Managing Your Personal Finances or Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

Managing Your Personal Finances

Author: Joan S Ryan

While focusing on the student's role as a citizen, student, family member, consumer, and active participant in the business world, MANAGING YOUR PERSONAL FINANCES informs students of their various financial responsibilities, and provides opportunities for self-awareness, expression, and satisfaction in a highly technical and competitive society. Students discover new ways to maximize their earning potential, develop strategies for managing their resources, explore skills for the wise use of credit, and gain insight into the different ways of investing money. Written specifically for high school students, special sections in each chapter hold student interest by focusing on current trends and issues consumers face in the marketplace.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Choosing Your Career, Chapter 2 Planning Your Career, Chapter 3 Getting the Job, Chapter 4 Adapting to Your Job, Chapter 5 Keeping Your Job, Chapter 6 Pay, Benefits, and Working Conditions, Chapter 7 Federal Income Tax, Chapter 8 Budgets and Financial Records, Chapter 9 Checking Accounts and Other Banking Services, Chapter 10 Saving for the Future, Chapter 11 Investing for Your Future, Chapter 12 Investing in Stocks, Chapter 13 Investing in Bonds, Chapter 14 Investing in Mutual Funds, Real Estate, and Other Alternatives, Chapter 15 Retirement and Estate Planning, Chapter 16 Credit in America, Chapter 17 Credit Procedures and Laws, Chapter 18 Cost of Credit, Chapter 19 Problems with Credit, Chapter 20 Personal Decision Making, Chapter 21 Housing, Chapter 22 Real Estate Principles, Chapter 23 The Automobile, Chapter 24 Family Decisions, Chapter 25 Personal Risks and Insurance, Chapter 26 Porperty and Liability Insurance, Chapter 27 Health and Life Insurance, Chapter 28 Role of the Consumer in the Marketplace, Chapter 29 Consumer Protection, Chapter 30 Legal Protection

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Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

Author: Timothy J Coelli

The second edition of An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis is designed to be a general introduction for those who wish to study efficiency and productivity analysis. The book provides an accessible, well-written introduction to the four principal methods involved: econometric estimation of average response models; index numbers, data envelopment analysis (DEA); and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). For each method, a detailed introduction to the basic concepts is presented, numerical examples are provided, and some of the more important extensions to the basic methods are discussed. Of special interest is the systematic use of detailed empirical applications using real-world data throughout the book.

In recent years, there have been a number of excellent advance-level books published on performance measurement. This book, however, is the first systematic survey of performance measurement with the express purpose of introducing the field to a wide audience of students, researchers, and practitioners. Indeed, the 2^nd Edition maintains its uniqueness: (1) It is a well-written introduction to the field. (2) It outlines, discusses and compares the four principal methods for efficiency and productivity analysis in a well-motivated presentation. (3) It provides detailed advice on computer programs that can be used to implement these performance measurement methods. The book contains computer instructions and output listings for the SHAZAM, LIMDEP, TFPIP, DEAP and FRONTIER computer programs. More extensive listings of data and computer instruction files are available on the book's website: (www.uq.edu.au/economics/cepa/crob2005).

Booknews

An introduction to the four principal methods of efficiency and productivity analysis: least squares econometric production models, index numbers, data development analysis, and stochastic frontiers. Written at the advanced undergraduate to graduate level. Includes an introduction to each method, a simple numerical example, and then a section on advanced topics within that method. Appends a description of applicable software. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.