Great Eagle Wood is a unique, highly enjoyable novel in the style of an allegory about an animal republic where eagles provide leadership, ducks the entrepreneurial guile, and beavers the backbone to make things happen. Reflecting the economy of the modern world, Great Eagle Wood both entertains and informs about concepts, issues and institutions as diverse as banks and credit unions, business ethics and the stock market.
Great Eagle Wood: The Business Challenge by Derry Cotter and Frances
Hurley (Christ the King Secondary School, Cork) is a student workbook designed
to be read with Great Eagle Wood. The workbook is specially tailored to
the needs of students undertaking the Leaving Certificate Business curriculum
and is designed to assist them in discovering the business world. Topics
include: leadership and motivation, communication, finance, change management,
identifying opportunities, getting started, marketing, expanding the business,
ecology and the environment, business, government and the economy, business
ethics and corporate social responsibility.
A set of Teachers Notes has also been written to accompany the novel and
workbook, and to provide support to the teacher, which is available
free-of-charge to adopting teachers. Inspection copies and volume discounted
prices are available on request.
For further information contact publishing@charteredaccountants.ie or telephone on (+353) 01 637 7204
The Author
Derry Cotter is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland.
At University College Cork, where he lectured in accounting for more than 30
years, he was a recipient of the President’s Excellence in Teaching award. He is
extensively involved in the Chartered Accountants Ireland student education
programme and has taught on the FAE programme in Belfast, Cork, Dublin and
Galway. Derry, who trained as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, is
an active researcher and has published works in the areas of finance and
financial reporting. In 2004, Derry published his first novel, Mary Didn’t
Have a Mam. He is also author of Cases and Solutions in International
Financial Reporting Standards and Problem Solving and the FAE both
published by Chartered Accountants Ireland.
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