A guide to current approaches to measuring the effective tax rate, with case studies that illustrate the different methods discussed.Today's highly complicated tax codes have led economists and policy makers depend on simplified summary measures in order to understand how taxes affect the...

Part I: Keynote Addresses -- 1. Market Discipline and Public Policy : The Role of the IMF / Anne O. Krueger -- 2. Three Observations on Market Discipline / Malcolm Knight -- 3. Effective Market Discipline : The Roles of Auditors, Companies, and Analysts / Susan Schmidt Bies -- 4. A Review of the...

Corporate social responsibility : bottom-line issue or public relations exercise? / Lord Tim Clement-Jones -- Corporate citizenship as part of the business model / Geoffrey Bush -- Legislation, litigation, activism and threats / Stuart Thomson -- Measuring corporate social responsibility / Will...

The Handbook of Public Finance provides a definitive source, reference, and text for the field of public finance. In 18 chapters it surveys the state of the art - the tradition and breadth of the field but also its current status and recent developments. The Handbook's intellectual foundation...

Starting an advanced project successfully -- Building the macro plan -- Building the detailed project plan -- Building the project team -- How to run the project on a day-to-day basis -- Monitoring and controlling the project -- Successfully shutting down the project -- Emergency actions

Publisher's description: The riot-torn meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 was only the most dramatic sign of the intensely passionate debate now raging over globalization, which critics blame for everything from child labour to environmental degradation, cultural...

Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Financial Statements; Chapter 3 The Accounting Process; Chapter 4 Making the Entries; Chapter 5 Assets; Chapter 6 Cash; Chapter 7 Accounts Receivable; Chapter 8 Inventory; Chapter 9 Prepaid Expenses; Chapter 10 Other...

The value of information -- Supply chain integration -- Network planning -- Supply chain alliances -- Outsourcing, procurement, and supply contracts -- Product design and supply chain management -- Customer value -- Global issues in supply chain management -- Information technology