Ebook: January 2008 Archives
Russ Kick, 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know
Don't you love books like this? Their titles promise you the secrets of the universe (which universe, of course, depends on what you're reading into the title), but what they deliver is invariably not what you were looking for. Expect the same here.
When he's on his game, Kick does deliver some interesting and relatively obscure data to the reader. When he's not, which is unfortunately all too often, he hands us stuff that's been on at least a thousand trivia lists circling the internet at any given time. Combine this with Kick's obvious slant towards some of his subject matter, which is so predictable it's almost stereotypical, and you get a book that, despite its slimness, can be wearying at times.
Good to pick up and riffle through once in a while looking for something random. Not a keeper, though.
http://rapidshare.com/files/83843826/50.Things.Youre.Not.Supposed.To.Know.pdf
Steve Chandler's calming voice guides you through 100 ways to motivate yourself. While listening, grab a pen and paper and write down ideas which will change your life and help you literally reinvent yourself.
http://rapidshare.com/files/83843882/How_To_Become_A_People_Person.pdf
How To Find Out What To Do In Life
• To be successful at something you need to be really good at it.
• It is important to do something you enjoy doing.
• Commit to being the best in your chosen field.
• Read about your subject for at least 1 hour every day.
http://rapidshare.com/files/83843957/How_To_Find_Out_What_To_Do_In_Life.pdf
http://rapidshare.com/files/83457368/Adobe_Photoshop_in_24_hours.pdf
A great book to learn Adobe Photoshop basics.
http://rapidshare.com/files/83459800/How-to_Photoshop-low.pdf
By definition, investors' horizons are long-term (years) and traders' are short-term. This book is aimed at the latter, obviously limiting the scope of its applicability. Noted investment manager Sperandeo explains how he traces stocks and commodities using trends, Dow Theory, Fed-watching, stop-losses, charts, and the panoply of technical analysis combined with his own wrinkles. His chief antagonists are program traders (who move billions likewise in the short-term) and the whims of the market. In the second half, Sperandeo explores the psychology of trading and the use and importance of emotional discipline. He also stresses personal success, not just financial, and presents a solid condensed explanation of real economics, scathingly destroying the wishful-thinking economics of academics and politicians. First half fascinating + second half instructive = a buy for business collections.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83527826/Methods_of___wall-street_master.rar
Over the years, countless investors have lost far more than they should have during a variety of market downturns. Events such as the bursting of the tech bubble and the wave of corporate scandals have led to investor woes, but it's the absence of an investing game plan that has made things even worse. This lack of personal financial guidance leaves many investors scrambling to figure out what they should do after the fact, instead of planning ahead of time.
But exactly what is an investing game plan and how can you go about getting one? In Getting an Investing Game Plan, Certified Financial Planner Vern Hayden answers these and other important investment questions, guiding you through a ten-step process that will help you clarify your goals, create a game plan, and stay the course.
In a straightforward and accessible manner, Getting an Investing Game Plan explains why you need a game plan for both wealth creation and wealth preservation, and clearly outlines the components of a successful investing game plan. Shaped from the experiences gained in the mud of the marketplace as well as stories of real investors, these proven steps will help you get your investing house in order-whether you're starting fresh or starting over. You will learn about:
* Getting into the game plan mindset-remaining committed, consistent, and courageous
* Knowing your risk tolerance and goals
* Understanding diversification (stocks, bonds, cash)
* Structuring a portfolio that suits you-conservative, moderate, aggressive, and the bunker portfolio
* Picking the right fund for your allocation needs and your financial goals
* Listening to select professionals
* Reviewing your game plan periodically
* And much more
After reviewing the ten steps to creating an investing game plan, you should feel ready to manage your own plan. But if you're concerned that you might need some help, this comprehensive guide can show you how to find the help you need. Getting an Investing Game Plan includes a chapter focused solely on how to seek and size up a worthy financial advisor to manage your plan.
What matters most in achieving financial success is not how well you play any single round of the investment game, but whether you have a well-thought-out and complete investing game plan. Regardless of age or income, an investing game plan will help you achieve consistent returns on your investments, while making sure you don't lose a bundle. With this book as your guide, you will learn how to create an investing game plan that will last a lifetime.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83527827/Getting_an_Investing_Game_Plan_-_Creating_It__Working_It__Winning_It.rar
# Hardcover: 345 pages
# Publisher: Bloomberg Press; 2 edition (June 29, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 1576601854
# Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83527828/Getting_Started_As_a_Financial_Planner_-_J.H.Rattiner.rar
Balanced scorecard is a widely recognised and accepted performance measurement tool that is currently used in thousands of organisations around the world. This book will help to implement the organisations' balanced scorecard strategies into action by defining performance objectives, measures, and targets in four linked and balanced perspectives: Financial, Customer, Internal Process, and Employee Learning and Growth.
* Explains what balanced scorecard is and addresses the challenges and solutions for its implementation.
* Addresses the concerns of the mid to small corporation as well as the emerging business
* Each chapter provides tips and techniques as well as real world examples
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83527829/Essentials_of_Balanced_Scorecard.2004.0471569739.rar
America's small and midsized businesses face unique challenges as they struggle to reach the kind of long-term business goals achieved by larger companies. Balls! shows that successful firms follow certain rules and display six essential traits-they are brave, authentic, loud, lovable, and spunky. Add an exclamation mark for "Do It Right Now Before Someone Else Does!" and that spells Balls!-something all growing businesses need in order to truly succeed. Written by a young executive at one of America's fastest growing small businesses, Balls! looks at business success from a decidedly exuberant and creative perspective, bringing fresh ideas and tactics that any business leader, in any industry, will find immediately useful.
Alexi Venneri (Seattle, WA) is Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Who's Calling, one of the fastest growing companies in America. She joined the firm as employee number 13 and has witnessed it grow to over 300 employees. She is also the former director for the Seattle Mariners who managed all ballpark marketing and fan relations for the team. Her professional career also includes sales management, event planning, training, and marketing for companies in both the U.S. and Canada.
America's small and midsized businesses face unique challenges as they struggle to reach the kind of long-term business goals achieved by larger companies. Balls! shows that successful firms follow certain rules and display six essential traits-they are brave, authentic, loud, lovable, and spunky. Add an exclamation mark for "Do It Right Now Before Someone Else Does!" and that spells Balls!-something all growing businesses need in order to truly succeed. Written by a young executive at one of America's fastest growing small businesses, Balls! looks at business success from a decidedly exuberant and creative perspective, bringing fresh ideas and tactics that any business leader, in any industry, will find immediately useful. Alexi Venneri (Seattle, WA) is Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Who's Calling, one of the fastest growing companies in America. She joined the firm as employee number 13 and has witnessed it grow to over 300 employees. She is also the former director for the Seattle Mariners who managed all ballpark marketing and fan relations for the team. Her professional career also includes sales management, event planning, training, and marketing for companies in both the U.S. and Canada.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83512902/6_Rules_for_Winning_Today_s_Business_Game.rar
Get the business insight that has raised millions in capital funding for over 50,000 entrepreneurs.
If you're an entrepreneur or own a small, fast-growing businesses, Angel Capital provides a complete toolkit for raising capital in today's challenging economic landscape. The authors, who manage the largest angel network in the U.S., offer real-world advice on how to find investors and take control of the private placement process. Using revolutionary typology and unmatched proprietary research, they explain all stages of raising capital, from valuation to negotiation to due diligence. In addition, you'll find a comprehensive directory of alternative capital resources, based on research of over 2,000 organizations, and a legal appendix that serves as a short course in exempt offerings and provides the skills needed to have success with any early-stage business venture or investment. Order your copy today.
Fast track route to understanding the business of angel investing. Covers the key areas of angel investing from understanding the inefficiencies of the marketplace and the evolution of the industry to developing a successful angel investing practice. Examples and lessons from some of the world's most active private equity marketplaces, including the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83512906/Angel_Capital-_How_To_Raise_Early-Stage_Private_Equity_Financing_-_2005.rar
Get the business insight that has raised millions in capital funding for over 50,000 entrepreneurs.
If you're an entrepreneur or own a small, fast-growing businesses, Angel Capital provides a complete toolkit for raising capital in today's challenging economic landscape. The authors, who manage the largest angel network in the U.S., offer real-world advice on how to find investors and take control of the private placement process. Using revolutionary typology and unmatched proprietary research, they explain all stages of raising capital, from valuation to negotiation to due diligence. In addition, you'll find a comprehensive directory of alternative capital resources, based on research of over 2,000 organizations, and a legal appendix that serves as a short course in exempt offerings and provides the skills needed to have success with any early-stage business venture or investment. Order your copy today.
Fast track route to understanding the business of angel investing. Covers the key areas of angel investing from understanding the inefficiencies of the marketplace and the evolution of the industry to developing a successful angel investing practice. Examples and lessons from some of the world's most active private equity marketplaces, including the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide.
Provides great insight into the mutual fund industry and how money managers operate. Explores the human side of the money management business in a clear and easy to understand manner.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83512911/Essential_Stock_Picking_Strategies_What_Works_on_Wall_Street.rar
The concept of profiting from trading volatility is not new, but is known to only a few players in the derivatives industry. Buying and Selling Volatility is the first book to explain this trading strategy in detail without using complex mathematics. Offering a new approach to the subject of options, seen purely from a volatility viewpoint, the author uses illustrations to clearly explain the connection between volatility and options. He explains how investors can profit from the volatility, or lack of volatility, of an option price regardless of whether the market rises or falls. Useful to both novice investors and professional traders, Buying and Selling Volatility also supplies the reader with a risk management software system that is comparable to those used commercially.
Buying and Selling Volatility explains, with the extensive use of diagrams, how one can profit from the volatility (or lack of it) of the price of an instrument, irrespective of the direction of the price. It provides a unique approach to the subject of options, seen purely from a volatility viewpoint. Clearly explains the connection between volatility and options without recourse to complex maths. An accessible guide for students, it also offers experts a fresh look at instruments they have been trading for years. Contains risk management software (Microsoft excel) on disk similar to the high price commercial versions.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83512910/Connolly_Kevin_-_Buying_and_Selling_Volatility.rar
Written primarily for students taking courses in managerial economics in Britain and Europe, The Business Economics and Managerial Decision Making analyses the growth and development of privately owned firms and also the decisions made by firms operating in both private and public sector enterprises. Coverage is clear and concise, and avoids specialist techniques such as linear programming, which in a European context tend to belong in courses dealing with operations research. The book also avoids straying into areas of industrial economics, instead retaining a sharp focus on relevant issues such as the theory of the firm and the varying objectives that may be adopted in practice. Key sections are supported by case studies of real firms and actual decisions made.
This book is a comprehensive, easily-referenced guide to understanding and managing the risks typically encountered by business organizations in the United States as they make and receive payments. An understanding of these risks has become necessary in today's environment, as evolving technologies, new laws and procedures, and the problems of check and electronic fraud have become inextricably intertwined.
Managing the Risks of Payment Systems is written for corporate executives, treasurers, funds managers, controllers, auditors, bankers, and their respective legal counsels. This book provides a basic understanding of the risks of the payment systems, how the law allocates those risks among the payor, the payee, and the collecting and paying banks, and how to best manage those risks. As the authors declare in Chapter One: "We didn't know" is no excuse.
The authors explain how to develop procedures to control the payment system risks and how to maintain and protect the legal rights of the parties to banking agreements. Chapters discuss:
* Checks and the risk of fraud
* Wire transfers and liability for fraud and errors
* The risks in the automated clearinghouse (ACH) system
* Commerce and payments in cyberspace
* How to identify and manage corporate payment system risks, including systems disruptions, backup, and physical security :
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83522083/Managing_the_Risk_of_Payment_Systems._2003.ISBN0471328480_.rar
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 involving a valuation related issue. It is no mystery, therefore, why valuation cases are ubiquitous. Today, valuation is an important and highly sophisticated process. Valuators need legitimate guidance to perform their work. The objective of this book is to provide knowledge, and guidance to those who do the valuations as well as those who are affected by them.
This unprecedented text provides:
* Clear guidance and perspective on business valuation from two of the nation's top authorities, Hon. David Laro and Dr Shannon Pratt.
* Insightful perspective and discussion on critical issues, procedures and law pertaining to business valuation.
* An overview of business valuation procedures
* Law and techniques of Fair Market Value Opinion from the Hon. David Laro and Dr. Shannon Pratt who express their unique and critical views.
* The business valuer with everything from the basics to the sophisticated. From definitions to valuing complex business interests, what you need to know about business valuation.
* Everything from empirical market evidence to credible expert business valuation testimony discussed and analyzed by the Hon. David Laro and Dr. Shannon Pratt.
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 involving a valuation related issue. It is no mystery, therefore, why valuation cases are ubiquitous. Today, valuation is an important and highly sophisticated process. Valuators need legitimate guidance to perform their work. The objective of this book is to provide knowledge, and guidance to those who do the valuations as well as those who are affected by them.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83512909/Business_Valuation_and_Taxes_Procedure__Law__and_Perspective.2005.0471694371.rar
"Steve Bragg has created a useful, relevant guide to applying performance measurements across the organization. His practical explanations and examples should enable managers to apply sophisticated performance measures in a straightforward manner. This book will be a great tool for process improvement. It should be well received by managers, accountants, and consultants."
--Clint Davies, Partner (Principal), Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker
Business managers require a variety of analytical tools to assess a host of organizational performance standards-from finance, efficiency, capacity, and market share to asset utilization, cash flows, liquidity, and capital structure. Steven Bragg's Business Ratios and Formulas represents a comprehensive resource of nearly 200 operational criteria, allowing managers and auditors to pick and choose the tools they need to best assess their organization's performance. Each cataloged measurement includes a description, an example, and some time-tested troubleshooting. Business Ratios and Formulas proves an authoritative resource for managers wishing to thoroughly assess organizational performance.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83512908/Business_Ratios_and_Formulas_-_A_Comprehensive_Guide.2002.0471396435.rar
The foreign exchange market is the largest in the world, with an
estimated $1.6 trillion average daily turnover. This book sets out to
introduce the novice to the practical skills necessary to understand
the foreign exchange market today.
A Foreign Exchange Primer provides a clear understanding of how this market functions, from the main products through to the techniques used, coverage of the main participants, details of the various 'players' and an understanding of the 'jargon' used in everyday dealings.
This concise, highly accessible primer is ideal for anyone new to or wanting to become involved in the foreign exchange market, from a dealing room or sales perspective through to the novice investor.
The foreign exchange market is the largest market in the world, with an estimated $1.6 trillion average daily turnover. This book sets out to introduce the novice to the practical skills necessary to understand the foreign exchange market today. Foreign Exchange Primer provides a clear understanding of how this market functions, from the main products through to the techniques used, coverage of the main participants, details of the various 'players' and an understanding of the 'jargon' used in everyday dealings. This concise and highly accessible primer, is ideal for anyone new to or wanting to become involved in the foreign exchange market, from a dealing room or sales perspective through to the novice investor.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83512904/A_Foreign_Exchange_Primer.2003.0470851627.rar
An updated approach to classic security analysis
The principles of value investing outlined by Graham and Dodd in the 1940s continues to be used today by individuals and companies who face challenging investment decisions. A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing examines the classic Graham and Dodd approach to valuation and updates it for the twenty-first century. Thomas Au, a credentialed analyst with a leading insurance company and an ex-Value Line analyst, reworks the basics of value investing from net present value, financial statement analysis, and return on capital to return and leverage, asset allocation, and diversification. Through case studies and real-time analysis, A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing presents readers with examples that will make analysis and portfolio theory more relevant and powerful.
Thomas P. Au (Hartford, CT) is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager for the investment arm of a large insurance and healthcare provider. His specialty is emerging and international markets. He received his BA, cum laude, with a double major in economics and history, from Yale University, and an MBA in finance from New York University.
An updated approach to classic security analysis
The principles of value investing outlined by Graham and Dodd in the 1940s continues to be used today by individuals and companies who face challenging investment decisions. A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing examines the classic Graham and Dodd approach to valuation and updates it for the twenty-first century. Thomas Au, a credentialed analyst with a leading insurance company and an ex-Value Line analyst, reworks the basics of value investing from net present value, financial statement analysis, and return on capital to return and leverage, asset allocation, and diversification. Through case studies and real-time analysis, A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing presents readers with examples that will make analysis and portfolio theory more relevant and powerful.
Thomas P. Au (Hartford, CT) is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager for the investment arm of a large insurance and healthcare provider. His specialty is emerging and international markets. He received his BA, cum laude, with a double major in economics and history, from Yale University, and an MBA in finance from New York University.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83512905/A_Modern_Approach_to_Graham_and_Dodd_Investing.2004.0471584150.rar
If you are squeamish about choosing colors, feel uninspired by a blank browser window,
or get lost trying to choose the right font, this book is for you. In it, I take a
methodical approach to presenting traditional graphic design theory as it
applies to today's web site development industry. While the content is directed
toward programmers and developers, it provides a design primer that will benefit
readers at any level.
Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/83437674/The.Principles.of.Beautiful.Web.Design.pdf
or get lost trying to choose the right font, this book is for you. In it, I take a
methodical approach to presenting traditional graphic design theory as it
applies to today's web site development industry. While the content is directed
toward programmers and developers, it provides a design primer that will benefit
readers at any level.
Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/83437674/The.Principles.of.Beautiful.Web.Design.pdf
Every Tool Explained. There are 130 pages which are full of stop spamming, projects and tips on how to use Photoshop easily and how to get the best out of one of the best photo imaging programs out there.
Subjects covered in the book include:
Selection Tools in Photoshop:
Navigating and Editing Your Images
Using the Brushes and Pencil Tools
Using the Cloning and Healing Tools
The Gradient, Eraser and Fill Tools
Getting to Know the Effects Tools
Working with the Type Tool
Working with Paths, Vectors and Masks
Annotations, Notes and the Measure Tool
Creating Top Quality Artwork
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http://rapidshare.com/files/83455676/Adobe.Photoshop_-_Every.Tool.Explained.pdf
