For Introduction to Business courses. This best-selling text by Ricky Griffin and Ronald Ebert provides students with a comprehensive overview of all the important functions of business. Each edition has introduced cutting-edge firsts while ensuring the underlying principles that guided its creation, Doing the Basics Best, were retained. The seventh edition focuses on three simple rules- Learn, Evaluate, Apply. - NEW- Chapter 2: Understanding the Environments of Business - This new chapter puts business operations in contemporary context, explaining the idea of organizational boundaries and describing the ways in which elements from multiple environments cross those boundaries and shape organizational activities. This chapter sets the stage as an introduction to some of the most important topics covered in the rest of the book, for example: - The Economics Environment includes the role of aggregate output, standard of living, real growth rate; GDP per capita; real GDP; purchasing power parity; and the Consumer Price Index. - The Technology Environment includes special attention to new tools for competitiveness in both goods and services and business process technologies, plus e

The recent financial crisis has sparked debates surrounding the nature and role of accounting in informing capital markets and regulatory bodies about the financial performance and position of a firm. These debates have drawn attention to the broader implications of accounting for the economy and society. Accounting and Business Economics brings together leading international scholars to examine the current state of accounting theory and its fundamental connection with the economics and finance of firms, viewing the business entity from not only accounting, but also national, economic, social, political, juridical, anthropological, and moral points of view.

Una recopilación de los conceptos financieros que todo profesional debe conocer.

Dirección estratégica y planificación financiera de la PYME intenta acercar, deuna manera sencilla y con un lenguaje científico claro, lasreferidas técnicas a laspersonas encargadas de gestionar las empresas comerciales, industriales y deservicios, dotadas de una dimensión reducida.INDICE: La pequeña empresa. Técnicas y sistemas de dirección. Integración de objetivos, estructura financiera y gestión presupuestaria. El sistema de objetivos y el proceso de formulación de estrategias. Un modelo de planificaciónestratégica para la PYME. La importancia de la planificación financiera en elcontexto de la dirección estratégica empresarial. Funciones y objetivos de ladirección financiera en las pequeñas empresas, etc.

Francisco Sastre enseña los conceptos básicos para entender y aplicar el lenguaje de la contabilidad financiera y de gestión.

This Dictionary consists of some 100,000 terms in both Spanish and English, drawn from the whole range of business, finance and banking terminology. Over 45 subject areas are covered, compiled by a team of international terminologists