International Accounting or High Performance Employess

International Accounting

Author: Choi

Clear writing and a focus on the essentials of international accounting make this award-winning book the quintessential source for international accounting. This 5th edition doesn't overwhelm users with too much detail, yet provides enough to give essential coverage of accounting, financial reporting, and financial control. Capital markets and financial/managerial analysis underpin the “theme” of the book. The authors realize that international aspects of accounting are becoming more important as they become more common. Topics include comparative accounting, foreign currency translation, accounting for changing prices, international accounting harmonization, international financial statement analysis, managerial planning and control, financial risk management, and international taxation and transfer pricing. For practicing accounting, financial executives, investment managers, university educators, and professional administrators around the world.

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High-Performance Employess: How to Recruit, Motivate & Retain Your Best Performers

Author: Steven Skinner

Dubinsky and Skinner have uncovered 13 drivers of discretionary effort, or why employees go above and beyond what is expected of them in the job. If you are aware of these drivers, and if you use their prescription to recruit, manage and retain employees with these attributes, you can realize a company of High Performers.

Table of Contents:

	Disclaimer
	Preface
1	Beyond the Call of Duty: I Don't Know What It Is, But I Know It When I See It	1
2	Internal Motivation: Gee, I Actually Get Paid to Do This?	7
3	Initiative: Sometimes Ya Just Do It!	13
4	Upbringing: A Chip off the Old Block	19
5	Self-Satisfaction: It's Spelled P-R-I-D-E	25
6	Empathy: Walk a Mile in My Shoes	29
7	Concern: When You Care Enough to Do the Very Best	35
8	Reciprocity: I'll Scratch Your Back if You Scratch Mine	41
9	Customer Aquisition and Retention: Ka-Ching, Ka-Ching, Ka-Ching	47
10	Customer Satisfaction: Rubber Ball, Come Bouncing Back to Me	51
11	Role Modeling and Organizational Culture: A Picture Paints a Thousand Words	57
12	Recognition: Looking Goooooood!	63
13	Promotion: Opening Doors to Nirvana	69
14	Compensation: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	75
15	Carpe Diem: Go for It!	79
	Index	88