New books

The new titles that came during the last two weeks are:

1. Financial Econometrics by Peijie Wang

KINGSWAY BOOKS LEVEL 1 EEP WANG

2. Money and Monetary Stystems: selcted essays of Filippo Cesarano

KINGSWAY BOOKS LEVEL 1 EEC CESA

3. Main Economic Indicators, Vol 2008/8 August by the OECD

KINGSWAY BOOKS LEVEL 1 EE8 MAIN

If you would like me to put aside any of the above title, please let me know.

New books

For Finance & Investment:

1. Advanced capital budgeting : refinements in the economic analysis of investment projects / Harold Bierman, Jr. and Seymour Smidt. New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2007.

As always, if you want to take out this title, please let me know.

New reference book with historical economic/financial statistics

Copyright kikashi

International Historical Statistics; Africa, Asia and Oceania 1750-2005 is the latest edition of the most authoritative collection of statistics available.

It is available in our Reference collection at HG2 MITC (this means that you won't be able to take the book out, however, you can make photocopies)

Updated to 2005 wherever possible, it provides key economic and social indicators for the last 255 years, serving as an essential reference source.

Contents provides:

• statistical data in easy to use tables
• for the last 255 years (where available)
• of every country in the African, Asian and Australiasian continents

Covering:

• Population & Vital Statistics

Includes population of countries at enumerations, by sex and age groups, of major cities, vital statistics, international migrants

• Labour Force

Includes economically active population, unemployment, industrial disputes, indices of wages/earnings

• Agriculture

Main arable food crops; various foodstuff outputs; livestock, exports of various agricultural commodities

• Industry

Includes coal , crude petroleum, natural gas and iron ore production; assembly of motor vehicles, imports & exports

• External Trade

Includes aggregate current values, main trading partners and major commodity exports

• Transport & Communication

Includes length of railway open lines, freight/passenger traffic on railways, merchant ships registered, motor vehicles in use, civil aviation traffic, postal/telegraph traffic, radio/tv sets in use

• Finance

Includes currency/banknotes in circulation, demand deposits in commercial banks, savings, money supply, total central government expenditure,central government revenue (tax yields)

• Prices

Includes wholesale and consumer price indices

• Education

Includes number of children schools and higher education

• National Accounts

Includes national accounts totals , proportions of GDP by sector of origin, balance of payments

Links to publishers for new books

Copyright david_ming

Time is almost running out to order new books for 2009 - and the Faculty still has about 38% of the book budget left.

Remember you will lose what you do not spend.

To help you choose new relevant titles, here is a list of publishers with links to their economic/accounting/finance books:

Blackwells:
Economics, finance, accounting

Cambridge
Economics, finance & accounting

Elsevier
Accounting
Economics

Institute of Economic Affairs
2008/9 catalogue

MIT Press
Economic, Finance & Business

Oxford University Press
Economics & Finance Catalogue 2008/9

Springer
Economics

Taylor & Francis
Economics
Accounting & Finance
Reference

Palgrave
Banking & Finance
Economics
Reference

Wiley
Economics, Finance & Accounting

New Releases from Wiley

Wiley has just released their July the Corporate Finance, Accounting and Auditing catalogue which includes their new titles in:

• financial reporting
• corporate finance
• valuation
• M&A
• management accounting
• risk and corporate governance
• corporate governance, financial regulation and compliance
• auditing

Here is a screen shot of the Table of Contents (click on it to make it bigger):

New books @ the library!

I've sent out a list of all the new titles I've received in the last few days.

As there are quite a few, please refer to my email for the individual
titles.

Alternatively, you are more than welcome to come and browse the titles @ my office.

New Books!

I've emailed you all the list of the newest books I've received for each department.

Due the large amount of new books I have received in the last few weeks, I will keep them at my desk only until Friday 9 May, where after they will be shelved.

If you would like to have a look at some of the books, please let me know and I will keep them for you at my desk.