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Quantitative wheezing More Detail
Quantitative wheezing By John G Smith
eBook (PDF): $6.19
When on 15 September 2008 the news broke that Lehman Brothers had filed for the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US history I knew that financial war had been declared. Although I had no idea what... More > the full consequences might be I had a greedy need to learn and a gut feel that only by recording the most salient events to come would this need be assuaged. For a full year from October 2008, I assiduously logged events until QE, T1 ratio, monetary and fiscal stimulus and those funny packaged debts mingled with the cornflakes for breakfast. Quantitative Wheezing tells the story of how this crisis year unfolded. It objectively and in plain English shows how we were all taken for a ride by a load of greedy people whose legacy to our grandchildren will be no less destructive than the events of 1939 and the years that followed.< Less
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Quantitative Wheezing By John G Smith
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When on 15 September 2008 the news broke that Lehman Brothers had filed for the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US history I knew that financial war had been declared. Although I had no idea what... More > the full consequences might be I had a greedy need to learn and a gut feel that only by recording the most salient events to come would this need be assuaged. For a full year from October 2008, I assiduously logged events until QE, T1 ratio, monetary and fiscal stimulus and those funny packaged debts mingled with the cornflakes for breakfast. Quantitative Wheezing tells the story of how this crisis year unfolded. It objectively and in plain English shows how we were all taken for a ride by a load of greedy people whose legacy to our grandchildren will be no less destructive than the events of 1939 and the years that followed.< Less
Wise-up on business & finance More Detail
Wise-up on business & finance By John G Smith
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The content of this book is drawn from experience. It gives tips to the young executive on how to survive and flourish in the corporate world. To those aspiring students of business and finance it... More > explains in plain English how to read and interpret a balance sheet,a profit & loss account and a cash-flow statement. As a part-serious, part-humorous interlude it decodes much of the terminology that infests the business and financial world. The book includes a history of the UK stock market and sets out the fundamentals of investing, the structure of the market, share value terminology, how to choose an investment strategy and some consequences of such a choice. The author was for many years a management consultant and he gives some guidance for those considering this as a career, including a short case study. Finally, for the small to medium size businessman comes some fatherly advice on dealing with debtors and creditors and on understanding this lifestyle choice.< Less
Barn door to balance sheet More Detail
Barn door to balance sheet By John G Smith
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This is the story of how one man amongst many was unwittingly sowing the seeds for Thatcher's Britain by replacing the blast furnace with a balance sheet and the pipe and slippers for permanent... More > stress and a very sharp pencil. We invented management consultancy and corporate jargon because we believed in it, we then set about changing the way Britain worked< Less
Walking A Tightrope More Detail
Walking A Tightrope By John G Smith
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Bank bail-outs and sovereign downgrades have occurred. Throughout all, Britons have stayed calm and stoical. Savers, with their six-to-one majority, have battened down the hatches and done what... More > savers do: looked to the future and not lived for today. Mr & Mrs UK, and across the economic spectrum, have kept up their monthly mortgage payments and have been digging for victory again. The demand for garden allotments has blossomed. Not a single person has taken to the streets. This little book picks up stories that have hit the headlines during the five years to 2013 and, hopefully, adds a bit of value and some humour to “events dear boy – events”. In a historical context, the next generation or two will look back and conclude:- - How stupid were the peoples of the early 21st century. - It was all just a process of change that had to happen: a correction of self-indulgence.< Less
Barn door to balance sheet More Detail
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Barn door to balance sheet By John G Smith
eBook (ePub): $9.26
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This is the story of how one man amongst many was unwittingly sowing the seeds for Thatcher's Britain by replacing the blast furnace with a balance sheet and the pipe and slippers for permanent... More > stress and a very sharp pencil. We invented management consultancy and corporate jargon because we believed in it, we then set about changing the way Britain worked.< Less
Wise up to business More Detail
Wise up to business By John G Smith
eBook (ePub): $2.74
The content of this book is drawn from experience. It starts by giving tips to the young executive on how to survive and flourish in the corporate world. To those aspiring students of business and... More > finance it then explains in plain English how to read and interpret a balance sheet and a profit & loss account before stressing the importance of the cash-flow statement. As a part-serious, part-humorous interlude it decodes much of the terminology that infests the business and financial world. The author was for many years a management consultant and he gives some guidance for those considering this as a career, including a short case study. Finally, for the small to medium size businessman comes some fatherly advice on dealing with debtors and creditors and on understanding this lifestyle choice.< Less
Wise-up on business & finance More Detail
Wise-up on business & finance By John G Smith
Paperback: $8.98
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The content of this book is drawn from experience. It gives tips to the young executive on how to survive and flourish in the corporate world. To those aspiring students of business and finance it... More > explains in plain English how to read and interpret a balance sheet,a profit & loss account and a cash-flow statement. As a part-serious, part-humorous interlude it decodes much of the terminology that infests the business and financial world. The book includes a history of the UK stock market and sets out the fundamentals of investing, the structure of the market, share value terminology, how to choose an investment strategy and some consequences of such a choice. The author was for many years a management consultant and he gives some guidance for those considering this as a career, including a short case study. Finally, for the small to medium size businessman comes some fatherly advice on dealing with debtors and creditors and on understanding this lifestyle choice.< Less
Quantitative wheezing More Detail
Quantitative wheezing By John G Smith
Paperback: $17.33
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When on 15 September 2008 the news broke that Lehman Brothers had filed for the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US history I knew that financial war had been declared. Although I had no idea what... More > the full consequences might be I had a greedy need to learn and a gut feel that only by recording the most salient events to come would this need be assuaged. For a full year from October 2008, I assiduously logged events until QE, T1 ratio, monetary and fiscal stimulus and those funny packaged debts mingled with the cornflakes for breakfast. Quantitative Wheezing tells the story of how this crisis year unfolded. It objectively and in plain English shows how we were all taken for a ride by a load of greedy people whose legacy to our grandchildren will be no less destructive than the events of 1939 and the years that followed.< Less
Barn door to balance sheet More Detail
Barn door to balance sheet By John G Smith
Paperback: $20.74
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It’s 70’s Britain and industry is rapidly reforming to prepare for a new age of opportunity and prosperity. John Smith a one time tenant farmer’s son gives a compelling account of... More > how his family came second in his race to the top of the Price Waterhouse consultancy ladder and then in corporate life. Be prepared for some frank admissions about where life lost out to work in the work/life balance, but more importantly whether it was all worth it and whether there is a life hereafter< Less

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