<p>The investor or lender is putting money at risk. To be successful, both need to know the extent and magnitude of these risks. This title points out some of the shortfalls of traditional accountancy and explores some of the basic mechanisms and cycles that direct a business operation, with heavy emphasis on cash flow. Traditional methods <i>do not</i> focus on these crucial aspects and tend to disguise their importance and effect. There are some elementary but thought-provoking comments on the ``risk and reward equation'', the concept of valuation, and how to write about credit and investment proposals. This insightful text may prove controversial to many traditional commentators who are used to taking profit figures specifically and annual reports at face value.</p>

Risks: Reading Corporate Signals

Business & Money

Warren, James F.

Boyadjian, Haig J.

Finance

wiley

The investor or lender is putting money at risk. To be successful, both need to know the extent and magnitude of these risks. This title points out some of the shortfalls of traditional accountancy and explores some of the basic mechanisms and cycles that direct a business operation, with heavy emphasis on cash flow. Traditional methods do not focus on these crucial aspects and tend to disguise their importance and effect. There are some elementary but thought-provoking comments on the ``risk and reward equation'', the concept of valuation, and how to write about credit and investment proposals. This insightful text may prove controversial to many traditional commentators who are used to taking profit figures specifically and annual reports at face value.

<p><div>Among the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who travelled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as prostitutes. This study sketches in the trade in women and children in Asia, and - making innovative use of Coroner's Inquests and other records - hones in on the details of the prostitutes' lives in the colonial city: the daily brothel routine, crises and violence, social relations, leisure, mobility, disease and death. The result is a powerful historical account of human nature, of human relationships, of pride, prejudice, struggle and spirit. Ordinary people tumble from the pages of the records: they talk about choice of partners, love and betrayal, desperation and alienation, drawing us into their lives. This social history is a powerful corrective to the romantic image of colonial Singapore as a city of excitement, sophistication, exotic charm and easy sex. In the years since its original publication in 1992, this book, and its companion Rickshaw Coolie, have become an inspiration to those seeking to come to grips with Singapore's past.</div></p>

Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870―1940

History

Asia

National University of Singapore Press

<p><div>Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to serve its rapidly growing economy. This book chronicles the vast movement of coolies between China and the Nanyang, and their efforts to survive in colonial Singapore. Focusing in on one particular occupation, of rickshaw coolie, this study unveils the devastating poverty of the Chinese sojourner in the colonial city, the disjunctions between colonial order and the reality of life on the streets. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including Coroner's records overlooked for many years, and making use of the technique of collective biography, this book brings to life the texture of experience, the ironies and - often - the despair of the laborers of urban Singapore. In the years since its original publication in 1986, Rickshaw Coolie has become an inspiration to those seeking to come to grips with Singapore's past.</div></p>

Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940

Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to serve its rapidly growing economy. This book chronicles the vast movement of coolies between China and the Nanyang, and their efforts to survive in colonial Singapore. Focusing in on one particular occupation, of rickshaw coolie, this study unveils the devastating poverty of the Chinese sojourner in the colonial city, the disjunctions between colonial order and the reality of life on the streets. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including Coroner's records overlooked for many years, and making use of the technique of collective biography, this book brings to life the texture of experience, the ironies and - often - the despair of the laborers of urban Singapore. In the years since its original publication in 1986, Rickshaw Coolie has become an inspiration to those seeking to come to grips with Singapore's past.

Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore 1880-1940

Singapore University Press

<p>Among the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who travelled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as prostitutes. This study sketches in the trade in women and children in Asia, and - making innovative use of Coroner's Inquests and other records - hones in on the details of the prostitutes' lives in the colonial city: the daily brothel routine, crises and violence, social relations, leisure, mobility, disease and death. The result is a powerful historical account of human nature, of human relationships, of pride, prejudice, struggle and spirit. Ordinary people tumble from the pages of the records: they talk about choice of partners, love and betrayal, desperation and alienation, drawing us into their lives. This social history is a powerful corrective to the romantic image of colonial Singapore as a city of excitement, sophistication, exotic charm and easy sex. In the years since its original publication in 1992, this book, and its companion Rickshaw Coolie, have become an inspiration to those seeking to come to grips with Singapore's past.</p>

Ah Ku and Karayuki-San: Prostitution in Singapore 1880-1940

<p>First published in 1981, The Sulu Zone deals with a fascinating geographical, cultural and historical "border zone" centered on the Sulu and Celebes Seas between 1768 an 1898, and its complex interactions with China and the West. The author examines the social and cultural forces generated within the Sulu Sultanate by the China trade, namely the advent of organized, long distance maritime slave raiding and the assimilation of captives on a hitherto unprecedented scale into a traditional Malayo-Muslim social system.<br><br> His work analyzes the dynamics of the last autonomous Malayo-Muslim maritime state over a long historical period and describes its stunning response to the world capitalist economy and the rapid "forward movement" of colonialism and modernity. It also shows how the changing world of global cultural flows and economic interactions caused by cross-cultural trade and European dominance affected men and women who were forest dwellers, highlanders, and slaves, people who worked in everyday jobs as fishers, raiders, divers and traders. Often neglected by historians, the responses of these members of society are a crucial part of the history of Southeast Asia.</p>

The Sulu Zone: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State, 1768-1898 (Second Edition)

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Risks: Reading Corporate Signals

Risks: Reading Corporate Signals

Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870―1940

Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940

Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore 1880-1940

Ah Ku and Karayuki-San: Prostitution in Singapore 1880-1940

The Sulu Zone: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State, 1768-1898 (Second Edition)