About this product: Free Lunch answers the great mystery of our time: How did our strong and growing economy give way to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and fear for millions of Americans? Acclaimed reporter David Cay Johnston reveals how government policies and spending have reached deep into the wallets of the many to benefit the top 1% of the wealthiest.
He shows exactly who has been getting free lunches from the government—from $100 million to Warren Buffett, to $1.3 billion to the owners of the Yankees and Mets. But of course there’s really no such thing as a free lunch. The taxpayer always picks up the bill. With his in depth reporting, vivid stories, and sharp analysis, Johnston reveals the forces that shape our everyday economic lives—and shows us how we can finally make things better.
About this product: The 2003 Revised Edition to the sold out first edition. Designed as a book to help catch those who cheat on their expenses, it provides hundreds of methods and techniques to help you cheat on your expenses, if you choose, and then provides methods to use in case you get caught.
About this product: This best selling reference lists 30,000 meanings for medical, nursing, pharmaceutical, and other health-related abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, and slang. It is current and comprehensive. Also listed is a cross-reference list of drug generic and trade names. Included in the purchase price of the book is a 1-year single user access license to the internet version of the book which is updated with about 80 new entries each month. You can quickly search for the meaning(s) of an abbreviation (e.g. CHF) or you can search for a word within the meanings of abbreviation (e.g. all the abbreviations which contain the word CONGESTIVE). Introductory chapters stress the dangers which are associated with the use of unfamiliar abbreviations. Examples of errors which have resulted from their use, as well as a list of dangerous abbreviations which should not be used are presented. The book is popular with health professionals, students, coders, transcriptionists, lawyers, insurance companies, clinical research assistants, editors, and medical researchers.
About this product: This straightforward book will provide you with the insight necessary to save your organization revenue through the processes of bill auditing, expense reduction, and savvy contract negotiations. Information technology professionals will find the authors' suggestions useful, and yet uncomplicated to implement. After you have used their suggestions to identify possible errors or optimization opportunities, the book details what steps need to be taken to secure the associated recoveries or service changes, including contact and phone numbers. In addition, their contract negotiation tips could save your organization dollars up front by providing information you need at the bargaining table. This important tool is a must-have for all information technology professionals. ;
For anyone responsible for monitoring telecommunications-related expenses, this book is packed with invaluable tips on increasing efficiency, service, and support of telecom and IT while keeping costs in check. The authors teach how to audit bills, negotiate favorable contracts, and find the best (and cheapest) long distance carriers and vendors.
About this product: If you've ever wondered whether you're going to hell, Betty Bowers has an answer for you--and it is a soft, self-satisfied "Yes." What Would Betty Do?, a satire of self-righteousness, collects the ravings of "America's Best Christian," a creation of the writer Paul A. Bradley. The book is organized as a send-up of Christian advice manuals, including sections on Bible study, sex, fashion, and social justice ("The Poor Will Always Be with Us, So We Needn't Break a Heel Rushing to Help Them"). Betty is at her best with snappy one-liners (such as "So close to Jesus, He validates my parking," and "If God created me in His image, I have more than returned the compliment") and wicked acronyms ("B.A.S.H." is an ex-gay ministry: "Baptists Are Saving Homosexuals"). Betty nails the target of fundamentalist hubris with aplomb, but as the book goes on and the same jokes appear again and again, satire also verges into sneering. --Michael Joseph Gross
About this product: Still the best book around to demonstrate the best principals and practices for creating non-incremental budgets. Very worthwhile read for those in the field.
About this product: This book is intended to provide a fundamental introduction to Cost of Quality concepts (often simply referred to as Quality Costs) for executives or those individuals new to quality concepts. In addition, it can help anyone in an organization interested in how this measurement methodology links to business costs. This book is not intended to be used as a handbook or as an in-depth exploration of the underlying methodology, but rather a helpful overview of an approach to maximize value and bottom line impact. If you are an executive wanting to understand more about what Cost of Quality measurements are, you need only look at Chapters 1-3. Chapter 3 is an overview of building a Cost of Quality measure, Chapter 4 includes details of building a Cost of Quality measure, Chapter 5 has recommendations on how to sell a Cost of Quality program, and Chapter 6 discusses pitfalls. Both manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms who are just getting started or contemplating a Quality Cost measurement program will find this book especially valuable. To aid in illustrating the application of these principles to diverse and global businesses, case studies have been selected and included to demonstrate how the general approach can accommodate and enhance different organizations. These examples demonstrate the broad spectrum across which Quality Cost methods can be used as a measurement tool, making improved performance clear in a dollars and cents manner.
About this product: Tracking Your Expenses helps you arrange your expenses in a yearly order using the following tools:
Regular Yearly Expenses chart: for expenses you pay on an ongoing basis
Previous/present year Outstanding Balances chart: for outstanding expenses from the previous year and present year expenses that have carried a balance for at least two months
Monthly Expense Report charts: break down monthly household expenses and when they are due
Income chart: list of expenses by the date you expect to pay them according to when you expect to receive income. There is an income chart for the first fifteen days of the month and another for the sixteenth day through the end of the month.
Miscellaneous Expenses chart: for occasional purchases
Creditors chart: list of people, companies, and/or lenders that you owe money to
Personal Information chart: for keeping track of your family and friends' personal information
Birthdays chart: will help you to remember loved ones' special day
Special Occasions chart: reminds you of special events
Merchandise Final Payoff chart: lets you know when the last payment will be made
Credit Card Information chart: for recording details about your credit cards
Notes for: information you will need for next year
The term "tracking your expenses" means you will always in some form or another write out your financial information.
Need a money management guide for your family, clients, students or other family members? Tracking Your Expenses: A Simplified Financial Organizer is THE SOLUTION!
Who can benefit from improving their money management and organizing their expenses? Anyone can benefit from using this book... housewives/couples, homeowners/renters, brides and grooms, young adults/college students, gift givers, social service recipients, and bankruptcy clients regaining their financial independence.
Coming from a single-parent household of nine children, the author learned the importance of discipline and the necessity of doing without. She supplemented these values by studying financial matters. In addition, she was always the one to help family members fill out paperwork, manage their money, and obtain bank accounts.
Eventually she had children of her own, but she needed to be on welfare to survive. Realizing that the system kept her at a financial deficit, she came up with a method that could help her efficiently track her income and expenses. She tried to purchase a budget book with categories that would work for her needs but that was unsuccessful. As a result, she decided to create her own book; the basis for Tracking Your Expenses!
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