The fifth edition of Corporate Finance: Principles and Practice really does do what it says on the tin. Key principles and mathematical techniques are clearly explained step by-step and later put into practice through the use of many vignettes taking a closer look at real well-known companies.

* Inside the financial crisis as the bankers themseves rode the boom and fell with the crash, from the first UK journalist to predict it * Updated for this edition

A best selling, simple guide to understanding the various taxes affecting the small business. Clear, concise and written by one of the UK's leading tax writers, this book will take the terror out of tax and lessen the sting of unnecessary accountants' fees.

First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how smart design is the new competitive frontier. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how--and why--some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.

The authors claim to show how lean thinking with a new definition of value can breathe life into a company or economic activity, doubling productivity and sales whilst stabilizing employment, by providing a step by step plan based on in depth studies of fifty lean companies around the world.

The explosive Sunday Times bestseller dishes the dirt on life in the Square Mile

As an EHM in the '60s and '70s, covertly recruited by the US National Security Agency, John Perkins helped further American imperial interests in countries such as Ecuador, Panama, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. He tried to write this book four times but was threatened or bribed each time to halt. The events of 9/11 forced him to reveal the truth.

A comprehensive introduction to the business of banking, this book covers both theoretical and applied issues relating to the global banking industry, highlighted by examples from across Europe and the wider international arena. It covers contemporary central banking and bank regulation issues comparing the UK, Eurozone and the US.

Picking up where Liar's Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer's desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners.

Second edition of best-selling introduction to econometrics specifically written for finance students.

Investing in Shares For Dummies covers the basics of investing for individuals and households that want to watch their savings grow. Simple and straight-forward, this friendly guide covers all the categories of shares, shows readers how to analyse the key markets, and offers invaluable resources for developing a portfolio.

Challenges what you thought you knew about competing in the crowded market place. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, the authors argue that lasting success comes from creating 'blue oceans': untapped new market spaces ripe from growth.

Using a combination of theory and case studies Corporate Governance 3e provides students with the perfect introduction to the field. This new edition addresses the latest developments in corporate governance around the world, against the backdrop of an unfolding global financial crisis.