This book offers a comprehensive analysis of central banks, and aims to make them less of a mystery to the general public, which is the only way to have a rational debate about them and ultimately to make them accountable. The book arose from the author’s graduate…
Hardback – 2018-01-30
Routledge
Finance is key to every business organization as well as outside. This book makes sense of the finance world from a non-finance perspective. It introduces, explains and demystifies essential ideas of business finance to those who do not have financial background or training. Lucid, accessible yet…
Hardback – 2017-11-30
Routledge India
The economic model in many developed and developing countries is characterized by a ‘Big Government’ whose intervention limits free competition in the capital, commodity, and labor markets. Since 2009, to remedy mass-unemployment, many leading countries have been locked into an expansionary fiscal…
Hardback – 2017-11-20
Routledge
Islamic Business and Finance Series
Contemporary events management is a diverse and challenging field. This introductory textbook fully explores the multidisciplinary nature of events management and provides the student with all the practical skills and professional knowledge they need in order to succeed in the events industry. It…
Paperback – 2017-10-26
Routledge
Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level. It aims to take the fear out of corporate finance and add the fun in, presenting the subject in a way that is simple to grasp and easy to digest. Its aim is to explain – and demystify –…
Paperback – 2017-08-08
Routledge
The Basics
Every consumer in a modern economy is indirectly exposed to the work of a price reporting agency (PRA) each time they fill up their car, take a flight or switch on a light, and yet the general public is completely unaware of the existence of PRAs. Firms like Platts, Argus and ICIS, which are…
Paperback – 2017-08-08
Routledge
The biggest corporate failure ever in British history occurred in 2008 with very little forewarning. The management of HBOS, a major national bank with a long history of prudence prior to the merger in 2001, were allowed to act incompetently. Auditors and regulators failed to act, ignoring a key…
Paperback – 2017-08-08
Routledge
This book explores the relevance of management accounting research and practice for a range of broader, societal phenomena related to corporate governance and regulation, the creation and maintenance of markets and their concomitant social and political implications. It also explores the…
Paperback – 2017-06-07
Routledge
Accountancy as presently practised is tied to the paradigm of modern financial capitalism with its reliance on market solutions and the maximization of the firm’s profits, which are the fundamental causes of most these problems. The Social Function of Accounts argues that accountancy, as currently…
Hardback – 2017-06-01
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Accounting
The book introduces pragmatic constructivism as a paradigm for understanding actors’ construction of functioning practice and for developing methods and concepts for managing and observing that practice. The book explores, understands and theorises organisational practices as constructed through…
Hardback – 2017-03-28
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Accounting
Many years on after the 2007–8 financial crisis, most developed nations still find themselves in a state of weak recovery, high debt pile-up and distributive disparity. The intriguing question that we face is whether the golden days of modern capitalism are over, or if capitalism is just undergoing…
Hardback – 2017-03-28
Routledge
Banking, Money and International Finance
Accounting for Financial Instruments is about the accounting and regulatory framework associated with the acquisition and disposal of financial instruments; how to determine their value; how to manage the risk connected with them; and ultimately compile a business valuation report. Specifically,…
Paperback – 2017-03-08
Routledge