Beyond Benefit Cost Analysis: Accounting For Non-market Values In Planning Evaluation (Urban Planning and Environment)

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The continuation of global poverty is inextricably entwined with the fundamental philosophy of the market economy. It is driven by the individual's neverending desire for "profit", leading to a critically imbalanced distribution of resources. As an entrepreneurial initiative, this book advocates a shift in the responsibility for relief of poverty away from the government to the private sector, and in particular to corporate entities. The concept of the "residual" is used as the cornerstone of business operations and wealth distribution. Corporate decision-makers, while making proprietary decisions for resources allocation, must assume stewardship responsibility and be accountable not just to financial investors but to all contributors of the corporate entity.

An Almost Practical Step Toward Sustainability (RFF Press)

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An Almost Practical Step Toward Sustainability (RFF Press)
Robert M. Solow
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Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance: Best Practices for Costing and Managing an Effective Environmental Strategy

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Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance: Best Practices for Costing and Managing an Effective Environmental Strategy
Marc J. Epstein
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

ASIN: 0786302305

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Each year corporations spend millions of dollars on environmental compliance. However; if viewed strategically and managed properly, companies can see how improved environmental performance can lead to improved financial performance. This book includes the results of the largest field study ever conducted in this area and shows corporate controllers, accountants, and operating managers how to: intergrate engironmental imports into management decision making including products costing, product pricing, product development, capital investment, and performance evaluation decisions; develop and implement a corporate environmental strategy; improve envionmental costing and management using the state of the art and corporate best practices.

Fundamentals of Economic Development Finance

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Fundamentals of Economic Development Finance
Susan L. Giles , and Edward J. Blakely
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ASIN: 0761919120

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Public sector orientations to planning, community and social development, or local economic development often overlook the money end of the project and focus almost exclusively on the social good. Unfortunately, plans do not materialize without money. This book takes a "hands-on" approach as it guides the reader through the steps of securing the funds necessary to meet community needs for cost effective services and facilities. It examines the fundamentals of financing local economic development from the perspectives of both the private and public sector. It shows how to link public community funding and private marketplace funding and describes how private development can incorporate community programs as an asset to a development project or programs. An easy read, the book includes numerous examples, eight real-world cases, a glossary of terms, and a model local economical development business plan.

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Accounting and Accountability
Rob Gray , Dave Owen , and Carol Adams
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Accounting for the Environment (The Greening of Accountancy)

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Accounting for the Environment (The Greening of Accountancy)
Rob Gray , Jan Bebbington , and Diane Walters
Manufacturer: Markus Wiener Pub
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`This book is a good comprehensive text and comes highly recommended to anyone currently involved in, looking to get involved in, or just interested in environmental management, environmental accounting and reporting' - Pacific Accounting Review

This is the long-awaited 2nd edition of the benchmark publication that helped shape the developing agenda of environmental accounting. This excellent new edition provides an overview of the subject ranging from environmental management to sustainability, and integrates the major advancements that have occurred since the first edition - in both research and practice. It introduces and explains environmental issues as they relate to accountants today.

This new work also places an increased emphasis on the emerging research literature in the field and reveals a consciousness of the difficulties of developing an environmental agenda in business. It makes an excellent stand-alone text for lower level students, a firm base from which the advanced student or researcher can explore research and more complex issues, and a useful guide for practitioners seeking to understand and implement environmental practice.

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Corporate Social Awareness and Financial Outcomes:

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Corporate Social Awareness and Financial Outcomes:
Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui
Manufacturer: Quorum Books
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ASIN: 1567202438

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Can corporate social awareness be translated into positive and predictable financial outcomes? Yes. Riahi-Belkaoui covers the two main components of corporate social awareness--corporate reputation or organizational effectiveness and socio-economic accounting information--and ties them directly to what happens on the corporation's bottom line. Presenting a thorough investigation of the models and results of the connection between desirable corporate behavior and economic performance, he shows not only that the outcomes are positive but that they are also predictable. A provocative and assuring study, this is intended for corporate management concerned with finance and accounting, and their colleagues with similar interests in the academic community.

Cpa Firm Viability: A Study of Major Environmental Factors Affecting Firms of Various Sizes and Characteristics

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Cpa Firm Viability: A Study of Major Environmental Factors Affecting Firms of Various Sizes and Characteristics
Harold E. Arnett
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CSR reporting: Carol Adams and Geoff Frost report on the findings of their research into how social/environmental performance issues affect firms' strategic ... An article from: Financial Management (UK)

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CSR reporting: Carol Adams and Geoff Frost report on the findings of their research into how social/environmental performance issues affect firms' strategic ... An article from: Financial Management (UK)
Carol Adams , and Geoff Frost
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Financial Management (UK), published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1833 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: CSR reporting: Carol Adams and Geoff Frost report on the findings of their research into how social/environmental performance issues affect firms' strategic decision-making.(TECHNICAL MATTERS)(Corporate social responsibility)
Author: Carol Adams
Publication: Financial Management (UK) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: 34(3)

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Essentials of Personnel Assessment And Selection
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Essentials of Personnel Assessment And Selection
Robert M. Guion , and Scott Highhouse
Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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ASIN: 0805852832

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Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection discusses the essentials that managers and other well-educated people should know about the assessment processes so widely used in contemporary societyand so widely not understood. It emphasizes that good prediction requires well-formed hypotheses about personal characteristics that may be related to valued behavior at work and the need for developing a theory of the attribute one hypothesizes as a predictora thought process too often missing from work on selection procedures. In addition, it explores such topics as team-member selection, situational judgment tests, non-traditional tests, individual assessment, and testing for diversity. The goal is to produce an accessible guide to assessment that covers basic and advanced concepts in a straight-forward, readable style. It provides a review of the most relevant statistical concepts and modern selection practices that will equip the reader with the tools needed to be competent consumers of assessment procedures and practices, and to be well-informed about the kinds of questions to be answered in evaluating them. This book will appeal to instructors of advanced undergraduate and master's level courses on personnel selection and assessment. If supplemented by other readings on selected topics, it would be useful in doctoral seminars. Also, students interested in becoming users of research-based assessment and selection information and techniques will find it useful.

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Essentials of Personnel Assessment And Selection

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ASIN: 0805852646

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Despite the fact that test development is a growth industry that cuts across all levels of education and all the professions, there has never been a comprehensive, research-oriented handbook to which everyone (developers and consumers) can turn for guidance. That is the mission of this book. The Handbook of Test Development brings together well-known scholars and test-development practitioners to present chapters on all aspects of test development. Each chapter contributor is not only a recognized expert with an academic and research background in their designated topic, each one has also had hands-on experience in various aspects of test development. This 32-chapter volume is organized into six sections: foundations, content, item development, test design, test production and administration, and post-test activities. The handbook provides extensive treatment of such important but unrecognized topics as contracting for testing services, item banking, designing tests for small testing program, and writing technical reports. The handbook is based on the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, which serve as the foundation for sound test development practice. These chapters also suggest best test development practices and highlight methods to improve test validity evidence. This book is appropriate for graduate courses and seminars that deal with test development and usage, professional testing services and credentialing agencies, state and local boards of education, and academic libraries serving these groups.

Hiring Success: The Art and Science of Staffing Assessment and Employee Selection (Pfeiffer Essential Resources for Training and HR Professionals)

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Hiring Success: The Art and Science of Staffing Assessment and Employee Selection (Pfeiffer Essential Resources for Training and HR Professionals)
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ASIN: 0787996483

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Hiring Success is a comprehensive guide for using staffing assessments to hire the best employees. Research-based, but written in easy-to-understand terms, the book explains what staffing assessments are, why they work, and how to use them. Hiring Success is an important resource for improving the accuracy and efficiency of hiring selection decisions and effectively incorporating assessments into any company’s staffing process.

Selection and Assessment at Work (Essential Psychology)

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Selection and Assessment at Work (Essential Psychology)
Gilbert Jessup , and Helen Jessup
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