Most people are happy to pay their taxes. But just how much we have to pay is not always straightforward, and it is frighteningly easy for a non-specialist to get the sums wrong or to overlook some significant item.Written with wit and humour, HMRC: Her Majesty's Roller Coaster takes the reader through the potentially stomach-churning stages of what happens when Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs decide that someone has indeed got the sums wrong and not paid enough tax. It co...

Learn all you need to know about interviewing for recruitment, frompreparing suitable questions and structuring an interview to analyzinginformation and reaching a decision. Interviewing Skills shows how tochoose a new person to fill a post or interview colleagues for apromotion, and it also provides practical techniques to use wheninterviewing. Power tips help you handle real-life situations anddevelop first-class interviewing skills that will dra...

A practical, e-book guide to reducing stress which will give you the information and skills to succeedFind out how to cope with stress in the workplace; from identifying symptoms to introducing coping strategies. You'll learn to reorganise your work practices, think positively and pick up practical techniques to use when dealing with potential problem areas.Tips, dos and don'ts and 'SOS' hints on what to do in a particular situation, plus real-life case studies dem...

Learn all you need to know about allocating your time wisely fromassessing the reasons that time problems arise to distributing yourtime realistically and effectively. Manage Your Time not only shows youhow to prioritise your workload and cope with other people's demandsbut also provides practical techniques for you to use when organisingyour time. Power tips help you to handle real-life situations anddevelop first-class time-management skills that...

Learn all you need to know about meetings from planning and preparingan agenda to establishing formal procedures and dealing withpotentially volatile situations. Managing Meetings shows how to chairand participate fully in a meeting plus it also provides practicaltechniques for you to use to make meetings work for you. Power tipshelp you handle real-life situations and develop first-class meetingskills that will dramatically improve efficiency and ...

Your handy mini-guide to the eurozone crisisThese are turbulent times for Europe. The European debt crisis has dominated headlines, toppled elected leaders, and even called into question the survival of the Euro itself. In fact, not a day goes by without headlines screaming about the eurozone in crisis.But what are the key issues at stake? What exactly caused the crisis...and what might happen next? Julian Knight walks you through the issues and explains - ...

The classic warts-and-all portrait of the 1980s financial scene.The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of '29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment banker and later financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fueled the decade.

Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector.Joris immersed himself in the City for a few years, speaking to over 200 people - from the competitive investment bankers and elite hedge-fund managers to downtrodden back-office staff, reviled HR managers and those m...

In September 2005, corporate South Africa was rocked by the violent murder of mining maverick Brett Kebble. In life, he was known as a billionaire patron of the arts, compassionate philanthropist, champion of black economic empowerment, urbane raconteur and generous host. But within six months of his death, Kebble was exposed as the architect of one of the biggest and most convoluted frauds seen by any stock exchange in the world, a flawed genius who lied and cheated and stole so cunningly...

'A compelling portrait of early 21st century casino capitalism ... essential reading.' - The TimesOn 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan from the Bank of England.It was the latest in a long line of scoops by this award-winning journalist. Over the weeks that followed, the Government found itself exposed to the Rock to th...

'A truly gripping narrative . . . The fact that Tett is able to reproduce such raw private communications is a tribute to her journalistic abilities' Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times'Her blow-by-blow story is an impressive piece of detective work. She pulls back the curtain on a closed, unaccountable world of finance' Will Hutton, GuardianIn the mid 1990s, at a vast hotel complex on a private Florida beach, dozens of bankers f...

Peter Cundill, a philanthropist and investor whose work has been praised by the likes of Warren Buffett, found his life changed forever when he discovered the value investment principles of Benjamin Graham and began to put them into action. There's Always Something to Do tells the story of Cundill's voyage of discovery, with all its ups and downs, as he developed his immensely successful investment strategies.In the context of recent financial upheavals and ongoing uncerta...