This is a new book on Project Procurement Management ...well sort of. A decade ago my son and I wrote a book on this same subject which was entitled Subcontract Project Management: Subcontract Planning and Organization. Our book covered the subject of Project Procurement management, but it was targeted specifically to the aerospace and defense industry.
Does my procurement organization already employ best-in-class practices, sophisticated tools with the right talent, and the necessary formal and informal cross-functional linkages? Some 50 to 90 percent of the companies that answer this question will respond “no.” On the one hand, this realization is a good indication of readiness for change and the acceptance that development is neede…
Crash Course is not an accounting textbook. We believe that standard accounting texts make the subject inaccessible for the nonaccountant. This is a crash course, born out of years of our experience training students and professionals who need to learn accounting quickly in order to understand financial reports, perform financial analysis, and speak the language of business. Our trainees come f…
Organisations are devices for creating value through the effective use of resources. While they need to create value for all contributors of resources, a premium is placed on value creation for customers and shareholders. After all, an organisation is unlikely to be able to offer inducements to other resource contributors if it does not provide value to its customers. Also, shareholders are awa…
In 2000, the World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledged the need to further explore the relationship between health and the economy by setting up the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH). One of the main conclusions of the work of CMH was that investing in health could not only be of intrinsic value but could in addition produce important economic gains. In response to the growing …
Over the last few decades project management has moved from its roots in industries such as construction and defense into the main- stream of American business. Many different industries, in particular the service sector, rely heavily on project management as an integral part of a successful strategy. In support of the widening importance of project management, a number of important professi…
Over the last few decades project management has moved from its roots in industries such as construction and defense into the main- stream of American business. Many different industries, in particular the service sector, rely heavily on project management as an integral part of a successful strategy. In support of the widening importance of project management, a number of important profession…
Knowledge of federal budgeting, accounting, costing, and reporting is essential for all doing business with the federal government. This includes the 50 U.S. states; tens of thousands of counties, cities, municipalities, special authorities, and districts; over 100,000 prime and subcontractors, and nonprofits, colleges, and university grantees to the federal government; and beneficiaries of fed…
If your interest is to open an In-Home Bookkeeping or Accounting Service, your decision to purchase this book may be one of the smartest moves you’ve ever made! This book holds the past ten years of my mistakes, successes and stresses. It’s easier for me to say this because I’m sitting at the other end of the computer writing this to you, but the only honest hardworking approach that you…
“This book combines clear thinking and research into the purpose and role of accounting in organizations. Coupled with a deep understanding of Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints, the Casparis’ methodology focuses the enormous power of practical systems thinking in organizations. This book finally brings together the elements needed to truly implement and sustain a genuine process of ongoing…
An understanding of the principles of book keeping and accounting is essential for anyone who is interested in a successful career in busi ness. The purpose of bookkeeping and account ing is to provide information concerning the fi nancial affairs of a business. This information is needed by owners, managers, creditors, and governmental agencies.
When we think about the future of the modern state, we encounter a puzzling variety of scholarly diagnoses and prophecies. Some authors predict nothing less than the total demise of the state as a useful model for organizing society – its powers eroded by a dynamic global economy and by an increasing transference of political decision-making powers to supranational bodies. Others disagree p…
Petroleum refers to crude oil and natural gas or simply oil and gas. These are mixtures of hydrocarbons which are molecules, in various shapes and sizes, of hydrogen and carbon atoms found in the small, connected pore spaces of some underground rock formations. These petroleum reservoirs are generally thousands of feet below the surface. Crude oil and natural gas are believed to be the remains …
The necessity and desirability of pursuing sustainable forms of development have gained considerable currency over the last two decades. Sustainable development (SD) has been championed at inter-governmental, national, regional and sectoral levels (see Table 1.1) and now appears to be cemented in the public policy arena as the only just and appropriate goal for human activities. This move has…
Forecasts are usually made to help and guide decision making. Good fore- casts are preconditions for good, informed decisions. These decisions may vary from a financial market bet on interest rate changes to the policy decision on how to structure a country’s pension system. Ideally, decision-makers should be as well prepared as possible for the future, which would allow them to act appropria…
This essay is concerned with the development of professional ethics in service institutions. The discussion deals with the transition from simple acceptance of definite responsibilities in functional relationships to the primal teleological problem of selecting among competing groups with their own semi-independent value systems and conflicting ends in view (objectives). In the process, a profe…
R is a language and environment for data analysis and graphics. It may be considered an implementation of S, an award-winning language initially developed at Bell Laboratories since the late 1970s. The R project was initiated by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in the early 1990s, and has been developed by an international team since mid-1997. Histori…
Firms that meet certain criteria can register debt or equity securities for issuance any time during the subsequent two years. This process is known as shelf registration. Key shelf registration qualification criteria include $75 million market capitalization held by outsiders, timely SEC filings, investment-grade ratings of debt, no defaults on debt payments, and listing on national stock ex…
The principal purpose of this book is to analyse where the West Europeans have succeeded or failed in their attempts at cooperation in defence procurement, and why. This chapter aims to give some political background to this analysis by looking, very selectively, at a few of the pressures which exist for West European collaboration in defence and security policy in general. Logically, the …