In seven life-changing chapters, packed with three powerful lessons each, you'll discover not only how to get better results, but also how to get them at a strategically accelerated rate.

Praise for Fast Close: A Guide to Closing the Books Quickly "Steve captures the essence of the problems affecting the financial close process within corporations of all sizes; from the period close of subledgers and general ledger through financial reporting, and the relationship and interdependencies of governance, people and technology. A must-read for the corporate controller." —David Taylor, ACMA, MBA, VP Strategy, Trintech Inc. "Fast Close: A Guide to Closing the Books Quickly, Second Edition is a must-read for today's busy controllers. Steven Bragg points out everything that can be done outside the close that you just never realized didn't actually have to be part of the month-end close process! Very commonsensical approach!" —Kathleen Schneibel, mba, cpa, Controller/CFO for Hire, KMAS Consulting LLC "A well-executed 'fast close' can bring many valuable benefits to any company, from improving organizational performance to transforming accounting executives from financial historians to trusted advisors. In Fast Close, Second Edition, Steve systematically breaks down the steps required to achieve a fast close in both public and private companies, providing financial executives with tips, checklists, and a cost-effective road map to implement fast close procedures in virtually any company." —Matthew Posta, Esq., CPA, Vice President of Finance, Key Air, LLC FROM THE FIRST EDITION "This is an outstanding book in which Steve reveals his secrets to a fast close. Having personally experienced his (one-day) fast close for years and enjoyed the beneficial impact on my company, I highly recommend this book for all financial officers who desire to have a large, favorable impact on their company." —Richard V. Souders, President and CEO, Kaba Workforce Solutions

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Bestselling author Brian Tracy reveals how, no matter what your current job, you can apply the secrets and strategies used by the highest paid people in our society to make yourself more valuable, maximize your strengths, and become virtually indispensable to your company. Get Paid More and Promoted Faster is not a book on office politics. It doesn’t offer short cuts and work-arounds. It will help you develop the discipline and determination you need to get more done, earn the respect of co-workers and bosses, and move upward to greater and greater levels of success. It teaches the methods and behaviors that every manager wishes every employee to know. This book can serve not only as a guide to individual advancement but as the content of a career development plan for everyone in an organization. The easy-to-apply ideas and techniques in Get Paid More and Promoted Faster will help you move rapidly up the career ladder and achieve more than you ever thought possible. Not only will you make more money, but you will also experience greater personal satisfaction and fulfillment, and make your life and career into something truly extraordinary.

Life Goals can mean various things to different people, however one component is common to everyone in that there is a finite amount of time available to accomplish Goals. It is therefore imperative to establish what is the most important Life Goal, what are Main Goals, and priorities to ensure that the Tasks and/or Activities done on a daily basis move towards achieving the Life Goal, and Main Goals. In an every changing world what is also important is a system which allows for Goals within the Main Goals to be updated in the form of additions, alterations to the wording, and amendments to the priorities or strategies to achieve the goals creating flexibility in the process. Once people establish their Life Goal, Main Goals, and Goals within those Main Goals it provides clarity that people often yearn for. The Life Mastery Series of books allows people to be clear on what is important to them in Life and to ascertain on an Hourly, Daily, Monthly, and Yearly basis that Tasks and/or Activities that they are completing each day align with their Goals.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, NGITS 2006, held in Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel, July 2006. The book presents 28 revised full papers and four revised short papers together with three invited papers. Topical sections include information integration, next generation applications, information systems development, security and privacy, semi-structured data, frameworks, models and taxonomies, simulation and incremental computing, and more.

"Originally published in 2009 by Summerside Press."

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2009, held in Linz, Austria, in August/September 2009. The 35 revised full papers and 35 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 202 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on XML and databases; Web, semantics and ontologies; temporal, spatial, and high dimensional databases; database and information system architecture, performance and security; query processing and optimisation; data and information integration and quality; data and information streams; data mining algorithms; data and information modelling; information retrieval and database systems; and database and information system architecture and performance.

This publication focuses on the critical methods that can be used to dramatically improve the fiscal closing process. The Record to Report (R2R) or Fiscal Closing Process is at the core of the controllership function. The process includes transaction processing, internal and external reporting, and the internal controls—the people, processes, and technology—that constitute the corporate organizational hierarchy. CFOs, controllers, and corporate finance departments require timely, accurate, and consistent data to make appropriate operational and strategic decisions and fulfill statutory, regulatory, and compliance requirements with accurate and timely data. The Fast Close Toolkit offers both strategic and tactical suggestions that can significantly improve the fiscal closing process and provides guidance on new legislation requirements, systems and best practice processes. Checklists, templates, process narratives, and sample policies are provided for every component of the fiscal close. Investors and shareholders expect fast and easy access to the data created by current business activities in the information-driven digital age. The Fast Close Toolkit provides the necessary tools and expert advice to improve the fiscal closing process. Authoritative and up to date, this book: Identifies the bottlenecks that can impact the and improvethe fiscal close process and provides best practices to help alleviate these challenges Defines the Record to Report (R2R) and recommends the roles and responsibilities for fiscal close processes flow Offers the internal controls to use for the end-to-end fiscal close process Describes approaches for risk management, R2R, and fiscal close benchmarking Identifies KPIs for all aspects of the R2R process Provides the mechanism for developing a financial close scorecard Recommends leading practices for both external and internal reporting Provides guidance on how strategic planning, the budget and forecast processes can be streamlined to enhance the fiscal close and internal reporting results Written by a respected expert on internal controls and the fiscal closing process, The Fast Close Toolkit is a valuable source of information for professionals involved in controllership and have responsibility for the fiscal close.