The book RedtoBlack outlines all the typical fundamental areas and subjects handled in a finance department. This is especially important for non-financial executives who may not have the background in finance and have to rely extensively on their CFO. RedtoBlack will quickly accelerate your learning curve about what is important in a finance department, what questions to ask to get the most out of that department and how to best deploy the finance team to be value adders to your business....

Good records do more than make tax season easier. They help you understand what happened in your business, preserve the information behind each transaction, and identify questions before year-end pressure builds.Many small business owners reach year-end with missing receipts, unclear transfers, unexplained deposits, mixed business and personal spending, or GST/HST amounts that were never kept visible. The Tax-Ready Small Business in Canada provides a practical system for preventing...

The Hugo Award–winning author reunites with his acclaimed coauthor in "a multi-generational, star-spanning epic with intriguing, fast-paced action" ( New York Times– bestselling author Brian Herbert).Fleeing a solar system overrun by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, the crew of the starship John Glenn set course for the pristine planet Ymir. But their plan to terraform Ymir and create a utopian society that limits tech...

A hilarious satire of today's media wars set in 1773 Boston. A conservative newspaper printer and a feisty American prostitute use their unique skills to uncover government corruption and scandals in colonial Massachusetts in hopes of igniting an American Revolution.

Cooper was one of the first writers to treat America's westward expansion as a great and ongoing epic; it was a theme of conflict-between civilization and the untouched wild, white culture and its insistent encroachments on the cultures of native America. Cooper fills his novels with legend and folklore, tall-tales, romance, and an earthy individualism. This American frontier classic chronicles the adventures of Hawkeye and his Indian friend, Chingachgook, during the French and Indian War....

The first interstellar ship, John Glenn, fled a solar system populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn’s crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir in hopes of creating a utopian society that will limit intelligent technology, but by some miscalculation they have landed in the wrong system. Short on the antimatter needed to continue to Ymir, they must shape nearb...

Miriam Margolyes leads a comedy spoof version of John Galsworthy's classic 'The Forsyte Saga' novelsFollow the uproarious antics of the Edwardian Fosdyke family as they work their way out of the mining pits of Lancashire to become rulers of a global tripe empire. An empire that the villainous Roger Ditchely will stop at nothing to try and bring down...A classic tale of struggle, power, personalities, and offal.Based on Bill Tidy's hugely popular Dai...

A healthy bank balance can still contain money you cannot safely spend.For many Canadian small-business owners, one account holds several kinds of money at once: GST/HST collected, income-tax reserves, amounts needed for upcoming bills, operating cash and money the owner hopes to withdraw. When everything appears as one balance, it is easy to mistake cash in the account for cash that is available.That Money Already Has a Job provides a practical method for determining what ...

When trying to move ahead or even just keep a job there are actions that would be of great advantage to any employee, and there are strategies that are plain stupid interestingly enough, the stupid strategies are twice as frequent in corporate America. Indispensable by Monday goes beyond conventional wisdom to reveal and teach the skills and behaviors that any employee at any level of any organization can implement to bring substantial dollars to the company. Going beyond the basics of dre...

Research synthesis is the practice of systematically distilling and integrating data from many studies in order to draw more reliable conclusions about a given research issue. When the first edition of The Handbook of Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis was published in 1994, it quickly became the definitive reference for conducting meta-analyses in both the social and behavioral sciences. In the third edition, editors Harris Cooper, Larry Hedges, and Jeff Valentine present updat...

A diverse career in broadcasting and government public affairs is used to reflect on minds eye memory moments highlighting 57 years of life involvement and observation as a curious reporter and as a human being. Interesting stories and events covered as a reporter, fascinating characters interviewed, events tragic or unique, unusual lifetime coincidences and the trials and tribulations of societal and agricultural evolution provide a fascinating backdrop to the authors journey.Shar...

"Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings in Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation."Martin Luther King, Jr.Letter from a Birmingham Jail1963Anybody who is familiar with the Civil Rights movement knows that 1964 was a pivotal ye...