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Cash is king : maintain liquidity, build capital, and prepare your business for every opportunity / by Kingma, Peter W.,author.;
"Many are familiar with the phrase 'cash is king', but often don't fully appreciate why that is so. It's not really a great surprise because the modern corporate organization is largely built around profit and loss. Managers are held accountable for increasing sales and improving efficiency of output. There is almost always an out-sized focus on driving costs down. And, it's quite popular to describe a business as sales-driven or one where the customer comes first. There is nothing at all wrong with focusing on sales growth, cost reduction and improved customer service. But, it takes liquidity to keep the lights on, invest in R&D and new equipment. Without enough liquidity, organizations may have to suspend dividend payments or stretch to service debt obligations. As the economy shifts and markets become more global, it takes cash to seize opportunities. Cash is the fuel in the engine. The problem is almost no one in an organization fully understands the impact they have on cash. Small decisions here andthere have ripple effects that go unnoticed until they start to add up. This book will examine what it takes to put cash on an equal footing with sales, cost and service, finding the right equilibrium. It will look at attributes of a cash culture and explore ways that leaders can transform their organizations. This is not a finance textbook. While it will explain some of the most important, and often most misunderstood metrics, the aim is to keep the reader fully awake. It'll use case study examples and will offer concrete suggestions for improvements."--
Subjects: Liquidity (Economics); Cash management.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Arrested development. [videorecording] by Arnett, Will.(CARDINAL)344060; Bateman, Jason.(CARDINAL)340054; Cera, Michael.(CARDINAL)341240; De Rossi, Portia,1973-(CARDINAL)549272; Hurwitz, Mitchell.; Tambor, Jeffrey,1944-(CARDINAL)342973; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.(CARDINAL)340075;
Subjects: Television comedies.; Credit cards; DVDs.; Family-owned business enterprises; Liquidity (Economics); Upper class families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Crash proof : how to profit from the coming economic collapse / by Schiff, Peter D.,1963-(CARDINAL)492585; Downes, John,1936-(CARDINAL)359632;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-262) and index.
Subjects: Economic forecasting; Financial crises; Investments; Liquidity (Economics);
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Crash proof 2.0 : how to profit from the economic collapse / by Schiff, Peter D.,1963-(CARDINAL)492585; Downes, John,1936-(CARDINAL)359632; Schiff, Peter D.,1963-Crash proof.(CARDINAL)609639;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An update of the author's financial survival guide takes into account the dramatic economic shifts that are reshaping America and provides insights and information to help survive the current economic downturn.
Subjects: Economic forecasting; Financial crises; Investments; Liquidity (Economics);
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Plunder [videorecording] the crime of our time / by Nowosielski, Ray.; Schechter, Danny.; Disinformation Company.; Globalvision, Inc.;
Edited by Ray Nowosielski ; music, Polarity/1... et al.Danny Schechter.Explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity, uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed. To tell this story Schechter speaks with bankers involved in these activities, respected economists, insider experts, top journalists including Paul Krugman, and even a convicted white-collar criminal, Sam Antar.Not rated.DVD, widescreen.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Financial crises; Financial institutions; Liquidity (Economics); Subprime mortgage loans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Investing / by Morrison, Jessica.(CARDINAL)482463;
Discusses investing money, the stock exchange, interest, and types of investments provided by different companiesWhat is investing? -- When did investing begin? -- Investing in the United States -- How does investing work? -- Types of investments -- Why should you invest? -- Wall Street and the New York stock exchange -- Behind the scenes -- What is liquidity? -- Reading your investments -- How much money can investing make? -- Investing technology -- Careers in investing -- What have you learned? -- Make a mock stock portfolioAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Investments.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dedicated : the case for commitment in an age of infinite browsing / by Davis, Pete,1989-author.;
Infinite browsing mode -- Two cultures -- The pleasures of infinite browsing mode -- The pains of infinite browsing mode -- Between liberation and dedication -- The counterculture of commitment -- Long-haul heroism -- A tour of the counterculture -- The fear of regret and the freedom of purpose -- The fear of association and the comfort of friends -- The fear of missing out and the joy of depth -- Solid people in a liquid world -- Open options economics: Money versus particular things -- Open options morality: Indifference versus honor -- Open options education: Advancement versus attachment -- The flood and the forest -- An invitation."A profoundly inspiring and transformative argument that purposeful commitment can be a powerful force in our age of restlessness and indecision. Most of us have had this experience: browsing through countless options on Netflix, unable to commit to watching any given movie--and losing so much time skimming reviews and considering trailers that it's too late to watch anything at all. In a book borne of an idea first articulated in a viral commencement address, Pete Davis argues that this is the defining characteristic of the moment: keeping our options open. We are stuck in "Infinite Browsing Mode"--swiping through endless dating profiles without committing to a single partner, jumping from place to place searching for the next big thing, and refusing to make any decision that might close us off from an even better choice we imagine is just around the corner. This culture of restlessness and indecision, Davis argues, is causing tension in the lives of young people today: We want to keep our options open, and yet we yearn for the purpose, community, and depth that can only come from making deep commitments. In Dedicated, Davis examines this quagmire, as well as the counterculture of committers who have made it to the other side. He shares what we can learn from the "long-haul heroes" who courageously commit themselves to particular places, professions, and causes--who relinquish the false freedom of an open future in exchange for the deep fulfillment of true dedication. Weaving together examples from history, personal stories, and applied psychology, Davis's candid and humble words offer a meaningful answer to our modern frustrations and a practical path to joy."--Jacket flap.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Commitment (Psychology); Choice (Psychology); Decision making; Happiness.; Social psychology.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 15
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1992 census of mineral industries. by United States.Bureau of the Census.(CARDINAL)171405;
Subjects: Liquefied natural gas industry;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The end of theory : financial crises, the failure of economics, and the sweep of human interaction / by Bookstaber, Richard M.,1950-author.(CARDINAL)511930;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index.Section I: introduction -- Crises and sunspots -- Being human -- Section II: the four horsemen -- Social interactions and computational irreducibility -- The individual and the human wave: emergent phenomena -- Context and ergodicity -- Human experience and radical uncertainty -- Heuristics: how to act like a human -- Section III: paradigm past and future -- Economics in crisis -- Agent-based models -- Agents in the complexity spectrum -- Section IV: agent-based models for financial crises -- The structure of the financial system: agents and the environment -- Liquidity and crashes -- The 2008 crisis with an agent-based view -- Section V: the end of theory -- Is it a number or a story? Model as narrative -- Conclusion." An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial system Our economy may have recovered from the Great Recession--but not our economics. In The End of Theory, Richard Bookstaber, one of the world's leadingrisk managers, discusses why the human condition and the radical uncertainty of our world renders the standard economic model--and the theory behind it--useless for dealing with financial crises. What model should replace it? None. At least not any version we've been using for the past two hundred years. Instead, Bookstaber argues for a new approach called agent-based economics, one that takes as a starting point the fact that we are humans, not the optimizing automatons that standard economics assumes weare. Bookstaber's groundbreaking paradigm promises to do a far better job at preventing crises and managing those that break out. As he explains, our varied memories and imaginations color our economic behavior in unexpected hues. Agent-based modeling embraces these nuances by avoiding the mechanistic, unrealistic structure of our current economic approach. Bookstaber tackles issues such as radical uncertainty, when circumstances take place beyond our anticipation, and emergence, when innocent, everydayinteractions combine to create sudden chaos. Starting with the realization that future crises cannot be predicted by the past, he proposes an approach that recognizes the human narrative while addressing market realities. Sweeping aside the historic failure of twentieth-century economics, The End of Theory offers a novel and innovative perspective, along with a more realistic and human framework, to help prevent today's financial system from blowing up again. "--
Subjects: Financial crises; Business failures; Economics.; Human behavior.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The general theory of employment, interest, and money / by Keynes, John Maynard,1883-1946.(CARDINAL)138098;
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is a book by English economist John Maynard Keynes and is generally considered to be Keynes' magnum opus, and is largely credited with creating the terminology and shape of modern macroeconomics. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money had equally powerful consequences in economic policy, being interpreted as providing theoretical support for government spending in general, and for budgetary deficits, monetary intervention and counter-cyclical policies in particular. It is pervaded with an air of mistrust for the rationality of free-market decision making. Keynes denied that an economy would automatically adapt to provide full employment even in equilibrium, and believed that the volatile and ungovernable psychology of markets would lead to periodic booms and crises. The General Theory is a sustained attack on the classical economics orthodoxy of its time. It introduced the concepts of the consumption function, the principle of effective demand and liquidity preference, and gave new prominence to the multiplier and the marginal efficiency of capital.
Subjects: Economics.; Money.; Monetary policy.; Interest.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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