Mark Edmonds

Learning Financial Accounting can often feel like learning a foreign language. Before students even grasp the underlying concepts of accounting, they are immersed in unfamiliar terms, and before students fully realize the purpose of financial statements, they are asked to make detailed recording procedures. This early emphasis on terminology and recording can be a struggle for non-accounting majors to see the relevancy, leading to increased dropouts and higher failure rates. This creates a challenge for Financial Accounting instructors, who must balance the need to engage and retain non-majors while fully preparing accounting majors for the next level. The authors of Introductory Financial Accounting for Business offer a solution emphasizing an analytical approach to accounting – teaching students to think like business professionals and speak in terms of bottom-line consequences: How will a given transaction impact my overall business? How can I make better business decisions whether I’m an accountant, manager, or entrepreneur? Today's students will encounter new technological advances in automated data capture, data analytics, and artificial intelligence – processes that are automating traditional recording procedures. Rather than tallying transactions, students will be required to analyze and interpret data, making decisions early and often and thinking like business professionals. The Edmonds/Olds team’s fresh approach and modern pedagogy helps prepare students for future business careers.

Students are often overwhelmed by the amount of information presented in the introductory financial accounting course, while instructors want their students to grasp the big picture of the role financial accounting plays in business. Fundamentals of Financial Accounting Concepts takes a unique approach to building accounting skills, focusing students on the impact business transactions have on financial statements while maintaining a more traditional use of debits and credits. With this method, the authors drive student curiosity and inspire them to ask the “why” questions that get at the heart of how accounting works. Through use of the financial statements model and horizontal transaction analysis, students quickly see how any given business event affects the financial statements. With straightforward writing, popular lecture videos, and a unique approach, Fundamentals of Financial Accounting Concepts equips students with the critical thinking skills needed by future business decision-makers and leaders.

The story centres around one person and his response to a civil unrest situation that deteriorates to open anarchy. From living the dream, an off-grid lifestyle with his wife on their small but efficient block of land, to defending their property from marauding gangs. When Factions rise and develop enough power to take whatever they want, he won't be pushed out. Taking his wife out off harms way, he returns to his home to defend his property. In a bush environment, where law and decency are secondary to survival, keeping ahead of the gangs becomes a lifestyle where innovative thinking and the will to keep going is vital to survival. As the gangs add more manpower and technology to the problem he's causing them, he loses ground until a tactical retreat is required. In a surprise medical twist, the entire political situation changes and he's able to attempt a return trip however the situation has changed even more than he could ever have imagined and without any reliable information, is forced to move with great care through a countryside decimated by medical and political upheaval.

The story centres around one person and his response to a civil unrest situation that deteriorates to open anarchy. From living the dream, an off-grid lifestyle with his wife on their small but efficient block of land, to defending their property from marauding gangs. When Factions rise and develop enough power to take whatever they want, he won't be pushed out. Taking his wife out off harms way, he returns to his home to defend his property. In a bush environment, where law and decency are secondary to survival, keeping ahead of the gangs becomes a lifestyle where innovative thinking and the will to keep going is vital to survival. As the gangs add more manpower and technology to the problem he's causing them, he loses ground until a tactical retreat is required. In a surprise medical twist, the entire political situation changes and he's able to attempt a return trip however the situation has changed even more than he could ever have imagined and without any reliable information, is forced to move with great care through a countryside decimated by medical and political upheaval.

Out where the rubble of dead planets collect, a mining operation is totally destroyed. Witnessed by a crew of 'Rock Jocks' while harvesting a high yield field, they narrowly avoid injury due to one man's effort to adapt to a new employment policy. Against the odds they survive, only to discover that what they saw was no accident and the people responsible know that they are alive. Taking matters into their own hands, using anything available they take on the challenge, with Hi-tech gadgets and personal exoskeletons, some innovation and outside-of-the-box thinking nothing is impossible. Add a little behind the scenes political assistance and the outcome is inevitable.

Out where the rubble of dead planets collect, a mining operation is totally destroyed. Witnessed by a crew of 'Rock Jocks' while harvesting a high yield field, they narrowly avoid injury due to one man's effort to adapt to a new employment policy. Against the odds they survive, only to discover that what they saw was no accident and the people responsible know that they are alive. Taking matters into their own hands, using anything available they take on the challenge, with Hi-tech gadgets and personal exoskeletons, some innovation and outside-of-the-box thinking nothing is impossible. Add a little behind the scenes political assistance and the outcome is inevitable.

Born into a communist family which he describes as a cult, Mark Edmonds went on to study at the International Communist School in Moscow. His father, Lloyd, had fought against the army of the Spanish fascist, Gen. Francisco Franco, who launched a civil war in Spain against the popularly elected Republican government. But Mark chose to not live as a red rebel on the fringes of society. Instead, he went out into the real world while keeping some of his inherited rebelliousness. He worked as a taxi driver in Melbourne and as a rookie journalist on a Communist party newspaper. He was a photographer, bookshop owner, and community radio program presenter. He ultimately achieved his dream career as a mechanical design engineer, becoming a high-flying engineering project manager and family man. Eventually, he earned the nickname "hit man" for protecting his employer's financial interests against the manipulations of a bullying construction site manager. Join the author as he looks back at how he escaped a political cult, the people he's met and loved, and those he's crossed swords with along the way.

The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. The Orcadian Neolithic is home to some of the best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe: here we can find evidence of a dynamic society with connections binding Orkney to Ireland, to southern Britain and to continental Europe. Yet there is much that remains unknown about the societies that created these sites. In Orcadia, Mark Edmonds traces the development of the Orcadian Neolithic from the early fourth millennium BC through to the end of the period nearly two thousand years later, using artefacts, architecture and the wider landscape to recreate the lives of Neolithic communities across the region.

Students are often overwhelmed by the amount ofinformation presented in the introductory financial accounting course, whileinstructors often want their students to better grasp the big picture of therole financial accounting plays in business. Fundamentals of FinancialAccounting Concepts takes a unique approach to building accounting skills, focusingstudents on financial statement effects while maintaining a more traditionaluse of debits and credits. With this method, the authors drive studentcuriosity and inspire them to ask the “why” questions that get at the heart ofhow accounting works. Through use of the financial statements model andhorizontal transaction analysis, students quickly see how any given businessevent affects the financial statements. With straightforward writing, popular lecturevideos, and a unique approach, Fundamentals of Financial Accounting Concepts equipsstudents with the critical thinking skills needed by future businessdecision-makers and leaders.

Interpreting the Axe Trade documents the changing character and context of stone axe production and exchange in the British Neolithic. Drawing on a variety of studies, the authors explore some of the problems and potentials that attend archaeological discussions of exchange at both a theoretical and a methodological level. Out of this critique arises an argument for an integrated approach to the production, circulation and consumption of past material - an approach which acknowledges the subtle and complex roles that 'things' may play in the reproduction of social life. These arguments provide the basis for a case study which explores the links between the social contexts within which Neolithic stone axes circulated in Britain, and the social and material conditions under which those objects were originally produced. Field survey, excavation and detailed technological studies at the largest stone axe source in Britain are set alongside analyses of the changing character and social context of axe circulation and deposition across the country as a whole. These different analytical threads are then woven together in the final section of the book, where the authors suggest that the patterns explored in the course of their work reflect major changes in the nature of social life during the Neolithic.

For over two centuries, the Langdales have attracted the interests of painters, poets and tourists. Prominent in the Romantic imagination, the crags and dales still draw thousands in each year; some to sketch and paint, others to ramble or to climb. The particular 'ways of seeing' have had a profound effect upon the area. But they are simply a small part of a story that extends back over several thousand years. This book offers a sketch of a sequence that goes beyond the frame of the Romantic gaze. It traces how life has wound in different ways through the area from prehistory to the present. In particular, it follows a path across six thousand years to the Neolithic, when scattered groups travelled to the crags to make axe blades from a distinctive grey-green stone. Moving between prehistory and the more recent past, it traces the contours of the world in which those journeys were made, exploring what the crags meant to the people long before the invention of Sublime.

Anyone who lives in Derbyshire or has walked in the Peak District will have marvelled at the rich variety of prehistoric remains: how and why did our remote ancestors choose to live in this seemingly wild and inhospitable. Arranging the text around a number of walks that today's explorer can undertake, the authors cover the whole prehistoric period, from the Mesolithic (the end of the last ice age), through the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, down to the hilltop enclosures of the Iron Age. At each period they describe the sort of life that the communities would be leading. An accessible text is enhanced by an exceptionally fine range of illustrations. Having been a Research fellow in Archaeology at Cambridge University, Dr Mark Edmonds is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield. He is the author of Stone Tools and Society.

Archaeological evidence suggests that Neolithic sites had many different, frequently contradictory functions, and there may have been other uses for which no evidence survives. How can archaeologists present an effective interpetation, with the consciousness that both their own subjectivity, and the variety of conflicting views will determine their approach. Because these sites have become a focus for so much controversy, the problem of presenting them to the public assumes a critical importance. The authors do not seek to provide a comprehensive review of the archaeology of all these causewayed sites in Britain; rather they use them as case studies in the development of an archaeological interpetation.

Archaeological evidence suggests that Neolithic sites had many different, frequently contradictory functions, and there may have been other uses for which no evidence survives. How can archaeologists present an effective interpetation, with the consciousness that both their own subjectivity, and the variety of conflicting views will determine their approach. Because these sites have become a focus for so much controversy, the problem of presenting them to the public assumes a critical importance. The authors do not seek to provide a comprehensive review of the archaeology of all these causewayed sites in Britain; rather they use them as case studies in the development of an archaeological interpetation.

Stone tools are the most durable and, in some cases, the only category of material evidence that students of prehistory have at their disposal. Exploring the changing character and context of stone tools in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain, Mark Edmonds examines the varied ways in which these artefacts were caught up in the fabric of past social life. Key themes include:stone tool procurement and production * the nature of technological traditions * stone tools and social identity * the nature of exchange and the significance of depositional practices. As well as contributing to current debate about the interpretation of material culture, Dr. Edmonds uses the evidence of stone tools to reconsider some of the major horizons of change in later British prehistory. From the production of tools at spectacularly located quarries to their ceremonial burial or destruction at ritual monuments, this well-illustrated study demonstrates that our understanding of these varied and sometimes enigmatic artefacts requires a concern with their social, as well as their practical dimensions.