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There is no such thing as a non-finance person. It is an error to think that finance management is limited to the finance department alone. In fact, it is happening right through the organisation — for every action you take impacts the bottom line of your company. Read this book to understand what profit really means and how inventory and sales impact it. Learn to read balance sheets and deploy funds smartly. Make the most efficient use of your working capital and discover the simple secrets of marginal costing, leverage and funds flow. Written in a simple conversational style, Romancing the Balance Sheet will teach you all the intelligent ways of good financial management.
What will your 100-year life look like?
Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time?
Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: Education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is beginning to collapse — life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing, and increasing numbers of people are juggling multiple careers. Whether you are 18, 45 or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in new ways.
On May 21, 1991, journalist Neena Gopal had finished just one part of an interview with Rajiv Gandhi — the last of his life — when his car reached the election rally at Sriperumbudur. Moments later, Rajiv Gandhi was dead, blown up by suicide bomber Dhanu, irrevocably changing the course of Indian politics, as Neena Gopal, just yards behind him, watched in horror.
In this gripping, definitive book, Gopal reconstructs the chain of events in India and at the LTTE’s headquarters in Sri Lanka where the assassination plot was hatched and follows the trail of investigation that led to the assassins being brought to justice.
Drawing on extensive interviews, research and her own vast experience as a journalist, she deftly establishes the background — the short-sightedness of India’s Sri Lanka policy; the many warnings that went unheeded and the implacable hatred that LTTE supremo Prabhakaran felt for Rajiv Gandhi.
Rihana is a painter who is trying to find inspiration in love. Zara is a businesswoman trying to make a niche for her company in a male-dominated world. Rihana is fire, Zara is ice; Rihana is openly sensual, while Zara is more cautious with her heart — they are opposites that attract.
They are different people bound together by their house — Cupid — and their pet golden retriever, Tiger.
As both of them navigate their fulfilling careers and try to leave behind troubled pasts, they find solace in each other. But Tiger’s not the only male in their lives. Rihana finds herself a string of sexy men, while Zara emerges out of her shell and meets an actual prince who sweeps her off her feet. But can these relationships last? And what road will they take when love happens bi the way?
The author, Bhaavna Arora’s other works of fiction are The Deliberate Sinner and Mistress of Honour.
