What Color Is Your Parachute? for Teens: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future
Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
Based on Richard Nelson Bolles's What Color Is Your Parachute?, the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Teens teaches high school and college students to zero in on their favorite skills and apply that knowledge to get the most out of school, set goals, and find their dream jobs. Filled with interactive exercises, worksheets, and profiles of young adults who have found their unique paths in life, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Teens is a crucial book for every teenager who cares about his or her future.
Publishers Weekly
After helping a generation of adults with assessing their careers, the authors turn to those just embarking on a profession in What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens by Richard Nelson Bolles and Carol Christen with Jean M. Blomquist. They begin by prompting readers to consider their interests, the kinds of people they enjoy and their ideal work environment, and round out the text with quizzes, writing exercises and teen testimonials designed to get teens thinking. Then they offer concrete ideas on how to gain experience (internships, Web sites, etc.) and prepare for interviews. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
What People Are Saying
Ann Reynolds
"...a great job simplifying the 400 pages of What Color Is Your Parachute? into a 166-page guide for young people."
—Career Resources Manager, Worklife International, Australia
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Advanced Accounting
Author: Joe Ben Hoyl
The approach used by Hoyle, Schaefer, and Doupnik in the new edition allows students to think critically about accounting, just as they will do while preparing for the CPA exam. With this text, students gain a well-balanced appreciation of the Accounting profession. The 9th edition introduces the students to the field's many aspects, while focusing on past and present resolutions. The text continues to show the development of financial reporting as a product of intense and considered debate that continues today and into the future.
Booknews
The latest edition of a standard text (2nd edition was 1987) adds new chapters on international accounting and on trusts and estates, as well as expanded coverage of consolidation accounting. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | The equity method of accounting for investments | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Consolidation of financial information | 35 |
| Ch. 3 | Consolidations - subsequent to the date of acquisition | 93 |
| Ch. 4 | Consolidated financial statements and outside ownership | 155 |
| Ch. 5 | Consolidated financial statements - intercompany asset transactions | 211 |
| Ch. 6 | Variable interest entities, intercompany debt, consolidated cash flows, and other issues | 258 |
| Ch. 7 | Consolidated financial statements - ownership patterns and income taxes | 314 |
| Ch. 8 | Segment and interim reporting | 364 |
| Ch. 9 | Foreign currency transactions and hedging foreign exchange risk | 409 |
| Ch. 10 | Translation of foreign currency financial statements | 469 |
| Ch. 11 | Worldwide accounting diversity and international standards | 524 |
| Ch. 12 | Financial reporting and the securities and exchange commission | 566 |
| Ch. 13 | Accounting for legal reorganizations and liquidations | 590 |
| Ch. 14 | Partnerships : formation and operation | 632 |
| Ch. 15 | Partnerships : termination and liquidation | 670 |
| Ch. 16 | Accounting for state and local governments (part 1) | 706 |
| Ch. 17 | Accounting for state and local governments (part 2) | 756 |
| Ch. 18 | Accounting and reporting for private not-for-profit organizations | 814 |
| Ch. 19 | Accounting for estates and trusts | 853 |
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