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Accounting For Business Third Edition Description: `Accounting for Business` is ideal for undergraduate students on business and accounting courses who need to understand the nuts and bolts of financial accounting. This popular textbook has always enjoyed a deserved reputation for accessibility and thoroughness. Now in its third edition, its contents have been fully updated and restructured to make them even easier to use. Readers will benefit from the coverage of current accounting practices and legislation, in addition to the range of worked examples and self-test activities throughout the book. `Accounting for Business` clearly explains accounting information`s role in making sound business decisions and focuses upon the aspects of accounting practice which are most relevant to the non-specialist manager. It is ideal for first year undergraduates of business studies, higher students and those pursuing professional accountancy qualifications.This third edition has been restructured, to further enhance its `student centred` approach. The content has now been broken down into 25 roughly equivalent `bite-sized` individual study topics. Each of these requires 6 hours of study time, enabling this book to support a full scale semester course with two topics a week, or a full year course at one topic a week. Includes a wide selection of topical case studies, with a broad spread of international examples.Designed to support a lecture programme and independent learningStudent centred and student testedWorked examples and self-test activities throughout... Read More about the "Accounting For Business Third Edition" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Advances In Accounting Education Teaching And Curriculum Innovations Description: Advances in Accounting Education is a refereed, academic research annual whose purpose is to help meet the needs of faculty members interested in ways to improve their classroom instruction. We publish thoughtful, well-developed articles that are readable, relevant and reliable. Articles may be either empirical or non-empirical. They emphasize pedagogy, iE., explaining how faculty members can improve their teaching methods or how accounting units can improve their curricula - programs.... Read More about the "Advances In Accounting Education Teaching And Curriculum Innovations" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Advances In Hospitality And Leisure Volume 1 Description: Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, a new peer-review serial, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure, and tourism. It provides a platform to galvanize thoughts on contemporary issues and emerging trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective. The main focus of this serial is to transcend the innovative methods of inquiry so as to inspire new research topics that are vital and have been in large neglected. The serial is keen to address the needs of the populace having interests in disseminating ideas, concepts and theories derived from scholarly investigations. Potential readers may retrieve useful texts to outline new research agendas, suggest viable topics for a dissertation work, and augment the knowledge of the subjects of interest.... Read More about the "Advances In Hospitality And Leisure Volume 1" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Advances In International Accounting Description: Advances in International Accounting is a refereed, academic research annual, that is devoted to publishing articles about advancements in the development of accounting and its related disciplines from an international perspective. This serial examines how these developments affect the financial reporting and disclosure practices, taxation, management accounting practices, and auditing of multinational corporations, as well as their effect on the education of professional accountants worldwide. Advances in International Accounting welcomes traditional and alternative approaches, including theoretical research, empirical research, applied research, and cross-cultural studies.... Read More about the "Advances In International Accounting" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Bk Monologues Aspiring Actors Description: A collection of monologues for young actors whose characters are similar in age, with selections ranging from classical Greek works to Sam Shepard and Oscar Wilde.... Read More about the "Bk Monologues Aspiring Actors" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Cima Revision Cards Description: CIMA Revision Cards are the only materials written and endorsed by CIMA. They provide succinct but complete coverage of all the major points of the new CIMA 2005 syllabus. The pocket-sized, spiral-bound format enables them to be carried around easily, making them invaluable resources wherever you are. Diagrams and bulleted lists are used throughout to display the key points as clearly and concisely as possible. This simplifies the syllabus and makes the points easy to learn and remember. CIMA Revision Cards provide: Exam tips and hints A summary of all the key topics of the new syllabus Visual aids to consolidate learning Exam focused, pocket sized revision guides summarising the key topics of the new CIMA syllabus Diagrams and tables throughout reinforce key concepts and aid memory retention and recall Easily portable size - ideal for pockets and bags... Read More about the "Cima Revision Cards" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Destination Brandin Second Edition Description: In today`s highly competitive market, many destinations - from individual resorts to countries - are adopting branding techniques similar to those used by `Coca Cola`, `Nike` and `Sony` in an effort to differentiate their identities and to emphasize the uniqueness of their product. By focusing on a range of global case studies, Destination Branding demonstrates that the adoption of a highly targeted, consumer research-based, multi-agency `mood branding` initiative leads to success every time. Includes five completely new chapters authored by brand consultants, destination marketers and academics, including Philip Kotler and Wally Olins. A more global coverage with new case studies and examples from the US, New Zealand, Australia and Asia. Considers the web as a channel of place branding - promotion and its effects on the industry... Read More about the "Destination Brandin Second Edition" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Economics Of Recreation, Leisure And Tourism Third Edition Description: Now in its third successful edition, The Economics of Leisure and Tourism has been fully revised and updated to cover all the latest issues and changes, and more. Essentially a real world text in applied economics, it explains the necessary economic theories from first principles and applies them to a range of leisure and tourism problems and issues at the consumer, business, national and international level.Key themes discussed are: How is the provision of leisure and tourism determined and could it be provided in a different way? What are the key opportunities and threats facing leisure and tourism&environmental impacts? How can economics be used to manage leisure and tourism?International in its outlook, this text uses examples from Brazil, China, India and Japan, as well as Europe, North America and Australia.With an accompanying website with links and Powerpoint resources for lecturers, this new edition provides: New chapters on regeneration, tourism as an economic development strategy, globalisation and ppolitical economy of tourism. Introduction of dependency theory and development economics theories Liberal use of press cuttings, journal articles and international case studies User friendly learning features such as: visual mapping of chapter contents, chapter objectives, summaries of key points short answer questions. User-friendly and relevant, no `theory for theory`s sake` Visual mapping of the content of each chapter Liberal use of press cuttings and international case studies (eG. North America, Europe and Australia)... Read More about the "Economics Of Recreation, Leisure And Tourism Third Edition" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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European Gastronomy Into The 21st Century Description: `European Gastronomy into the 21st Century` is a unique text examining the development and origins of European food traditions within social, economic and geographical contexts.Gastronomy is the art and science of good eating and drinking: a concept that extends outwards to embrace wider notions of tradition, culture, society and civilisation. This book provides a rigorous, well researched and much needed treatment of the subject, systematically outlining: the development of European gastronomic tradition, and the social, economic, philosophical and geographical contexts of change the experiences, philosophies and relative contributions of great gastronomes, past and present the interplay of traditional and contemporary influences on modern gastronomy the relationship between gastronomy and and travel and tourism salient issues of nutrition, food hygiene and health promotionTaking an all-encompassing look at the subject of gastronomy past, present and future, `European Gastronomy into the 21st Century` uses example menus and case studies to demonstrate the theory. It also provides an insight into the business arena, using key destination restaurants to illustrate management techniques and marketing issues. Accessible and highly structured, the book guides the reader through its wide-ranging and thought-provoking content.The only book of its kind in this subject areaCompletely up-to-date comprehensive guideEssential reading for industry practitioners and students of hospitality management and culinary arts courses... Read More about the "European Gastronomy Into The 21st Century" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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In Search Of Hospitality Description: `In Search of Hospitality` is a unique contribution to the study of hospitality, exploring the practice of hospitality across disciplines, and adopting an international perspective where appropriate. This title brings together an extraordinary collection of leading researches and writers in hospitality, sociology, philosophy and social history, thereby providing a broad and comprehensive perspective on hospitality. It focuses the study of hospitality across the range of human, social and economic settings, and provides a reference point for the future development of hospitality as an academic discipline.Harnessing this wide range of viewpoints, `In Search of Hospitality` offers an intellectually stimulating and innovative approach to the study of hospitality. It is ideal for students and academics within both the applied fields of hospitality and tourism studies and the general fields of business studies and behaviour sciences. It is also suitable for practitioners in hospitality, leisure and tourism businesses, for whom it provides a provocative and informative guide to understanding and providing hospitality within a commercial contextAn outstanding text in hospitality management literature, now in a paperback editiondraws together thinking and influences from a diverse range of both national and international perspectivesprovocative and informative, appeals to both academics and practitioners, with contributions from leading hospitality experts.... Read More about the "In Search Of Hospitality" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Managing Visitor Attractions Description: `Managing Visitor Attractions` is a unique text that provides a cutting edge insight into the issues, principles and practices of visitor attractions today and into the future.Divided into five parts, the book tackles the following topics:the role and nature of visitor attractionsthe development of visitor attraction provisionthe management of visitor attractionsthe marketing of visitor attractionsfuture issues and trends With contributions from around the world, the book is illustrated with up-to-date, international case studies from the UK, USA, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, China, Denmark and Canada. It is an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of visitor attraction management, written by subject specialists with a wealth of experience in this field.Provides a cutting insight into the issues, principles and practices of visitor attractionsWell-renowned contributors with a wealth of experience in the fieldUp-to-date international case studies from the UK, USA, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Greece and Canada... Read More about the "Managing Visitor Attractions" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Portfolio Management In Practice Description: As individuals are becoming more and more responsible for ensuring their own financial future, portfolio or fund management has taken on an increasingly important role in banks` ranges of offerings to their clients. In addition, as interest rates have come down and the stock market has gone up and come down again, clients have a choice of leaving their saving in deposit accounts, or putting those savings in unit trusts or investment portfolios which invest in equities and - or bonds. Individuals are becoming aware that they might need to top up government pension allocations. Likewise, corporations who run employee pension schemes have to ensure that they are able to cover their current and future liabilities. Investing in unit trusts or mutual funds is one way for individuals and corporations alike to potentially enhance the returns on their savings.Introduction to Portfolio Management covers the:Theoretical underpinnings of portfolio managementBasics of portfolio constructionConstraints to be considered when building a client portfolioTypes of analysis used for asset allocation and stock selectionMain types of funds available to investorsInspired from the basic entry level training courses that have been developed by major international banks worldwide.Will enable MSc Finance students, MBA students and those already in the finance profession to gain an understanding of the basic information and principles underlying the topic under discussionQuestions with answers, study topics, practical real world examples and text with an extensive bibliography and references ensure learning outcomes can be immediately applied... Read More about the "Portfolio Management In Practice" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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