Entrepreneurial Finance or Management Innovators

Entrepreneurial Finance: Finance for Small Business

Author: Philip A J Adelman

This book emphasizes small businesses exclusively with specific examples from the non-corporate market.

WHAT'S NEW?

• Updated financial statement coverage with realistic numbers
• Forecasting definitions and formulas
• Equipment replacement by using the low cost model

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• Apply operation techniques to examples of small businesses.
• Use financial statements for all three methods of analysis, including horizontal analysis, vertical analysis, and ratio analysis.
• Access basic math formulas for readers with limited mathematical backgrounds.

Booknews

A textbook for owners of sole proprietorships, partnerships, or small nonpublic corporations. The authors discuss the basic economic factors affecting finance, the advantages and disadvantages of various forms of business ownership, financial statements for each of these business types, forecasting, capital budgeting, and working capital management. Appends time-value of money tables and a computerized spreadsheet primer focusing on Microsoft Excel. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Management Innovators

Author: Daniel A Wren

Here is a who's who of Business, Thirty-One Profiles of Inventors, Financiers, Organizers, Motivators, and gurus - a vivid, informative look at the history of management as seen through the lives of its most influential figures.

Library Journal

Wren (management, Univ. of Oklahoma) and the now deceased business historian Greenwood present a condensed economic history of the lives of 31 individuals who have contributed to modern management methods. Represented are a wide variety of some of the greatest innovators in the fields of manufacturing, communications, inventing, finance, selling, and management. Many of those profiled (Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Frederick W. Taylor) can be found in secondary sources. However, the authors look at these individuals from a business and managerial point of view, which sets this book apart. The authors depict, in an easy style, the evolutionary process of idea to product to market and the changes that took place in the way people work. Snapshot views of economic history in "small doses" make this book appealing to students and managers who wish to gain some background information in this area. Recommended.Bellinda Wise, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction: A Revolution in Industry	3
1	Inventors	9
	Eli Whitney	10
	Thomas Alva Edison	16
2	Makers	25
	Cyrus H. McCormick	25
	Andrew Carnegie	33
	Henry Ford	41
3	Sellers	50
	Alexander T. Stewart	51
	Richard W. Sears	58
4	Movers	69
	James J. Hill	72
	Edward H. Harriman	78
5	Communicators	90
	Samuel Finley Breese Morse	91
	Ezra Cornell	94
	Alexander Graham Bell	98
6	Financiers	105
	Jay Gould	107
	J. Pierpont Morgan	120
7	Working Smarter	133
	Frederick W. Taylor	134
	Lillian and Frank Gilbreth	140
	Yoichi Ueno	148
8	Organizers	155
	William C. Durant	156
	Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.	158
	Chester I. Barnard	163
9	Motivators	170
	Elton Mayo	171
	Abraham H. Maslow	177
	Frederick Herzberg	182
10	Leaders	190
	Nicolo Machiavelli	191
	Mary Parker Follett	194
	Douglas M. McGregor	198
11	Quality Seekers	204
	W. Edwards Deming	204
	Joseph Moses Juran	213
	Taiichi Ohno	218
12	Guru	226
	Peter F. Drucker	226
	Notes	237
	Index	249