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Formula Funding of Public Services
The use of formulae has become widespread in recent years across most developed countries. In the UK, a conservative estimate is that annually £150 billion of public service expenditure is distributed using formulae, in services such as health care, local government, social security and higher education. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice underlying the us…
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- 9780203013021
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Capital Returns : Investing Through the Capital Cycle: A Money Manager’s Re…
We live in an age of serial asset bubbles and spectacular busts. Economists, policymakers, central bankers and most people in the financial world have been blindsided by these busts, while investors have lost trillions. Economists argue that bubbles can only be spotted after they burst and that market moves are unpredictable. Yet Marathon Asset Management, a London-based investment firm managin…
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- 978-1-137-57165-6
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- 650
Conflict and Change in EU Budgetary Politics
Why did the European Union experience a stark variation in the levels of conflict between the late 1970s, when budgetary disputes dominated European politics, and the 1990s, when political actors were able to settle upon budgetary agreements without major conflicts? This book responds to this key question with a two-step argument: Its first part shows that decision-making rules can be regard…
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The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization
The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy. Globa…
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- 9780203000403
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Financial Ratios for Executives
Financial Ratios for Executives is written specifically with today’s global executive in mind. It makes financial ratios easy to understand and use effectively. This short book will prove invaluable to both financial and non-financial executives looking for easy, intuitive methods to assess corporate health and assist in strategic decision making.
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- 978-1-4842-0731-4
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- VIII, 148
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Financial Modeling for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
In addition to many valuable exercises and tips for using Excel to model your business, this book contains a combination of practical advice born of hard-won lessons, advanced strategic thought, and the insightful use of hard skills. With a basic knowledge of Excel assumed, it will help you learn to think like an experienced business person who expects to make money on the products or services …
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- 978-1-4842-0370-5
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- XX, 348
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Aboriginal Population Profiles for Development Planning in the Northern East …
Aboriginal australians; Western australia; Kimberly; Population; Economic conditions; Social conditions
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- 9781920942038
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- 338 TAY a
Financial Accounting and Management Control
This book is about financial accounting and management control and how these two information systems are related as well as how their objectives conflict. At the most fundamental level, the objective of financial accounting is to provide owners and funders with comparable information on a company's value creation. The aim of management control, on the other hand, is to give the board, senior ex…
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- 978-3-319-13782-7
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- XI, 138
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- Contributions to Management Science
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Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers : Creating Opportunities T…
This book develops foresight techniques to turn future societal challenges into opportunities. The authors present foresight approaches for innovation policy and management. Future developments in fields such as education, energy, new materials, nanotechnologies are highlighted for different countries. Readers will discover tools and instruments to capture the potentials of the grand societal c…
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- 9783319256283
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- XX, 273 pages 59 illustrations, 55 illustrations in color.
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Derivative Security Pricing Techniques, Methods and Applications
The book presents applications of stochastic calculus to derivative security pricing and interest rate modelling. By focusing more on the financial intuition of the applications rather than the mathematical formalities, the book provides the essential knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts of stochastic finance, and how to implement them to develop pricing models for derivatives as…
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