The huge growth in mergers and acquisitions means that typically 1 in 7 senior managerswill find themselves involved in an acquisition. Dealing with such a complex and highriskenterprise can be daunting for the inexperienced. Effective financial due diligence iscrucial to success. You'll find all the guidance you need to successfully oversee the financial duediligence process in Financial Due Diligence: A guide to ensuring successfulacquisitions. It offers practical tools and techniques, along with sampledocumentation, to enable you to conduct an effective investigation and gives guidance onhow to instruct and brief external consultants. You will gain a comprehensive overview offinancial due diligence and how it fits into the wider acquisition process. Contents include: * Instructing investigating accountants * How to brief investigating accountants * Format of the financial due diligence report * Starting the investigation * How to conduct an investigation into: organisation structure and employees, cash flows, trading result, accounting policies, taxation and financial projections

Financial Due Diligence: A Guide to Ensuring Successful Acquisitions (Financial Times Management Briefings)

Business & Money

Bourne, Stephen

Human Resources

Ft Pr

Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

UNKNO

An examination of lesbian and gays in British cinema, this book explores a range of lesbian and gay screen images from such diverse films as "Soldiers of the King", "Pygmalion", "Dangerous Moonlight", "Blithe Spirit", "Brief Encounter", and "The Servant", revealing a vital, varied and sensuous cinema. Arranged chronologically, and examining performers, directors and over 150 famous, half-remembered and forgotten films, the book forms a celebration of the contribution of gays and lesbians to British cinema culture. It includes an appendix of gay men's reactions to "Victim", the landmark Dirk Bogart film.

Black in the British Frame: Black People in British Film and Television 1896-1996

Focusing on drama and light entertainment, this text documents a range of experiences and representations of people of African descent in British film and cinema. It includes chapters about silent films, the British films of Paul Robeson, black film extras of the 1930s, Trinidadian singer and actor Edric Connor, early black filmmakers and writers, including Lionel Ngakane, Lloyd Reckord and Michael Abbensetts, actor Gordon Heath, black women in early British television, entertainer Winifred Atwell, actress Carmen Munroe, soaps, film and television drama since 1959, lesbians and gays, actor and writer Errol John and two landmark television plays: the BBC's "A Man from the Sun" (1956) and Channel 4's "The Final Passage" (1996).

Black in the British Frame: Black People in British Film and Television, 1896-1996

Continuum Intl Pub Group

In this updated edition of his acclaimed study of the black presence in Britain during World War I, Stephen Bourne illuminates fascinating stories of black servicemen of African heritage. These accounts of the fights for their "Mother Country" are charted from the outbreak of war in 1914 to the conflict’s aftermath in 1919, when black communities up and down Great Britain were faced with anti-black "race riots" despite their dedicated services to their country at home and abroad. With unprecedented access to the wartime personal correspondence of the Jamaican siblings Vera, Norman and Douglas Manley, Bourne helps bring to light the day-to-day trials, tribulations and tragedies of life on the battlefield. Replete with previously unseen and unpublished images, the stories of servicemen like Arthur Roberts—"Scotland’s Black Tommy"—and Trinidadian soldier and campaigner George A. Roberts sit alongside the experiences of people of African descent at home during World War I. These include a black police officer, munitions factory workers and even stars of the stage like Cassie Walmer. Informative and accessible, with first-hand accounts and original photographs, Black Poppies is the essential guide to the military and civilian wartime experiences of black men and women, from the trenches to the music halls.

Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War

History

Military

The History Press

During the Second World War all British citizens were called upon to do their part for their country. Despite facing the discriminatory 'colour bar', many black civilians were determined to contribute to the war effort where they could, volunteering as air-raid wardens, fire-fighters, stretcher-bearers and first-aiders. Meanwhile, black servicemen and women, many of them volunteers from places as far away as Trinidad, Jamaica, Guyana and Nigeria, risked their lives fighting for the Mother Country in the air, at sea and on land.&nbsp; <div> </div> <div>In Under Fire, Stephen Bourne draws on first-hand testimonies to tell the whole story of Britain's black community during the Second World War, shedding light on a wealth of experiences from evacuees to entertainers, government officials, prisoners of war and community leaders. Among those remembered are men and women whose stories have only recently come to light, making Under Fire the definitive account of the bravery and sacrifices of black Britons in wartime.</div>

Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939–45

Europe

The story of Black British theatre at its most radical, entertaining and profound - told through the lives of its great trailblazers.\nIn Deep Are the Roots, Stephen Bourne celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to play Shakespeare’s Othello in the United Kingdom, and ending in 1975 with the success of Britain’s first Black-led theatre company. 
In addition to providing a long-overdue critique of Laurence Olivier’s Othello, too-often cited as the zenith of the role, Bourne has unearthed the forgotten story of Paul Molyneaux, a Shakespearean actor of the Victorian era. The twentieth-century trailblazers include Paul Robeson, Florence Mills, Elisabeth Welch, Buddy Bradley, Gordon Heath, Edric Connor and Pearl Connor-Mogotsi, all of them active in Great Britain, though some first found fame in the United States or the Caribbean. Then there are the groundbreaking works of playwrights Barry Reckord and Errol John at the Royal Court; the first Black drama school students; pioneering theatre companies; and three influential dramatists of the 1970s: Mustapha Matura, Michael Abbensetts and Alfred Fagon. 
Drawing on original research and interviews with leading lights, Deep Are the Roots is a powerful study of theatre’s Black trailblazers and their profound influence on British culture today.

Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre

Black Poppies: The Story of Britain’s Black Community in the First World War

Children's Books

Biographies

Very little attention has been given to the thousands of black British, Caribbean and West African service men and women who supported the British war effort from 1939&#8211;45. Black volunteers from across the British Empire enthusiastically joined the armed forces and played their part in fighting Nazi Germany and its allies. The Motherland Calls complements Stephen Bourne&#8217;s previous book Mother Country, which told the story of the contribution made by black British, Caribbean and West African citizens on the home front. Drawing on the author&#8217;s expert knowledge of the subject, and many years of original research, it reveals the brave men and women who volunteered to fight the forces of Nazism, such as Ulric Cross and Peter Thomas, who came from Trinidad and Nigeria respectively to join the Raf, or Jamaican Connie Mark, who served in the Ats. The Motherland Calls tells the story of some of the forgotten Britons whose contribution to the war effort has been overlooked until now.

The Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen & Women, 1939-45

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

In 1914, there were at least 10,000 black Britons, many of African and West Indian heritage, fiercely loyal to their Mother Country. Despite being discouraged from serving in the British Army during World War I, men managed to join all branches of the armed forces, and black communities made a vital contribution, both on the front and at home. By 1918, it is estimated that the black population had trebled to 30,000, and after the war many black soldiers who had fought for Britain decided to make it their home. Black Poppies explores the military and civilian wartime experiences of these men and of women, from the trenches to the music hall. Poignantly, it concludes by examining the anti-black race riots of 1919 in cities like Cardiff and Liverpool, where black men came under attack from returning white soldiers who resented their presence, in spite of what they and their families had done for Britain during the war. The first book of its kind to focus on the Black British experience during World War I, this new offering from Stephen Bourne is fascinating and eye-opening.

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Financial Due Diligence: A Guide to Ensuring Successful Acquisitions (Financial Times Management Briefings)

Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971

Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971

Black in the British Frame: Black People in British Film and Television, 1896-1996

Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War

Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939–45

Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre

Black Poppies: The Story of Britain’s Black Community in the First World War

The Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen & Women, 1939-45

Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War