The Vest Pocket CFO, 3rd Edition

by Jae K. Shim (California State University); Joel G. Siegel (Queens College, City University of New York)

• ISBN13: 9780470168127
• ISBN10: 0470168129
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The thorough reference that goes wherever you goThe Vest Pocket CFO is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's busy CFO, controller, treasurer, and other finance professionals. Written in an easy Q&A format and packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions for a wide variety of accounting and finance problems, readers can take this handy reference wherever they go-on a business trip, visiting a client, conducting a conference call, or attending a meeting.

Author Biography

Jae K. Shim, PhD, has authored or coauthored more than fifty professional and college accounting books. He is CEO of Delta Consulting Co., a financial consulting and training firm and has been a consultant to commercial and nonprofit organizations for over thirty years.

Joel G. Siegel, PhD, CPA, is the author of over fifty books and has written hundreds of articles for accounting and financial journals. Dr. Siegel has acted as a consultant in accounting issues to many organizations, including IT&T, Citicorp, and Person-Wolinsky CPA Review.

Table of Contents

Prologue: At War Between the Two Rivers

The Rhetoric of Conquest

Between Good and Evil.Terrorism

Rogue states and the axis of evil

Weapons of mass destruction

Democracy

Liberal Alibis

The Cultists of Eternal War

The Bush Doctrine

Bush II: the Republican right take the helm

Chronicle of a war foretold

The Grand Strategy of the American Empire

American strategy after the Cold War.Exploiting America's military edge

America versus Europe

The Geopolitics of Oil

Remaking the Middle East.Blood and oil

Collision of Empires

Imperialism and Empire

The peculiarities of American imperialism

A return to inter-imperialist rivalries

Catastrophe immanent

Epilogue Nemesis, the Daughter of Justice

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