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Selected Recommended Business Books in the Areas of Accounting, Economics, Finance, Entrepreneurship, & Organizational Leadership Selected Recommended Business Books in the areas of Accounting, Economics, Finance, Entrepreneurship, & Organizational Leadership ULA Annual Conference, St. George, 2015 Leticia Camacho, BYU Management & Accounting Librarian, Ed Hahn, Weber State University Business & Econ Librarian & Lorelei Rutledge, University of Utah Assistant Librarian Accounting The Accounting Game by Darrell Mullis and Judith Orloff. ISBN: 1402211864 Accounting for M&A,Equity, and Credit Analysts by James E. Morris. ISBN: 0071429697 Analysis for Finance Management by Robert C. Higgins. ISBN: 0072315318 Applying IFRS for SMEs - Bruce Mackenzie, Raymond Chamboko, Danie Coetsee, Allan Lombard & Tapiwa Njikizana. ISBN: 9780470603376 Big Deal by Bruce Wasserstein. ISBN: 0446526428 Brilliant Book-Keeping by Martin Quinn. ISBN: 0273731785 Called to Account by Paul M. Clikeman ISBN: 0203884485 The Complete Guide to Spotting Accounting Fraud and Cover-Ups by Susan Milam; Thomas M. Neches (Foreword by); Martha Maeda. ISBN: 9781601382122 Hidden Financial Risk - J. Edward Ketz. ISBN: 0471433764 How to Measure Anything - Douglas W. Hubbard - ISBN: 9780470110126 International Accounting Standards - Hennie Van Greuning; Marius Koen -ISBN: 0821349996 More Than a Numbers Game - Thomas A. King - ISBN: 0470008733 People: the new asset on the balance sheet - Joseph A. DiVanna & Jay Rogers. ISBN: 1403936897 Priceless: the myth of fair value (and how to take advantage of it) - William Poundstone. ISBN: 9780809094691 Valuation: Measuring and Managing the value of Companies – Tom Copeland, Tim Koller & Jack Murrin. ISBN: 0471009946 Fair Value Measurement – Mark l. Zyla. ISBN: 9780470500248 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act by Michael F. Holt. ISBN: 9780750680233 Wiley CPA Exam Review Fast Track by O. Ray Whittington. ISBN: 9780470196090 ECONOMICS Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty, ISBN: 9780674430006 Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman ISBN: 9780226264202 Equality and Efficiency - Arthur M. Okun ISBN: 0815764758 Evolution of Cooperation - Robert Axelrod ISBN: 0465005640 Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner. ISBN: 9780060838249 Naked Economics - Charles Wheelan & Foreword by Burton Gordon Malkiel ISBN: 0393049825 The Armchair Economist - Steven E. Landsburg. ISBN: 0029177766 The Worldly Philosophers - Robert L. Heilbroner. ISBN: 068486214X New Ideas from Dead Economists - Todd G. Buchholz & foreword by Martin Feldstein. ISBN: 0452288444 Against the God – Peter L. Bernsterin. ISBN: 0471121045 The Affluent Society – John Kenneth Galbraith. ISBN: 0395925002 EconoPower – Mark Skousen & foreword by Arthur B. Laffer. ISBN: 9780470138076 Keynes Hayek - Nicholas Wapshott. ISBN: 9780393077483 The innovators: How a group of inventors, hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution by Walter Isaacson/9781476708690 Nudge - Richard H. Thaler; Cass R. Sunstein ISBN: 9780300122237 Peddling Prosperity - Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393036022 The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek SBN: 9780226320595 A Random Walk down Wall Street - Burton G. Malkiel ISBN: 0393330338 Reinventing the Bazaar - John McMillan ISBN: 0393050211 Thinking Strategically - Avinash K. Dixit; Barry J. Nalebuff ISBN: 0393310353 FINANCE Accounting for M and A, Equity, and Credit Analysts - James E. Morris ISBN: 0071429697 Analysis for Finance Management - Robert C. Higgins ISBN: 0072315318 Against the Gods - Peter L. Bernstein ISBN: 0471121045 Beating the Street - Peter Lynch; John Rothchild ISBN: 0671759159 Big Deal - Bruce Wasserstein ISBN: 0446526428 Classics: An Investor's Anthology - Charles Ellis ISBN: 9781556233111 Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings - Philip A. Fisher ISBN: 0471119288 Investing Psychology: The Effects of Behavioral Finance on Investment Choice and Bias Tim Richards. ISBN: 9781118722190 Manias, Panics, and Crashes - Charles P. Kindleberger ISBN: 0471389463 Margin of Safety: Risk Averse Value InveCreativity Inc.: Overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true innovationsting Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor - Seth A. Klarman ISBN: 0887305105 One up on Wall Street - Peter Lynch; John Rothchild ISBN: 9780743200400 The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason ISBN: 0452267250 Valuation - Tom Copeland; Tim Koller; Jack Murrin ISBN: 0471009938 Wall Street People - Charles D. Ellis; James R. Vertin ISBN: 0471274283 Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt - Michael Lewis ISBN: 9780393244663 God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican, Gerald Posner; ISBN: 978146576570 Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business, John Mackey and Raj Sisodia, ISBN: 9781625271754 ENTREPRENEURSHIP The $100 Startup - Chris Guillebeau ISBN: 0307951529 The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki ISBN: 1591840562 Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim; Renée Mauborgne ISBN: 1591396190 Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky - Sarah Lacy ISBN: 0470580097 Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston ISBN: 1590597141 Free - Chris Anderson ISBN: 9781401322908 The Frackers: The Outrageous Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters, Gregory Zuckerman, ISBN: 9781591847090 Good to Great - Jim Collins ISBN: 0066620996 How to Fly a Horse - Kevin AShton ISBN: 0385538596 The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World’s Most Important Company - Michael S. Malone, ISBN: 9780062226761 Made to Stick - Chip Heath; Dan Heath ISBN: 1400064287 Never Eat Alone - Keith Ferrazzi; Tahl Raz ISBN: 9780385512053 Reality Check - Guy Kawasaki ISBN: 9781591842231 Selling the Invisible - Harry Beckwith ISBN: 0446520942 To Sell Is Human - Daniel H. Pink ISBN: 9781594487156 The Start-Up of You - Reid Hoffman; Ben Casnocha ISBN: 9780307888907 Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson, ISBN: 9781451648539 Switch - Chip Heath; Dan Heath; Charles Kahlenberg ISBN: 0739376969 The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell ISBN: 0316316962 The up side of down: Why failing well is the key to success/ Megan McArdle ISBN: 9780670026142 Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming/ McKenzie Funk 9781594204012 ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP Balancing Act - Kerry Patterson; Joseph Grenny; Ron McMillan; Al Switzler ISBN: 0538861398 Coaching for Innovation: Tools and techniques for encouraging good ideas in the workplace by Cristina Bianchi and Maureen Steele ISBN: 1137353252 Creativity, INC. - Ed Catmull ISBN: 9780812993011 Cross-Sector Leadership for the Green Economy - Alfred Marcus; Paul Shrivastava; Sanjay Sharma; Stefano Pogutz ISBN: 0230119409 Crucial Conversations - Kerry Patterson; Joseph Grenny; Ron McMillan; Al Switzler ISBN: 0071401946 The Dance of Change - Peter M. 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Pell (Editor) ISBN: 0671723650 How Will You Measure Your Life? - Clayton M. Christensen; James Allworth; Karen Dillon ISBN: 9780062102416 The HR Scorecard - Mark Huselid; Brian Becker; Dave Ulrich ISBN: 1578511364 In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes our Lives, Steven Levy, ISBN: 9781416596585 The Knowing-Doing Gap - Jeffrey Pfeffer; Robert I. Sutton ISBN: 1578511240 Leading Strategic Change - J. Stewart Black; Hal B. Gregersen ISBN: 0130461083 Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations - Kathryn Ann Agard (Editor) ISBN: 9781412968867 Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg ISBN: 0385349947 Out of the Crisis - W. Edwards Deming ISBN: 0911379010 Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most – Hendrie Weisinger & J.P. Pawliw-Fry ISBN: 0804136726 Principle-Centered Leadership - Stephen R. 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