Suggested Reading Materials

**Duties and Responsibilities of Directors and Officers (Australian) 18th edition

Professor Bob Baxt
List price $32.50
AIM Member price $29.25
This book, published by the Australian Institute Of Company Directors, covers the most important aspects of a director’s duties and responsibilities. The Australian Institute Of Company Directors encourages the adoption of a culture of compliance and readers of this work are well advised to ensure that they and their organisations take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that they are as up-to-date as possible in dealing with these areas of the law.

**Accounting for Managers

William H. Webster
List price $20.95
AIM Member price $18.85
This book includes clear definitions of key accounting terms and jargon, how accounting smarts can help your department and your career, advice for minimizing errors when ‘working the numbers’ and warning signs of small accounting errors that could become disastrous.

Boards that make a difference, a new design for leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations

John Carver
3rd edition
List price $62.95
AIM Member price $56.65
This book can help your board empower both board and staff, eliminate trivia, establish a meaningful organizational direction, clarify roles, plan productive meetings, establish officers and committees that work, and provide the leadership for which governing boards exist.

Boards that work, a new guide for directors (Australian)

Geoffrey Kiel & Gavin Nicholson
List price $67.00
AIM Member price $60.30
Checklists, diagrams, figures and practical examples are extensively used to clearly illustrate key concepts, and a complete sample chapter is presented to assist all types of boards in developing their own governance polices and procedures.

Financial Intelligence, a manager’s guide to knowing what he numbers really mean

Karen Berman & Joe Knight with John Case
List price $50.00
AIM Member price $45.00
While providing the foundation for a deep understanding of the financial side of business, the book also arms managers with practical strategies for improving their company’s performance strategies, such as managing the balance sheet, that are well understood by financial professionals but rarely shared with their nonfinancial colleagues.  Accessible, jargon-free, and filled with entertaining stories of real companies, Financial Intelligence will help nonfinancial managers be smarter and more confident in their everyday work.

These items can be found at the Australian Institute of Management Bookshop. Go to: www.aimbooks.com.au or call 1300 130 186