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Financial Management
Financial Intelligence Collection: Savvy Advice for Managers Looking to Increase Their Knowledge, Confidence, and Impact Companies expect managers to use financial data to allocate resources and run their departments. But many managers can't read a balance sheet, wouldn't recognize a liquidity ratio, and don't know how to calculate return on investment. This specially priced collection gives managers the savvy advice they need to increase their impact on financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Save more than 15% off the individual prices when you order this collection.
Essentials of Finance and Budgeting: Business Literacy for HR Professionals (Paperback)
By Harvard Business School PressFrom reading financial statements to mastering budget forecasts to measuring human capital, this book explains everything readers need to know to make wise financial decisions for the HR department and the organization.
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits (Hardcover)
By Steven R. Anderson; Robert S. KaplanThis book introduces time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), an easier and more powerful approach for measuring cost and profitability that exploits the data now available from ERP systems. With TDABC, managers spend less time and money gathering and maintaining data and more time addressing the problems that TDABC revealssuch as inefficient processes, unprofitable products and customers, and excess capacity.
In Competitive Advantage
Strategies to Fight Low-Cost Rivals (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
By Nirmalya KumarIgnoring low-cost rivals is a mistake. So is setting off a price war. Traditional companies have only a few options for responding to the latest wave of cut-price competition, but they can learn how to choose the right approach.
Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning (Hardcover)
By Thomas H. Davenport; Jeanne G. HarrisThe authors show how exemplars of the use of analyticsorganizations as diverse as the Boston Red Sox, Netflix, Amazon.com, Cemex, Capital One, Harrah's Entertainment, Procter & Gamble, and Best Buyare using new tools to trump rivals. Through analytics, these companies identify their most profitable customers, accelerate product innovation, optimize supply chains and pricing, and identify the true drivers of financial performance.
How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy (Hardcover)
By Richard H.K. VietorCountries around the world are jockeying more fiercely than ever for the markets, technologies, skills, foreign investment, and distribution channels needed to grow their economies and raise their standards of living. A provocative account and a rich resource, this book offers potent insights into how the business environment has evolved in crucial nationsand what its trajectory might look like in the future.