Financial Fiction

This book is easy, common-sense guide that concentrates on conceptual understanding of the crucial aspects of financial and managerial accounting and learning accounting principles. It is updated with accounting techniques and solutions that makes you feel like you are taking full advantage of accounting expressive power.

Der gefallene Immobilientycoon Remo Blanko hält sich nach dem Untergang seines Unternehmens in einem Zürcher Luxushotel versteckt und hadert mit seinem Schicksal. Für ihn ist klar, der Schuldige an seinem Sturz ist Starfotograf Augusto Venzini. Als Blanko an dem traditionellen Sechseläutenumzug enttarnt wird, gibt es für ihn nur noch eine Möglichkeit: die Flucht nach Hiva Oa, dem abgelegensten Ort auf der Erde, wo er seinen Widersacher Venzini vermutet.

Each section in the Money Challenge series will encourage you to live for something much larger than yourself. Are you ready to align with Goddess' plan? Lets get started.

Sometimes the road home isn't on a map. After a painful breakup and a stalled career, journalist Kaiah Ross sets out on a reporting road trip down the East Coast, hoping the miles will help her find her way again. But when car trouble strands her in the postcard-perfect town of Coral Cove, she's...

From the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy comes Paul Auster's luminous, tour de force novel set during the 2008 economic collapse. "Auster fans and newcomers will find in Sunset Park his usual beautifully nuanced prose.... [and] a tremendous crash bang of an ending.” —...

À Genève, Alexandre Hoffmann est devenu millionnaire grâce à « l'indice de la peur », un algorithme qu'il a créé et qui détecte sur internet l'inquiétude autour de certains sujets. Ce qui lui permet d'exploiter avec brio les marchés financiers et de placer des fonds d'une manière aussi automatisée que fructueuse. Mais ce 6 mai 2010, tout tourne au vinaigre. Et alors que son algorithme est sur le point de créer un krach boursier, Alex est pris au piège. Pourra-t-il se libérer de sa création omnipotente ?

No one knows the dark side of “The Street” better than master storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date, Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk, nor offer readers more...

A rollicking good mystery and witty tale of an international finance, Wall Street, money markets, espionage, kidnapping, bankers on the run, archeology, and far more.

Fueled by resentment of America's global dominance, Russia and China conspire to dethrone the US Dollar from its lofty perch as the global reserve currency. Their weapon of choice? Bitcoin - a game-changing digital currency shrouded in mystery, with an enigmatic developer who walked away from a 70-billion-dollar fortune rather than see his creation corrupted by evil.

One of a kind collection of poems devoted to wild urban dwellers. Through rich vocabulary, unusual perspectives, and factual references the author shares incredible depictions of birds, mammals and amphibians. The bat, crow, fox, deer, cut, gull, hedgehog, heron, magpie, parakeet, pelican, pigeon, rabbit, rat, robin, squirrel, swan, terrapin and toad all come together in this beautifully presented poetic recollection.

A powerful, singular collection of short stories depicting the evolving role of fatherhood in contemporary society—perfect for readers of Jamel Brinkley’s A Lucky Man and Phil Klay’s Redeployment. From stories about a father who shows up hungover to chaperone his daughter’s kindergarten...

Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he's defending but his career as well.

Most teenagers are told about only one financial path: Work until you’re old and then retire. But what if you want to spend your adult life traveling, creating, or bettering the world instead of working all day, every day? Financial independence (FI) is the only way to win the resource you can’t rewind: time. Time for yourself, time for your family and friends, and time for your dreams. Build the freedom to define your own future by building a strong financial base—which means saving more, spending less, and starting to invest as soon as possible.

When the protagonist joins a company steeped in fraud among its leaders, he is determined to repair the broken system. The owner knows the company's funds are channelled illegally, but believes that's simply the cost of doing business. However, the protagonist refuses to accept the status quo. Putting his career on the line, he works to overhaul the corrupt products and procedures that are bleeding the company dry. In doing so, he quickly makes enemies of those who benefit from the company's dishonest practices.

This apocalyptic tale is torn straight from current headlines. The US stock markets have a terrible day, the economy is a mess right now, and it only takes a small nudge to fall apart. Wayne Cook and His wife have been preparing for years in the event that the world is turned upside down, and with the nudge of the markets, that event looks to be landing on their New Mexico town. Could the Stock market really crash? The markets have safeguards to prevent a complete crash from happening, but nothing if full proof and Wayne is going to find out if all the planning is truly going to be enough.

Jase Mathews, a rising star at PHS, the globe’s most prestigious and largest accounting firm, is on the cusp of making partner. His latest assignment, the high stakes audit of the colossal Sharp Industries, is his golden ticket. For Jase, it’s the pinnacle of his career—until the audit results start to whisper a different story. As Jase meticulously dissects Sharp Industries financial processes, unsettling anomalies emerge and with the help of a few trusted allies, Jase begins to unravel inconsistencies that stretch far beyond simple bookkeeping errors.

Sicilia, 2005. La Casinò Trinacria, con il benestare della politica locale, sta per aprire due case da gioco, quando l’operazione “Euro Fiches” della Guardia di Finanza svela, dietro il lucroso affare, una maxitruffa all’Unione Europea. Poco dopo, il presidente Toti Catania, vicino a fare importanti rivelazioni al giornalista Lo Coco, viene assassinato. Nelle stesse ore, un altro omicidio nel centro di Palermo: la vittima è legata alla società lettone Paradise, anch’essa operante nel settore casinò e pronta a subentrare negli appalti.

MEURTRES, VOLS, TRAHISONS : LES EFFETS DÉLÈTERES DE L'APPÂT DU GAIN. Dans cette famille bourgeoise et rangée du second empire, la soirée s'annonce des plus tranquilles : Vincent Favoral, caissier de la banque Thaller, reçoit quelques habitués à dîner en famille. Elle vire au drame lorsque Thaller fait irruption en accusant Favoral de détournement de fonds. Favoral paniqué, et encouragé par son patron à se soustraire à la police, s'enfuit. C'est la stupéfaction parmi les convives. Favoral passait en effet pour un homme probe et ordonné, scrupuleux jusqu'à l'excès.

BAD CEO • And How He Got There Conceived at Woodstock to a campus radical and a fleeting father, River Stevens was raised on a commune in Vermont and then plunged into poverty when the project failed. A brilliant student, he is accepted into MIT and then goes to Silicon Valley to work with Steve Jobs at NeXT. When that also failed, River starts his own company, eHomeLoan, with two friends, hoping to make getting a mortgage simpler, faster and cheaper for American families. Also, and not incidentally, to become a member of the Billionaire Boys Club.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE An immersive debut set across the temples, slums, and gated estates of late-twentieth century Bangkok, telling the story of three families striving to control their destinies in a merciless, sometimes brutally violent, metropolis. “Mai Nardone is a writer...