Introduction to Accounting II (Harpercollins College Outline Series)

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This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Government Finance Officers Association on February 1, 1993. The length of the article is 2800 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.

From the supplier: An introduction to the municipal derivative products is provided. Derivatives are financial instruments whose own value is 'derived' from or based upon the value of other assets or on the level of an interest rate index. They are useful to government finance officials in managing debt and cutting total interest payments. The first installment of a two-part series discusses and explains interest rate caps, floors and collars.

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Title: An introduction to municipal derivative products. (part II)
Author: Kathryn Engebretson
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1993
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: v9 Issue: n1 Page: p21(4)

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Introduction to Accounting II
David; Siegel, Joel G.; Shim, Jae K. Minars
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An Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting Part 2 (II): Managerial Accounting

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An Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting Part 2 (II): Managerial Accounting

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Customized from books by Michael Maher,David Stickney and Roman Weil. The Columbia Business School of Accounting is pleased to present this customized textbook for the core courses in accounting: Financial Accounting & Managerial Accounting.

An Introduction to RPG-RPG II Programming

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An Introduction to RPG-RPG II Programming
Robert Alstrand Fisher
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A book that belongs in the hands of all emergency planners

well-built

Great Book...deserves an A+

After Almost 15 Years, Still Relevant and Invaluable

Fink's Crisis Management text is still the best available.

Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable
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Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, the first book ever written on this topic, has helped thousands of companies around the world avoid the pitfalls of a crisis, or manage their way out of one. Its practical, hands-on advice and revealing behind-the-scenes case studies make it the leading book for Foutune 500 companies, small-to-medium businesses, colleges and universities, and even governments.

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A book that belongs in the hands of all emergency planners.......2007-01-03

This is a book that every professional working in crisis management or emergency planning should read and keep in their personal library. This recently re-released book is truly a crisis management standard.

well-built.......2003-05-12

Fink's "yellow book" is still one of the most comprehensive and well-built guide for crisis related subjects. Its systematic approach and case-analyze supported explanations provides readers to understand the issue well

Great Book...deserves an A+.......2003-02-08

This book covers the subject of Crisis Management with factual review and analysis. It gives practical examples of do's and don'ts while keeping the reader's attention. Anyone dealing with crises, even in their personal life, would do well to read this book. This one goes on my library shelf to keep!

After Almost 15 Years, Still Relevant and Invaluable.......2002-01-24

I read this book when it was first published more than 15 years ago and decided to re-read it recently as various corporate crises occur or continue. (Who knows what the latest Enron and Arthur Andersen developments will be by the time this review appears?) What sets this book apart from almost all others which discuss the same general subject is the fact that Fink's observations, insights, and recommendations are (if anything) more relevant in 2001 than ever before. How can this be true? My answer is that he correctly emphasizes the importance of a comprehensive and cohesive process which consists of four separate but related components: anticipation and preparation, rapid response, follow-through, and post-event evaluation. For obvious reasons, each is critically important but post-event evaluation has even greater importance (and value) if it guides and informs subsequent anticipation and preparation. In an ideal world, seamless anticipation and preparation will eliminate all crises. In reality, "the best laid plans" can almost instantaneously become irrelevant, if not counter-productive. Presumably, major airlines such as American and United as well as the City of New York (not to mention federal agencies) involved some exceptionally talented people to formulate a number of "What if?" scenaria. And then the events of September 11th occurred. The efforts to formulate such scenaria were not invalidated by those events; nonetheless, as in Hawaii almost 60 years ago, the challenge was for various corporate and governmental entities to respond immediately and effectively, as indeed they did. In time, as with the events which occurred on December 7th, the events which occurred last September will be evaluated even as preventive measures are taken and new scenaria are formulated, as indeed they should be.

Fink organizes his excellent material within 18 chapters which are arranged in a sequence appropriate to the aforementioned components. With meticulous care, he defines various terms (thus providing a nomenclature for crisis management which most readers probably did not have before) while establishing a context within which to illustrate and apply those terms. Of greater value, I think, is the matrix of different perspectives which Fink provides. This strategy reminds me of the way Henry James develops his major characters in various novels. That is, look at a given situation from every possible angle. This Fink does brilliantly as he explains how to measure the nature and extent of a given crisis, decide who must do what immediately, how to manage information (he devotes Chapters 13 and 14 to crisis communications), and how to make the most effective decisions under what are inevitably severe pressures ranging from shock and fear to grief and anger within compressed timeframes. He also includes what he calls "A Catastrophic Quartet" in Chapter 17: case studies of crises involving Ohio Savings and Loan, Union Carbide, Procter & Gamble (Rely Tampon), and Johnson & Johnson (Tylenol). Having reached this point in the book, Fink's reader is already well-prepared to recognize various dos and don'ts within the four case studies.

Who will derive the greatest value from this book? My response is decision-makers in organizations (regardless of size or nature) who realize or at least suspect the importance of having a crisis management program already in place, especially now. Noteworthy is the fact that the same observations, insights, and recommendations which Fink shares in this book are as relevant to "catastrophes" involving loss of intellectual property as they are to situations in which there is loss of human life and/or destruction of physical property. Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to check out Ian Mitroff's Managing Crises Before They Occur and The Essential Guide to Managing Corporate Crises (in that order) as well as Peter Schwartz's The Art of the Long View. The subtitle of this book stresses the importance of "planning for the inevitable." I could not agree more.

Fink's Crisis Management text is still the best available........2000-09-15

When I "suffered" my own Management Crisis back in 1994, I turned to my library collection to see if there was anything there to help me. I found Stephen Fink's "Crisis Management" and started to impliment his suggestions. What transpired, not only helped me deal with the immediate issue, but started a course of action that I still employ today.

Based on my own experience, and finding that others in my profession have felt lost in their crises, I started to give presentations, using Fink's text as my guide.

I encourage anyone who's in busisness, management, or in some decision making role in an organization, to get a copy for themselves, and pass it on to your colleageues. I also encourage libraries to add this to their collections.

As the subtitle suggests, Crises are inevitable, so why not "be prepared?"

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Managing Crises: Short on Substance

Anticipate, Prepare, and Respond

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From tragic accidents to public relations fiascos, we live in an increasingly crisis-ridden society. In fact, half of the major industrial accidents of the past century occurred in the last 20 years.

Incidents such as Bhopal and the Exxon Valdez have become embedded in our consciousness, cultural icons of the worst sort. Other crises, less devastating but with serious impact on their businesses, occur almost daily. Why is this-- and what can be done to reverse this disturbing trend?

According to Ian Mitroff, one of the world's leading experts on crisis management, the rise in the crisis rate is due to an ingrained "it-can't happen- to-us" mentality--which, in turn, leads to a total lack of preparedness for crises. His solution? Find out in MANAGING CRISES BEFORE THEY HAPPEN. This fascinating book provides readers with a powerful framework that will help them:

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Nice, but very academic.......2003-07-27

This book is well concieved, but obviously written by someone who has an academic background. The author cites lots of facts and examples, but never really takes the "how to" steps I'd expect from someone who has actually done what he's writing about.

I'd recommend Blindsided by Bruce Blythe instead. It has a tilt to the human side of crises, but is very well done and includes many practical tips. I've actually lost consulting engagements because his book gave too many trade secrets away!

Long on Promise.......2002-02-07

Another good volume in the never-ending monday morning quarterback look at other companies' crises. This book, however, does not deliver on its promise of helping business manangers anticipate or prevent crisis...there are only a few hundred words of abstract advice on this topic. Most of the book is a rehash of publicly-known crises that the author then explains to us after the fact. There is little information to help managers actually find internal or external trouble spots and respond preemptively, other than vignettes about actions a company might have done differently...the old monday morning crisis prevention.

Managing Crises: Short on Substance.......2001-01-12

Managing Crises has helpful checklists of things to consider and the author's Rules for dealing with crises but it is short on convincing analysis. For example, one Rule is that all crises "send out a repeated trail of early warning signals." This is probably true in many, if not most cases, but the author fails to provide a convincing analysis that it is true for all or almost all cases. The Tylenol crisis is the books primary example, but the book fails to analyze what the early warning signals were for the Tylenol crises that the manufacturer failed to detect and act on. The book is higher on salesmanship (promoting the author's business?) than on substance.

Anticipate, Prepare, and Respond.......2000-11-14

Mitroff (with Anagnos) explains "what every executive and manager needs to know about crisis management." He correctly asserts that crises occur because "a significant amount of the overall system fails. Thus, CM is inherently the process of seeing and dealing with larger, whole systems." Moreover, "The basic or most central problem is that [because it goes sharply against the grain of of current management thought and practice] it requires cultural acceptance, and unfortunately, in the vast majority of cases, major cultural transformation." The material is organized as follows:

Chapter One: Why Crises Are an Inevitable and Permanent Feature of Modern Societies

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Chapter Nine: Crisis Management 2002: The Challenges Ahead

In The Art of War, Sun Tzu asserts that every battle is won or lost before it is fought. Hence the great importance Mitroff assigns to anticipation and preparation. I think his book would have even greater value if read in combination with Peter Schwartz's The Art of the Long View. Given the importance of this subject to any organization (regardless of its size or nature), I also recommend Steven Fink's Crisis Management.

When concluding his book, Mitroff offers these suggestions: "Start by designing and implementing signal detection [ie early warning] mechanisms throughout your organization. Start by amplifying the signals that already exist in your organization of impending crises. In many cases, the databases that indicate signals of impending crises may already exist, but they need to be reconceptualized to show their relationship to CM." Sound advice. But ultimately, even the most comprehensive and sophisticated CM system cannot predict or suggest, much less prevent, every crisis. Once a crisis occurs, one of the most important questions Mitroff answers is "Now what?" That answer alone is well-worth the cost of this important book.

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A checklist oriented approach to crisis planning.......2000-06-24

Crisis planning isn't something an organization can do in the middle of the crisis. Some very influential organizations and businesses have made the mistake of trying. Some survived, some didn't, but they all learned from the process. "Crisis Communications: What Every Executive Needs To Know," illustrates many of these lessons by highlighting nearly a dozen important case studies, and distilling it all into a recommended planning process complete with useful, well thought out checklists, plans, and even forms. This is a very useful book for determining what needs to be done to prepare for crisis, how to handle it once it arrives, and then what to do following the crisis. There are even a half dozen or so actual crisis action plans of prominent organizations/companies and tips for developing your own. This is a simply written, well organized, no-nonsense, hands-on book for getting ready for crisis. There are no wordy theories or arguments, just good solid advice, great case studies that make a point, and excellent sample plans that have worked for some very notable organizations. I have not found another book that lays it all out as simply nor as well as this one.

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Author: Olivier Cordonnier
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