Essential Finance

Finance Essentials for Managers delivers the key concepts you need to know, so you can master the topics required for moving to the next step in your career. Best of all, no prior accounting or finance experience is required.

Drawn from the modern-day classic, Think & Grow Rich, this new edition dives deeper into the five core secrets that have shown the greatest success. With these five lessons, you have the power to change your life and set you upon the path of learning and self-development. Originally published in 1937, Napoleon Hill draws on stories from Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and more than 500 other men of great wealth to demonstrate his moneymaking philosophies.

"Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up," Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of 11 talks, delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between 1986 and 2007, has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to absorb the enduring wit and wisdom of one of the great minds of the 20th and 21st centuries.

If you're feeling broke, stressed and fed up of living pay cheque to pay cheque then you're in the right place. Anna Brading was in your position once too, but now she's changed her life, and her finances, and is here to help you do the same. Let Anna walk you through the 10 Steps to mastering your money as you learn how to piece together your own financial plan, step by step, and track your progress as you go.

The bar is set high for inventory control professionals - and well-ordered stock rooms and records are just the beginning. Beyond core tasks such as locating items, you've got to project future business needs, hold down costs, and fix supply chain problems. You need strategic and financial knowledge and the skills to manage many moving parts. Essentials of Inventory Management is the answer audiobook on which practitioners and students rely. It breaks down the job into easy concepts and concrete steps.

Everybody knows there’s money to be made in stocks. But the reality is only a fraction of investors actually turn profits. If you’re a retail investor with no professional experience…and you don’t have access to all the “insider knowledge” and resources that institutional investors have…you’re more or less gambling your money away.

Created for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure. It provides the latest methods for measuring and transferring credit risk, increasing risk-management transparency, and implementing an organization-wide Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) approach.

American baby boomers are aging, and 15 million of them never had children. Who will take care of them? Unprecedented in US history, this demographic will create challenges for these individuals, as well as for society. This book is a passionate exploration of the path ahead for "Solo Agers". Author Sara Zeff Geber takes listeners on a journey, starting with the choice for childlessness and then suggests ways in which Solo Agers can mitigate the absence of adult children by relationship-building and rigorous planning for their future.

When it was first published in 2005, The Essentials of Risk Management became an instant classic in risk management. Now, the authors provide a comprehensively updated and revised edition to help you succeed in a world rocked by unprecedented changes.

Essential Money Skills for Teens Made Simple is the only guide they’ll need to step into adulthood fully prepared. This comprehensive guide helps teens master money management and build wealth with ease.

This book builds on Iain's best seller Legally Avoid Property Taxes, which includes 51 tax tips that you should be aware of to legally avoid tax - whether you do your own self-assessment returns or pass everything over to your accountant, he wants to make absolutely sure that you've not left any money on the HMRC table. This book is a review of the significant changes that have been brought about by the 2015 budget, how you can make sense of these changes, and what you can do to lessen the impact of direct taxation on your property portfolio.

Interested in the concept of property investing but unsure where to start? This book is the most comprehensive book ever written on the subject. It will give you a firm understanding of precisely what is needed to be successful with your investments as well as offer you guidance and clarity on what your next tasks should be.

From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, to the top economic thought leaders of today, The Economics Book is the essential audio reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work. An easy-to-follow style, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text throw light on the applications of economics, making them relatable through everyday examples and concerns.

Robert Nozick was a professor of philosophy at Harvard University who is most famous for his contributions to political philosophy. His 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia helped establish the classical liberal or libertarian perspective as a viable alternative to redistributive egalitarian liberalism and to socialism. Despite many philosophers’ disagreements with Nozick’s arguments, those arguments could not be ignored.

Joseph Schumpeter is one of the most accomplished economists of the 20th century. Included among his many contributions is his path-breaking work on entrepreneurship—one of the quintessential characteristics of all market economies.

This essential manual by business and development expert Mark Stokes is based on his three decades experiencing global corporate life, business, property investing, and commercial-to-residential conversions. Whether you are new to business, property, and investing, or taking your business to the next level, this indispensable manual will guide you through the proven 12 principles for mastering commercial to residential conversions.

Nobel laureate economist F. A. Hayek first revolutionized economists' understanding of markets, and then profoundly challenged the public's understanding of government.

Whether you are just thinking of getting into the market or an experienced day trader, my methodologies work for all types of investors. I believe in technical analysis above all else for reasons that will emerge as you continue listening to this book. So, I set out to provide an easy-to-follow narrative, and my passionate goal is to help you, not make your life more complicated. To provide you with a foundation for assessment, not leave you in proverbial quicksand. And I'm going to do it by opening up technical analysis at its most basic level - getting a grip on candlestick patterns.

When economists are called “influential,” it usually means they’ve changed the way other economists think. By that standard, Milton Friedman was one of the most influential economists of all time.

Ever wondered how some young influencers or entrepreneurs get rich so fast? Curious about decoding the money mysteries they know, and you don’t? Unveil the secrets that even adults wish they knew as teens. Dive into the strategies that set young moguls apart and soar ahead of 97% of your generation.