Financial Appraisal Profile (Fap) Model

Zusatztext "Susan Signe Morrison's spry and sparkling study of excrement in the late Middle Ages...is thus hands-on or, more precisely, pants-down. Her book, purposefully and with elegant aplomb, rubs our noses in the midden of medieval poetry, theology and philosophy. Language, she writes, is 'itself a rubbish heap or sewer'; 'language makes excrement manifest'; 'the meaning of a word is litter-al'. The great privy of medieval literature spreads this scatological imperative across a wide variety of discourses to do with morality, gender, alchemy, medicine, race and, as Morrison most forcefully demonstrates, canonical debates around religious orthodoxy, to do with such issues as the function of purgatory (etymologically related to purge) or transubstantiation...But it is in Morrison's insistence on the contiguities of the Middle Ages and today that she is most forthright." - Times Higher Education"Morrison's study offers an engagingly written book that makes a convincing case for the cultural significance of the medieval fecal and that elucidates Chaucer's poetry in thoughtful ways." - The Medieval Review"Susan Signe Morrison s book explores how medieval poets employ scatology, the body and its processes. Readers wanting to immerse themselves in the medieval imagery and language of defecation in medical, theological, and poetic texts will benefit from what Morrison assembles as she explores how defecation works along various religious continua in Chaucer and host of medieval authors,often involving the othering of filth . . ..Morrison is at her best when she explores archaeological artifact and archive, revealing a history of public waste management little known to literary scholars." - Speculum"Susan Signe Morrison has published the first monograph on excrement.She argues for a revaluation of that which we would rather not talk about, as a way of getting a different perspective on history.A true pioneer, she is swept away by the wealth of material from different cultures and literatures that they uncover. In this new area of academic gold-digging, there are plenty of nuggets and not just shiny flashes in the pan. Excrement and gold share a common logic. Morrison show[s] that defecation was consigned to the private sphere and shielded from public view . . . Bottoms deserve their turn in the spotlight." - Studies in the Age of Chaucer "If you thought there was something crappy about the Middle Ages, you d be right. This book rubs our nose in the excremental poetries and culture of the High and Late Middle Ages, reminding us that waste is everywhere the foundation of civilization. In this fine and comprehensive study of that which we mark off as different from us, excrement becomes the necessary stuff for understanding identity, desire, and history. In the end, we realize that a critique of shit is a critique of culture." - Michael Uebel, author of Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages and co-editor of The Middle Ages at Work "Effectively a cultural study of "how late medieval England dealt with excrement," this book has much broader applications. In a truly fearless and foundational work, wide-ranging and adventurous in scope, Morrison draws from new and pertinent critical approaches (ecocriticsm, waste studies, green studies) and some of their source disciplines (psychology, anthropology, sociology) to invent, define, illustrate and examine the practice of fecopoetics - the "cultural poetics of excrement." The result is an accomplished interpretive sourcebook that enriches our understanding of a seemingly remote era, holding up, as it were, a distant mirror to reflect our historically complex relation to our own waste. A pungent and salutary whiff from the dunghills of European history." - Jeff Persels, French Department and Director of European Studies, University of South Carolina andco-editor of Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatolo...

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Foreword Acknowledgements Abbreviations Used in the Book The Financial Appraisal Profile (FAP) Model The Development of the Financial Appraisal Profile (FAP) Model The FAP Model - Basic Data The FAP Model - The Net Present Value Profile (NPVP) The FAP Model - The Project Risk Profile (PRP) The FAP Model - The Strategic Index (SI) Summary Comments on the FAP Model Case Study - Applying the FAP Model The First Stage in the Empirical/Pragmatic Evaluation of the FAP Model - Presentations The Second Stage in the Empirical/Pragmatic Evaluation of the FAP Model - A Case Study in Acceptability The Accounting Rate of Return Calculating the Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR) from the Net Present Value (NPV) Index

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"Susan Signe Morrison's spry and sparkling study of excrement in the late Middle Ages...is thus hands-on or, more precisely, pants-down. Her book, purposefully and with elegant aplomb, rubs our noses in the midden of medieval poetry, theology and philosophy. Language, she writes, is 'itself a rubbish heap or sewer'; 'language makes excrement manifest'; 'the meaning of a word is litter-al'. The great privy of medieval literature spreads this scatological imperative across a wide variety of discourses to do with morality, gender, alchemy, medicine, race and, as Morrison most forcefully demonstrates, canonical debates around religious orthodoxy, to do with such issues as the function of purgatory (etymologically related to purge) or transubstantiation...But it is in Morrison's insistence on the contiguities of the Middle Ages and today that she is most forthright." - Times Higher Education"Morrison's study offers an engagingly written book that makes a convincing case for the cultural significance of the medieval fecal and that elucidates Chaucer's poetry in thoughtful ways." - The Medieval Review"Susan Signe Morrison s book explores how medieval poets employ scatology, the body and its processes. Readers wanting to immerse themselves in the medieval imagery and language of defecation in medical, theological, and poetic texts will benefit from what Morrison assembles as she explores how defecation works along various religious continua in Chaucer and host of medieval authors,often involving the othering of filth . . ..Morrison is at her best when she explores archaeological artifact and archive, revealing a history of public waste management little known to literary scholars." - Speculum"Susan Signe Morrison has published the first monograph on excrement.She argues for a revaluation of that which we would rather not talk about, as a way of getting a different perspective on history.A true pioneer, she is swept away by the wealth of material from different cultures and literatures that they uncover. In this new area of academic gold-digging, there are plenty of nuggets and not just shiny flashes in the pan. Excrement and gold share a common logic. Morrison show[s] that defecation was consigned to the private sphere and shielded from public view . . . Bottoms deserve their turn in the spotlight." - Studies in the Age of Chaucer
"If you thought there was something crappy about the Middle Ages, you d be right. This book rubs our nose in the excremental poetries and culture of the High and Late Middle Ages, reminding us that waste is everywhere the foundation of civilization. In this fine and comprehensive study of that which we mark off as different from us, excrement becomes the necessary stuff for understanding identity, desire, and history. In the end, we realize that a critique of shit is a critique of culture." - Michael Uebel, author of Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages and co-editor of The Middle Ages at Work
"Effectively a cultural study of "how late medieval England dealt with excrement," this book has much broader applications. In a truly fearless and foundational work, wide-ranging and adventurous in scope, Morrison draws from new and pertinent critical approaches (ecocriticsm, waste studies, green studies) and some of their source disciplines (psychology, anthropology, sociology) to invent, define, illustrate and examine the practice of fecopoetics - the "cultural poetics of excrement." The result is an accomplished interpretive sourcebook that enriches our understanding of a seemingly remote era, holding up, as it were, a distant mirror to reflect our historically complex relation to our own waste. A pungent and salutary whiff from the dunghills of European history." - Jeff Persels, French Department and Director of European Studies, University of South Carolina andco-editor of Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology
"Some fastidious readers might be tempted to turn away from the pungent topic of Susan Morrison's new book. To do so would be to miss adventurous theory, wide learning, fascinating stories, startling juxtapositions, and witty writing that presents Chaucer as he has never been seen before, both disturbingly transformed and oddly familiar. History from the bottom up has never been so surprising or so much fun - a bathroom book for scholars." - C. David Benson, Professor of English, University of Connecticut and author of Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval Culture
Rich in historical contextualization and enlivened by contemporary theory, Morrison¹s excellent study sheds new light on the problem of the sacred and the profane in Chaucer and other late medieval writers. Powerfully challenging the stereotype that medieval people were comfortably awash in filth, Morrison schools us in the nuanced meanings of medieval excrement, whose position in medieval culture was in fact ambivalent and various. Fascinating, accessible, and incisive, Excrement in the Late Middle Ages is required reading not only for Chaucerians, but also anyone working on material culture, the body, the city, theology, and devotional literature." - Kathy Lavezzo, English Department, University of Iowa
"This groundbreaking study looks as what the Middle Ages really liked to talk about, not merely the things we like them to talk about. Susan Signe Morrison makes the case that we cheat both the authors and ourselves if we fail to look at the full range of medieval poetic expression. After this rigorous, astute, and insightful book, no one should doubt her. Using both theory and close textual analysis, Morrison has produced a persuasive argument for the fact that we should take these matters as seriously as Chaucer did. This book will turn thought about medieval vulgarity on its end." - Martha Bayless, English Department, University of Oregon and author of Parody in theMiddle Ages
"This is a fascinating book." - Practical Gastroenterology[Morrison's] book, purposefully and with elegant aplomb, rubs our noses in the midden of medieval poetry, theology and philosophy." - Peter J. Smith, Nottingham Trent University

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• Authors: Lefley, F Lefley, F. Lefley, Frank Lefley, Frank Ryan Lefley, B Ryan, B. Ryan, Bob Ryan
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2005
• EAN: 9781403947529
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-4752-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; B, History, Accounting, Accounting/Auditing, Finance & accounting, Europe, Central—History, History of Germany and Central Europe, Management accounting & bookkeeping, Bookkeeping