All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well-established in the organizational hierarchy, can use a little brushing up now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their organizations. While they don't need the knowledge of a CPA, all managers must still have a …

Disputes over valuation issues fill the court's dockets and for good reason, fair market valuations are required frequently by the law. The authors believe that approximately 243 sections of the Code and several thousand references in the Regulations explicitly require fair market value determination. Consequently, taxpayers file an estimated 15 million tax returns each year reporting an event …

The phrase ?business model? has found its way into the vocabulary of just about everyone who must manage or work in businesses with an Internet content, from venture capitalists to CEOs. Despite the enormous importance of the Internet and business models to firms, and the explosive interest in both subjects, there are no business school texts that address the impact of the Internet on firm perf…

This handbook is intended as a reference for financial managers, credit and security analysts, bankers, lawyers, accountants, auditors, and educators, whose decisions encompass the international dimensions of financial analysis, reporting, and control. It expands and updates the topical coverage of its award-winning predecessor, The Handbook of International Accounting, and, in its second editi…

The CFO as Business Integrator has a simple, but ambitious goal: to serve as an implementation guide for the CFO?s new finance integration agenda. In our many months of researching this book, we?ve found that executives feel both confused by integration technology and driven to pursue the tantalizing benefits it offers. They want to move from complexity to simplicity, but need a clear integrati…