Mathematics of Interest Rates, Insurance, Social Security, and Pensions

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This text aims to help readers become “literate” in the vocabulary of finance, insurance, and pensions and be able to utilize the appropriate mathematics for professional and personal use. This book covers a wide range of topics not found in other texts, including complex annuities, complex perpetuities, geometrically varying annuities, and bond duration and volatility. This book is a helpful reference to all professionals in the fields of accounting, finance and financial services, management, marketing services, computer information systems, and economics. It is also ideal for anyone who wants a self-study for personal finances.

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Concise superior textbook for financial planners and actuaries.......2007-05-02

Excellent coverage of mathematics of finance for accounting, finance, and actuary students. A literate investor would enjoy reading it also. No math beyond high school algebra required, however it goes into more depth on time-value-of-money concepts than the typical finance or accounting textbook. Contains numerous solved problems.

Mathematics of Interest Rates, Insurance, Social Security and Pensions

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Mathematics of Interest Rates, Insurance, Social Security and Pensions
Robert Muksian
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHBN0U

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Keep Fit Even if Time is at a Premium.......2000-12-05

This books gets to the nitty-gritty and, for that reason, is both pratical and useful for those interested in becoming and keeping fit even where time is at a premium.

The Business Plan Guide for Independent Consultants
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An OK book on consulting, written sloppily

The Business Plan Guide for Independent Consultants
Herman Holtz
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 047159735X

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At last, a complete business plan guide just for independent consultants!

. . . And who better to write it than North America's #1 bestselling author on consulting?

Unlike most general business plan books that focus on raising capital and applying for loans, this unique do-it-yourself guide concentrates on defining services and products. Written by Herman Holtz, the nation's leading expert on making it as an independent consultant, it tells you everything you need to know to develop a realistic, workable business plan that prepares you for any contingency and helps guide your day-to-day decision making as your business flourishes and grows. Numerous illustrations and worksheets guide your every step and save you the drudgery of starting from scratch. From mission statements and start-up decisions to identifying clients and products, from marketing plans and rate structures to prospects for diversification and income projections, this book covers all business planning topics of crucial concern to consultants, including:

Gathering data for your plan
Working up a general outline
Defining your products or services
Market research and sales strategies
Rate structures and income projections
Worksheets to help you create objectives and set goals
Sample business plan

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An OK book on consulting, written sloppily.......1999-11-29

My time is very valuable and too much of it would have been required to read the whole book. I have to believe that this author knows what he's talking about, because he has been published many times, but I was not impressed with his writing style. It was very difficult to get into because he spent a lot of time focusing on what he was going to tell us later. By skipping pages and doing spot reading I did learn some, but there were too many typos and he was too wordy. I prefer the writing style of William Bond in Going Solo.

In Action: Building a Successful Consulting Practice
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For determined entrepreneurs aspiring to make their mark

In Action: Building a Successful Consulting Practice
Patricia Pulliam
Manufacturer: ASTD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1562863312

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This book will be helpful to anyone starting down the exciting and challenging road of consulting. Learn from best practices in the 12 case studies that analyze the success of consulting organizations.

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For determined entrepreneurs aspiring to make their mark.......2002-11-10

The newest title in the outstanding ASTD "In Action" series, Building A Successful Consulting Practice is an impressive and informative collection of twelve case studies, each of which offers invaluable advice and keen insight to anyone interested in launching a consulting firm. Each of the studies focuses on lessons learned from that particular case example. Building A Successful Consulting Practice is an excellent supplementary resource for determined entrepreneurs aspiring to make their mark in the competitive world of professional consultation.

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Communication and Diversity emphasizes the skills necessary for communicating effectively in a diverse workforce. Understanding the changes taking place in the American workforce and the trends in the global economy can help eliminate communication barriers and lead to opportunities. This text emphasizes how to overcome stereotypes and to value differences in gender, age, culture, and physical ability. Multimedia components enhance the impact of the workshops so users can complete a variety of exercises on the computer, watch video footage of people effectively communicating on the job, and use the Internet to conduct further research. Text contains 10 workshops highlighting key workplace communication topics, special features, appropriate literature selections, Internet connections and project-based exercises.

Communication 2000: Diversity in the Workplace, Module 11 (Instructor's Guide)

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Communication 2000: Diversity in the Workplace, Module 11 (Instructor's Guide)

Manufacturer: International Thomson Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

Workplace | Organizational Behavior | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0538671297

Communication 2000: Module 11: Diversity in the Workplace, Learner Guide

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Communication 2000: Module 11: Diversity in the Workplace, Learner Guide
Agency for Instructional Technology
Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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This module identifies some of the major demographic changes that are occurring in the workplace.

Killer Cover Letters and Resumes! The WetFeet Insider Guide (Wetfeet Insider Guides)
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An excellent supplementary reference recommended for all workers

Definitely worth it

Killer Cover Letters and Resumes! The WetFeet Insider Guide (Wetfeet Insider Guides)
Rosanne Lurie
Manufacturer: WetFeet, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Careers in Marketing and Market Research (WetFeet Insider Guide)

101 Best Cover Letters

ASIN: 1582073716

Book Description

Readers of this WetFeet Insider Guide will learn recruiters's top five pet peeves; how to determine what they have to offer prospective employers; how to write achievement statements, not job descriptions; how to write the perfect cover letter; the core components of an effective resume; solutions for special cases, such as gaps in employment; and common resume blunders to avoid.

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An excellent supplementary reference recommended for all workers.......2005-08-06

Killer Cover Letters and Resumes! The WetFeet Insider Guide, 2004 edition is a straightforward guide to looking one's best on paper. Chapters address appropriate research to undertake, how to identify and list one's "bottom line" skills and transferable skills, how to customize cover letters for individual businesses, basic resume do's and don'ts, how to contact a potential employer according to rules of etiquette, recommended resources, and more. An excellent supplementary reference recommended for all workers, not just those currently searching for employment; in today's changeable markets no job is forever anymore.

Definitely worth it.......2003-11-20

Well worth the money - a good guide on do's and don'ts and lots of samples

Killer Cover Letters & Resumes (WetFeet Insider Guide)

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Killer Cover Letters & Resumes (WetFeet Insider Guide)
Rosanne Lurie , and Selena Welz
Manufacturer: WetFeet, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1582075557

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Thanks to the ease of submitting a resume online, recruiters today receive hundreds of applications for each open position. How do they sift through these stacks of resumes? What can you do to position yourself at the top of the heap? This book provides the latest wisdom from recruiters and hiring managers that will get your resume noticed.

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What does money mean to you? Money is never neutral. It triggers powerful emotions and conflicting messages-especially for women. This complete "workshop in a book" walks readers through the Six Stages of the Money Journey Circle, including worksheets and journaling exercises designed to uncover the hidden meaning of money in your life and to bring your financial life into alignment with your core values. The stages consist of uncovering hidden messages, identifying a money autobiography, bringing out facts and feelings, creating alignment, finding your dream, and taking action.

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A Most Valuable Tool.......2001-11-16

I highly recommend this book. In my work as a psychotherapist, I meet many women who have not yet come to terms with with their personal financial demons. A Woman's Book of Money & Spiritual Vision has provided me with a wonderful tool with which I can help them begin. The book is written in a personal style. The author shares her own story as she presents questions and worksheets to help the reader explore the dynamic of money in her history and in her day-to-day life. It can be used alone or with a group to help uncover the myths and facts behind one's financial attitudes and behaviors.

Women and Money: Despite Rumors, Made for Each Other.......2001-06-19

Rosemary Williams looks at money--crazy-making, delicious, necessary money--from every angle. She does the same with women's belief systems. Money is simple; it's our baroque beliefs that keep us from it. "Money is never neutral," she says. "It triggers powerful emotions and conflicting messages--especially for women. The 'money messages' we were taught can pop up at any moment, in decisions large and small."

This is "a workshop in a book" because that's how the author does her research. Her experience during years of leading women through the thorny underbrush of our misconceptions and false information could save the rest of us years of struggle and want.

A former banker and financial planner, Williams has constructed her book like a diary. This is one book meant to be written in, the pages covered in notes. I found that a relief ; somehow breaking that "rule" of my father's gave me the idea that other childhood "rules" were also about to be replaced by grownup liberations. It also called to mind the writing we do in school workbooks in the act of learning.

Something that may come as a surprise, says Williams, is that money and spirituality are not at odds.There are prayers and quotes scattered through this book. Somehow beginning this work by saying "Holy One, Sustainer of all things, give me the courage to look at my financial life with clear sight...." is a wonderfully centering process.

With "Women and Money" women can lessen their fear through dispelling ignorance, which is surely the root of all evil.

A Woman's Book of Money & Spiritual Vision: Putting Your Financial Values into Spiritual Perspective
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A Woman's Book of Money & Spiritual Vision: Putting Your Financial Values into Spiritual Perspective
Rosemary; Kabak, Joanne Williams
Manufacturer: Innisfree Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SBL4JM

Sportsmanªs Life: How I Built Orvis by Mixing Business and Sport
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Sportsmanªs Life: How I Built Orvis by Mixing Business and Sport
Leigh Perkins
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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Binding: Hardcover

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In A Sportsman's Life, Leigh Perkins tells a vivid and passionate story about how he turned Orvis into one of the country's most noted fly-fishing and sporting companies. A pioneer in the mail-order business, Perkins boosted sales of the Manchester, Vermont, company from $500,000 annually to nearly $200 million. Perkins believes he succeeded by building a superior product and selling "a lifestyle" in his catalogs--an appreciation of fishing, bird hunting, and country living. "We found not just a niche but an identity," he writes. "It was an exciting place to work." Perkins said he was never afraid of trying something new. Long before the concept became standard, for example, he traded mailing lists with competitors. He also grew Orvis by launching fishing and hunting schools, expanding into women's clothing, involving customers through an Orvis newsletter, offering odd items like bean bags for dogs, and turning out high-quality fly rods and reels.

Perkins, who recently retired, lived the life he sold. Orvis united his love of sales with his love of the outdoors. The book is packed with gripping adventure tales about fly fishing for bonefish off the Florida Keys, hiking the backcountry of New Zealand, Argentina, and Mexico, encountering bear in Alaska and tiger in India, and once almost getting poisoned to death in Africa. He even includes chapters on his favorite bird-hunting dogs and his efforts to protect open space. Written with Geoffrey Norman, the book should appeal to both business and outdoors types. --Dan Ring

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When Leigh Perkins bought the Orvis Company in 1965, the fly-fishing and bird-hunting outfitter was a sleepy business with annual sales that had leveled off at $500,000. Over the next thirty years Perkins built Orvis's annual sales to $100 million by revolutionizing the catalog retail industry and reshaping the company's tradition-bound culture. He achieved this by blending his love of nature with his business acumen and bringing the commonsense approach he learned in the streams and on his hunts to his boardroom decision making.
The basic principles he used to run his business include:

The Customer Is Always Right. . . Even When You Know Damned Well He's Wrong: Perkins put such a high priority on customer service that he would personally man the phones at the height of the holiday season each year to keep in touch with his customers.

Product Excellence: Perkins made sure that everything Orvis sold was of the highest quality--even if that meant he had to fight the US government to get access to embargoed Chinese bamboo for fly rods.

Empower Your Employees: By promoting from within, and by empowering his employees to solve problems without manager involvement, Perkins built a loyal and talented team.
Living the outdoor life his catalog popularized, Perkins traveled all over the world to fish and hunt, from Argentina to New Zealand, while devoting his resources to conservation causes worldwide.

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Ever wonder what kind of Internet strategies Amazon or Yahoo! or AOL used to propel themselves to the top of the e-commerce heap? Ever wonder if there was any way to implement those strategies on the kind of shoestring budget the typical online small business has to work with?

Well, if you've ever wondered, now you can find out.

E-COMMERCE FOR THE UNFUNDED contains information on some of the most basic requirements for running an e-commerce business. There are Chapters covering website design, privacy policies, merchandising, marketing, publicity and public relations. Taken as a group, they might be considered a small business guide to e-commerce -- without the venture capital funding.

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'Recession-Buster' for Small Businesses.......2001-12-29

Here's a professional, yet practical, 'Recession-Buster' for any Small Business on the net. I found great ideas I never expected would work, but did! Dawn clearly explains the "why & how" for all topics. A couple examples -- I would've skipped the chapter on Banners if the reasons "why & how it will work" hadn't been laid out so well, knowing they carry some 'negatives.' Also, chapters on Website Privacy Policies, ALONE, are worth MORE than the cost of the book, since it alerts the reader to so many liability issues that most people never even thought of, and could help prevent unforeseen lawsuits! Overall, I found there is more to all topics in the book than I realized before, & it is a valuable resource!

I would recommend this book to all small business owners on the web, whether just starting out, or are more seasoned & computer savvy. Dawn has a GIFT for explaining these 'tricks of the corporate trade' to any level, and her unique writing style makes it an 'interesting read!'

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Summary.......2004-12-24

This is a personal and passionately written book by one of the most celebrated and innovative critics of neo-classical economics. Ayres launches an audacious but compelling attack on mainstream economic theory in which he argues that economic growth in western countries no longer delivers real improvement in human welfare and is not only unsustainable but is harming prospects of future economic security. As he sees it, today's growth is a statistical illusion that merely reflects increasingly frantic trade activity.
He criticises governments of Western industrialised nations for their archaic tax regimes and crippling deficits and finds that economic growth is a self-sustaining prophecy that we have all come to assume and depend upon. The relationships between technological progress, taxes, unemployment, world trade and income distribution play a critical role in his analysis. He concludes that economic growth in the West will continue to slow down and that a social crisis will ensue unless a dramatic change of direction occurs.
However, he makes it clear that he does not advocate `no growth' and says that what is needed is `eco-restructuring' - a gradual but massive reverse substitution of human labour for fossil energy and natural resource extraction. As he sees it, the sustainable economy of the next century will be almost entirely based on services and all material products and capital equipment will be re-usable, remanufactured or recycled. This strategy will allow the rich industrialized countries to cut their resource consumption by 90 per cent.
He expects governments of the industrialized nations to take the lead and recommends massive tax and welfare reform as well as innovative polices, such as tradable import quotas and consumption allowances, to move industry in the right direction. Yet, by his own admission, his proposals lack political feasibility. While this book is innovative and based on trends that are hard to deny, it is not surprising that his recommendations are still a long way from political acceptance today, let alone implementation. Nevertheless, this book is a fascinating insight into the personal thinking of an innovative and influential economist.

Book Review.......2004-11-18

Turning Point: The End of the Growth Paradigm

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Turning Point: The End of the Growth Paradigm
Robert Ayres
Manufacturer: Earthscan
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Turning Point. An End to the Growth Paradigm.

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Turning Point. An End to the Growth Paradigm.

Manufacturer: Earthscan.
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Int'l Direct Investment Statistics Yearbook 1991/2002 2003 (International Direct Investment Statistics Yearbook)
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Int'l Direct Investment Statistics Yearbook 1991/2002 2003 (International Direct Investment Statistics Yearbook)

Manufacturer: Organization for Economic
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Pskov Oblast Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)
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Pskov Oblast Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding
ASIN: 0739730096

Book Description

This investment and business guide contains basic information on economy, business & investment climate and opportunities in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities, including, export-import, industrial development, banking & finance, government and business contacts. The guide also provides listing and contact information for major industrial, trade, service and other companies in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities.

Pskov Oblast Regional Investment and Business Guide (Us Governmen Agencies Business Library)

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Pskov Oblast Regional Investment and Business Guide (Us Governmen Agencies Business Library)

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