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ACCOUNTING ^ top


"Accounting Ethics"

by Brenda Shay Duska and Ronald F. Duska

Blackwell Publishing, 2003

 

"Accounting Handbook, Third Edition"

by Joel G. Siegel and Jae K. Shim,

Barron's Educational Series, 2000

 

"Accounting Irregularities and Financial fraud: A Corporate Governance Guide"

by Michael R. Young (editor)

Harcourt Brace Professional Publishing

 

"Behind Closed Doors: What Company Audit is Really About"

by Vivien A. Beattie, Stella Fearnley and Richard T. Brandt

Palgrave Macmillan, June 2001

 

"Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company's True Value"

by Michelle Leder

John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 2003

 

"The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices"

by Eugene E. Comiskey and Charles W. Mulford

John Wiley & Sons, January 2002

 

"Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports"

by Howard Schilit

McGraw-Hill Trade, March 2002

 

"Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide"

by Martin S. Fridson

John W. Wiley & Sons, February 1995

 

"Financial Statement Analysis: An Integrated Approach"

by Peter M. Bergevin

Prentice Hall, January 2002

 

"Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports"

by Thomas R. Ittleson

Career Press, February 1998

 

"Financial Warnings"

by Eugene E. Comiskey and Charles W. Mulford

John W. Wiley & Sons, January 1996

 

"GAAP 2002: Interpretations and Applications of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles 2002"

by Patrick R. Delaney, Barry J. Epstein, Ralph Nack, Susan Weiss Budak

John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

 

"GAAP 2003 Handbook of Policies and Procedures"

by Joel Siegel

Aspen Publishers, August 2003

 

"Guide to Financial Reporting and Analysis"

by Eugene E. Comiskey and Charles W. Mulford

John Wiley & Sons, July 2000

 

"The Guide to Understanding Financial Statements"

by S.B. Costales and Geza Szurovy

McGraw-Hill, 1994

 

"Handbook of SEC Accounting and Disclosure"

by Allen B. Afterman

Warren Gorham & Lamont, June 2003

 

"Hidden Financial Risk: Understanding Off Balance Sheet Accounting"

by J. Edward Ketz

John Wiley & Sons, June 2003

 

"How Companies Lie: Why Enron is Just the Tip of the Iceberg"

by A. Larry Elliott and Richard J. Schroth

Crown Business, June 2002

 

"How to Read the Financial Pages"

by Peter Passell

Warner Books, May 1998

 

"How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs out of the Numbers"

by John A. Tracy

John Wiley & Sons, 1999

 

"How to Understand the Financial Press"

by John Andrew

Kogan Page Ltd., January 1993

 

"How to Use Financial Statements: A Guide to Understanding the Numbers"

by James Bandler

McGraw-Hill Trade, June 1994

 

"The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book On Value Investing"

by Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig

HarperBusiness, July 2003

 

"The Interpretation of Financial Statements"

by Benjamin Graham and Spencer Meredith

HarperBusiness, January 1998

 

"Irrational Exuberance"

by Robert J. Shiller

Broadway, April 2001

 

"Keys to Reading an Annual Report"

by George Thomas Friedlab and Ralph E. Welton

Barron's Educational Series Inc., 1995

 

"Keys to Understanding the Financial News"

by Nicholas G. Apostolou and D. Lawrence Crumbley

Barrons Educational Series, September 2000

 

"The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Accounting Course, Third Edition"

by Harold E. Arnett and Robert L. Dixon

McGraw-Hill, 1993

 

"Penguin Dictionary of Accounting"

by Christopher Nobes

Penguin USA , August 2002

 

"Profits You Can Trust: Spotting and Surviving Accounting Landmines"

by David Sherman, David Young and Harris Collingwood

Financial Times Prentice Hall, July 2003

 

"Quality of Earnings"

by Thornton O'Glove

The Free Press, 1987

 

"Understanding Financial Statements: A Journalist's Guide"

by Jay Taparia

Marion Street Press, January 2004

 

BANKING AND INVESTMENT ^ top


"10 Minute Guide to Mutual Funds"

by Werner Renberg

John Wiley & Sons, June 1996

 

"All About Bond Funds: A Complete Guide for Today's Investors"

by Werner Renberg

John Wiley & Sons, May 1995

 

"Barron's Finance and Investment Handbook"

by John Downes and Jordan Elliot Goodman

Barrons Educational Series, November 1998

 

"The Bond Book: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More"

by Annette Thau

McGraw-Hill Trade, November 2000

 

"Using Economic Indicators to Improve Investment Analysis"

by Evelina M. Tainer

John Wiley & Sons, August 1998

 

"The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing"

by Kenneth M. Morris and Virginia B. Morris

Fireside, 1999

 

DICTIONARIES ^ top


"Dictionary of Accounting"

by P.H. Collin, David York and Adrian Joliffe

Peter Collin Publishing, April 2002

 

"Dictionary of Accounting Terms (Barron's Business Directories)"

by Joel G. Siegel and Jae K. Shim

Barrons Educational Series, October 2002

 

"Dictionary of Banking Terms (Barron's Business Directories)"

by Thomas P. Fitch

Barrons Educational Series, September 2000

 

"Dictionary of Business Terms (Barron's Business Directories)"

by Jack Friedman

Barrons Educational Series, May 2000

 

"Dictionary of Economics"

by Graham Bannock, R.E. Baxter and Evan Davis

Bloomberg Press, November 2003

 

"A Dictionary of Economics ( Oxford Paperback Reference)"

by John Black

Oxford University Press, September 2003

 

"Dictionary of Economics and Business: A Thousand Key Terms and People"

by Robert J. Wechman

Stipes Publishing Co., November 2000

 

"Dictionary of Finance and Banking"

Oxford University Press, January 1998

 

"Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms"

by John Downes and Jordan Elliot Goodman

Barron's Educational Series, November 2002

 

"Dictionary of Financial Terms"

by Kenneth M. Morris and Virginia B. Morris

McGraw-Hill Trade, January 2000

 

"Dictionary of International Business Terms (Barron's Business Dictionaries)"

by John J. Capela, Stephen W. Hartman

Barrons Educational Series, May 2000

 

"The Economist Books Dictionary of Economics"

by The Economist

John Wiley & Sons, 1998

 

"Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources"

The Gale Group, September 2003

 

"Encyclopedic Dictionary of Economics"

by Don Cole

McGraw Hill/Dushkin, February 1991

 

"Field Guide to Business Terms: A Glossary of Essential Tools and Concepts for Today's Manager"

by Tim Hindle, Alistair D. Williamson (editor)

Harvard Business School Press, March 1995

 

"International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms"

by Thomas W. Morris and Gary Shoup

Glenlake Publishing Co., October 1998

 

"International Dictionary of Finance (The Economist Series)

by Graham Bannock and William Manser

Economists Books, June 2003

 

"The New York Times Dictionary of Money and Investing: The Essential A-to-Z Guide to the Language of the New Market"

by Gretchen Morgensen and Campbell R. Harvey

Times Book, August 2002

 

"Penguin Dictionary of Accounting"

by Christopher Nobes

Penguin USA , August 2002

 

"Wall Street Dictionary"

by Robert J. Shook

Career Press, March 1999

 

ECONOMICS ^ top


"Economics: A Self-Teaching Guide"

by Steve Slavin

John Wiley & Sons, August 1999

 

"Economics Explained: Everything you need to Know about how the Economy Works and Where it's Going"

by Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow

Touchstone Books, 1998

 

"The Economist Books Dictionary of Economics"

by The Economist

John Wiley & Sons, 1998

 

"The Economist Guide to Economic Indicators: Making Sense of Economics"

by The Economist

John Wiley & Sons, April 1998

 

"Encyclopedic Dictionary of Economics"

by Don Cole

McGraw Hill/Dushkin, February 1991

 

"Handbook of Key Economic Indicators"

by R. Mark Rogers

McGraw-Hill Trade, June 1998

 

"How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" (PDF)

by Michael E. Porter

Harvard Business School Press, March 1979

 

"Using Economic Indicators to Improve Investment Analysis"

by Evelina M. Tainer

John Wiley & Sons, August 1998

 

ETHICS ^ top


"24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America."

by Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller

HarperBusiness, 2003

 

"Accounting Ethics"

by Brenda Shay Duska and Ronald F. Duska

Blackwell Publishing, 2003

 

"Business Ethics: A Stakeholder and Issues Management Approach"

by Joseph W. Weiss

Southwestern College Publishing, March 2002

 

"The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices"

by Eugene E. Comiskey and Charles W. Mulford

John Wiley & Sons, January 2002

 

"Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports"

by Howard Schilit

McGraw-Hill Trade, March 2002

 

"Financial Warnings"

by Eugene E. Comiskey and Charles W. Mulford

John W. Wiley & Sons, January 1996

 

"The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street 's Game of Money, Media and Manipulation"

by Howard Kurtz

Touchstone Books, June 2001

 

"Hidden Financial Risk: Understanding Off Balance Sheet Accounting"

by J. Edward Ketz

John Wiley & Sons, June 2003

 

"How Companies Lie: Why Enron is Just the Tip of the Iceberg"

by A. Larry Elliott and Richard J. Schroth

Crown Business, June 2002

 

"Profits You Can Trust: Spotting and Surviving Accounting Landmines"

by David Sherman, David Young and Harris Collingwood

Financial Times Prentice Hall, July 2003

 

"Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron"

by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

Portfolio, October 2003

 

HISTORY OF BUSINESS ^ top


"The Age of Giant Corporations: A Microeconomic History of American Business, 1914-1992"

by Robert Sobel

Praeger Publishing, 1993

 

"All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster"

by Joseph Menn

Crown Business, April 2003

 

"Bloomberg by Bloomberg"

by Michael Bloomberg & Matthew Winkler

Wiley John & Sons Inc., August 2001

 

"Business and Capitalism: An Introduction to Business History"

Norman Scott Brien Gras

Kelley Augustus M. Publishers, 1971

 

"The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea"

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Modern Library, March 2003

 

"The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street 's Game of Money, Media and Manipulation"

by Howard Kurtz

Touchstone Books, June 2001

 

"In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington "

by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg

Random House, November 2003

 

"In the Company of Owners: The Truth About Stock Options (and Why Every Employee Should Have Them)"

by Aaron Bernstein, Joseph Blasi and Douglas Kruse

Basic Books, January 2003

 

"The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth"

by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor

Harvard Business School Press, September 2003

 

"Inside the Wall Street Journal: The History and the Power of Dow Jones and Company and America's Most Influential Newspaper"

by Jerry M. Rosenberg

MacMillan Publishing Co., 1982

 

"International Business History"

by Dennis McCarthy

Praeger Publishing, 1994

 

"The New Business Journalism: An Insider's Look at the Workings of America's Business Press"

by Donald Gussow

Harcourt, March 1984

 

"The Mind of Wall Street"

by Leon Levy and Eugene Linden

PublicAffairs, January 2004 (reprint)

 

"The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21 st Century"

by Robert J. Shiller

Princeton University Press, April 2003

 

"The Politics of Money: The Fed Under Alan Greenspan"

by David M. Jones

New York Institute of Finance, July 1991

 

"The Power and the Money: Inside the Wall Street Journal"

by Francis X. Dealy

Birch Lane Press, 1993

 

"The Press and the World of Money"

by John Quirt

Anton/California-Courier, 1993

 

"Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron"

by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

Portfolio, October 2003

 

"Take On the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know"

by Arthur Levitt and Paula Dwyer

Pantheon Books, October 2002

 

"Wall Street, A History"

by Charles Geisst

Oxford University press, 1997

 

World Bank Institute: The World Development Report: Building Institutions for Markets

http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/journalism/about.html

WBI Working Paper: "The Role of the Media in Curbing Corruption"

WBI Book: "The Right to Tell -- the Role of Mass Media in Economic Development"

 

"Worldly Power: The Making of The Wall Street Journal"

by Edward Scharff

Beaufort Books Inc., 1982

 

RESEARCH GUIDES ^ top


"The Associated Press Guide to Internet Research and Reporting"

by Frank Bass

Perseus Publishing, January 2002

 

"The Associated Press Guide to News Writing,"

By Rene Cappon

IDG Books Worldwide, 2000

"Computer-Assisted Research: A Guide to Tapping Online Information"

by Nora Paul

Bonus Books Inc. and Poynter Institute of Media Studies, 1999

 

"Get the Facts on Anyone: Find out Confidential Information about any Person or Organization"

by Dennis King

MacMillan References USA , 1999

 

"Guide to Analysing Companies"

by Bob Vause

Economist Books, February 2002

 

"Handbook of Key Economic Indicators"

by R. Mark Rogers

McGraw-Hill Trade, June 1998

 

"Handbook of SEC Accounting and Disclosure"

by Allen B. Afterman

Warren Gorham & Lamont, June 2003

 

"How the Bond Market Works"

"How the Economy Works"

"How the Futures Market Works"

"How the Mutual Funds Work"

"How the Stock Market Works"

Prentice Hall Press

 

"How to Use Financial Statements: A Guide to Understanding the Numbers"

by James Bandler

McGraw-Hill Trade, June 1994

 

"Institutional Investor Directory of Leading American Analysts"

http://www.financialdirectories.com

"The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers and Journalists"

by Mary McGuire (editor)

Guilford Press, June 2000

 

"A Journalist's Guide to the Internet,"

by Christopher Callahan, University of Maryland College Park

Allyn & Bacon Inc., 1999

 

"Math Tools for Journalists"

by Kathleen Woodruff Wickham

Marion Street Press, 2002

 

"The New York Times Manual to Style and Usage"

by Allan M. Siegal and William G. Connolly

Three Rivers Press, January 2002

 

"Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy (The Economist Series)"

by Richard Stutely

Bloomberg Press, April 2003

 

"The Portable MBA Desk Reference: An Essential Business Companion"

by Nitin Nohria

John Wiley & Sons, October 1998

Part of Portable MBA series on Investment and Finance, Strategy, Management, Marketing

 

"A Practical Guide to SEC Proxy and Compensation Rules"

by Amy L. Goodman and John F. Olson (editor)

Aspen Publishers, June 1993

 

"The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques"

by Steve Weinberg (editor)

St. Martin 's Press, September 1995

 

"The Wall Street Journal's Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage"

by Paul Martin

Free Press, September 2003

 

World Bank Institute: The World Development Report: Building Institutions for Markets

http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/journalism/about.html

WBI Working Paper: "The Role of the Media in Curbing Corruption"

WBI Book: "The Right to Tell -- the Role of Mass Media in Economic Development"

 

"Writing About Business: The New Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Economics & Business Journalism"

By Terri Thompson (editor)

Columbia University Press, 2001

 

STATISTICS ^ top


"Business Statistics: A Self-Teaching Guide"

by Donald Koosis

John Wiley & Sons, 1997

 

"Statistics"

by David Freedman, Robert Pisani and Roger Purves

W.W. Norton & Co., September 1997

 

"Statistics: An Illustrated Introduction"

by David S. Moore

W.H. Freeman & Co., September 1985

 

TECHNOLOGY ^ top


"All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster"

by Joseph Menn

Crown Business, April 2003

 

"Cyberbunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier"

by Katie Hafner and John Markoff

Touchstone Books, 1995

 

"The Maverick and his Machine: Thomas Watson Sr., and the Making of IBM"

by Kevin Maney

John Wiley & Sons, April 2003

 

"Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet"

by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon

Touchstone Books, January 1998

 

WRITING ^ top


"The Associated Press Guide to Internet Research and Reporting"

by Frank Bass

Perseus Publishing, January 2002

 

"The Associated Press Guide to News Writing,"

By Rene Cappon

IDG Books Worldwide, 2000

 

"Best Business Crime Writing of the Year"

by James Surowiecki (editor)

Vintage Books, November 2002

 

"The Best Business Stories of the Year"

Andrew Leckey (editor)

Random House Publishing, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

 

"Bottom Line Writing: Reporting the Sense of Dollars"

by Conrad C. Fink

Iowa State Press, February 2000

 

"Business Journalism: Management Case and Notes"

by Albert N. Greco

New York University Press, September 1988

 

"Business Press Editor"

by Edward A. Grunwald

New York University Press, July 1988

 

"The Business Reporter's Handbook"

by Glenn S. Lewin

Tenax Business Press, 2001

 

"Clear Technical Writing"

by John A. Brogan

McGraw-Hill Cos, June 1973

 

"Computer-Assisted Research: A Guide to Tapping Online Information"

by Nora Paul

Bonus Books Inc. and Poynter Institute of Media Studies, 1999

 

"The Craft of Corporate Journalism: Writing and Editing Creative Organizational Publications"

by Lionel L. Fisher

Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., January 1992

 

"Floating Off the Page: The Best Stories from the Wall Street Journal's Middle Column"

by Ken Wells (editor)

Free Press, May 2002

 

"Fortune: The Art of Covering Business"

Gibbs Smith, August 1999

 

"Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics and the Public Interest"

by Jeremy Iggers

Westview Press, March 1998

 

"Guide to Writing for the Business Press"

by Patrick Clinton

NTC Publishing Group, February 1997

 

"The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers and Journalists"

by Mary McGuire (editor)

Guilford Press, June 2000

 

"A Journalist's Guide to the Internet,"

by Christopher Callahan, University of Maryland College Park

Allyn & Bacon Inc., 1999

 

"Math Tools for Journalists"

by Kathleen Woodruff Wickham

Marion Street Press, 2002

 

Neiman Foundation for Journalism Report: "Reporting on Business: Enron and Beyond"

Neiman.Harvard.edu

Summer 2002

 

"The New Business Journalism: An Insider's Look at the Workings of America's Business Press"

by Donald Gussow

Harcourt, March 1984

 

"The New Precision Journalism"

by Philip Meyer

Indiana University Press, December 1991

 

"The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques"

by Steve Weinberg (editor)

St. Martin 's Press, September 1995

 

"Rules of Thumb for Business Writers"

by Diana Roberts Weinbroer, Elaine Hughes and Jay Silverman

McGraw-Hill, 2000

 

"Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communications"

Chris Roush

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, March 2004

 

"The Word on Business"

by Jenny Luesby

Financial Times/Prentice Hall

 

"Write Tight: How to Keep Your Prose Sharp, Focused and Concise"

by William Brohaugh

ISI Books, December 2002

 

"Writing About Business: The New Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Economics & Business Journalism"

By Terri Thompson (editor)

Columbia University Press, 2001

 

"Writing for the Corporate Market: How to Make Big Money Freelancing for Business"

by George Sorenson

Mid-List Press, June 1990

 

"Writing for Trade Magazines: How to Boost Your Income by $200 to $500 a Week"

by Kendall Hanson

Dixon-Price Publishing, November 1999

 

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