Geoff Turner – författare

From the early days of his short public life, the days of the one known as The Rabbi were numbered. Death stared him in the face at every turn. He said things and did things that upset the traditions and thinking of the ruling religious establishment. In their eyes, this was heresyand for this, he should die.

The last forty-four days on earth of The Rabbi encapsulate all that God had planned before the foundation of the earth.

This study raises points that are seldom shared from the pulpits today, if at all. It then leaves the reader with the responsibility of drawing conclusions based upon what the Word of God says. Hidden emotions, which can be lost in the reading of the written text, are brought out, infusing life to the happenings in the life of The Rabbi.

For students, aspiring managers as well as those who already have management responsibilities this book provides an insight, through the eyes of the characters of a start-up company, of some of the ideas and models that help to identify the possible strategies capable of maximizing an organization's value, which is the same as making the owners as wealthy as possible, to determine how to finance the organization in the most proper way, to allocate the collected capital in the most effective way, to monitor the implementation of the chosen strategy to see whether it is meeting the planned objectives, and to reasonably decide on the reinvestment and distribution of profits.

The only significant problem is that these organizations have a national home to where profits ultimately will have to come. In trying to bring the maximum amount of profit home, multinational organizations often engage in practices, particularly in relation to internal pricing, that frequently enrage either their host or home countries. These internal pricing activities, known more commonly as transfer pricing, have provoked reactions from national jurisdictions to monitor and modify the internal pricing activities of multinational organizations in ways that protect their revenue streams. This discord is so intense at times that it has caused managers to take their eye off the reason they are in business in the first place. Transfer pricing is not simply about maximizing revenue. It is a much more important management issue that treated unwisely or with ignorance, is likely to lead to an incongruity in the added value of products and services as well as the crucial return on capital employed.

This book seeks to remind managers of those important issues and how easy it is to create friction between the interested parties if the pricing process is not properly thought out. It goes on to provide an insight into how such conflicts can be assuaged or avoided altogether and explains how transfer pricing may become a managerial tool by establishing a common language that may be used as one driver for creating added value throughout the organization.