The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Lean Six Sigma

Make simple sense of complex financial information!

The high-profile accounting scandals of recent years have made one thing clear: You can't know too much about the company for which you work. What are the numbers? Where do you find them? How do they affect you and your staff?

This fully revised and updated third edition of The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Finance for Nonfinancial Managers provides a firm grasp on what all the numbers really mean. Designed to let you learn at your own pace, it walks you through:

• The essential concepts of finance, so you can ask intelligent questions and understand the answers
• Vital statements and reports, with sections on pro forma financial statements and expensing of stock options
• The auditing process--what is measured, how it's measured, and how you can help ensure accuracy and completeness

Quickly get up-to-speed in all basic accounting principles and procedures and apply that knowledge to real-world financial decisions and requests

The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Accounting Course has been the gold standard for anyone looking for a fast, no-nonsense primer in all the fundamentals of financial, managerial, and tax accounting concepts. Now thoroughly revised and updated, the fourth edition features new coverage of the technological developments in the field, the recent sweeping tax reforms, and the latest Financial Accounting Standards Board pronouncements.

The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Accounting Course offers such up-to-date coverage as:

• Complete analysis of the current trends in computer hardware and accounting software
• Coverage of current tax issues, such as the revision of tax rate structure, new deductions and credits for higher education costs, and taxation of Social Security benefits
• New test problems throughout to help you gauge your progress, as well as a final exam that can earn you a Certificate of Achievement

Complete with a doable study plan, The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Accounting Course is your fast track to easily mastering the essentials of accounting in the shortest time possible.

A Breakthrough Framework for Adaptive Project Management from Project Management Guru Robert K. Wysocki

For an increasing number of critical projects, traditional project management models simply are not appropriate. In many cases, complete requirements and objectives cannot be specified up front, and significant changes cannot be avoided. What’s needed is an entirely new framework for project management: one that combines agile methods with the profession’s most enduring best practices. In this book, Robert K. Wysocki provides that framework—the Adaptive Project Framework (APF)—and shows how to apply it in any domain.

Wysocki, one of the world’s leading project management consultants, has spent decades helping large organizations succeed with complex projects. Drawing on everything he’s learned, he explains why a fundamentally new framework is needed and introduces all five phases of that framework. He covers artifacts, processes, and deliverables, and shows how to utilize each phase most effectively in your environment. Through four detailed case studies, you’ll discover how APF can help you adapt to unexpected events, encouraging creative responses based on open partnerships between clients and project teams.

Coverage includes

• Bringing greater flexibility and speed to any project, regardless of its goals or context
• Moving forward successfully with projects that have vague requirements
• Discovering what clients really want, not just what they say they want
• Managing ongoing scope changes throughout a project
• Customizing APF to your own environment
• Integrating APF with existing agile software development methods
• Using APF to overcome the obstacles to success
• Preparing for the future of project management

This book is written for every project participant—project and program managers, software and product developers, process designers, and business analysts—who needs to deliver results in a world that won’t stand still.