is important and disturbing; it doesn't take much to imagine how these intelligence betrayals would have hurt if WW III had broken out. But, after the first half, I was skipping over portions and reading only those that told of new happenings in the plot. Hard-core espionage junkies will like this book best (and those who may themselves have done some work along this line).

Cautinnary Reminder of the Value of HUMINT and CI.......2002-01-11

There are two major triumphs covered in this volume. One for each side. Fortunately the NATO side won but it would have been a close thing indeed if the ball had dropped during the seventies and eighties when the war plans of the north central forces were being leaked to the Soviets almost as they were being written.
Too many of the previous reviewers have treated this book as a reality based version of the usual spy fiction. Well, keep in mind, that no matter how sexy the fictioneers have it this is not James Bond. As open as he was, he would have been knocked off years ago. If you saw "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", the TV series, you came away with a much better sense of the numbing boredom and tediousness of much of the CI and spy's tradecraft. I refer you to a classic of the reality genre, McCargar's Short Course in the Secret War (cf) and the more recent book by Ib Melchior (cf)
The amount of time it took to find the penetrators and then to build a case so that they could be punished is just one of the difficulties detailed herein. The other and most difficult side of the coin is, how do you find out what was copied in the first place? In the West, we did not have the constant paranoia caused by the KGB in the East and the effectiveness of a closed society such as was the DDR in keeping tabs on its citizens.
Sure, at the first hint of a leak you could shut down and get rid of everyone who might have done it, but that is doubly counter productive, as as is so often shown on the TV series Law and Order, the first suspect is often not the one at all, and the real one will go to ground. The second is that those who are left will become so paranoid that they will not be able to keep their eyes on their desks from looking over their shoulders so much.
Finally, this puts the lie to certain events in the intelligence community some years back when the entire HUMINT apparatus was almost fatally disrupted by belief in IMINT and SIGINT to keep track of things. Well, first things first, if the object cannot be seen such as a document or is never spoken of in a communication, then technical means are useless. All these cases herein depended on timeless face to face interaction between spy and case officer.
We have seen this again today in that we have no persons who can go into deep cover and infiltrate the other side. And few who can even interrogate fluently in the languages of the Middle East. The DEA and the FBI and Treasury agents have proven time and time again that infiltration is necessary to solve major crimes. How much more important is it when national existence is at stake.

Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catchers World

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Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catchers World
Stuart A.; Herrington, Colonel Stuart A. Herrington
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJBFXI

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In Cultural Imperialism, John Tomlinson deals with issues ranging from the ideological effects of imported cultural products, to the process of cultural homogenization, to the nature of cultural autonomy. He examines a number of related discourses: thedebate about "media imperialism" the discourse of national cultural identity; the critique of multinational capitalism and the critique of cultural modernity. His analysis reveals major problems in the way in which the idea of cultural, as distinct from economic or political, imperialism is formulated.

Customer Reviews:

A sensitive overview of a complex and misunderstood concept.......2005-03-15

I read this book as part of an undergraduate course in 'Cultural Geography'. Considering the subject matter, the book is rare in its accessible style, and the arguments are relatively easy to follow. Tomlinson adeptly manages to draw on complex theories without complicating his argument. Effectively, this book seeks to 'problematise' the idea of 'cultural imperialism'. The author systematically articulates his criticism of this idea, the idea that certain cultures (e.g. 'American' culture) dominate others, drawing on many useful examples. This book is critical of many of the preconceptions that liberal, left-wing Westerners hold abuot how globalisation - in the cultural realm - is affecting our world. For Tomlinson, cultures are always changing, and identities exist at many scales and in many forms. In his conclusion, he argues that a better model of understanding cultures would be that all cultures are evolving over time, with reciprocal influence from other cultures, rather than one 'nation' or 'people' changing another one. He warns against assuming that changes are unwelcome.

The book will interest anyone curious about cultural change in the contemporary, global era. Indeed, the book inspires the reader to challenge any 'grand' theories of how the world works, whether liberal or conservative.

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Fascinating ideas, poor editing is a distraction.......2001-07-06

I was enthused to discover this book when I did because it appeared to present complexity at precisely the level I was hoping for: as a philosophical and practical concept not necessarily dependent upon difficult mathematics or theory. I dove in, and it was fairly challenging reading. The tragedy of this book is that the topics and many of ideas offered-up appeal a great deal to my intellect, but the astonishingly poor editing is a significant distraction. There are cases of material repeated verbatim, painfully obvious typographic errors, and an insufficient degree of conciseness overall. It seems as if the book was under-funded, over-rushed or simply assigned the wrong editor. It is indeed a shame, since discussions such as why the growth of science may not have an inherent limit, but may be limited by resources are interesting. I also enjoyed the taxonomy of complexity. It has allowed me to consider, with greater subtlety, the complexity in the systems with which I work, and alternatives to manage it. I would give the ideas in this work 4 or 5 stars, but the lack of effective editing make this a difficult read.

Sorry, but I don't want to review Prof. Rescher's book........1999-10-28

Instead, I just want to give you information about a "misprint" in his book: Unfortunately, on page 164, note 6 a paper of mine is cited incorrectly.

The corrected source is:

Theodor Leiber "Chaos, Berechnungskomplexität und Physik: Neue Grenzen wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis?" Philosophia Naturalis, vol. 33 (1996), pp. 23-54

With best regards

Theodor Leiber

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