Buy it from amazon.co.uk in Kindle and Print versions.
Duncan Williamson
Friday, July 27, 2012
The Proof of my Book Arrived
Here is the cover of my book ... proof copy. Found one error :(. Small mistake and so easy to correct.
Buy it from amazon.co.uk in Kindle and Print versions.
Duncan Williamson
Buy it from amazon.co.uk in Kindle and Print versions.
Duncan Williamson
Saturday, July 21, 2012
My new book is available NOW!
I have published a new book: Business Cases for mSMEs.
So far it is available from the Kindle book store: just go to there to find it.
It costs just £5.99 and is available for instant download.
This book is for budding entrepreneurs looking for ideas, for teachers who teach entrepreneurship. There are cases on ecommerce, franchising and advertising as well as entrepreneurship.
The cases are short, easy to read and understand and every cases comes with questions to help you to review the case whether for the classroom or to help you with your own business ideas and business plans.
Available from the Kindle book store NOW!
Duncan Williamson
So far it is available from the Kindle book store: just go to there to find it.
It costs just £5.99 and is available for instant download.
This book is for budding entrepreneurs looking for ideas, for teachers who teach entrepreneurship. There are cases on ecommerce, franchising and advertising as well as entrepreneurship.
The cases are short, easy to read and understand and every cases comes with questions to help you to review the case whether for the classroom or to help you with your own business ideas and business plans.
Available from the Kindle book store NOW!
Duncan Williamson
Thursday, July 19, 2012
My New Book and Youth Unemployment
It is a sad fact that there are far too many young people unemployed in the UK. For a long time now I have felt that there are several reasons why young people are not getting jobs
Many young people who live at home are receiving unemployment and other benefits and they may well be satisfying: there is no drive for them to need work.
I talk to young people whose first ambition is to become a manager ... this is before they have any experience and, indeed, education, training and experience. Parents, teachers and others who discuss these matters with their young people need to convince them that starting at the bottom is the reality and not something that was fine in the old days ...
There is no doubt that young people are leaving school in the UK undereducated relative to a generation ago. The people who say, for example, that if someone can communicate, it doesn't matter whether they can spell and so on: complete tosh. This is a recipe for people to be trapped at the lower levels. After all, the average middle and senior manager in the UK needs good communication skills as they have to give speeches, write reports and so on. Mathematical abilities are nowhere near what they were: I have met 18 year olds who wanted to use a calculator to find the answer to the question, "What is 10 as a percentage of 100?"
New Case Study Book: a recipe for success
I believe there are, however, a lot of young people who should be encouraged to take hold of their lives and look after themselves. The book I am writing at the moment is a case study book: lots of examples of MSME businesses that even school and university leavers can take a look at and start. Many of the examples you can read about might even need no capital, or very little capital. One of the fascinating aspects of the cases is that most of them come from the Far East: the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia ... If you would like to see specimen examples from the book before it is published, just write to me at duncan_at_duncanwil_dot_co_dot_uk with Specimen Cases Please as the subject and I will send you three examples from the book free of charge.
DW
- welfare state
- unrealistic ambitions
- poor education
Many young people who live at home are receiving unemployment and other benefits and they may well be satisfying: there is no drive for them to need work.
I talk to young people whose first ambition is to become a manager ... this is before they have any experience and, indeed, education, training and experience. Parents, teachers and others who discuss these matters with their young people need to convince them that starting at the bottom is the reality and not something that was fine in the old days ...
There is no doubt that young people are leaving school in the UK undereducated relative to a generation ago. The people who say, for example, that if someone can communicate, it doesn't matter whether they can spell and so on: complete tosh. This is a recipe for people to be trapped at the lower levels. After all, the average middle and senior manager in the UK needs good communication skills as they have to give speeches, write reports and so on. Mathematical abilities are nowhere near what they were: I have met 18 year olds who wanted to use a calculator to find the answer to the question, "What is 10 as a percentage of 100?"
New Case Study Book: a recipe for success
I believe there are, however, a lot of young people who should be encouraged to take hold of their lives and look after themselves. The book I am writing at the moment is a case study book: lots of examples of MSME businesses that even school and university leavers can take a look at and start. Many of the examples you can read about might even need no capital, or very little capital. One of the fascinating aspects of the cases is that most of them come from the Far East: the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia ... If you would like to see specimen examples from the book before it is published, just write to me at duncan_at_duncanwil_dot_co_dot_uk with Specimen Cases Please as the subject and I will send you three examples from the book free of charge.
DW
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Target Costing: new page on my web site
I have written a page on Target Costing. I was inspired to write this page when I found a perfect example of target costing being discussed, accidentally, in a self building PC forum on the internet. The page includes this example and others, including the Mercedes M Class.
Go to this page on my web site and click on the target costing item in the menu under Cost Accounting.
Duncan Williamson
Go to this page on my web site and click on the target costing item in the menu under Cost Accounting.
Duncan Williamson
Monday, July 2, 2012
Using Monte Carlo Simulations with CVP/Break Even Analysis
Take a look at this video ... demonstrating the use of Monte Carlo Simulation for CVP/Break Even Analysis. The video is relatively low quality and I am working on uploading the full quality video.
Your feedback is eagerly awaited!
If you would like the spreadsheet that is featured in this video, please send me an email to duncan@duncanwil.co.uk and PLEASE spell out exactly what you want! Sorry but I have received BLANK messages before and messages that say send me the file ... so please be specific and you can have it!
DW
Your feedback is eagerly awaited!
If you would like the spreadsheet that is featured in this video, please send me an email to duncan@duncanwil.co.uk and PLEASE spell out exactly what you want! Sorry but I have received BLANK messages before and messages that say send me the file ... so please be specific and you can have it!
DW
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