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Accounting and Management Book Summaries and Study Guides

Provided by James R. Martin, Ph.D., CMA
Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida

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Anonymous. 2019. A Warning: A Senior Trump Administration Official. Twelve: Hachette Book Group. (Summary). The author is Miles Taylor. See also Taylor, M. 2023. Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy From the Next Trump. Atria Books.

ASCE. 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013. and 2017. The Report Cards for America's Infrastructure. (Summary).

Atkinson, A. A., R. D. Banker, R. S. Kaplan and S. M. Young. 2001. Management Accounting 3rd edition. Prentice Hall. (Summary).

Backer, M. editor. 1966. Modern Accounting Theory: A Revision of Handbook of Modern Accounting Theory. Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Contents).

Baker, E. M. 1999. Scoring a Whole in One: People in Enterprise Playing in Concert (Best Management Practices). Crisp Publications. (Contents).

Bast, J. L., R. C. Rue and S. A. Wesbury Jr. 1993. Why we spend too much on Health Care and what we can do about it. Heartland Institute. (Summary).

Berliner, C., and J. A. Brimson, eds. 1988. Cost Management for Today's Advanced Manufacturing: The CAMI Conceptual Design. Harvard Business School Press. (Short Summary or Concepts). (Long Summary).

Buckley, J. W., M. H. Buckley and H. Chiang. 1976. Research Methodology and Business Decisions. National Association of Accountants. (Summary).

Capodagli, B. and L. Jackson. 1999. The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company. McGraw-Hill. (Summary).

Christensen, C. R., D. A. Garvin, and A. Sweet. (Eds.) 1991. Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. (Contents and Summaries).

Colvin, G. 2015. Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will. Portfolio/Penguin. (Summary and Contents).

COSO. 2016. Enterprise Risk Management: Aligning Risk with Strategy and Performance. Public Exposure Draft. (June). (Summary).

Cushing, B. E., editor. 1987. Accounting and Culture: Plenary Session Papers and Discussants' Comments from the 1986 Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association. American Accounting Association. (Summary).

Dawkins, R. 2008. The God Delusion. A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Company. (Summary).

Deming, W. E. 1993. The New Economics For Industry, Government & Education. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study. (Summary).

Friedman, T. L. 2005. The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Note).

Givens, C. J. 1988. Wealth Without Risk: How to Develop a Personal Fortune Without Going Out on a Limb. Simon and Schuster. (Summary of Part III).

Gladwell, M. 2002. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Back Bay Books. (Summary).

Goldratt, E. M. 1990. What is this thing called Theory of Constraints. New York: North River Press. (Summary).

Goldratt, E. M. 1990. The Haystack Syndrome: Sifting Information Out of the Data Ocean. New York: North River Press. (Summary).

Goldratt, E. M. and J. Cox. 1986. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. North River Press. (Summary).

Goldratt, E. M., E. Schragenheim and C. A. Ptak. 2000. Necessary But Not Sufficient. North River Press. (Summary).

Harvard Business Review. 2011. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy. Harvard Business Review Press. (Summaries).

Hendriksen, E. S. 1977. Accounting Theory. 3rd. ed. Richard D. Irwin, Inc. (Summary of Chapter 1 and Contents of Chatpers 2-19).

Imai, M. 1986. Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. (Summary).

Johnson, H. T. 1992. Relevance Regained: From Top-Down Control to Bottom-up Empowerment. The Free Press. (Summary).

Johnson, H. T. and A. Broms. 2000. Profit Beyond Measure: Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People. The Free Press. (Summary and additional Graphics and Notes).

Johnson, H. T. and R. S. Kaplan. 1987. Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. (Summaries and additional information).

Kaplan, R. S. and D. P. Norton. 1996. The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action Boston: Harvard Business School Press. (Summary).

Kaplan, R. S. and D. P. Norton. 2001. The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment. Harvard Business School Press. (Summary).

Kelton, S. 2020. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy. PublicAffairs. (Note). Bisin, A. 2020. Book reviews: Public Economics: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy. By Stephanie Kelton. Perseus Books. Journal of Economic Literature (December): 3-5. (Review in the Journal of Economic Literature).

Lepore, D. and O. Cohen. 1999. Deming and Goldratt: The Theory of Constraints and the System of Profound Knowledge- The Decalogue. North River Press. (Note).

Martin, M. and K. Augustine. 2015. The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death. Rowland & Littlefield Publishers. (Contents).

McDermott, R. E., K. D. Stocks and J. Ogden. 2000. Code Blue: A Tale of Romance, Murder, Mystery, Intrigue & Managed Care. Traemus Books. (Note).

Milanovic, B. 2019. Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World. Harvard University Press. (Summary).

Miller, E. L. 1992. Questions That Matter: An Invitation To Philosophy, Third Edition. McGraw-Hill, Inc. (Summary).

Mintzberg, H. 2004. Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. (Note and MIT Video).

Mitchell, F., H. Norrreklit and M. Jakobsen, eds. 2012. The Routledge Companion to Cost Management. Routledge Companions in Business. (Contents).

Moonitz, M. 1961. The Basic Postulates of Accounting. Accounting Research Study No. 1. AICPA. (Contents and the 14 basic accounting postulates).

Oser, J. 1963. The Evolution of Economic Thought. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. (Summary).

Paine, T. 2006. The Age of Reason. The Echo Library. (Rebuff of church dogma originally published in 1796. Summary).

Piketty, T. 2014. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Belknap Press. (Note and Some Reviews).

Porter, M. E. 1980. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. The Free Press. (Summary).

Porter, M. E., M. Sakakibara and H. Takeuchi. 2000. Can Japan Compete? Perseus. (Note).

Prothero, S. 2007. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know - And Doesn't. Harper San Francisco. (Summary).

Schilit, H. 2002. Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports. 2nd edition. McGraw Hill. (Summary).

Senge, P. M. 1990. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. Doubleday Currency. (Partial Summary and Outline).

The World Economic Forum's 2011 and 2012 Global Competitiveness Reports. (Summary).

Thompson, B. G., L. Cheney, Z. Lofgren, A. B. Schiff, P. Aguilar, S. N. Murphy, J. Raskin, E. G. Luria and A. Kinzinger. 2022. Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capital. U. S. House of Representatives. U.S. Government Publishing Office, Washington DC. See Martin, J. R. Not dated. Summary of Trump's Seven Part Plan to Overturn the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.

Thurow, L. C. 1996. The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow's World. William Morrow and Company. (Summary).

Toyota Public Affairs Division and Operations Management Consulting Division. 1998. The Toyota Production System: Leaner Manufacturing for a Greener Planet. The Toyota Motor Corporation. (Summary).

Unger, C. 2018. House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia. Dutton. (Note).

White, L. R., A. Van der Merwe, B. D. Clinton, G. Cokins, C. Thomas, K. Templin and J. Huntzinger. 2012. Conceptual Framework for Managerial Costing: Draft Report of the IMA Managerial Costing Conceptual Framework Task Force. IMA. (Summary).