Values at Work: The Invisible Threads Between People, Performance and Profit

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How many companies create a fancy vision statement, hang it on the wall and never refer to it again? For all the hype, identifying company values is worthwhile only if management then refer to these values in all business -decisions and motivate employees to do the same. Values at Work seeks to help managers identify company values, coach staff to implement these values, and support staff in identifying their own personal values and comparing them to those of the company.

Values at Work includes interviews with company executives already -implementing values-based management techniques, and provides a prac-tical guide for managers wishing to understand values and their impact on people, performance, and profit.

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Organisational Success.......2004-06-22

A must read for those who have realised the link between values and success in their organisation and are looking for practical implementation advise.
If you are planning to take your organisation down the path of becoming values based. This is book should be mandatory reading. The authors are practising practitioners and share their experiences in an outstanding book giving practical applications and advise. If you've read Built to Last by Collins & Porras and your appetite has been wet then this book tells you how to do it..

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This introduction for practitioners offers a balanced view of project financing, integrating legal, contractual, scheduling, and other areas that participate in large multiparty projects, large single-asset purchases, and broad-based financing programs for fleets of assets. It mixes theories and case studies but avoids becoming too oriented toward applications in any one particular industry. It focuses on the concepts and techniques required by project finance people without being overly academic or beset by case studies. The author, who has a legal background, recognizes that some legal information is necessary, but he doesn't attempt to write a law book.

Project Finance refers to the techniques of financing projects which are dependent on cash flows for repayment, as defined by the contractual relationships within each project. By their very nature, these types of projects rely on a large number of integrated contractual arrangements for successful completion and operation. Project finance is an element within the larger field of project management. Many organizations around the world utilize project management to enable innovative processes, to plan, organize, and control strategic initiatives, to monitor enterprise performance, to analyze significant deviations, and to forecast their impact on the organization and project(s). Project management can be found in many industries today, from construction and information systems to healthcare, financial services, education, and training.

Key Features:
-A comprehensive and authoritative guide to the theory and practice of project finance.
-An international scope, covering projects in both the developed and developing worlds.
-The book describes and explains:
-Sources of project finance.
-Typical commercial contracts (such as those for construction of the project and sale of its product or services) and their impact on the project finance structure.
-Project finance risk assessment from the points of view of lenders, investors, and other project parties.
-Structuring the project finance debt.
-The key issues in negotiating a project finance debt facility.
-Extensive glossary and cross-referencing.
-No prior knowledge of project finance or financing techniques is assumed.

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A lot of questions answered.......2007-01-05

Very comprehensive and very clear; after reading this book you know what project finance involves at a good level.

The Best .......2006-03-17

The Best book for fundamental theory of project finance, integrated and described overall, a guidance to plan a project finance.

Great Book.......2005-03-31

This book is a great reference .....the tables, the schematic drawings...great tool for finance professionals.

Generational Accounting around the World (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

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Generational Accounting around the World (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: 0226032132

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The realities of mounting government debt, tax burdens, and an aging population raise serious concerns about the financial legacy confronting future generations. How great a fiscal burden will current policies leave to subsequent generations, and how might changes in those policies alter the intergenerational distribution of public welfare? Generational accounting has recently emerged as a robust new method of fiscal analysis and planning designed to assess the long-term sustainability of fiscal policy and to measure the extent of the financial load ultimately borne by present and future generations. A seminal contribution to public economics, generational accounting has already been adopted by 23 nations around the world.

Combining the latest and most extensive country-by-country generational analyses with a comprehensive review of generational accounting's innovative methodology, these papers are a consummate resource for economists, political scientists, and policy makers concerned with fiscal health and responsibility.

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The Science of Financial Market Trading
Don K. Mak
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
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ASIN: 9812382526

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In this book, Dr Mak views the financial market from a scientific perspective. The book attempts to provide a realistic description of what the market is, and how future research should be developed. The market is a complex phenomenon, and can be forecasted only with errors — if that particular market can be forecasted at all.

The book reviews the scientific literatures on the financial market and describes mathematical procedures which demonstrate that some markets are non-random. How the markets are modeled — phenomenologically and from first principle — is explained.

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Offering a comprehensive, theoretical overview of cost-benefit analysis, this concise, groundbreaking volume translates the technical, jargon-filled terminology used in similar texts into a straightforward, easy-to-understand language. Cost-Benefit Analysis is written with the student in mind to make cost-benefit analysis accessible to the noneconomist. Author Tevfik F. Nas begins by laying down the foundation of relevant economic theory, then carries the reader through the process by outlining the steps involved in a typical cost-benefit analysis. Including topics such as consumer surplus, compensating variation, equivalent variation, shadow pricing, income distribution, and much more, this volume is specifically tailored to meet the needs of a wide spectrum of readers. In addition, Cost-Benefit Analysis is equipped with practice examples, case studies, and study questions that guide the student through the process at each stage of the analysis.

Sure to be used as a primary and supplemental text for courses covering areas such as public administration, urban studies, health care and nursing administration, and environmental studies, Cost-Benefit Analysis will provide graduate and undergraduate students with the confidence they need to deal with this subject matter effectively.

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Cost-benefit analysis on a macro-econical level.......2004-01-28

I used this book to learn more about cost-benefit decisions in tranportation planning, and albeit the book does not relate specifically to that field, it worked very well. The nice part is that it first discusses some macro-economical concepts before delving into cost-benefit calculations. This is very useful if you, like me, do not have a background, classes, courses or a degree in economics. As an introductory book on an undergraduate level this book is excellent.

Estimating Accounting Prices for Project Appraisal (Inter-American Development Bank)

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International Project Accounting (International Construction Management)

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International Project Accounting (International Construction Management)
A. D. F. Price
Manufacturer: International Labour Office
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It should be good.......2003-01-13

I havn't read this book. I would like to buy one but only after viewing briefly the contents of the book. Once I have bought one copy only then I will be in a position to review.Though I hv filled some stars because it is mandatory.
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Project Finance in Asia (Advances in Finance, Investment and Banking)

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Project Finance in Asia (Advances in Finance, Investment and Banking)

Manufacturer: North Holland
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In this book, the mysteries of the new 'Asian definition of project finance' have been unravelled, the richness and complexities of the constantly-evolving efforts have been explored, and contrasts the Asian adapted definition with the basic model of the West.

While the book reviews the past and outlines the future for project financing in Asia, the focus is on the 'premature present', a period of seven to eight years from the late '80's to 1996, when there were few successes and countless casualties. This interval in time has been sought to provide the reader, through a temporal window, a glimpse of what it was like in this 'Age of Arbitrage' on a project financing front, armed with neither a reliable legal/regulatory framework, nor an efficient pricing mechanism. The book journeys through the short-lived victories and the morale-breaking defeats, documenting the war of attrition as the remaining players survive to traverse down the road towards a more mature and understandable project financing future.

The book begins by providing a background to project finance in Part I, including the basic project financing model and its evaluation method. It also discusses the difficulties and challenges encountered on the Asian project financing front by presenting our ideas, and then drawing upon various comparisons with Western practices to highlight the differences of project finance in Asia. In Part II, through two very distinct cases in their mentality of using debt, it presents how various firms and projects adapt to various issues, thereby revealing the winning combinations as well as the recipes for failure. A mass of detailed information has been accumulated on several cases in the data collection, Part III acts as a forum for the exchange of ideas between finance theorists and practitioners. The book presents in-depth studies of power projects while testing them against accepted theories such as what constitutes an optimal project structure, and whether, or why they hold true in the practical world. And finally, in Part IV the book presents several specialized cases which may provide different views on project finance in Asia. All discoveries have been incorporated into a new Asian model of project finance, and a conclusion summarizes all findings. With the help of the above framework, the book aims to 'Asianize' the traditional definition of project finance and to provide the reader with a greater understanding of this not-very-well-understood subject.

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Project Finance, Subordinated Debt and State Loans (Law and Practice of International Finance Series)
Philip R. Wood
Manufacturer: Sweet & Maxwell UK
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Stochastic Project Networks: Temporal Analysis, Scheduling and Cost Minimization (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)
Klaus Neumann
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0387526641

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This book presents the state of the art of temporal analysis and cost minimization of projects, as well as project planning under limited resources where the projects are modelled by GERT networks. These projects are characterized by a stochastic evolution structure and possible feedback. The temporal analysis exploits the fact that Markov renewal processes can be associated with so-called EOR networks (special GERT networks all of whose nodes have exclusive-or entrance). For single-machine min-sum and min-max scheduling problems with EOR precedence constraints, two polynomial algorithms are presented. General min-sum problems are solved by dynamic programming. The cost minimization of projects modeled by EOR networks leads to Markov renewal decision processes and can be reduced to a stochastic dynamic programming problem. Basic concepts from the theory of graphs and networks, Markov renewal processes, deterministic scheduling, and dynamic programming are summarized. This makes the book self-contained.

BANGLADESH: INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT AWARD FOR PLANNED $225,000,000 INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE PROJECTS, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD. (IDCOL) & ... & Plant Operations in the Developing World

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BANGLADESH: INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT AWARD FOR PLANNED $225,000,000 INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE PROJECTS, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD. (IDCOL) & ... & Plant Operations in the Developing World

Manufacturer: Worldwide Projects, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from WWP-Report on Engineering Construct & Plant Operations in the Developing World, published by Worldwide Projects, Inc. on April 1, 1999. The length of the article is 773 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: BANGLADESH: INVESTMENT ADVISORY CONTRACT AWARD FOR PLANNED $225,000,000 INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE PROJECTS, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD. (IDCOL) & PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS SECURITIES LLC. [USA] - Order #: 040399.
Publication: WWP-Report on Engineering Construct & Plant Operations in the Developing World (Newsletter)
Date: April 1, 1999
Publisher: Worldwide Projects, Inc.
Volume: 8 Issue: 4 Page: NA

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