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Navigate the complexities of this interdisciplinary field with confidence.
With
Measuring Business Interruption Losses you’ll find overviews of research and practices in subfields of economics, giving you points of reference that you can use in working with a team of professionals. The book also applies a much-needed, cohesive framework to the study of forensic economics: the first half of the book reviews damages resulting from the interruption of a business’s operations; subsequent chapters then discuss related types of commercial damages. With this authoritative source you'll quickly be able to:
- Identify fraudulent claims and how to differentiate between the legitimate part of a lost profits claim and the inflated component
- Provide expert opinion on the magnitude of damages and a detailed presentation that will hold up under scrutiny in the settlement negotiation process and, if necessary, in court.
Measuring Business Interruption Losses and Other Commercial Damages is your blueprint for expertly analyzing business interruption losses—and, ultimately, success in your practice.
Order your copy today!
Customer Reviews:
Unintended benefits.......2004-07-01
I discovered this book after reading "A Guide to Forensic Testimony" (ISBN 0201752794), which is aimed at IT professionals. I had little interest in being an expert witness, but have been a witness in litigation and wanted to better understand the process. In my quest for another book I came across this one, and benefited from two levels - (1) I learned even more about rules of evidence, and expert testimony, and (2) discovered a methodology for computing values associated with business interruptions that have some potential to meet requirements of Rules 104(a) and (e), and 703 [Federal Rules of Evidence].
First, the material related to evidence and expert testimony - this book covers qualifications, expert roles and advice to the expert, and expert reports and admissibility of evidence with respect to economic, accounting and damages experts. More importantly, the author provides excellent advice on using experts from multiple disciplines, which is prudent given the complexity of measuring business interruption losses. The material about this aspect of the book is not only consistent with the book I cited above in general terms, but also went much deeper, and completely addressed the issues and factors associated with the subject from a legal point of view.
The second aspect of this book, the methodologies for analyzing loss attacks the problem from multiple angles, which can be aggregated or tailored to the legal theory of a particular case. The angles include an economic framework for the lost profits estimation process, and how to conduct a business interruption loss analysis. The book goes into more depth with a comprehensive description for conducting an industry analysis, especially with respect to relating overall industry growth to the plaintiff's growth, and in-depth chapters on projecting lost revenues and cost analysis and profitability. The methodologies alone or in total are complete, and should meet and Rule 104(a), (e), or Rule 703 test (i.e., "Daubert" issues).
Unintended benefits from this book came in the methodologies. I am an IT consultant who specializes in service management, which encompasses business continuity and system availability, among other things. The methodologies, I discovered, can be as easily applied to a proactive approach to determining cost of system unavailability of company-critical systems as they can be in determining after-the-fact losses. This allows realistic impact analyses that show costs, trade-offs and affects on the loss of critical systems. Not so coincidently, this same data can be used in court to show prior due diligence if loses do occur based on third-party breaches of contracts or warranty issues. More importantly, even though this book was written before the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the methodologies given in this book can be used to validate compliance with certain sections of the act, most notably 404 (also, to a degree, 302, 409 and 906).
Overall, this book is one of the best professional investments I've made - and the reasons for it are purely serendipitous.
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Measuring Commercial Damages
Patrick A. Gaughan
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Despite its obvious importance and the recent boom in litigation support, valuation of commercial damages for litigation purposes has, until now, lacked a complete methodological framework for accountants, economists, and attorneys. Measuring Commercial Damages explains how commercial damages in litigation should be measured and provides an integrated accounting and economics approach that explains exactly what accountants need to know about economics to measure commercial damages.
Valuing the damages of a company in litigation requires not only a far-reaching knowledge of the research and practices of account-ing, but also a working knowledge of macroeconomics, microeconomics, econometrics, and finance, including investment analysis, capital market theory, and corporate finance. While few experts possess strengths in all of the required areas, this books easy-to-understand methods offer an integrated approach so that practitioners in the fields of accounting, economics, and law can clearly understand and effectively utilize material presented from other fields.
Measuring Commercial Damages is the first book to put forth a standard methodology for the most common types of commercial damages, from basic lost profits to losses that occur in business valuation, intellectual property, securities, and antitrust litigation. Drawing from a wide range of published articles, case studies, and treatises from legal, economic, accounting, and financial literature, this book provides practitioners with the knowledge to more confidently write an expert report and even testify as an expert witness in commercial damage litigation.
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Twenty-one sets of twenty-one ideas, activities and tips drawn from decades of international practical experience
*Invaluable sourcebook on participatory training methods from the authority in the field
*Essential for trainers, facilitators and teachers
*Robert Chambers' author of "Whose Reality Counts?", and "Challenging the Professions"
Making participation real requires workshops, training and learning that are themselves participatory. This sourcebook presents the results of the author's vast experience in the form of twenty-one sets of ideas, activities and tips, both serious and fun, for topics such as getting started, seating, forming groups, managing large numbers, analysis, feedback, evaluation and ending.
From the Preface: "This is for all who try to help others learn and change... There is something here for participatory teachers and trainers; for organizers, moderators and facilitators who want their conferences and workshops to be interactive; for staff in training institutes who want to enliven their courses; for faculty and teachers in universities, colleges and schools who would like to enable students to do more of their own analysis; and for those engaged in management training who want to widen their repertoire."
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Single best volume.......2004-06-04
I have taught facilitation for 20 years and maintain an extended bibliography of available books. If someone said they can buy only one book as a resource in facilitating, I would recommend this one. It is a remarkable collection of exercises, tools, strategies, and tips.
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Total diversity training from ASTD--in full-day, half-day, or one-hour sessions! A complete training kit developed by diversity expert Tina Rasmussen, The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook: Diversity helps you firmly establish diversity's advantages for your company in fast, easy, flexible sessions. It helps you address such diversity basics as stereotyping--how we form perception--behavior fundamentals--managing diversity vs. traditional management--teams guidelines and communications--setting the tone for valuing diversity--and much more. Plus, you get everything you need to position diversity for maiximum impact and provide effective, high-interest training: background information; games and activities; facilitator notes; instruments; training designs; assessments; participant handouts; overheads and flipcharts.
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Valuable resource for people involved in diversity training.......1997-08-09
The Sourcebook is an excellent resource for people new to diversity training as well as those who want to add new information and tools to existing trainings. The book provides innovative curriculum, handout and overhead suggestions to create or enhance diversity trainings. I have found the information and tools to be very valuable
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The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook Series presents complete toolkits and instructions for creating effective, personalized training programs. Each individual sourcebook--written by an expert trainer in the field--contains everything needed to design and conduct training sessions. Developed in association with the American Association for Training and Development, the first six sourcebooks cover some of the hottest topics in training, from leadership, to diversity, to team-building.
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Teambuilding.......2005-10-09
This book is well organized and full of useful information. Every component of an outstanding workshop is included and at the readers fingertips.
A true Sourcebook.......2002-01-18
All the titles from the 'ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook' series are excellent. These are books that provide the trainer with a comprehensive reference on the subject matter, ideas on activities and games, as well as other tools.
For the beginning and advanced trainer alike, this is a wonderful and comprehensive book on teambuilding that can also be easily used by non-training professionals.
Teambuilding Basics.......2000-07-17
Excellent book for the novice facilitator as well as the pro! This comprehensive guide takes you through every phase of team development from start to finish. It presents the data in an easy to follow, step-by-step facilitator style. It includes reproducable handouts and slides. An excellent resource for establishing teams! I recommend all of the training guides in the series of ASTD Sourcebooks. I've used them all!
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Everything you need to conduct creativity training--in a day or less Training Magazine recently reported that fully 44% of firms surveyed provide creativity training. Now you can conduct your own transformational full-day, half-day, or one-hour creativity-building workshops with Creativity and Innovation: The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook, by Elaine Biech. Packed with fully reproducible facilitator notes, training designs, participant handouts, activites, instruments, flipcharts, overheads--the works--this powerfully affordable resource gives you a total toolchest or surveying your organization's creative climate and needs, sparking fresh thinking and ideas, encouraging brainstorming and risk taking, spotting and banishing ``creativity killing'' attitudes, embracing the productive 5 Rs of creativity, and much, much more.
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Inspiring.......2001-05-16
Finding good information on ways to unleash creativity in a spiritual context is easy. Finding a way to sell creativity to businesses is another thing. I particularly liked the way the book encourages you to customize your own training program. In my business I work with a very diverse group of people and businesses which demands that my program also be diverse. I highly recommend this sourcebook.
Why oh Why didn't I read this sooner!.......2000-10-18
This book is an excellent resource for developing a creativity program. I enjoyed the structure and the examples offered by this fine text. You can rely on this book for information on other resources within the business creativity context.
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Here's the easy way to assemble and run effective workshops on the hottest topics in training today. Fast, flexible, and developed by top experts, The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook Series provides the step-by-step resources you need to conduct a complete full-day, half-day, or one-hour session--including: background information; facilitator notes; training designs; participant handouts; games and activities; instruments; assessments; overheads and flipcharts. And because all components are fully reproducible, you're welcome to photocopy and customize them to your needs without cost or permission. In addition to the titles you see here, forthcoming contributions to the series include tools on Coaching. . .Quality. . .Supervision . . .Team-Building. . .Leadership. . .Customer Service. . .Facilitation Skills. . .Project Management. . .Strategic Planning. . .and Creativity. Each can help you achieve maximal training benefits with minimal training expense and preparation time.
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ASTD Books are Great!.......2001-12-06
I gave this book only 3 stars, not because of any lack of quaility. The content is not new. But the format and usability is worth 5 stars. This is a very functional book if you're involved in organizational training. This book has several diferent modules to use in short or long-term training. If you work in organization training -- this is a must buy. Very functional!
ASTD Books are Great.......2001-12-06
I gave this book only 3 stars, not because of any lack of quaility. The content is not new. But the format and usability is worth 5 stars. This is a very functional book if you're involved in organizational training. This book has several diferent modules to use in short or long-term training. If you work in organization training -- this is a must buy. Very functional!
Big on practicalities of strategic planning.......1998-08-03
For the first time, a book not obsessed with the high-sounding concepts and gets down to the nitty gritty of preparing a team for strategic planning. Chock-full of practical tips for facilitators and how to get your team to start thinking in the right strategic direction, with mental exercises to worksheets and strategic "games".
Recommended for the hands-on practictioner.
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Create a powerhouse facilitation skills program--effortlessly! Get all the ready-made, customizable materials and plans you need to create a blockbuster facilitation training program in Facilitation: The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook, by Dennis C. Kinlaw. This off-the-shelf training tool packs dozens of reproducible workshop materials. . .ice-breaking games. . .engaging group activities and role plays. . .ready-to-use questionnaires, overhead masters and handouts--everything you need to develop and conduct instant one-- and two-day, half-day, even one-hour facilitation programs. You also get scores of visual aids and learning activities, assessment and rational tools, background explanations, and more. It's the only resource you need to create efficient facilitation training you can count on--we guarantee it! the Entire ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook Series FREE. Customizable Training Designs. Fully Reproducible Workshop Materials. Games. Questionnaires. Group Activities. Overhead Masters. Participant Handouts. Background Summaries. Hundreds of Items in each Sourcebook! treaining Designs;
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ASTD Books are Great!.......2001-12-06
I gave this book only 3 stars, not because of any lack of quaility. The content is not new. But the format and usability is worth 5 stars. This is a very functional book if you're involved in organizational training. This book has several diferent modules to use in short or long-term training. If you work in organization training -- this is a must buy. Very functional!
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The Training and Development Sourcebook
Lloyd Baird
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Every informed trainer should have a copy of this thoroughly revised and updated version of the training classic. This sourcebook will keep you up-to-date on current training trends with over 50 of the most important new articles written by leading practitioners in the training field. Also included are over 50 fully reproducible training tools and instruments to save you valuable time in new program development and delivery.
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The 1998 Training and Performance Sourcebook
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This third edition includes 40 reproducible tools for more effectively developing human resources: training activities, assessment instruments, training handouts, and how-to implementation guides and guidelines. Hot topics include: alternatives to classroom training; diversity & cross-cultural awareness; management development; performance support.
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