Fiona Finkelstein was born to be a ballerina--if she can get over her stage fright, that is. The first in the feisty and endearing Not-So-Ordinary Girl trilogy. More than catching fireflies, more than eating triple-hot fudge sundaes, and even more than waking up on the first day of summer vacation, Fiona Finkelstein wants to become a ballerina. There's just one problem: In her last recital, she starred as the unforgettable Fiona VOMITstein--her "performance" went all over the stage, and all over Benevolence Castles's cancan costume. Can Fiona overcome her fears and blossom as a big-time ballerina in "The Nutcracker," even in a snowstorm? Or will she be the only person in her family to have the flat-out worst case of stage fright ever? "Originally published as "Fiona Finkelstein, Big-Time Ballerina .""

Are you a small business owner seeking to get a better grasp on your business financials? Led by small business expert David H. Bangs, take this crash course and learn how to read and understand your financial statements and discover the answers to necessary questions like: • Am I really profitable? • Am I going to continue to be profitable? • How can I get my business under control? • Where can things go wrong? • How can I secure financing? Supported by worksheets, templates, and visual tools, you’ll learn how to interpret your income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flow, uncovering your business’s financial story and allowing you to spot and avoid trouble, set financial goals, forecast for the future and more. Take this crash course and put your financial statements to work for you!

Concise, informative, and well-indexed, this book helps readers get the "big picture" as well as the considerable number of details involved in managing the finances for a library. For all libraries, money is critical to decision-making about technology, staffing, and collections. As a result, informed budgeting is critically important for any library to succeed. This book explains library finance in a practical, engaging way, using examples of real situations in different types of libraries to teach key points. Written by authors with years of experience in budgeting and financial planning within a variety of library settings and in teaching library management or fundraising at the university level, Crash Course in Library Budgeting and Finance makes it painless to learn how to properly manage money in any library environment. The book addresses the entire process of financial planning, from a general, conceptual overview of library budgeting to the details of generating and spending income, and describes best practices for implementing financial controls. Subjects covered include building construction and capital projects, fund raising, capital campaigns, moving to fee-based services, extending and developing earned income, financial best practices, and assessment and evaluation. The authors also make recommendations regarding when and how to share relevant financial information throughout the organization and with constituents throughout the book.

Seamlessly bridging academic accounting with real-life applications, Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition is the perfect guide to a complete understanding of accounting and financial statement analysis for those with no prior accounting background and those who seek a refresher.

Financial modeling is the knowledge of various tools that are able to convert the extensive data into the comprehensible form. It is a skill which is required by management especially in the field of investment banking, equity research, commercial banking, project management and any & every sector which is a part of the financial service industry. The crash course undertakes different aspects which will enable the students to go in the financial world and manage these various tools. The crash course is designed for students who are looking for a career in the Corporate Finance world. Upon completion of the course, the students gain in-depth knowledge and they will be able to create dynamic financial models. The dynamic business world requires a model in cases like mergers and acquisitions, financial operations and controlling and the required skill is imparted by the Financial Modeling crash course. The students become ready to work on the spectrum of information and with the help of Excel and additional tools are ready to make a mark in the industry.

A Crash Course In Finance takes the mystery and pain out of financing a business. The authors teach the know-how required in order to communicate effectively with banks, venture capitalists and other financial sources. They demonstrate basic financial concepts and illustrate how they apply to any business. At every stage of a business, the authors outline the critical role played by finance - from getting started through getting funded, to growing and thriving. Additionally, the authors explain: * How to use the Internet as a source for funding. * Where and how to be financed. * The importance of cash flow and balance sheets. * How to plan for the use of finance and using investments profitablly.

Fintech is the short from for Financial Technology. It can be defined as a measure to use technology to have a great access of financial aspects. Finance is the most important part of the working of an organization. It is that type of a department, that is responsible for the control of all the money that is involved in the business. From controlling the cost to handling the investment. Every aspect of money is surrounded by the finance department of the company. A company that lacks the measure to have a proper technique to control its finance as well as handling the finance that is available to it cannot survive in long run. The major aspects of the profitable company are molded as per the directions provided by the company's finance department. It is not limited to that but has importance to various other industries of the market such as financial institutes, insurance company, trading, etc.

Financial report analysis is a process which involves various techniques to review and evaluate the company’s financial statements. These financial statements include Balance sheet, Profit and loss statement and other reports which are generated using the inflow and outflow of the company. The analysis provides the user’s with an understanding of the company’s financial health. This is mostly undertaken to help the organization take vital business decisions. It is necessary for every organization to maintain financial data in the desired format, this data is analyzed using techniques which are beneficial for the shareholders, managers, employees and any other interested parties. Analysis of a financial report is undertaken by experts who use various different analysis technique like- Ratio analysis, vertical analysis, horizontal analysis and find out relevant information from them. The data used is past and present statements which are analyzed mostly to see what the future has in store for the organization. Mostly more than one year of data is used to make the analysis fruitful and reliable.

With more and more physicists and physics students exploring the possibility of utilizing their advanced math skills for a career in the finance industry, this much-needed book quickly introduces them to fundamental and advanced finance principles and methods. Quantitative Finance for Physicists provides a short, straightforward introduction for those who already have a background in physics. Find out how fractals, scaling, chaos, and other physics concepts are useful in analyzing financial time series. Learn about key topics in quantitative finance such as option pricing, portfolio management, and risk measurement. This book provides the basic knowledge in finance required to enable readers with physics backgrounds to move successfully into the financial industry. - Short, self-contained book for physicists to master basic concepts and quantitative methods of finance - Growing field—many physicists are moving into finance positions because of the high-level math required - Draws on the author's own experience as a physicist who moved into a financial analyst position

Almost ten years have passed since the onset of the global economic crisis, but scientists, businesspeople, bankers, and politicians continue to argue about its causes and whether it could have been prevented. The anticrisis measures that were taken also remain in dispute, and if you ask ten different economists which direction the economy is going, youll likely get ten different answers. Irakli Kovzanadze, a career banker and financier, examines the crisis, including its effects on the worlds social and political development in this important book. He highlights the following: causes of the crisis, including a dangerous triad of deregulation, financial innovation, and the speculative nature of doing business anticrisis measures at the national, regional, and international levels measures for reforming rating agencies that occupy an exceptionally important place in the modern global economy. From the origins and development of the crisis in the United States of America and Europe, to its ultimate spread, and on to ways the crisis was overcome, this book is an essential resource for aspiring macroeconomists, geopoliticians, bankers, students, and business professionals.