A comprehensive and insightful approach enabling finance mangers to contribute to business performance and valuationIn Financial Management: Partner in Driving Performance and Value, experienced financial executive and consultant Jack Alexander delivers a fresh, new take on improving performance and creating shareholder value for CFOs, controllers, C-suite executives, and FP&A professionals. In the book, you’ll learn about best practices in operational and...

No matter what industry your company competes in, you need to have a firm understanding of how to create a direct link between shareholder value and critical business processes in order to improve performance and achieve long-term value. Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation contains the information and expertise you need to do just this—and much more.

1967 - 2024A true love story is the "dash" between those dates.Excitement, drama, upheaval, fire, flood, cyclones, rogues and anything else you may imagine. Each event made their love stronger.Helen and Jack - whatever the drama or trauma, they managed the crises together, two very independent people welded into one.There were three months of isolation, a death, serious medical issues, kidnapping, and so many more unexpected...

FACT: Growing up is hard to do. Fictional FACT: Growing up ENCHANTED is even harder to do! The Eisner-nominated all-ages fantasy adventure series is back in print and finally collected as a trade! Join young Olianna and her family & friends as she tries to learn life’s mundane lessons while practicing magic in a world of giants, trolls, and dragons! Coming to mobile phones as a game in May!

Olianna and the gang returns for a second volume of fantasy adventure for all-ages! Something sinister is awakened from the icy depths of the lake one morning. Still forbidden to use her magic, can Oli and her family evade the sea-dragon’s clammy clutches and escape death’s siren call? Also included in this edition: an unpublished, unproduced script of Oli and the gang facing off against…ghosts!

Understanding the key IT issues facing firms within their surrounding contexts is critical for the firm, government, and their international counterparts.In response to the dominant and pervasive bias in Information Systems (IS) research towards American and Western views, the World IT Project was launched and is the largest study of its kind in the field. This book captures the organizational, technological, and individual issues of IT employees across 37 countries.The book enables manage...

Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Spine, 2nd edition, by a distinguished critical care neurosurgeon, Jack Jallo, and a renowned spine surgeon, Alexander Vaccaro, incorporates salient components of the highly praised first edition. The updated text reflects cutting-edge discussion on spine injury management in a neurocritical care setting. Contributions from top experts in neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, neurology, critical care, cardiac and pulmonary care, and trauma...

Jack Paar, America's midnight maverick, has become the most talked-about, most controversial personality in television by speaking out frankly and frequently—and letting the ratings fall where they may. As a result he has been denounced in Washington, attacked in the press, investigated by the Harris committee and sued by Jimmy Hoffa. Yet, withal, he has hobnobbed with presidents and premiers, corralled sponsors and honors galore, discovered more fine new talent than anyone in television h...

When someone sent distress signals to outer space from the planet Tschai, it was Adam Reith’s misfortune to be sent from Earth to investigate. Because when his ship came close to Tschai, it was torpedoed—and Adam escaped to the surface with his life and nothing else.On Tschai, a vast, previously unexplored planet, Adam is taken as a slave by humans and learns that there are four other intelligent but nonhuman races dominant on this strange world. To solve the mystery of the distres...

Marooned on the strange planet Tschai, Adam Reith agreed to lead an expedition to return the princess Ylin Ylan, the Flower of Cath, to her homeland halfway around the globe.Monsters of land and sea lay before them, as well as beings both human and alien who might rob, kill, or enslave them. Tschai was a large planet, an ancient planet, where four powerful alien races struggled for mastery while humans were treated as pawns; nothing would be easy for Reith on this journey. But the ...

The beloved classic from award-winning author-illustrator Ezra Jack Keats.How can you enter a pet show when your pet runs away? That's the question Archie faces when he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show. Fortunately, he does some fast thinking to win a prize.

Over the last decade, international rankings have emerged as a critical tool used by international actors engaged in global governance. State practices and performance are now judged by a number of high-profile indices, including assessments of their levels of corruption, quality of democracy, creditworthiness, media freedom, and business environment. However, these rankings always carry value judgments, methodological choices, and implicit political agendas. This volume expertly addresses...