A user-friendly reference book covering all the essential mathematical techniques employed in business.

The Financial Times Guide to Business Numeracy

Business & Money

Gough, Leo

Management & Leadership

Financial Times Management

You do not have to be rich to use tax havens. Whether you are planning to work overseas, expanding your business, concerned about tax planning or just want a better return on your savings, The Investor's Guide to Offshore Investment gives you the information you need to get your offshore operations on a sound footing.

The Investor's Guide to Offshore Investment: International Tactics for the Active Investor

Economics

This guide to the stock market discloses what goes on and who gets rich, provides an overview of money markets and how they work, discusses investment theories and strategies, and uncovers stories of the big investment scandals.

How the Stock Market Really Works: The Guerilla Investor's Secret Handbook (Financial Times Investor's Guide Series)

Ft Pr

For each of the 25 books, Leo Gough offers a revealing account of the author's life and work, explains the book's key lessons for investors, assesses its impact on the investing world, and suggests how its advice can be best put to work. Some of the books included are from grand masters such as Grahan &amp; Dodd, W.D. Gann, Charles McKay and Edwin Le Fevre. Latter day legends include Warren Buffett, George Soros and Peter Lynch and the sharpest observers of life in the markets such as Michael Lewis, Tom Wolfs and Adam Smith.

25 Investment Classics: Insights from the Greatest Investment Books of All Time

Whether you are new to investing or already have a share portfolio, this intelligent urban warrior's handbook will guide you safely through the often puzzling world of investing and will provide you with the strategies to compete to win. Given the fact that the majority of fund managers underperform the indices, it may be possible for intelligent private investors to do as well, or better, on their own by using winning guerilla tactics. Private investors can make huge gains over the long term as long as they maximize their advantages. How the Stock Market Really Works covers: *the basic mechanics of the markets *how shares, bonds and derivatives work *the different schools of thought within the investing world *tax considerations *the vital differences between asset classes *the need to look beyond the short term *why market volatility is nothing to be scared of *how to sift through the wealth of investment advice available. This third edition has been updated and expanded, to include additional coverage of new topics such as ISAs and index tracking as well as a complete new chapter on online trading.

How the Stock Market Really Works: The Guerrilla Investor's Secret Handbook (3rd Edition)

PEARSON PROFESSIONAL

‘One of the best books on stock market investing that I’ve ever read.’  Christopher Gilchrist, Editor, The IRS Report      ‘Lucid and perceptive – any intelligent person can follow this guide and be on equal terms or better with the best professional money managers’  Dr Peter Johnson, Said Business School, Oxford University       Is your investment strategy right for you? Could you be making more money?  The Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform helps you identify the approach to buying and selling shares that will work best for you. It will help you to align your strategy  based on the time and money you have available, your overall objectives and your attitudes to risk and loss.  In this thoroughly updated fourth edition of their best-selling investment classic,   Richard Koch and Leo Gough explain ten distinctive and proven investment techniques for you to choose from. They describe the different tactics needed for today’s bear market conditions and show you how it can be fun and profitable to try to beat the stock market.   The Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform gives you:  Convincing reasons why you should manage your own share portfolio   A quiz which helps you identify what kind of investor you are, and what strategy is right for you    Ten proven approaches to selecting successful shares    Examples and explanations of successes and failures      With most things we buy, from a house or car to lunch, we make an  effort to make choices that will suit our lifestyle, personality, budget and needs. So why should stocks and shares be any different?  Originally published as Selecting Shares that Perform, the book shows you how to find an investment method that works for you, stick to it, and increase your chances of making serious money on the stock market.  Whether you are new to investing, or already a sophisticated investor, The Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform makes playing the stock market not only more profitable, but also more fun.    

The Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares That Perform: 10 Ways to Beat the Stock Market (Financial Times Series)

Koch, Richard

Investing

PRENTICE/HALL

How the Stock Market Really Works: The guerilla investor's secret handbook (4th Edition)

Pearson Canada

The Financial Times Guide to How the Stock Market Really Works is an introduction to the complex world of the financial markets. Whether you are new to investing, or already have a share portfolio, this is an intelligent guidebook will guide you safely through the often confusing world of investing. Written especially for the ordinary investor, it will provide you with the key strategies you need to make money on the stock market.

Financial Times Guide to How the Stock Market Really Works, The (The FT Guides)

Finance

FT Publishing International

Whether you need to understand other people’s calculations to make confident business decisions, or formulate investment choices based on your own numbers, this book will give you the tools you need.       Banks and financial institutions, businesses and politicians often spin their statistics as they know they can rely on customers or constituents not to understand or check maths and formulas.   This book introduces you to the basic tools of maths, statistics and business calculations so that that you can understand the numbers, work out your own calculations and make better investing, saving and business decisions.

FT Guide to Business Numeracy: How to Check the Figures for Yourself (2nd Edition) (The FT Guides)

Financial fraud, whether large or small is a persistent feature of the financial markets. If you scratch the surface of the investment world you’ll find a continuous stream of major financial scandals which are almost unbelievable in the sheer scale of their subterfuge.  The Con Menshines a spotlight on some of these gargantuan frauds from the last 25 years. It questions how these men did it, why they did it, how there were able to get away with it, proposes strategies and tactics so that the reader can avoid being swindled.

The Con Men: A History of Financial Fraud and the Lessons You Can Learn (Financial Times)

Pearson/Education

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