Finance Industry

Take your real estate career to the next level. Whether you’re just starting out in the business or have been at it for decades, your real estate career is about to take off. In his much-anticipated publishing debut, Do You Have a Minute?, John Giffen draws on his seasoned experience as an award-winning managing real estate broker, to help agents just like you with all the questions you’ve wanted to ask.

For more than 30 years, Hank Cardello was an executive and adviser to some of the largest food and beverage corporations in the world. For more than 30 years, he watched as corporate profits - and America's waistlines - ballooned: fattening consumers meant fattening profits. Now, in this fascinating and timely book, Cardello offers a behind-the-scenes look at the business of food.

More and more business is being conducted online, so online payment solutions are an increasingly accepted and desired transaction. Money can be transferred in real-time, where in the past, someone might have to wait days for a check to arrive, hoping it would arrive at all and not get lost in the mail, and then take it to the bank to deposit and wait for funds to clear. Now, because of the strict regulatory measures that protect online payments, transfers are often available to the recipient immediately or within a few hours of transfer.

Inside the Chinese Wine Industry takes you on a thrilling adventure through the past, present, and future of wine in China. The wine business is one of the world’s most compelling industries, and China is considered the rising star. A hidden secret, the Chinese wine production continues to grow at an amazing pace. It is poised to soon enter the top five producing nations, supplanting long-established countries such as Australia.

Building a Resilient Tomorrow does not dwell on overhyped descriptions of apocalyptic climate scenarios, nor does it travel down well-trodden paths surrounding the politics of reducing carbon emissions. Instead, it starts with two central facts: Climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects.

Nel settore della sanità sono in gioco forti interessi economici. Per questo, imparare a riconoscere le condizioni di conflitto di interesse è la base per avviare una seria politica di prevenzione, o di identificazione precoce, delle situazioni di rischio che possono arrecare danno alla salute delle persone o compromettere la fiducia dei cittadini nelle istituzioni.

The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme poverty. Drawing on two decades covering global development as editor in chief of Devex, Raj Kumar explores how nontraditional models of philanthropy and aid are empowering the world’s poorest people to make progress.

Whether you are a PharmD, PhD, MD, DPT, DC, or DNP, you likely have a credit card, student loan, and/or mortgage debt you would like to pay down. While your professors worked hard to teach you the ins and outs of clinical practice, it's unlikely they talked about personal finance as often making money is an anathema to being a good clinician and an unwelcome conversation. While debt prevention isn't as sexy as the person who overcame hundreds of thousands of student loan debt, the principles that the authors follow can help you find yourself in a much better financial place.

This book is different. Why? Because in short, bite-size chapters I will show you how the asset management industry works. Most other books on asset management focus on portfolio management. I will instead show you a 360-degree view of the industry, covering topics including: the industry's main asset managers, who the main types of clients are, and most importantly, how people within the money management industry look at themselves.

My grandmother used to say, "You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a lawyer." The same can be said of financial advisors today. If you're a wealthy business owner or an ultra-high-net-worth individual, this book is your wake-up call. For too long, the wealth management industry has failed to deliver the comprehensive, coordinated services that successful entrepreneurs and their families truly need.

Achieving homeownership is a life goal for most but it can be scary and unbearably stressful. This book is your answer to destroying your biggest obstacles in buying a house and taking your first step towards financial freedom. Did you know that 90 percent of the world’s millionaires have created their wealth through real estate? You deserve to be set up with the same life skills that the smartest people in the world have.

In a world where more time is spent planning vacations than securing financial futures, the importance of meticulous retirement planning cannot be understated. Dive into the transformative journey outlined in this book, where the gift of quality planning paves the way for a future filled with financial prosperity and peace of mind.

Whether you want to discover great places to live in the USA and around the world that are inexpensive, set your home and social life up for optimal enjoyment, or explore the many ways you can live happily and productively in retirement, this audiobook will teach you everything you need to know. Choose wisely how you retire.

In Medicare Decoded: Shocking Facts to Help You Save Money and Get the Most from Medicare, elder advocate and Medicare expert Rick Solofsky guides you through the twists and turns of Medicare to get to the heart of what you need to know. Easy to understand and filled with essential information and strategies, Medicare Decoded answers your questions.

In this up to the minute account of the current financial crisis, Dan Gross goes step by step through the timeline leading up to the October 2008 bail-out and explains what exactly happened. Using information and statistics only weeks old, he offers a thorough and enlightening analysis of where we all go from here.

Hello, and welcome to The Art of Home Staging! Here, you will be taken on a comprehensive walkthrough of every “stage of staging” in preparation of putting your home on the market. Home staging is, in fact, an art form. Every element of the staging process works together synergistically to create the perfect aesthetic for you and your beautiful house. Staging, though, is definitely not art for art’s sake; it has a specific, important function in the home-selling process and must be done with careful consideration of many factors.

Consumer protection advocate Ralph Nader praised Solved! Curing Your Medical Insurance Problems: “Who hasn’t been bewildered and outraged by lengthy, inscrutable medical bills and the tricky ways of the health insurers? …. Learn what to watch out for in this volume by authors who know the inside ways of sellers who try to take you to the cleaners.” Some say, “You get what you pay for.” If only this were true! Too often, consumers find themselves paying much more than they expected, getting much less than they bargained for. Medical care is no exception.

Walk through this concisely written executive summary of how to manage the finances of your practice in just a few hours a month. Get up to speed on which financial reports to run, how to analyze them quickly, and how to be sure that your cash and other assets are safeguarded.

Are you planning to buy a property as a source of additional income? Discussing about the financial concerns will definitely give lots of questions and headache. It is very important that you are equipped with reliable ideas rather than mere fantasies. Curiosity must lead to search for answers, not further questioning without effort to solve ignorance.

Credit is one of the most important things in the United States of America, unfortunately it is not taught in schools and because of that there’s a lot of misinformation about credit. The history of credit as it pertains to African Americans and how we can use it as leverage to quickly & legally build generational wealth. The very important overlooked and not often talked about difference between a consumer report/disclosure and a credit report.