Trying to translate the tax code into plain eng for the small business owner was a challenge that all but overwhelmed me. Without the help of many others I could not have done it. Nolo has some of the most caring (and careful) editors on the face of this earth. First and foremost in both categories is Mary Randolph. Other Nolo folks with a hand in the project were Jake Warner, Robin Leonard, Li…

deas about the role of management accounting systems in a firm's strategy have changed in recent years, and this book explores the ways in which this has happened. Management control systems have frequently been seen as irrelevant to strategy, or even damaging. Controlling Strategy draws out the various ways in which management control systems can build and sustain valuable strategic roles. The…

Powerful Proposals goes beyond ?This is what we do? documents and takes the reader step by step through designing sales-focused, individual proposals that highlight the firm?s tangible benefits to the client. Contains invaluable information on creating effective executive summaries, writing themes, and generating the text, plus how to maximise graphics, callouts, and other visual elements.

Marketing Without Advertising continues to be a premier and indispensable manual for entrepreneurs and business managers seeking to employ high-impact, low-cost marketing strategies for their goods and services in today's competitive business environment, whether local, regional, national, or global. Readers will learn how to attract new customers and acquire repeat business from existing and f…

As inexorably as the sun rises and sets, the business cycle moves from a bright and healthy expansion and prosperous peak to a dark and often difficult recessionary trough and then back once again to prosperity. Over the course of this often dangerous economic roller coaster, the fortunes of most companies quite literally ebb and flow while at least some companies, caught totally unaware by the…

Book Description The Fast Forward MBA in Business Communication brings you the information youneed when you need it most- now! This practical, easy-to-use guide gives you instant access to the cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of two of today's leading experts on business communication. In short, lively segments using real-world examples, it delivers the information you need to navigate co…

Business people these days are becoming weary of new fads, movements, and revolutions, and rightly so. We have, in less than a decade, been taken through such ?revolutionary? transformations as total quality management, business process reengineering, enterprise resource planning, activity-based costing, and retail e-commerce. Companies have downsized, outsourced, empowered employees, shifted p…

And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. The vast majority of companies never become great, precisely because the …

This is a book written, edited, and researched by me and many other people associated with PC Magazine. It contains text that was published in various issues of the magazine and a great deal of text and illustrations never seen before. Certainly, this much work describing the who, what, why, and how of e-business has never been brought together in one place before. I?m happy to say that PC Maga…

Business is the backbone of American society and is one of the keys to making our system work as well as it has for more than two hundred years. Yet as a body of knowledge, business is much younger. There has been, to this point, no organized work that has attempted to present the discipline of business in a single place. The major purpose of the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance is to summa…