Accountant

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An accountant is a practitioner of accountancy, which is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about financial information that helps managers, investors, tax authorities and other decision makers make resource allocation decisions. 

Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter with Your Money

Robert T. Kiyosaki - the bestselling personal finance author of all time - now shows how anyone can dramatically improve their current personal financial situation by raising one's financial I.Q.

For years, Robert Kiyosaki has firmly believed that the best investment one can ever make is in taking the time to truly understand how one's finances work. Too many people are much more interested in the quick-hitting scheme, or trying to find a short-cut to real wealth. As Kiyosaki has preached over and over again, one has to truly under the process of how money works before one can start out on trying to escape the daily financial Rat Race. Now, in this latest book in the popular Rich Dad Poor Dad series, Kiyosaki lays out his 5 key principles of Financial Intelligence for all to understand. In SHARPEN YOUR FINANCIAL IQ, Kiyosaki provides real insights on these key steps to wealth: o How to increase your money -- how to assess what you're really worth now, what your prospects are, and how to start mapping out your financial future. How to protect your money -- for better or for worse, taxes are a way of life. Kiyosaki shows you that it's not what you make....it's what you keep. How to budget your money -- everybody wants to live large, but you have to learn how to live within your budget. Kiyosaki shows you how you can. How to leverage your money -- as you build your financial IQ, knowing how to put your money to work for you is a crucial step. How to improve your financial information -- Kiyosaki shows you how to accelerate your wealth as you learn more and more.

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Financial Planning Using Excel: Forecasting, Planning and Budgeting Techniques

"Excel for Financial Planning" covers all aspects of budget preparation, from designing and creating a budgetary control system, consolidating data and working with spreadsheets. Now fully updated to include the latest version of Excel and includes a useful CD-ROM containing worked examples and spreadsheet templates, for easy budgeting. For all qualified and part qualified management accountants who use Excel on a daily basis in budget planning, this book is a must. It contains a wealth of practical examples, tips, new techniques all designed to help you quickly exploit and master Excel to its full advantage and therefore use spreadsheets for more effective management accounting in your firm.

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Everyone’s guide to the South African economy

Inflation, exchange rates, business cycles, income tax, fiscal policy… one is bombarded with these terms every day – by newspapers, the radio, TV and the Internet – but what do they actually mean? And how do they impact on ordinary people? In this edition of Everyone's guide to the South African economy, all these issues – and more – are addressed. The title clearly explains and evaluates a wide range of economic occurrences – from the budget and the rand/dollar exchange rate, to the balance of payments and the role of the South African Reserve Bank. Avoiding the specialised jargon of economists and bankers, the title clearly explains the economic forces that subtly dictate the day-to-day existence of ordinary people. This is essential reading for every South African consumer and taxpayer.

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Streetwise Finance and Accounting for Entrepreneurs: Set Budgets, Manage Costs, Keep Your Business Profitable

Streetwise Finance and Accounting for Entrepreneurs is an easy-to-understand primer for the small business owner or manager who quickly wants a basic understanding of accounting and finance. Caplan covers everything from financial statements, to understanding credits and debits and establishing budgets. This revised edition also includes strategies for troubled businesses, advice on controlling costs and developing an exit strategy for selling or bequeathing a business.

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Realworld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints

RealWorld Evaluation addresses the challenges of conducting evaluations where there is not enough money, time, or data -- but methodologically sound findings are still needed -- and where politics makes the job of the evaluator harder. These all-too-common circumstances affect many evaluations in both developing and developed countries. The authors provides help to evaluation practitioners who design and conduct evaluations, to users of evaluation including agencies and policy-makers who request evaluations and use their results, and evaluation students learning how to apply evaluation theories and approaches in actual contexts. Adapting a range of methods to real-world situations, RealWorld Evaluation draws on quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Design, methods, cultural sensitivity, validity, credibility, and reporting are among the many topics addressed in this book. Examples drawn from evaluations -- in education, social services, micro credit, agriculture, water projects and other areas -- in the US and in developing countries help show how adapting to different types of exigencies can succeed.

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Budgeting for Managers: A Briefcase Book

Our Briefcase Books series has proven to be one of McGraw-Hill's most successful series, with 18 titles currently or soon to be in print and tens of thousands of copies sold. In addition, the books have been well received internationally. Rights have also been sold for seven languages: Chinese (both forms), Dutch, German, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese. Budgeting for Managers provides a practical, easy-to-read overview of the budgeting process in any type of organization. It will help readers understand the purposes of a budget, how to collect information to create an accurate and useful budget, the relation between a budget and a business plane, and different types of budgets for different functional areas within an organization. Briefcase Books are always rich in practical techniques and examples. This book will help readers - Understand basic financial concepts and their use in creating a budget - Learn about a budgeting calendar - Learn how to gather accurate figures for a budget - How to forecast sales and expenses - How to use the budget to judge performance Briefcase Books feature a user-friendly, sidebar-rich format, which is designed to be easily read and digested for people at all levels of the organizational hierarchy. Books in the series feature short, informally written chapters, bulleted lists, self-examinations, and seven types of sidebars, and chapter-ending checklists of important points.

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