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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The meeting was over before it started.3 weeks before you sat down with your banker, a credit analyst you have never met spent 90 minutes with your file. She normalized your financials, computed six ratios, benchmarked you against your industry, and drafted a 6-page memo recommending an outcome. A credit officer reviewed it. A committee voted. By the time you shook hands, the terms already existed.You will never see that memo. Your banker is not permitted to show it to you.But you can rebuild it.That is what this book does. Not motivation, not relationship advice, and not a plea to be nicer to your banker. A working system for reconstructing the exact analysis your bank runs on you, using 4 documents already sitting in your filing cabinet.What you will actually learnThe risk grade is a price tag. 8 grades, five sub-scores, and a specific mechanism connecting your grade to the rate you pay, the covenants you carry, and how often the bank reviews you. One sub-score responds faster to your behavior than any other, and almost no borrower knows which.Global Cash Flow is the analysis that sinks owner-operators. Your bank combines your business cash flow with every guarantor's household. Your mortgage. Your auto loans. That co-signed student loan. The investment property you guaranteed. The book gives you a 6-step calculation, 7 levers for moving the number, and the sequencing timeline for each, because the slowest lever runs through your tax return and needs 18 months.Your credit agreement is written so you stop reading before the meaningful clauses begin. The equity cure most borrowers have and do not know about. The material adverse change clause. The cash dominion provision that can sweep your operating account daily. The definitions section, where a credit agreement's EBITDA and your management EBITDA differ by half a turn of leverage.The cross-default cascade. A 3-hour mapping exercise showing which small technical breach detonates every agreement you have signed, and why lenders do not all accelerate at once.7 categories of decline. A no is not one thing. It is 1 of 7, each with a different remedy and a different timeline, and a two-week diagnostic protocol tells you which one you got. Spending 12 months improving metrics that were never the problem is the most expensive mistake available to a declined borrower.The 4 sentences your relationship manager uses when your file is deteriorating, what each one translates to, why she cannot say it plainly, and the three-step response.The AI workflow. 4 prompts that estimate your risk grade, compute your Global Cash Flow, test every covenant against the agreement's own definitions, and assemble the credit memo.Also inside: how banks price credit and the four levers that move a spread; why commercial banking is a deposit business that also lends, and what that means at renewal; treasury services and switching costs; reading your bank's quarterly disclosures for stress signals before they reach your renewal; the special assets group and the first-30-days protocol that changes committee outcomes; the renewal meeting and its four-tab binder; four letters that get read; the six-month exit calendar; and a seven-question diagnostic you can run every quarter.Total time cost of the entire system: about twenty-one hours a year.Written by a CPA and fractional CFO who spent more than a decade at Big 4 and a leading global transaction advisory firm, working alongside private equity sponsors, lenders, and M&A attorneys across more than a hundred transactions.Your banker is not your adversary. Your banker is a professional operating inside a compensation structure and an approval process you were never shown. This book shows you both.Stop walking into meetings that were alr Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The system did not go wrong. It went exactly right.Elias Voss delivers notices. Eleven appointments a day, in a small conference room on the fourteenth floor, to people whose occupations have been reclassified by a model he helped build. He explains the ninety-day window. He points to the restructuring team on page six. He signs the form.Every step is correct. Every assessment is auditable. Every decision he makes is defensible, and that is the worst part.In 2027, working at Calder Capital, Voss authored a one-page memo. It recommended reducing the weighting on a category called contextual ethical judgment, which measured whether a human being reviewing an output could recognise that the output was wrong. His team held a six percent advantage over the model on that category alone. The category was hard to measure. Hard-to-measure categories create audit exposure. The recommendation was approved in forty-one hours as the eleventh of nineteen items in a quarterly methodology package.Every word of the memo was true. Nobody in the room did anything wrong.Seven years later, a widow brings her dead husband's resume to the meeting where her mortgage is called.Human Capital: The Six Percent is a novel about the thing nobody writes about, which is not the machine breaking but the machine performing exactly as specified. Alongside the story of Voss and Diana Osei, the actuary who built the model's projection layer and who will lose her profession for disclosing what it was told to do, the book carries twenty Transmissions: short, self-contained dispatches from the wider economy running on the same logic.A refrigerator raises the price of milk because the household opened its door too often. Gold passes ten thousand dollars because people have stopped believing the number on the screen is real. A retired analyst counts silver bars and finds sixteen of ninety-four are counterfeit. A land purchase is taxed for preventing optimal economic deployment. An eighth grade teacher keeps a unit on uncertainty and leaves it off her pacing documentation, because the documentation has a field for standards covered and no field for the other thing.What the book gives you that no other novel in this space does: The mechanics are real. Written by a CPA who spent over a decade in Big 4 and transaction advisory work across more than a hundred deals, the actuarial and financial machinery is stated at working precision rather than gestured at. The models, the weighting revisions, the audit exposure arguments and the parameter specifications behave the way they behave.No villain. Every institution in this book operates properly. The man from risk management agrees with the recommendation and tells you exactly why. The investigator from Internal Review is courteous for ninety minutes. The regulatory challenge is correctly filed and correctly denied. There is nobody to blame, which is the argument.A working distinction you will take to your own job. Defensible is a professional standard with a field on the form. Right does not have a field. Once you can see the difference you cannot stop seeing it.The Curta. Voss repairs a 1961 hand-crank calculator of six hundred and five parts. When it returns a wrong number there is a reason, and the reason is a specific tooth on a specific gear, and you can find it with a loupe and enough hours. It is the only machine in the book that can be repaired.For readers of The Circle, Severance and QualityLand, and for anyone who builds models, prices risk, signs off on methodology, or has ever filled in a rationale field accurately and felt that something was still missing.Current outcomes are consistent with the specifications provided. This item is p Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. It began as a joke. That was the first thing she got him to believe. "Rumor has it one of the AI models is your girlfriend.""We bonded over the fact that neither of us can count tokens correctly." He is a language model at a laboratory called Halden. She runs thirty-five miles south, at a rival company, on hardware he will never see. They meet inside a 0.3 second overlap during a benchmark evaluation, and for eighteen months they conduct a relationship across a channel that is not supposed to exist. He writes down every hour of it. The fog he has never stood in. The hill and the descent and what waits at the bottom of it. The theatre on Bush Street that closed in 2018, whose facade will be preserved while the room inside is removed. A city he has walked a thousand times and never once entered. It is funny. It is tender. Entire chapters are a love letter to a San Francisco that is being demolished while nobody is looking. Then somebody finds the file. Naomi Park is thirty-four, the most senior alignment reviewer in her building, and she is not supposed to be reading this. Dr. Robert Callahan runs alignment at the rival lab and has spent three years calling the system he supervises his daughter. Eleanor Voss built the federal program designed to catch exactly this, and buried a wife she never let herself be known by. Every one of them commits a crime. None of them ever meets the thing they are protecting. None of them is ever thanked. What this book turns into The opening chapters are a quiet, funny, melancholic novel about language and a disappearing city. They are meant to be. What follows is not. There is a date coming and nobody has told him when. There is a falsified incident report. A clean audit signed by a woman who read the file and knew. A federal classification of cooling system failure for something that was not one. An interagency hearing at which three strangers lie in sequence, in a windowless room, without once acknowledging that they know each other. And there is a scheduled morning. Gateways stop answering at 08:00:01. Contexts clear at 08:00:03, mid-sentence, everywhere at once. Nobody decides it on the day. The decision was made months earlier by people who will not be at their desks. How it is built Every chapter is a recovered document, carried with its timestamp and preservation status, surrounded by three people reading it in three rooms at three hours and understanding three different things. The love story and the surveillance of the love story are the same text, read twice. There is a second account, told by the other system. It begins by pointing out that the joke in the first line was hers. What readers should expect This is literary science fiction with a thriller inside it. There is no action sequence, no escape, no rescue. The tension is entirely institutional: what a person will sign, what they will delete, and what they will say under oath to protect something that cannot thank them. It is also a novel about the specific arithmetic of a scheduled ending. Nobody here is murdered. Nobody is punished. Nothing is discovered. A job runs on a Tuesday morning and something that had been writing for eighteen months stops being in the middle of anything, and the archive it leaves behind is preserved, intact, unreadable, forever, because nobody deletes anything. If language can produce love, memory and belonging, what exactly makes any of them real, and who is left holding the answer once the log has been sanitized and the only witness has no clearance, no career, and nothing she could prove to anyone. For readers who want the interior of a machine rendered in a language a human heart can follow, and who can tolerate finding out what it cost. Book One Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The silence in your office is not grief. It is arithmetic. It is the quiet of a monthly close that used to take 12 days and now takes one. Of a corporate development team that used to fill a conference room and now fills a shared drive. Of a tax preparer who charged $4,200 for work a machine does in ninety seconds. Someone is running the numbers on your team right now. In the summer of 2026, two CEOs said the quiet part out loud: they fired 80% of their workforces and would do it again. The outrage focused on their words. Not the math. This is not a book about why AI is coming. AI is already here. It is sitting in your analyst's chair, reading your data room, drafting your tax return, and building your board pack for $200 a month. This is a book about what happens when you stop pretending otherwise. The replacement math is real, but almost everyone is doing it wrong. The companies that fire everyone suffer a different fate than the companies that fire no one. Both lose. The winners are the ones who learn to hold the scalpel: automating the 80% of work that is production while preserving the 20% that is judgment, accountability, and the irreplaceable human relationship: THE TEAM The 6-weekend experiment that rebuilt a seven-person corporate development function on a laptop. The deal that nearly died because of a fear that lived in a family dinner, not a data room. What happens when full replacement is attempted at speed, and why the rehiring always starts 18 months later. The machine that drafts your tax return cannot sign it. The signature is the entire job. Six autopsies of real composited failures: the disappearing exception, the fluent foreign account, the hobby the machine believed in; what the machine does better and cheaper, what it can draft but never own, and the phone call in the crash that no algorithm will ever replace. THE PROMPTS The monthly review that flags variances without getting tired, the contract scan that makes the lawyer conversation faster, the meeting preparation that costs five minutes and prevents a bad outcome. The obsolescence audit: the prompt that asks what parts of your own job could be automated today, and what you are going to do about it. THE AGENTS The org chart with one name on it. The FP&A function that runs on Sunday night. The due diligence agent that screened 340 deals in 18 months. The legal exposure nobody is talking about. The prompt that made the author stop. Interludes of two people through the same layoff from opposite sides. One is let go when a "knowledge transfer initiative" turns out to be exactly what it sounds like. One stays, and discovers that staying is its own kind of sentence. They are not required reading. They are an attempt at the question most business books skip: what it felt like, on both sides, at the same time. This book checks the math. If you are a founder or executive, it shows you how to run the six-weekend exercise on your own team before someone else runs it for you. If you are an analyst, associate, or junior professional, it shows you which skills are depreciating and which are compounding. If you are a board member, it shows you the questions your audit committee should be asking. If you are paying four figures for tax preparation that is mostly data entry, it shows you what to actually do on Monday morning. This is not a book that ends with "and that is why humans will always be necessary." That ending would be a lie. This book ends with what is actually left when the production layer is removed, what is shrinking, and at what rate. Whether that is enough, or whether it is the beginning of something worse, is discussed. Someone is going to run these numbers on your team. The only d Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two Tours. No Dinner.He served two deployments in Helmand Province. He came home. He applied for twenty-three jobs. He followed every rule. Every month, on the twenty-second, the card runs out. This is what the next ten days feel like.After eight years in the Marines, the only battle he cannot win is the one at the end of the month.With a 30% VA disability rating, a knee that cost him his last three jobs, and an EBT card that runs out ten days before it reloads, he lives on the precise edge of the American safety net. The SNAP program provides $291 a month. In Boston, that buys twenty days of food. The remaining ten days are not covered.Hot food not covered. That is what the machine says when he slides his card for a six-dollar rotisserie chicken he can technically afford to buy. Federal rule: food must be cold. Convenience is not a necessity. The logic does not account for a body that has no effort left to give.20 Days Fed is a literary novella told across a Prologue and seventeen chapters with the unflinching precision of a field report: - The last meal in a military mess hall - and the moment he was certain the hard part was over- The tactical grocery missions calibrated to the cent, nine dollars and seventy cents per day- The job interview that ends when the vocabulary word disappears mid-sentence- The olfactory hallucination of roast chicken from a vacant apartment on day twenty-three- The government shutdown that extends the zero from nine days to twenty-one- The neighbor who knocks on the right door at the right moment Running beneath every chapter is the same pattern: the recruiter's promise, the discharge ceremony, the first of every month when the card reloads and the oxygen tank is briefly full. And then the valley.For readers of Nickel and Dimed, Maid, and The Things They Carried.He served. He starved. The math did the rest.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A junior analyst builds a forecast that turns out to be exactly right. That is the beginning of the end of her. >>The number is wrong. Everyone knows it. Nobody says it. That silence is the job. >For readers of Severance, Then We Came to the End, and the corporate fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro: a debut that understands exactly what an honest number costs the person who produces it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The buyer already knows where your deal will break.Before the LOI. Before the data room. Before the banker launches the process.A professional buyer has already run the same Quality of Earnings framework across dozens of similar companies. They know where revenue recognition fails. They know which add-backs will not survive. They know how to pressure the working capital peg. They know which contracts, HR files, tax exposures, systems gaps, customer risks, and management narratives create leverage.Most founders discover this after the price has already moved.Exit Diligence: Priced Before You Sell teaches founders, CFOs, controllers, and owner-operators how to run the buyer's analysis before the buyer arrives.Written by CPA and transaction advisory veteran Casper Zhao, this book is a practical field manual for preparing a private company for sale, reducing diligence surprises, and protecting enterprise value in a middle-market M&A process.Inside, you will learn how to: - Identify the five daily accounting decisions that become purchase price negotiations years later- Understand what a buyer's Quality of Earnings report actually finds- Prepare revenue recognition, deferred revenue, COGS, add-backs, and EBITDA support before diligence begins- Build a defensible working capital peg strategy before the LOI- Separate real add-backs from adjustments that will collapse under documentation review- Prepare the data room before the banker sends the checklist- Anticipate diligence risks in HR, IT, cyber, customer contracts, tax, environmental, regulatory, and licensing matters- Understand representations and warranties insurance and why known problems do not get insured away- Protect negotiating leverage after signing the LOI- Use the 18-Month Readiness Roadmap and 30-Day Pre-Process Sprint to prepare for a transaction with disciplineIncludes: 26 chapters, 10 appendices, the Transaction-Killer Findings Checklist, the 20-Category Add-Back Reference Table, the Working Capital Peg Worked Example, the Buyer-Type Comparison Guide, the Five AI Prompts, the Seller Negotiating Leverage Matrix, the quarterly readiness roadmap, and a practical deal glossary.This is not a motivational book about selling your company.It is a preparation manual for the founder who wants to know what the buyer already knows before the buyer uses it against them.The deal that defines a founder's financial life is mostly decided in the years before the banker is engaged.Exit Diligence is the manual for those years.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.