Entrepreneurship has been a subject of much recent discussion among academics and policymakers because of the belief that it invigorates the economy -- producing greater productivity, more jobs, and higher economic growth. President George W. Bush promoted his economic plan by pointing to its encouragement of entrepreneurship. Yet, despite its importance, the topic of entrepreneurship is underr…

To take advantage of the benefits tax deductions offer, you?ll have to figure out which deductions you are entitled to take?and keep proper records documenting your expenses. The IRS will never complain if you don?t take all the deductions available to you. In fact, the majority of home business owners miss out on many deductions every year simply because they aren?t aware of them?or because th…

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…

Patient satisfaction is an integral part of healthcare, and oftentimes the key to a successful healthcare organization. Consider the numerous studies that indicate satisfied patients often recover faster and better from treatment. This leads to goodwill for the organization, positive word-of-mouth promotion, and more customers at your hospital. When patients are satisfied it also indicates that…

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…

Modern managers and students of management are inundated with advice on how to change organisations in order to improve their effectiveness. This book makes sense of all this competing advice, considering the best ways for organisations to develop their strategic capabilities in a fast-changing world.The authors map all the major routes to organisational improvement and classify them into a num…

In American business schools, accounting is treated primarily as ?accountingization? (Power and Laughlin, 1992), that is, as a body of technically refined calculations used by organizations to efficiently accomplish goals such as profit maximization. What, if any, theory that is taught reduces largely to cybernetics and systems theory, approaches eerily detached from the lived-realities of thos…

Toward the end of the twentieth century in places ranging from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Japan, China, and South Asia, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other way. In the hope of changing the way politics is done, they called officials to account for atrocit…