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Fully revised tenth anniversary edition of this classic text.
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Not very good........2007-02-07
This book is a bunch of separate pieces about HRM. It's not a complete nor recent manual. It's obvious it has been augmented as years have passed by, but not reviewed to form a real manual up-to-date with the state of the art. Specially, chapter 21 about organizational culture is absolutely obsolete.
It's not worth the price.
a classcial book.......2005-09-29
I think it is a classcial book for company human resource management.When your people grow,your company will grow.So from this book,You can learn how to build your human resource system and how to help your employees to develop their potence for your company.
If you want to learn more about human resource management practice,I believe it is good for you.
Human Resource Management Practice.......2005-09-22
The Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice by Michael Armstrong is a comprehensive book on the art and practice of human resource management. The book is well structured and provides a step-by-step guide to the essential principles. I found the book easy to use, to be clear and reflected the current practice to the subject. The book explains management and employee perspective and their interaction in the work place. It also provides a substantial treatment of human resource management practice.
What I appreciated about this book is that it provides practical advice that I can use in my organisation to improve its effectiveness. I also used it as a reference book in my Doctor of Business Administration course I am currently pursuing. Being based in an African country, what it teaches is very relevant and useful in African organisations.
The book is divided into eleven parts that cover the whole range of human resource management topics namely:
* Human resource management
* Human resource management process
* Organisational behaviour
* Work and employment
* Organisation, jobs and roles
* Employee resourcing
* Performance management
* Human resource development
* Rewarding people
* Employee relations
* Health, safety and welfare
* Employment and human resource management services.
I would not recommend the book to those who are looking for basic knowledge about human resource management as the book covers in detail the major issues pertaining the human resource management. However, for those students who are familiar with the subject or have done an undergraduate course on the subject and wish to pursue the subject at postgraduate level, this is the right book for you. You will benefit from the in-depth treatment of the theory and best practices in the area. I enjoyed the fact that the author also covers e-learning, talent management and change management, which are subjects of particular interest to me.
Highly Recommended !.......2005-03-16
Human resources professionals will find Michael Armstrong's book practical, helpful and relevant. It discusses all facets of current practice, including such relatively new developments as e-learning and recruiting, and it discusses how you can help your organization implement change. The book would make an excellent college text, since it covers HRM's evolution, principles, theories, practice, research, job descriptions and more. The author seems to have two goals: to provide comprehensive information about human resource management and to persuade upper level managers to integrate HRM into strategic planning. This would empower HR departments to generate broader organizational results. To get the most from this manual, given its textbook style, practitioners may wish to study it chapter by chapter. Since organizational philosophies, functions and practices differ, it even lends itself to further discussion when HRM professionals gather to share ideas and swap proven practices. We think those in the field will derive a great deal of value from this book.
A very handy handbook on HRM........2001-06-23
I'd rate this book a must have for anyone who is remotely involved in HRM. Line managers and supervisors will be well advised to keep the book handy. It is a handbook you can dip into and get a quick introduction to any subject related to Human Resources Management. It may not cover some topics in depth as one would like but it captures the essence and key ideas about the topics. It is indeed a classic. For those who may be looking for something hands-on, you wish to look at Mr Armstrong's other book, "How to be an Even Better Manager", which is a complete A-Z of proven and essential skills. With the two books, you should have a fairly good grasp of HRM matters.
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Following on the heels of the author's immensely popular book, Deena Katz on Practice Management, this nuts-and-bolts resource illustrates its predecessor's time-saving concepts. Deena Katz's Tools and Templates for Your Practice elaborates on the first book's concepts by providing and explaining how to use the actual check sheets, forms, and procedures developed by top wealth managers and planners. It offers financial planners and advisers dozens of shortcuts to running an efficient, thriving practice. Whether financial planners have been in business for ten days or ten years, they will benefit from this book's commonsense, pragmatic approach to running a successful advisory practice.
The book is organized around the natural cycle of finding, developing, and keeping clients. It includes a free CD-ROM containing all the Microsoft Office forms and spreadsheets in the book, usuable on both PC and Macintosh platforms. Readers can customize these valuable tools to build a solid administrative structure for their businesses. Many of the book's documents will be maintained and updated on the Web, to help financial planners stay abreast of leading-edge thinking in practice management.
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Forms; great starting point for content, uneven presentation.......2007-09-05
The enclosed CD of forms provide a great starting point for content. Given the author is one of the nation's premier personal financial advisors, I expected the forms on the enclosed CD-Rom to be more sophisticated, as well as more consistent in presentation. Some of the forms are in Excel, others in Word. Before you could use these documents with a client you would need to do an overhaul to change the font, margins, headings, and outline style so that any binder of combined documents would not look thrown together.
More Self Promotion.......2006-11-10
If you need help promoting your practice, this gives you many ideas on what and how to do it. As to the forms, no new ideas here.
Buy it for the forms.......2006-02-15
This book would be especially helpful for someone starting a new financial planning practice. The CD-ROM includes forms like a sample client contract, an investment policy statement and a load of other forms that would take hours to come up with on your own. Little things like a sample of her own ADV are also very useful if you are trying to set up a practice and wade through the maze of paperwork that will be required. While the book gives some practical advice on planning which may or may not be useful, depending on how experienced the planner is, the disk alone is worth the price of the book. One reviewer stated that the book isn't of much use to a broker/planner at a large firm (they have their own forms and procedures) but for an independent planner it's perfect.
Great, usefull tools.......2005-01-19
As an independent planner, this book offers many tools that you can implement in your practice today! I'm so glad it came with the CD-rom so you can grab the templates and immediately start using them. Great ideas to build your practice!
Not for Planners in large broker-dealer firms!.......2002-09-15
I read all the stellar reviews posted on here and ordered the book and was very disappointed.
This book is good for individual brokers and small firms, but there is nothing in here for someone who is a planner/advisor of a large broker/dealer. Everything in here should be at your brokerage house for those working for the top 15 or so firms in the country.
Even the Monte Carlo game, which is discussed a lot in this book, is something a lot of trainees go through with their broker/dealers.
Independents and small firms will like it, and it is probably a VERY GOOD reference for them because it is put together well...but its the same ole stuff for others.
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Physicians and their medical practices today face innumerable problems and challenges in analyzing current market changes in the medical field.
Do they understand and have the skills and knowledge to make advantageous decisions related to the increasingly complex situations in which they find themselves? Do they merge, oversee their office managers more closely, sign their own checks, and scrutinize accounts, or do they need a professional to come in and evaluate their practice and prepare a comprehensive financial assessment?
This Accounting Handbook for Medical Practices gives physicians a valuable, usable, and readable journey through the proper processes of financial accounting and related issues. Sample charts, accounting formulas, and informative case studies enhance each chapter.
Why Accounting and Financial Decisions Challenge Medical Practices and How to Address Them
This book tells you what inefficiencies currently cost most physicians and their medical practices. In addition to providing you with financial analysis charts, you will find in these pages:
- General rules for accounting
- Detailed outlines of financial statements
- Audit standards
- Operating expense analyses
- Special medical practice issues
- Case studies
- Cost-accounting examples
- Internal control relating to medical practices
- Tax issues
The Accounting Handbook for Medical Practices is a must-have for CPAs, accountants, physicians, physician practice management companies, hospital personnel, medical practice administrators, management consultants, and a range of others involved in related issues.
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2001 How to Manage Your Accounting Practice (With CD-ROM)
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How to Manage Your Accounting Practice is an all-in-one resource for managing a CPA firm s practice, expanding its business, and increasing its profits. This guide covers all of the management, marketing, personnel and billing questions faced every day by administrators, managing partners, and administrative partners. How to Manage Your Accounting Practice delivers proven, innovative, successful techniques, then show you how to implement them. You'll learn how to streamline your office systems, improve your collection procedures, and boost productivity. The book focuses on key management areas in every modern practice: efficient management practice; financial management, including billing and collection; effective use of technology; marketing and business development; personnel administration; and communications strategies. To complete this innovative, new system, you'll get every letter, checklist, and form found in the guide on a free, companion CD-ROM. From job descriptions and performance evaluations to collection letters and IRS correspondence, you'll find everything you need to implement each strategy, tactic, technique, policy, and procedure discussed in the book. Regardless of a CPA firm s size, structure or location, this guide will enable a CPA firm to run more efficiently, giving its managing partners and employees time to provide services to clients and develop new business opportunities.
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Learn to spot the "red flags" of fraud and gain insight into the implementation of effective fraud preventation measures with this practical guide. In addition, you'll take an in-depth look at how to comply with recent regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley and take an insider's peek at fraud schemes used by employees, owners, managers, and executives to defraud their customers. Includes real-life case studies submitted to the ACFE by actual fraud examiners who aided in case resolutions.
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Corporate Fraud Handbook.......2006-08-26
I truly enjoy this book and would recommend it to anyone in the profession or interested in becoming a part of it. While the book is very informative,including many facts and figures, it reads like one is having a session of "shop talk" with the author and telling war stories. I rarely have a hard time putting nonfiction down, but this book is truly a gem.
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Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices provides financial manages with no-nonsense, balanced, and practical strategies that are being targeted and used nationwide for controlling costs by thousands of companies in areas such as human resources, compensation, benefits, purchasing, outsourcing, use of consultants, taxes, and exports. These best practices are based on the trenches experience, research, proprietary databases, and consultants from the Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) and other leading experts in their fields.
* Provides best practices and techniques for controlling costs within a company
* New chapters focus on outsourcing costs, downsizing, consultants' costs, and business tax costs
* Provides the latest strategies companies re using to control costs
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The official IOMA source for tips, techniques, strategies, and best practices in corporate cost-cutting This book is an authoritative and comprehensive collection of the best strategies and techniques being used to control costs across virtually every business function. Each chapter focuses on a different department or function and is built around original research, the latest strategies currently being used, and dozens of practical tips and tactics from managers around the country. Case studies and real examples illustrate this expert guide from the only truly definitive source-the Institute of Management and Administration.
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High Quality Book.......2006-08-06
In a highly competitive operating environment in which we live, it is often difficult for a company to raise prices, unless it can differentiate its products and services in such a way that customers are prepared to pay a premium price. Even then it is necessary to produce the best value at optimal costs.
Most companies are price takers and the only area that they have control may be their costs. This is where this book is very handy and it provides managers with effective techniques and tools that they can employ to control and manage costs. The book shows that all departments can adopt best practices to ensure that their costs structures are optimal. Other areas to target for cost control include outsourcing, rightsizing organisations, the use of consultants and elsewhere.
This is an excellent book that is essential reading for all managers who need to learn the techniques, strategies and best practices in reducing costs for organisations. The author reinforces their well presented arguments, proposals and solutions with case studies and real examples that should assist managers in implementing the tips that they would have learnt.
Manager.......2002-03-04
I found this book innovative and helpful. It provides informative examples best practices, case studies and the latest strategies & techniques that companies can use to control costs and maximize profitability. In a tough fiscal year, I will be reading this book over and over again to find more new ways to save money.
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Federal Accounting Handbook: Policies, Standards, Procedures, Practices
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Now in a second edition, Federal Accounting Handbook is the handbook that every financial federal employee can use, covering all of the recent revisions including new FASAB standards and how Congress wants the intent and objectives of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to be implemented by federal departments and agencies. Written for both the professional and the non-professional, this handbook equips you with the what, why, when, and how of federal financial management,
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Knowledge of Account is main "Key" to Success.......2000-06-16
Often world is so faster to investing money and also making excess return from investing. Every business (small/big) wants excess profit from less investment. in stock markets or in industry all people wants excess money for living well. and provide good facilities to family.
So, time have came to know how you make money in less investment or less capital. how many keys you use in current period and so you can develope your knowledge by studing accounting books. which contain finance management,(working capital) and employee management. Also flexible with market situations. if you want to make money, you should get knowledge of Accounts and also market, time management. so, "when you need money and success, you have information of Accounts and its related factors or Keys". Information/Knowledge is key to Success!
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Deena Katz, one of America's most sought after financial advisers, shares her management expertise in this guide to strengthening a financial planning or advising practice. Drawing on 20 years' experience, Katz explains the essential nuts and bolts for surviving and thriving as a financial planner. She shows planners how to develop a client-centered marketing approach and how to expand their business at a comfortable, manageable pace.
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Financial Planning and Customer Experience.......2007-02-20
This book is an excellent guide to the importance of customer service in the financial planning world. Individuals willing to offer financial advice and service are everywhere - however successful financial planning firms are run by those that have paid attention to the details. A great book to give to new employees to help explain the importance of efficiency and how it correlates to a positive client experience.
A big disappointment.......2002-11-22
After all the rave reviews, I thought this would be a great book on practice management. What I got was a book by Deena Katz on Deena Katz. For example, in discussing contact management systems, she glosses over Act! and Goldmine; barely mentions Text Library System and ProTracker, but spends considerable time talking about paying $50,000 to have a consultant design a system. If you currently have a fee only practice that is grossing in the high 6-figures and want to develop it into a multi-million $ firm, like Deena Katz, then I suggest you read this book.
Highly Recommended!.......2001-09-28
Deena Katz, a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) who has given financial advice in magazines and on TV, describes how to set up a practice as a financial planner and adviser. She discusses how to grow your business and manage your clients' lives as well as their dollars. She draws on her experience, interviews and networking with other practitioners to provide a detailed hands-on guide. She considers such issues as recruiting, hiring and firing staff, working with partners, using hardware and software and setting up effective systems. She provides tips on public relations, hiring, firing and refusing clients, and keeping good clients. Her book concludes with a targeted resource section on useful books, journals, magazines, newsletters, software programs and Web sites. We [...] highly recommend this comprehensive introductory guide. Although it is directly targeted toward individuals in the financial planning arena, many of its ideas apply to starting any type of small professional or service business.
Overrated but still I think its worth it..........2001-09-16
We Financial advisors are always looking for an edge. To often we're severely dissapointed. This book has merit and unfortunately a lot of fluff. Most in the industry know all the software available and filing systems.
What was of interest was the parts on client retention and firing clients. This was helpful
In the sense that it improved my vision of my practice I have to say it was worthwhile. However a well written article could have done the same.
Your call..
Great Blueprint.......2001-03-11
Beginning Financial Planner creating a business plan and vision. Great blue print.
Book Description
This book is for all financial professionals whose work, to a greater or lesser degree, involves complex spreadsheets and financial models. This includes investment bankers, commercial banks, accountancy firms, property firms, public sector including local government and healthcare, PFI/PPP enterprises, financial managers and financially literate general managers. Junior/middle management, where the focus would be on cash flow forecasting and budgeting tasks, will also find this book of value.
For the vast majority of people involved in this subject, financial modelling is an activity, a task requiring skills. Once people have the ability to structure the model, they have a better starting point from which to address the financial problems. This new book proposal intends to offer that starting point.
Theory is limited to the absolute essentials that aid understanding; thus the focus with this new book is very practical - this is "how-to-do-it", showing best practice, and is illustrated with many practical worked examples.
* Practical financial modelling- all the essentials in one book
* How-to approach, with numerous worked examples
* Explains the techniques and functions of Excel most use in financial modelling and budgeting
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International taxation is evolving in response to globalization, capital mobility, and the increased trade in services, and introduces international tax practitioner, student and researcher to the theory, practice, and international examples of the changing landscape.
Models of tax competition in a flat and connected world are very different than those necessary to ensure compliance in a world dominated by cross-border flows of goods and repatriation of profits. Taxes on consumption, e-commerce, and services are looming innovations in future of international taxation. Tax coordination and standardization are immense challenges in a world in which the movement of value is increasingly subtle and hard to detect. And as corporations and individuals become more sophisticated in the internationalization of flows of capital, our models must become more sophisticated in their scope and inclusion.
In the era when trade was dominated by the exchange of manufactured goods, international taxation was designed to protect domestic industries, create tax revenue, prevent evasion, and promote compliance. The traditional toolbox of customs duties, tariffs, and taxes on repatriated profits must be augmented as the movement of goods across borders represents a much smaller fraction of trade and as international taxation policy is increasingly used to attract foreign corporations rather than discourage branch offices. International taxation models that can better tax services, track international flows of capital, and allow a nation to compete in a world market for capital formation are the tools of the modern tax practitioner.
International tax policy is now viewed as an integral part of economic policy. This approach is bound to accelerate as the world becomes increasingly flat and better connected. Economic progress is more and more influenced by the movement of services and information, movements that are no longer through ports but through fiber optic lines.
This book contributes to the growing literature on international taxation by bringing together theory and experience, current practices and innovation, and our current understanding of some of the challenges now facing and arguably frustrating current international taxation policy. The book will create new avenues of research for scholars, a new awareness for students of International Taxation, and new possibilities for international tax practitioners. The models and examples presented here suggest that there are serious problems with measurability of flows of services and information, and points to an increasingly need for greater harmonization of international taxation, perhaps through coordinated consumption-tax oriented approaches.
* Describe the rapidly evolving role of International Taxation in a globalizing information economy
* Present theoretical models that act as the basis for successful international tax competition
* Describe the experiences and innovations of representative internationalized countries
* Discuss some new approaches to International Taxation
* Makes the case for new models of international taxation in an increasingly global information world
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- Comparative Fiscal Federalism: Comparing the European Court of Justice and the U.S. Supreme Court's Tax Jurisprudence (Eucotax Series on European Taxation)
- Conceptual Cost Estimating Manual Reprint
- Contemporary Auditing: Real Issues and Cases
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