Business Skills

Strategic Cost Reduction

/PageFiles/85841/bk_strategic.jpgAuthor: Tim McCormick and Dermot Duff
Summary: This book takes a holistic approach to cutting costs, and is an original guide on how to reduce costs in a way which does not ultimately destroy the business. This involves integrating the experience of leading practitioners with the available strategic models and theories.

 

 

Corporate Fraud

Corporate Fraud front coverAuthor: Andrew Brown
Summary: Using real-life examples, the book provides practical advice to anyone responsible for dealing with fraud on how they can reduce the risk of being a victim of fraud.

 

 

 

This Business of Writing

Image: This Business of WritingAuthors: Terry Prone and Kieran Lyons
Summary: This Business of Writing demystifies the written word for the time-pressed professional. It shows how to use English with confidence. More than a style guide, this uniquely Irish text is a reference and guide on how to write articles, academic papers, speeches, presentations, reports and summaries. It will appeal to accountants, business executives, journalists and students at all levels.

 

Going Paperless

/Global/bkimgs/paperless_office.jpgAuthor: Kevin Salter
Summary: Going Paperless is not only about saving paper and space. The real goal of storing and retrieving documents electronically is a dramatic improvement in efficiency and productivity.

 

 

 

The Business Compass

front cover of The Business CompassSummary: This e-book for Kindle, PDF download or paperback collates perspectives on ethics from a number of different sectors of the economy.

 

 

 

 

 

The Seven Cs of Business Recovery

Front cover image of The Seven Cs of Business RecoveryAuthor: Neil Hughes
Summary: This eBook for Kindle was previously published in paperback as Beating the Recession. It provides a framework to help businesses successfully trade through challenging economic conditions.

 

 

 

 

Accounting for Retailers: A Sectoral Guide

Image of Accounting for RetailersAuthor: Kevin McSharry
Summary: This book summarises some of the complex accounting areas that are specific to the retail sector and provides a simple and easy-to-follow guide to the change to IFRS for SMEs.

 

 

 

 

Enterprise Risk Management

Image Enterprise Risk ManagementAuthor: Bevan Lloyd
Summary: The Combined Code on Corporate Governance (2008) requires that a board of directors maintain a sound system of internal control. This principle includes an, at least, annual review of all material controls and risk management systems. The purpose of this book is to create a detailed and practical guide to the actual mechanics of implementing such a risk management
system.

 

Client Science: The Five Cs Marketing Plan for Professionals

Client Science imageAuthor: Rachel Killeen
Summary: In five simple steps, Client Science gives you practical marketing techniques to help you attract more clients to your practice. It combines the author's broad experience in professional services marketing, with insights she has gathered from numerous professionals, including accountants, architects, bankers, medical and legal practitioners.

 

The Valuation of Businesses and Shares

Image: The Valuation of Businesses and SharesAuthor: Des Peelo
Summary: The topic of valuations permeates all aspects of business life. It is the measure of capital value on stockmarkets around the world, the mainspring of wealth and its creation, and the store of value for the economic wellbeing of a country.

 

 

 

Beating the Recession: The Seven Cs of Business Recovery

Beating the Recession - book imageAuthor: Neil Hughes
Summary: After more than a year of the hardest hitting recession in living memory, Irish business has been left shell-shocked. A generation of business owners and managers, who had been conditioned to only consider solutions that involved throwing (borrowed) money at a problem, are now compromised by the bust and ill-equipped to deal with the challenges they face.

 

 

Slave to a Job, Master of your Career

Slave to a Job, Master of Your Career - book imageAuthor: Sean McLoughney
Summary: To be employable in today's job market requires a new adaptable way of thinking and behaving. Slave to a Job, Master of your Career is a new book by Sean McLoughney that challenges people to change their mindset from being an employee to being an entrepreneur in the workplace.

 

 

 

Slave to the Clock, Master of Time

Slave to the ClockAuthor: Sean McLoughney
Summary: Slave to the Clock, Master of Time will transform the way you use your time. It takes you on a step-by step journey to develop a personal time management strategy that will give you the time for personal and professional success.

 

 

The Natural Presenter

The Natural PresenterAuthor: Barry Brophy
Summary: The Natural Presenter tells you how to harness conversational energy and fluidity when making a presentation.

 

 

 

 

 



Recommended Reading

Featured book

A Practical Guide to Insolvency by Kavanagh Fennell now available on the iBookstore This easy-to-use guide to the complexities of insolvency in Ireland for business managers, accountants, and other professionals, previously published in paperback, is available for your iPad in the iBookstore and for your Kobo eReader from KoboBooks.

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