Anna Thomasson – författare

Boken om ekonomistyrning ger en bred introduktion till ämnet ekonomistyrning. Boken speglar ekonomistyrningens relevans för dagens organisationer inom näringsliv, offentlig sektor och civilsamhälle. Övningsboken utgör ett komplement till Boken om ekonomistyrning. Övningsboken knyter an till huvudbokens breda introduktion till ekonomistyrning och innehåller övningar som är uppbyggda kring situationer i såväl tillverknings-, tjänste- och handels-företag som offentlig sektor och civilsamhälle.

Ekonomistyrning för offentliga verksamheter ger en introduktion till ämnet ekonomistyrning och hur kommuner och regioner arbetar med ekonomisk styrning och ekonomiska styrmodeller. Boken inleds med att ge en introduktion till ämnet ekonomistyrning, vad ekonomistyrning är och hur kommuner och regioner styrs. Därefter behandlas ekonomistyrningens olika delar och modeller samt hur de används eller kan användas i en kommun eller region. Ekonomistyrning är något som sker i alla organisationer. Det är en praktik som bör anpassas och utvecklas utifrån de specifika förutsättningar, mål och ambitioner som finns. Därför tar boken kommuner och regioners särskilda situation som utgångspunkt. I boken görs en genomgång av centrala begrepp inom ekonomistyrning, som effektivitet, budget, ansvarsutformning och styrning. Ambitionen är att förmedla olika möjliga sätt att arbeta med ekonomistyrning där och ställa det i relation till den specifika verksamhet som bedrivs.Ekonomistyrning för offentliga verksamheter riktar sig till studenter som läser kurser i offentlig ekonomi eller är intresserade av detta ämne. Boken är främst en introduktion för studenter och praktiskt verksamma som inte tidigare läst ämnet, men fungerar även som en repetition för den som så önskar.

Denna bok ger en bred introduktion till ämnet ekonomistyrning. Boken speglar ekonomistyrningens relevans för dagens organisationer inom näringsliv, offentlig sektor och civilsamhälle. Författarna går igenom de grundläggande modeller, verktyg och processer som traditionell ekonomistyrning erbjuder. Här märks ekonomiska ansvarsenheter, resultat- och balansräkning, kassaflödesanalys, nyckeltal, belöningssystem, budgetering, kalkylering på kort och lång sikt, internpriser samt avvikelseanalys.Boken om ekonomistyrning utgår från att ekonomistyrningen har en central roll i att skapa mer hållbara organisationer och lägger betydande vikt vid aspekter som sociala och miljömässiga kostnader, projektstyrning, miljöinvesteringar och humankapital. Boken har därmed ett tydligt hållbarhets- och samhällsperspektiv.Författarna betonar även vikten av att ekonomistyrningen utgör en välavvägd helhet genom den så kallade styrmixen. En genomtänkt styrmix ger verktyg för att motivera medarbetare att arbeta mot gemensamma mål och skapa konkurrenskraftiga organisationer.Till boken finns ett rikt övningsmaterial i form av en övningsbok med fullständiga lösningsförslag.

Longlisted for the American Library in Paris book award 2026A Shortlist 'Must Read' non-fiction bookA glorious fusion of history and art, A Vast Horizon tells the story of Pablo Picasso and his free-spirited friends, including Lee Miller and Man Ray, in the tumultuous years around the Second World War.'Inspired' - The New York Times'Excellent and revealing' - Antony Penrose, Lee Miller Archives'At once intimate and expansive' - Clare Mulley, author of Agent Zo'Ingenious and beguiling' - Literary ReviewLate summer 1937. Europe is inching towards war. In the South of France a group of friends picnic in a secluded clearing. The women have peeled down their dresses to their waists. A couple kiss playfully while the others look on, laughing. The moment is captured in Lee Miller's now-iconic image.Some of the friends are well known, others less so: the dancer Ady Fidelin, the poet Paul Éluard and his wife Nusch, the Surrealists Man Ray and Roland Penrose. They are spending the summer with fellow artists Dora Maar, Eileen Agar and Pablo Picasso.In A Vast Horizon biographer Anna Thomasson tells the story of their creativity, friendships and pursuit of freedom set against the tense political backdrop of the 1930s, the Second World War and its aftermath. Tracing their lives through their photographs, artworks, poems and letters, from the heady weeks of creativity, sex and collaboration of that Mediterranean summer through the tumultuous years that followed, it is the story of rebellious lives and the redemptive power of art.

I loved A Curious Friendship. Anna Thomasson, in her first book, has brilliantly captured this strange coterie.' Sir Roy StrongThe winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of 51, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a 19-year-old art student, life was just beginning. They were to start an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually Edith's world opened up and she became a writer. Her home, the Daye House, in a wooded corner of the Wilton estate, became a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton, John Betjeman, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - for whom she was 'all the muses'. The story is set against the backdrop of a period that spanned the madcap parties of the 1920s, the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of the Second World War. With an extraordinary cast of friends and acquaintances, from the Royal Family to Tallulah Bankhead, Anna Thomasson's A Curious Friendship brings to life, for the first time, the curious, unlikely and fascinating friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing.

I loved A Curious Friendship. Anna Thomasson, in her first book, has brilliantly captured this strange coterie.' Sir Roy StrongThe winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of 51, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a 19-year-old art student, life was just beginning. They were to start an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually Edith's world opened up and she became a writer. Her home, the Daye House, in a wooded corner of the Wilton estate, became a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton, John Betjeman, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - for whom she was 'all the muses'. The story is set against the backdrop of a period that spanned the madcap parties of the 1920s, the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of the Second World War. With an extraordinary cast of friends and acquaintances, from the Royal Family to Tallulah Bankhead, Anna Thomasson's A Curious Friendship brings to life, for the first time, the curious, unlikely and fascinating friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing.

Longlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award 2026A glorious fusion of history and art, A Vast Horizon tells the story of Pablo Picasso and his free-spirited friends, including Lee Miller and Man Ray, in the tumultuous years around the Second World War.'Inspired' - The New York Times'Excellent and revealing' - Antony Penrose, Lee Miller Archives'At once intimate and expansive' - Clare Mulley, author of Agent Zo'Ingenious and beguiling' - Literary ReviewLate summer 1937. Europe is inching towards war. In the South of France a group of friends picnic in a secluded clearing. The women have peeled down their dresses to their waists. A couple kiss playfully while the others look on, laughing. The moment is captured in Lee Miller's now-iconic image.Some of the friends are well known, others less so: the dancer Ady Fidelin, the poet Paul Éluard and his wife Nusch, the Surrealists Man Ray and Roland Penrose. They are spending the summer with fellow artists Dora Maar, Eileen Agar and Pablo Picasso.In A Vast Horizon biographer Anna Thomasson tells the story of their creativity, friendships and pursuit of freedom set against the tense political backdrop of the 1930s, the Second World War and its aftermath. Tracing their lives through their photographs, artworks, poems and letters, from the heady weeks of creativity, sex and collaboration of that Mediterranean summer through the tumultuous years that followed, it is the story of rebellious lives and the redemptive power of art.

Longlisted for the American Library in Paris book award 2026A Shortlist 'Must Read' non-fiction bookA glorious fusion of history and art, A Vast Horizon tells the story of Pablo Picasso and his free-spirited friends, including Lee Miller and Man Ray, in the tumultuous years around the Second World War.'Inspired' - The New York Times'Excellent and revealing' - Antony Penrose, Lee Miller Archives'At once intimate and expansive' - Clare Mulley, author of Agent Zo'Ingenious and beguiling' - Literary ReviewLate summer 1937. Europe is inching towards war. In the South of France a group of friends picnic in a secluded clearing. The women have peeled down their dresses to their waists. A couple kiss playfully while the others look on, laughing. The moment is captured in Lee Miller's now-iconic image.Some of the friends are well known, others less so: the dancer Ady Fidelin, the poet Paul Éluard and his wife Nusch, the Surrealists Man Ray and Roland Penrose. They are spending the summer with fellow artists Dora Maar, Eileen Agar and Pablo Picasso.In A Vast Horizon biographer Anna Thomasson tells the story of their creativity, friendships and pursuit of freedom set against the tense political backdrop of the 1930s, the Second World War and its aftermath. Tracing their lives through their photographs, artworks, poems and letters, from the heady weeks of creativity, sex and collaboration of that Mediterranean summer through the tumultuous years that followed, it is the story of rebellious lives and the redemptive power of art.