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Great for Non-Accountants.......2006-10-19
I found the book to be attractively put together and full of examples. They address both manufacturing and non-manufacturing environments - including service industries. Managerial Accounting is a vital tool for businesses as it provides techniques for making better business decisions based on data instead of "hunches". Nonetheless, the material can be difficult to get through. The authors understand this and use real-life examples to help give insight as to the way businesses use these analysis techniques. Because the material can be challenging, I can understand some people finding the material boring. However, given the type of material, I feel the authors have done a commendable job in communicating the material in an appealing way.
Boring read for good subject.......2002-04-17
Reading through this book is a BORE! :( Examples are almost non-existant, there's like nothing (like definitions) on the sides of the pages, and no glossary. How poorly written! Please find an alternative to learn this rather interesting subject. Thank you!
-Upset reader of this school book
Disappointing.......2001-05-01
Having previously read "Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts" by the same people, this book was a disappointment. It came off as incredibly dry, and was not all that clear in its presentation of the concepts. The "Fundamental Financial Accounting" volume is great, but I'd recommend another author for the managerial book.
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Printouts from the instructors Ready Shows (PowerPoint Presentation) or Ready Slides (Acetates printed from the PowerPoint Slides). These are reproduced to help students take notes in class and follow the instructor if the instructor will use the Ready Shows or Ready Slides to guide their in class lecture.
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Well Written.......2007-09-24
The book is very concise & well written. It has helped me tremeendously in my Managerial Accounting class, and is very easy to understand.
Everything as expected!.......2007-02-16
The items arrived as expected; the price of the book was below the university bookstore.
Fair.......2007-01-10
The condition of the book when I received was not as good as stated. I did expedited shipping but it was just as slow as the regular shipping rate.
Not worth the money.......2007-01-03
This book was required for the class I took. The Ready Notes is a bound set of Powerpoint slides (3 per page). The instructor did not use the entire set of slides. I could have taken notes during the lecture and saved the money.
Good book .......2006-11-14
It is good book to learn managerial accounting and it also good to keep it as a reference.
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Ready Notes for use with Managerial Accounting
Ronald W. Hilton
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The most significant domestic issue of the 2004 elections is unemployment. The United States has lost nearly three million jobs in the last ten years, and real employment hovers around 9.1 percent. Only one political analyst foresaw the dark side of the technological revolution and understood its implications for global employment: Jeremy Rifkin.
The End of Work is Jeremy Rifkin's most influential and important book. Now nearly ten years old, it has been updated for a new, post-New Economy era. Statistics and figures have been revised to take new trends into account. Rifkin offers a tough, compelling critique of the flaws in the techniques the government uses to compile employment statistics.
The End of Work is the book our candidates and our country need to understand the employment challenges-and the hopes-facing us in the century ahead.
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Middle Management.......2006-06-25
Middle management is vulnerable to job loss in the event of restructuring. Typically a reconfigured company sheds forty percent of its jobs. The computer revolution is most pronounced in the manufacturing sector. A world with fewer and fewer workers is a disturbing trend.
In the early years of the Great Depression the link between labor-saving and overproduction was discerned. By 1932 shorter hours of work was supported by the rationale of economic justice. In 1963 a triple revolution was identified by J. Robert Oppenheimer and others, cybernetics, weapons manufactures, and human rights concerns. The issue presented was the possibility that previously disfavored groups could become outcasts in the new cyber economy. Norbert Weiner warned of technological unemployment. Labor leaders decided not to fight automation, the use of labor-saving devices, but rather to push for retraining. Unfortunately too few jobs were created and the union began losing membership and clout.
Modern management began with the railroads in 1850. Now organizational hierarchies are being deconstructed. There is a connection between biotechnology and automation resulting in rapid changes in farming practices.
Service work has been absorbing losses of manufacturing work in the past, but service work is being automated and can no longer be depended upon to create jobs. Productivity gains and increased profits are being made with fewer workers. Electronic inroads highlight the advent of the paperless office in the insurance and banking industries. Paper in a service business has been compared to cholesterol in the bloodstream.
A lot of retailing has gone electronic and wholesale functions are being eliminated. In the meantime cashier productivity has increased greatly through the use of bar code technology.
The author terms the current state of affairs the third industrial revolution. The work force, though, is in retreat in nearly every sector. Trickle-down is a chimera.
The newest victims of re-engineering are apt to live in affluent suburbs. A fading middle class is described. There is gross disparity between high wage earners and low wage earners. The pace of work due to automation has increased resulting in worker stress. There are more temporary jobs and fewer full-time jobs available in the re-engineered business environment. Technology displacement produces an increase in crime statistics. Hardship and stress lead to spontaneous upheavals. One cure for unemployment is a shorter work week.
In the future the market sector and the public sector will be less important than the third sector embodying volunteerism. Notes, bibliography, and index follow this enlightening text.
A rather poor effort.......2006-04-07
I often enjoy reading books written trying to read the future that are several years old. If only to see why the writer was right or wrong and where he went wrong.
Well this book was published in 1996 and is basically written around the US although other countries are mentioned in passing. The basic premises is that the new industries will employ a few people but not enough to make up the fall in the established industries. So the unemployment will go up. Furthermore we better get used to it. His partial solution is reduction in hours of employment and a greater stress on the third sector.
Looking at the US economy which most of the book is written about in the past 50 years the workforce in the US has almost tripled. Yet in the same period there is no long term trend to greater unemployment. Just look at a graph. Currently now its where it was in 1950. So obviously unemployment is not going up. So the writer got it wrong.
Looking at a graph of US unemployments percenatges, its clear that the situation was a bit high at the time of writing. The writer made a typical mistake of many futurologist of extrapolating into the far future based on the past few years.
Furthermore the writer paid too much attention to the publicity departments of R&D companies. He keeps bring us all these new technologies that are going to change the world dramatically eg getting rid of farmers with chemical vats and vanilla production from genetic research. Well, its been 10 years and most of these technologies are still coming. He obviously has forgotten Daniel Bell warning in what is an absolute gem of a book "Coming of Post-Industrial Society" that many futurologist look too hard at industries worth millions of dollars and generalize into industrials worth billions.
He seems to also forget that labour hours are dropping all the time. I am not sure what the situation is in the US but as the pay master in an Australian company, I can see that the labour hours are steadily dropping every year. For example old timers tell me that the standard office hours 40 years ago was 44 hours a week, by the time I started working it was 40 and now at 38 hours plus now two 10 minutes breaks are included in the working hours so its more like 36 hours week. Furthermore in the past few years the number of sick days a year has gone from 5 days to 8 days a year. Two extra days a year has been introduced for compassionate leave. Long service leave (a holiday of 15 weeks) is now given at 10 years not 15 years. Furthermore the average worker now starts his employment later as he tends to study much more, so early 20s is now quite standard to start working and he retires at 55. All this works out to a rather dramatic drop in hours worked in a generation.
Finally we come to the third sector. The sector the writer hopes is going to take some of the unemployment. This is a sector that I have had considerable contact with over the years eg I went to a private school, been active in political and religious organizations, been computer programmer in a private cancer research organization and have been too many private hospitals. I don't see the employment opportunities. The volunteers or people on the committees that he is referring too tend to be at most a few hours a week. Hardly an equivalent of a job. Nor is it generally like they are working. Often its more socialible. The people that work for these organizations tend to be regular workers eg the janitor in the church, the nurse in a charity run hospital or teacher in a religious school does a similar job to the same people in a similar government or private institution. They tend to get paid roughly the same. Often they go from government to private to the third sector depending on who gives them a better deal. I just don't know where the writer is coming from with his arguments here. I suspect that he has little contact with these organizations.
Overall I would say that this book is best forgotten.
Food For Thought For Our Future.......2006-01-15
Some reviewers see this book as a "gloom'n'doom" "Malthusian" feeding of technophobia, but I disagree. Look at the news - reports of job losses despite increased productivity and corporate profits are not going to go away. Technological advances make this an inevitability. What Rifkin ultimately questions is how we deal with that - we could either head towards great social upheavals because of mass unemployment leading to people being unable to provide for their own basic needs, or we could enjoy a cultural and social rebirth where people are free from wage slavery and are free to pursue meaningful and fulfilling endeavors.
Rifkin's surveys of the development of the third sector (NGOs, arts, sports, social services, religious organizations, etc.), proposals for the guaranteed annual income for everyone, usage of time dollars, and increase in volunteerism does not indicate that he's some kind of paranoid nut who's screaming that the sky is falling - in fact, he comes across as being more cautiously optimistic. These are the similar ideas about a work-free (meaningless work, that is) future that R. Buckminster Fuller Robert Anton Wilson and Bertram Russell have written about.
If some might think that this book is "leftist anti-corporate propaganda", it is not - it's quite non-partisan; he may espouse the idea of a guaranteed annual income which most might distastefully find "socialistic", but from the capitalist point-of-view, how can consumers buy products to support a corporation's profits if they don't have any money in the first place?
Nonsense.......2006-01-08
Probably one of the worst distortions in statistics is that of extratroplation of complex issues. The UN and its followers are very prone to these kinds of mistakes as is this book. To extropolate out and arrive at the kind of conclusions found in this book is a bit beyond ridiculous and borderline irresponsible. I notice too that there is essentially no consideration/balance regarding Schumpeter's "creative destruction" theories.
The title itself "The End of Work" is not something we should take seriously or utilize as a basis for further discussion.
A must-read, very well supported.......2005-05-25
The book was very good. I give it "only" four stars because I felt a little too much of it delt with the past rather than with the future. The positive side of this is that the author tends to support his hypothesis well, and even those who do not agree with his conclusions will appreciate the parts of the book that overview the labour and economic history of the West - it's all quite fascinating. On the other hand, those familiar with this thematic and wanting to get to the "jist of it" should just skip to the book's final part.
I think Rifkin presents his views and conclusions very well, except that he is in my opinion a bit too enthusiastic about hydrogen use in the future and overly enthusiastic about the development of AI. But those are, overall, minor things. I disagree with the assertion that he is too gloomy or a neo-Malthusian - he simply observes trends and uses common sense and the scientific method to extrapolate into the future. Many of his proposals make capitalist sense - such as the shorter workweek. His other main point however, about the social economy, envisions the beginning of the abandonment of capitalism and a cultural transformation of Startrekian proportions. I hope his optimistic vision rings true.
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Productivity Growth, Inflation, and Unemployment: The Collected Essays of Robert J. Gordon
Robert J. Gordon
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Seventeen essays include three previously unpublished works and offer sharply etched views on the principal topics of macroeconomics: growth, inflation, and unemployment. Robert Gordon re-examines their salient points in a new accessible introduction to modern macroeconomics. Each of the four parts into which the essays are grouped also offers a new introduction. The foreword by Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow comments on the continuing importance of these essays which date from 1968 to the present.
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Employment and Economic Performance: Jobs, Inflation, and Growth
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With the end of the post-war boom in the early 1970s, the world economy has experienced large scale unemployment. From an assumption that the unemployment problem had been solved, and that full employment could be maintained through demand management techniques, we now live in an entirely different world. Any suggestion of a return to full employment is met with questions of whether such a thing is possible, whether it would not lead to inflation or to excessive trade union power, or in the case of individual economies to unsustainable balance of payment deficits. The contributors to this volume ask whether full employment policies would be affordable. Would they lead to yawning fiscal deficits which would in the end require a U-turn in policy with unemployment reappearing? This well-informed and original contribution to current policy debate faces up to these questions and considers what would be involved in a move to much lower levels of unemployment.
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Growth / Productivity / Unemployment
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Robert Solow received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1987, and his contributions to growth theory, productivity, and short run macroeconomics have influenced an entire generation of scholars. The essays in this book extend and elaborate on many of the important ideas Solow has either originated or developed in the past three decades.
Frank Hahn and Avinash Dixit offer useful surveys of the growth literature. Hahn reflects on specific problems in standard growth models, while Dixit presents a chronological review of research developments. Robert Hall and Lawrence Summers present challenging empirical findings. Hall shows that the Solow productivity residual is in fact correlated with variables which, according to Solow's assumptions, it should not be correlated with. Summers uses multi-country data to investigate the apparent divergence between private and social rates of return to capital. He argues that this phenomenon stems from the dependence of the rate of technical progress on the rate of capital formation and discusses the policy implications of this idea. Olivier Jean Blanchard and Peter Diamond describe a search-matching model that is a welcome addition to understanding the Beveridge curve. Also included are comments by Eytan Shoshinski, Joseph Stiglitz, Martin Baily, William Nordhaus, George Aherlot, and Robert Gorden. Robert Solow has provided a response to both the essays and these comments. The book concludes with a bibliography of Solow's work.
Peter Diamond is John and Jennie S. McDonald Professor of Economics at MIT.
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This paper studies the co-movements of unemployment and labor productivity growth for the U.S. economy. Measures of co-movements in the frequency domain indicate that co-movements between variables differ strongly according to the frequency. First, long-term and business cycle co-movements are larger than short-term co-movements. Second, co-movements are negative in the short and long run, but positive over the business cycle. A New Keynesian model that combines nominal rigidity on the goods market (sticky prices) and real rigidity on the labor market (fair wages) is shown to be quantitatively consistent with the observed co-movements both in the long term and over the business cycle. However, the model fails to explain the short-term co-movements.
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Models developed by recent economic literature do not manage to account simultaneously for the three main stylized facts observed in many EU countries since the mid-seventies: (i) the increase in the overall unemployment rates, particularly in that of low-skilled workers; (ii) the stability of relative wages; (iii) the deceleration in per capita output growth rates. This paper focuses on these issues. We construct an endogenous growth intertemporal general equilibrium model with two types of jobs and two types of workers. We allow for job competition between high- and low-skilled workers on the low-skilled segment of the labor market and for on-the-job search for high-skilled workers. Matching processes are represented by matching functions a la Pissarides. Workers search intensities are endogenous. We distinguish between embodied and disembodied technological progress and endogenize them through a learning-by-doing process based on capital accumulation. Biased technological change is introduced via embodied technical progress and new technologies-skill complementarity relationship. When simulated the model provides satisfactory results in reproducing the observed stylized facts.
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Robert J Gordon
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Productivity growth and the Phillips Curve (NBER working paper series)
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