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Steven’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Steven’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Getting There
Book Three of the trilogy is about 30% done, assuming that my page target is correct. There are a lot of plot elements to tie up properly, so this may take longer than expected. It definitely will run into next year.
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The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual
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2003
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18 editions
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The CFO Guidebook
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The New Controller Guidebook
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Accounting Best Practices
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1999
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33 editions
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Treasury Management: The Practitioner's Guide
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2010
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12 editions
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Business Ratios and Formulas: A Comprehensive Guide
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2002
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19 editions
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Throughput Accounting: A Guide to Constraint Management
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2007
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6 editions
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Running an Effective Investor Relations Department: A Comprehensive Guide
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2010
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7 editions
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Accounting Control Best Practices
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2006
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16 editions
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Inventory Best Practices
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2004
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9 editions
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| The author has a delightful way of polishing small jewels of statements about human interactions, and sprinkling them throughout the text. The plot is not complicated, and does not have to be - you simply meander along, delving into the characteristi ...more | |
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| The level of world building in this trilogy is profound, though I think the conceptual underpinnings did not expand as much as in the preceding two novels. Nonetheless, the author keeps the level of characterization quite high, resulting in a "deep d ...more | |
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| This is an interesting, deeply-researched book on the impact of maintenance on a whole lot of things, with a military slant. I picked up lots of goods nuggets of information that were scattered throughout the text. However, the book could use more or ...more | |
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| This book has gotten many high ratings, but I found it to be somewhat disappointing. The enemy is clearly identified early on, and then the story devolves into a fairly typical desperate chase by an overwhelming bad guy. That being said, the characte ...more | |
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| This is a spectacular book on several levels. First, the author must have a room full of Post-It notes to keep track of the plot (for which there are many levels). Second, the characterizations are quite deep for the main characters, with even some t ...more | |
“The worst way to release bad news is to bury it in the financial statement footnotes, in the hope that no one will see it. A diligent investor or analyst always reads the footnotes, and will not appreciate having to dig so deep to uncover potentially critical information.”
― Running an Effective Investor Relations Department: A Comprehensive Guide
― Running an Effective Investor Relations Department: A Comprehensive Guide
“Lease assets. Be sure to institute the lease versus buy analysis that was covered in the last section. A lease may carry a relatively high implicit interest rate, but has the particular advantage of deferring the payment of cash to later periods.”
― Budgeting: A Comprehensive Guide
― Budgeting: A Comprehensive Guide
“Supplier Consolidation Once the purchasing process has been streamlined, as was described in the preceding sections, the next step is to pursue cost reduction activities. A significant cost reduction technique is to reduce the number of suppliers with which a company does business. By concentrating its orders with a smaller number of suppliers, it can use higher purchasing volume to negotiate price reductions, rebates, and discounts. This concept is addressed in more detail in Chapters 8 and 9. The following subtopics address various supplier consolidation issues at a general level. Bottom 10 Percent Besides concentrating order volume, another reason to consolidate suppliers is to eliminate the worst-performing ones. These are the suppliers that deliver the wrong items late and with low quality. Even if these suppliers offer what appear to be rock-bottom prices, the total cost of doing business with them is much higher, because the company is endlessly dealing with receiving inspections, product returns, and the processing of credits. Consequently, having a separate program to identify and eliminate a company’s lowest-rated suppliers can also reduce costs.”
― Cost Reduction Analysis: Tools and Strategies
― Cost Reduction Analysis: Tools and Strategies
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