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Dividends and Dividend Policy
by Kolb Robert W. Baker H. KentDividends And Dividend Policy As part of the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance, Dividends and Dividend Policy aims to be the essential guide to dividends and their impact on shareholder value. Issues concerning dividends and dividend policy have always posed challenges to both academics and professionals. While all the pieces to the dividend puzzle may not be in place yet, the information found here can help you gain a firm understanding of this dynamic discipline. Comprising twenty-eight chapters-contributed by both top academics and financial experts in the field-this well-rounded resource discusses everything from corporate dividend decisions to the role behavioral finance plays in dividend policy. Along the way, you'll gain valuable insights into the history, trends, and determinants of dividends and dividend policy, and discover the different approaches firms are taking when it comes to dividends. Whether you're a seasoned financial professional or just beginning your journey in the world of finance, having a firm understanding of the issues surrounding dividends and dividend policy is now more important than ever. With this book as your guide, you'll be prepared to make the most informed dividend-related decisions possible-even in the most challenging economic conditions. The Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance is an unparalleled source of information dedicated to the most important issues in modern finance. Each book focuses on a specific topic in the field of finance and contains contributed chapters from both respected academics and experienced financial professionals.
Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity (Histories of American Education)
by Matthew Gardner KellyIn Dividing the Public, Matthew Gardner Kelly takes aim at the racial and economic disparities that characterize public education funding in the United States. With California as his focus, Kelly illustrates that the use of local taxes to fund public education was never an inadvertent or de facto product of past practices, but an intentional decision adopted in place of well-known alternatives during the Progressive Era, against past precedent and principle in several states.From efforts to convert expropriated Indigenous and Mexican land into common school funding in the 1850s, to reforms that directed state aid to expanding white suburbs during the years surrounding World War II, Dividing the Public traces, in intricate detail, how a host of policies connected to school funding have divided California by race and class over time. In bringing into view the neglected and poorly understood history of policymaking connected to school finance, Kelly offers a new story about the role public education played in shaping the racially segregated, economically divided, and politically fragmented world of the post-1945 metropolis.
Divine Providence in Early Modern Economic Thought (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)
by Joost HengstmengelIn this important volume, Joost Hengstmengel examines the doctrine of divine providence and how it served as explanation and justification in economic debates in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries throughout Western Europe. The author discusses five different areas in which God was associated with the economy: international trade, division of labour, value and price, self-interest, and poverty and inequality. Ultimately, it is shown that theological ideas continued to influence economic thought beyond the Medieval period, and that the science of economics as we know it today has theological origins. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in the history of economic thought, the history of theology, philosophy and intellectual history.
Divine Time Management: The Joy of Trusting God's Loving Plans for You
by Elizabeth Grace SaundersTime is a precious gift. When you invest it well, it's marked with meaning and unforgettable moments of joy. But if you're like so many, you feel rushed. Overwhelmed. Pressured by your daily obligations and others' expectations. The need to please, to succeed, and to make a difference wears away at your joy and leaves you feeling empty or exhausted.Elizabeth Grace Saunders, internationally recognized time management expert, has helped everyone from busy moms to small business owners to corporate clients reorder their lives for success. She knows there are endless apps, books, and useful methods for becoming self-disciplined, organized, and more successful, but these tools alone aren't enough to provide true freedom from the stress of how to best manage time.Yet when Elizabeth's longtime faith intersected with her work, it unlocked the power of Divine Time Management. After a season of unusually high stress, where traditional time management methods fell short, she found a transformative sense of peace by surrendering her plans to God. Pursuing God's wisdom in time management, Elizabeth discovered that by trusting Him she could achieve the happy, prosperous, confident life He lovingly planned for her. Now she shares how you can find purpose, joy, and the peace that comes from letting God guide your actions.Divine Time Management offers you: a path to deeper intimacy with God centered on trust in Him; an understanding of what God wants for your life, to inform how you set priorities; biblical and personal encouragement to embrace your God-given desires; effective ways to faithfully navigate major decisions; and proven time-saving methods.God delights in His children experiencing His best. Divine Time Management will help you align your life with God's best for you, for lasting joy with Christ at the center of your world.
Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World
by Barry M. DumasNationwide, and indeed worldwide, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of access to information. Accordingly, information technology (IT), broadly defined and its role beyond the internal workings of businesses has leapt into the social consciousness. Diving into the Bitstream distinguishes itself by weaving together the concepts and conditions of IT. What distinguishes these trends is their focus on the impacts of IT on societies, and the responsibilities of IT's creators and users. The author pulls together important, often complex issues in the relationships among information, information technologies, and societal constructs. The text explores a synopsis of these issues that are foundations for further consideration.
Divisia Monetary Aggregates and Economic Activities in Asian Developing Economies (Routledge Revivals)
by Muzafar Shah HabibullahFirst published in 1999, this volume examines the role and effects of financial liberalisation in ten deregulated Asian developing countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand. These areas experienced significant financial and economic changes between the ‘financially repressed economies’ of the 1970s through to the 1990s. Muzafar Shah Habibullah approaches this issue in two parts. Part 1 provides empirical evidence of relationships between monetary aggregates, nominal income and price level. In part 2, he offers an early attempt to evaluate the Divisia monetary aggregate as an alternative to the Simple-sum aggregate as an indicator for the financial and economic situation of Asian developing countries.
Divorce & Money
by Dale Fetherling Violet WoodhouseDivorcing? Get everything you need to split assets and debts as fairly as possible. When you're going through divorce, you have to make an overwhelming number of financial decisions. Should you sell the house? What happens to retirement benefits? How will you handle taxes? Full of sensitive and practical advice, Divorce & Money guides you through the complex process of making these important, and sometimes life altering financial decisions. It covers how to: - decide whether to keep or sell the house - protect yourself against misuse of joint accounts and credit cards - avoid tax problems - handle alimony and child support - divide debts fairly - avoid hasty decisions that could hurt you financially - reduce risks to your investments - understand how a court evaluates assets - gain financial stability as a single person The fully updated edition provides the latest tax figures and data, plus new information on dealing with credit problems, bankruptcy, foreclosure, and during or after divorce.
Divorce & Money: How to Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce
by Lina Guillen Violet Woodhouse Attorney, CFLSAll the information you need to split assets, easily and fairly. Especially in uncertain economic times, divorce isn’t simple. Turn to Divorce & Money, the acclaimed guide to evaluating and dividing assets during divorce, to avoid making financial mistakes that could affect you for the rest of your life. Learn how to: understand how a court evaluates assets determine the value of real estate and other assets negotiate a comprehensive settlement decide whether to keep or sell the house agree on fair child support understand how much, if any, alimony is appropriate divide debts fairly divide retirement benefits,and achieve financial stability after divorce. Divorce & Money shows you how to take control of your financial life during and after divorce—and avoid costly court fights.
Divorce & Money: Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce
by Lina Guillen WoodhouseDivorce & Money guides readers through the complicated process of sorting out finances during divorce. It covers a variety of issues, including how to: gather information about assets and debts value and divide property set alimony and child support, and negotiate a fair divorce settlement. The authors’ reassuring tone helps readers get past the initial shock of the breakup and emerge confident, informed, and prepared to navigate the challenging aspects of divorce and move toward financial stability and a fresh start.
Dixon Corp.: The Collinsville Plant
by W. Carl KesterDixon Corp.faces the task of valuing a plant and an associated project that it is considering buying. The revisions are designed to enable the application of adjusted present value technique for valuation. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
Dixon Corp.: The Collinsville Plant (Abridged)
by Peter Tufano Ronald W. MooreSpecialty chemical company Dixon must decide whether to acquire Collinsville, a business in a new segment, and how much to pay for it.
Django 1.2 e-commerce
by Jesse LeggPacked with code examples and configuration hints for related web technologies, the book helps you add a new feature to your store in each chapter. It also provides additional documentation and comments for popular web APIs. If you are a Django developer and wish to build an e-commerce application, then this book is for you. You need to be familiar with the basics of developing in Django.
Do "Flexible" Exchange Rates of Developing Countries Behave Like the Floating Exchange Rates of Industrialized Countries?
by Peter WickhamA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Do Big Things: The Simple Steps Teams Can Take to Mobilize Hearts and Minds, and Make an Epic Impact
by Angela V. Paccione Craig Ross Victoria L. RobertsAn inspiring, practical and progress-oriented blueprint for energetic achievement. Amid constant swirl, uncertainty, and complexity is your team capable of doing big things? Too often people are pulled together, labeled a “team,” given a directive, and expected to deliver results quickly. Soon, however, due to lack of focus, increasing pressures and competing priorities the team suffers from DSD: distracted, hopelessly stressed and disconnected from one another. Predictably, the team flatlines and the energy needed to succeed is lost. Based upon research of what successful teams do to overcome severe odds, Do Big Things presents an intuitive, seven-step process that equips teams with how to quickly and consistently operate in a manner necessary for success. Team members develop the self-awareness and ability to: Bring their best to every situation Bring out the best in others in every interaction Partner across the business to deliver common objectives Filled with practical tools and engaging stories of teams today, Do Big Things equips leaders with “the how” to quickly identify and activate the behaviors needed to achieve more than you or your team ever thought possible. Idea and information exchanges interlock the hand, head and heart of each team member to get everyone moving toward a common goal. Increasingly, individually and collectively, the team becomes emotionally stronger and more productive as they do their work. Do Big Things provides your team with the common language necessary to be authentic, empathetic and transparent, so that potential barriers to success come to light – faster. This empowers the team to be more accountable with an enterprise mindset, because they can have the profound discussions needed to adapt quicker to unforeseen challenges and demonstrate an innovative reflex. By applying the concepts in this book, the team’s daily interactions are transformed, focus is sustained, and energetic progress toward your goals is triggered. Every member of your team wants to succeed. Do Big Things provides a straightforward method to bring greater meaning to the work everyone does so the team delivers extraordinary performance together. You know what your team can achieve—now use the proven method to enable them to do it.
Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After
by Miki AgrawalAn inspiring, irreverent manifesto for those seeking to blaze their own path to entrepreneurship and find fulfillment and happiness through bold action and big ideas.With zero experience and no capital, Miki Agrawal opened WILD, a farm-to-table pizzeria in New York City and Las Vegas, partnered up in a children's multimedia company called Super Sprowtz, and launched a patented high-tech underwear business called THINX.Miki, a successful serial social entrepreneur and angel investor, pulls back the curtain to reveal how you can live out loud, honor your hunches, and leave nothing on the table. Start your business on a shoestring budget, nail your brainstorming sessions and product testing, and get free press coverage—all while living your best life.Whether you’re a recent college graduate trying to find your way in the world, or a professional with a dead-end job and big dreams, Do Cool Sh*t will make you open your eyes, laugh out loud, and shout, "I can do that!"Do Cool Sh*t features a foreword by Tony Hsieh, the founder and CEO of Zappos.
Do Economists Make Markets?: On the Performativity of Economics
by Donald MacKenzie Fabian Muniesa Lucia SiuAround the globe, economists affect markets by saying what markets are doing, what they should do, and what they will do. Increasingly, experimental economists are even designing real-world markets. But, despite these facts, economists are still largely thought of as scientists who merely observe markets from the outside, like astronomers look at the stars. Do Economists Make Markets? boldly challenges this view. It is the first book dedicated to the controversial question of whether economics is performative--of whether, in some cases, economics actually produces the phenomena it analyzes. The book's case studies--including financial derivatives markets, telecommunications-frequency auctions, and individual transferable quotas in fisheries--give substance to the notion of the performativity of economics in an accessible, nontechnical way. Some chapters defend the notion; others attack it vigorously. The book ends with an extended chapter in which Michel Callon, the idea's main formulator, reflects upon the debate and asks what it means to say economics is performative. The book's insights and strong claims about the ways economics is entangled with the markets it studies should interest--and provoke--economic sociologists, economists, and other social scientists. In addition to the editors and Callon, the contributors include Marie-France Garcia-Parpet, Francesco Guala, Emmanuel Didier, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah, Petter Holm, Vincent-Antonin Lépinay, and Timothy Mitchell.
Do Financial Incentives Drive Company Performance?: An Evidence-Based Approach to Motivation and Rewards
by Robert I. Sutton Jeffrey PfefferThis chapter examines one of the most deeply held half-truths in the business world, that financial incentives drive company performance, and tackles several deeply held, widely shared, and intertwined beliefs and assumptions about what motivates people in the workplace.
Do Financial Sector Reforms Lead to Financial Development? Evidence from a New Dataset
by Thierry Tressel Enrica DetragiacheA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Do Fracasso ao Sucesso: Cinco Princípios Mentais para Crescimento Pessoal
by Bootstrap BusinessmenVocê está cansado de ler as mesmas histórias de livros motivacionais e de auto-ajuda que dão conselhos exagerados e antigos? Não seria ideal receber toda a informação que você precisa de uma vez só através de conselhos práticos baseados em conquistas reais? Então, Do Fracasso ao sucesso: Cinco Princípios Mentais para Crescimento Pessoal é exatamente o que você precisa para quebrar barreiras e triunfar. Baseado em uma longa pesquisa de fontes confiáveis sobre atletas mundiais, inventores, empreendedores e milionários, Do Fracasso ao Sucesso te leva a uma jornada breve mas provocante sobre a importância de falhar e como transformar isso em uma das suas maiores ferramentas. Cheio de histórias de fracassos seguidos de viradas espetaculares, esse livro te dá o que você precisa sem o besteirol tradicional dos livros motivacionais e de auto-ajuda.
Do Good At Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing
by Bea BoccalandroA delightful do-it-yourself guide to igniting meaning in any job.
Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action, and Social Innovation
by Jennifer Przybylo Nina VasanWritten with a fresh voice and a dash of humor, Do Good Well is an exciting and readily adaptable guide to social innovation that not only captures the entrepreneurial and creative spirit of our time, but also harnesses the insights, wisdom, and down-to-earth experience of today’s most accomplished young leaders. Do Good Well offers a winning combination of theory, anecdote, and application, giving you the framework you need to make an impact next door or across the world. The authors present a 12-step process that empowers readers to act on their passions and concerns. This process is organized into three parts: Do What Works, Work Together, and Make It Last. They offer specific guidance for following the process through practical and prescriptive actions such building organizations, joining boards, applying for funding, creating partnerships with organizations that have similar goals, organizing conferences, and publicizing events. The book incorporates accounts of young people in action, and always reinforces the message that social innovation can be a lifestyle, made up of efforts small and large. It is not an all-or nothing proposition, and anyone can affect social change.
Do Good, Get Paid: How to Make a Difference in Your Day Job
by Natalie FeeDo you dream of a career that makes a difference? Are you ready to make the switch to more meaningful work or to take your passion project to the next level? In Do Good, Get Paid, Natalie Fee, environmental campaigner and founder of City to Sea, shares her experience of setting up a successful non-profit organisation, and provides all the practical, easy-to-follow advice you need to develop and fund an impactful campaign or fulfilling career.You will also meet trailblazing global campaigners, movement builders and business leaders, from Sabia Wade, a radical reproductive justice innovator in the US, to Danny Renton at Seawilding, a project set up to rewild the remote lochs of Scotland.So, whether you're planning a kick-ass local campaign or launching a global operation of planetary healing, this is your guide to getting paid to do what you love.
Do Good, Get Paid: How to Make a Difference in Your Day Job
by Natalie FeeDo you dream of a career that makes a difference? Are you ready to make the switch to more meaningful work or to take your passion project to the next level? In Do Good, Get Paid, Natalie Fee, environmental campaigner and founder of City to Sea, shares her experience of setting up a successful non-profit organisation, and provides all the practical, easy-to-follow advice you need to develop and fund an impactful campaign or fulfilling career.You will also meet trailblazing global campaigners, movement builders and business leaders, from Sabia Wade, a radical reproductive justice innovator in the US, to Danny Renton at Seawilding, a project set up to rewild the remote lochs of Scotland.So, whether you're planning a kick-ass local campaign or launching a global operation of planetary healing, this is your guide to getting paid to do what you love.
Do Good: Embracing Brand Citizenship to Fuel Both Purpose and Profit
by Anne Bahr ThompsonGood works are no longer optional.For many businesses, success comes in unexpected ways. Toms grew into a $600 million company by giving away 35 million pair of shoes. Patagonia’s profits have climbed year after year even as it funnels heavy investments into sustainability.And it’s not just millennials rewarding companies with causes. In every age group, people commit to brands that show good citizenship. From CVS’s destocking cigarettes to Chipotle’s ethical sourcing, people want to see fair employment practices, social responsibility, and charitable giving — and they quickly call out negligence.Based on extensive research with thousands of consumers, Do Good documents this sea change and explains how to embed social consciousness into a company’s DNA. Packed with examples and original data, the five-step model highlights the new rules of business:TRUST: Deliver on promisesENRICHMENT: Make daily life easier or more inspiringRESPONSIBILITY: Treat people and the environment with respectCOMMUNITY: Mirror values shared by customers, employees, and partnersCONTRIBUTION: Make a difference in the world.Buyers today demand more than half-hearted pledges. By actively linking great brands with higher purposes, companies capture both markets and hearts.
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
by Steve MagnessNational Bestseller"In Do Hard Things, Steve Magness beautifully and persuasively reimagines our understanding of toughness. This is a must-read for parents and coaches and anyone else looking to prepare for life's biggest challenges." -- Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and Talking to Strangers and host of the Revisionist History podcastFrom beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness comes a radical rethinking of how we perceive toughness and what it means to achieve our high ambitions in the face of hard things.Toughness has long been held as the key to overcoming a challenge and achieving greatness, whether it is on the sports field, at a boardroom, or at the dining room table. Yet, the prevailing model has promoted a mentality based on fear, false bravado, and hiding any sign of weakness. In other words, the old model of toughness has failed us.Steve Magness, a performance scientist who coaches Olympic athletes, rebuilds our broken model of resilience with one grounded in the latest science and psychology. In Do Hard Things, Magness teaches us how we can work with our body – how experiencing discomfort, leaning in, paying attention, and creating space to take thoughtful action can be the true indications of cultivating inner strength. He offers four core pillars to cultivate such resilience: Pillar 1- Ditch the Façade, Embrace RealityPillar 2- Listen to Your BodyPillar 3- Respond, Instead of React Pillar 4- Transcend Discomfort Smart and wise all at once, Magness flips the script on what it means to be resilient. Drawing from mindfulness, military case studies, sports psychology, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, he provides a roadmap for navigating life’s challenges and achieving high performance that makes us happier, more successful, and, ultimately, better people.