Leadership in Organizations provides a balance of theory and practice as it surveys the major theories and research on leadership and managerial effectiveness in formal organizations.

Designed for reading courses at the intermediate and advanced level, Developing Critical Reading Skills uses practice prose similar to the kind that students will encounter in the classroom, encouraging them to analyze, interpret, question, and even challenge the words of the writer.

The Seventh Edition of Business Forecasting is the most practical forecasting book on the market with the most powerful software-Forecast X.This edition presents a broad-based survey of business forecasting methods including subjective and objective approaches. As always the author team of Keating and Wilson deliver practical how-to forecasting techniques along with dozens of real world data sets while theory and math are held to a minimum.

Have a computer, an Internet connection, and a dream? Then, you're already on your way to starting your very own online business. This fun and friendly guide can help you turn your big idea into big bucks whether you're expanding your real-world storefront online or creating your own virtual startup

What makes an effective leader? This book discusses theories of leadership and provides practical advice for business leaders.

Stephen Ross is presently the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most widely published authors in finance and economics, Professor Ross is recognized for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research in signaling, agency theory, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, he currently serves as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals. He is a trustee of CalTech, a director of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF), and Freddie Mac. He is also the co-chairman of Roll and Ross Asset Management Corporation.

The book "Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts" is to enable students to understand how any given business event affects the financial statements. The 'financial statements model' is a highly praised feature because it allows students to visualize the simultaneous impact of business events on all of the key financial statements.

The book is a comprehensive and highly illustrated presentation of the accounting and reporting principles used in a variety of business entities. The complete presentations of worksheets, schedules, and financial statements allow students to see the development of each new topic. The book's building block approach introduces concepts with simple examples and then gradually introduces complexity, allowing students to easily keep pace with the material.

The book identifies the three functions managers must perform within their organizations-plan operations, control activities, and make decisions-and explains what accounting information is necessary for these functions, how to collect it, and how to interpret it.

Ott and Longnecker's AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL METHODS AND DATA ANALYSIS, Seventh Edition, provides a broad overview of statistical methods for advanced undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of disciplines who have little or no prior course work in statistics.