A simple guide to understanding complex financial statements.

Financial Accounting Essentials You Always Wanted to Know is back with a new and updated 5th edition! This edition includes two new chapters on the Accounting Cycle. It is a starter pack for new managers and leaders who require a foundational understanding of financial accounting terms and who need to understand why preparing a financial statement is so necessary. After reading this book, managers will be equipped with the critical tools to document finances for shareholders and prepare financial statements for their organization

This book will help one to:

• Understand why financial accounting systems are necessary
• Learn financial accounting systems and terms
• Explore the importance of a Financial Statement
• Learn about the concept of Balance Sheet
• Understand what is an Income Statement
• Learn how to create a Statement of Cash Flows

This 5th Edition contains two new chapters on:

• Accounting Cycle
• End of Accounting Cycle

Each chapter provides clear examples of the financial accounting tools and includes practice examples to help train the reader in the usage of these critical tools.

A simple and essential guide to making good financial management decisions

Financial Management Essentials is an essential guide to making good financial management decisions! Financial Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 5th Edition provides new managers and leaders with the foundational concepts of financial management. This new and updated edition comes with an exciting new chapter on international finance, including case studies and practical examples. It offers an in-depth study on the type of financial resources companies acquire and how they utilize these assets in their business processes and activities. Each chapter provides real-world examples of financial management practices and includes practice exercises to help train the reader in the usage of these critical tools.

With this book, you will be able to:

• Understand Financial Statement Analysis
• Learn about Cost of Capital
• Learn how to Create a Capital Budget
• Understand how to Manage Working Capital
• Study Stocks and Dividends
• Explore Financial Forecasting

Are you looking for practical ways to use generative AI to reduce your workload without compromising the quality of your teaching?

Generative AI for Educators: Practical Strategies to Reduce Workload, Save Time, and Support Student Learning is a practical guide for middle school and high school teachers who want to use generative AI responsibly and effectively in the classroom. Written in clear, accessible language, it focuses on classroom-ready strategies that help educators save time while keeping professional judgment at the center of every decision.

You'll discover how generative AI can support lesson and unit planning, classroom materials, assessments, rubrics, feedback, differentiation, communication, and everyday administrative tasks. The book also explores responsible AI use, including student privacy, data protection, bias, accessibility, transparency, and academic integrity.

Inside the book, you'll learn how to:

• Reduce teacher workload by streamlining planning, assessments, feedback, and communication
• Create AI-assisted teaching resources through effective prompting and evaluation
• Protect student privacy and use AI responsibly
• Build sustainable classroom workflows with downloadable templates, checklists, and prompt libraries

Written by veteran educator, curriculum developer, programmer, and author Shawn Peters, the book includes chapter summaries, Food for Thought reflections, Try This! activities, classroom case studies, and downloadable resources to help you confidently apply each concept.

What if the most important information in your data lies not in individual rows and columns, but in the connections between them? Graph machine learning helps uncover patterns hidden in these relationships.

Graph Machine Learning Essentials is a practical and accessible guide to understanding how machine learning works with graph-structured data, where entities are connected through relationships.

Designed for software engineers, ML engineers, data scientists, research scholars, professionals, cybersecurity analysts, and students, the book introduces graph machine learning in a clear and structured way. It begins with the fundamentals of graph theory and moves into core graph learning tasks such as node classification, edge prediction, and graph classification. Readers learn how graphs are represented in data structures, how node and edge embeddings work, and why traditional machine learning approaches do not directly apply to graph data.

The book gradually builds toward graph neural networks, message passing, and advanced GNN architectures while explaining practical challenges such as graph construction, scalability, oversmoothing, and over-squashing. Concepts are connected to real-world applications across domains such as recommender systems, fraud detection, cybersecurity, bioinformatics, transportation networks, and knowledge graphs.

The book includes two helpful appendices—one reviewing essential machine learning concepts and the other introducing PyTorch Geometric to help readers get started quickly.

After reading this book, you will be able to:

• Understand key graph machine learning concepts and terminology
• Implement graph neural networks using PyTorch Geometric
• Work on real-world graph learning problems across industries
• Handle practical challenges such as large graphs and oversmoothing

Learn how to write a flawless high-scoring essay with the 2024 edition of GRE Analytical Writing Supreme: Solutions to the Real Essay Topics.

With the new changes in the GRE test format, Vibrant Publishers’ updated edition of GRE Analytical Writing Supreme makes a comprehensive guide to cracking the “analyze an issue” task. It comes with:

• 72 solved official tasks
• Detailed strategies and tips given by experts
• A comprehensive scoring guide
• Overview of the GRE General Test
• Printable answer sheets (online resource)
• 2 GRE study plans (online resource)
• Stress management ebook (online resource)

The 72 solved tasks cover a wide range of topics like Arts, Education, Government and Politics, Philosophy, Science and Technology, and Society to help you get a well-rounded practice.

Each of the solved examples comes with a detailed strategy that went behind the essay. It explains how to deconstruct a question, analyze it, and write a structured essay, all within time. Practicing this strategy will ensure you don’t get stuck on test day and perform well in a pressure situation.

You also get a point-by-point scoring guide that explains exactly what you need to do to achieve the highest score. You can use this scoring guide to identify your weak areas and polish them to get the best score.

In the beginning, the book also includes a detailed chapter on the GRE General Test overview which covers everything right from the registration process, test structure, and scoring, to tips to prepare for the test day.

Additional online resources include printable answer sheets, 2 GRE study plans (a 6-month and an 8-week study plan), and a stress management ebook to help you navigate through your test preparation process.

No more low scores in the GRE Analytical Writing section!

Vibrant Publishers' newly updated 2024 Edition of GRE Analytical Writing: Solutions to the Real Essay Topics - Book 1 gives you practical and real examples of well-structured essays that will help you bag the best scores. You get: 

• 36 solved "analyze an issue" tasks
• A detailed strategy given by experts to approach tasks 
• A scoring guide explaining how responses are scored 
• A chapter dedicated to the GRE General Test overview
• 2 GRE study plans (online resource)
• Stress management techniques (online resource)

The 36 solved Issue tasks in this updated book cover a wide range of categories including Arts, Education, Government and Politics, Philosophy, Science and Technology, and Society to help you get well-rounded practice.

A detailed strategy given by experts on how to approach a question, break it down and analyze it is the hallmark of this book. It will help you understand your test question, formulate a solid idea for your essay, and pen down your thoughts in a short time frame. Every solved task comes with an explanation of the strategy behind it which will give you an insight into the thought process behind a well-structured essay. Practicing these strategies will help you hone your critical thinking and writing skills.

With the new GRE test format consisting of only one "analyze an issue" task in the analytical writing section, it is more important than ever for students to score well on this task. This book also consists of a scoring guide to help you understand how your response will be scored and what parameters you need to focus on to achieve a higher score.

Additionally, you will get an updated overview of the GRE General Test, including all the information you need to know before appearing for the test, right from registration to preparation for test day. Online resources for managing stress and creating perfect study plans are also included to guide you through your test prep.