Reviews for E-Business Principles and Strategies for Accountants

The average rating for E-Business Principles and Strategies for Accountants based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-01 00:00:00 James Keller Written in an engaging manner, it provides crucial insights into how a sparsely populated state operated a commercial empire in Asia. Of interest to Portuguese people who might learn of the decline of the Empire following the personal union with Spain in the late 16th century, this book deconstructs this narrative. It argues that simple realist policy-making by local rulers caused the decline. Their alliances with Portugal's competitors, namely the Dutch and then the English, resulted in the loss of many outposts, the most flagrant example being the expulsion of the Portuguese from Japan (and loss of the silver trade) and their replacement with Dutch traders by Japanese rulers. Finally, this book also touches upon the subject of the rampant influence Catholicism had on Portuguese (and Spanish) ventures, and their detrimental effect on policy-making. It mentions how, for example, anti-jewish persecutions undermined the capital investment core of the Empires, by forcing them to the Netherlands for example.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-04-22 00:00:00 Leslie Farrow In 1590s, Portuguese name Diogo Veloso arrived Cambodia and was employed by Cambodian ruler Satha II (later became king Barom Rechea) in his campaign against Ayuthia. Wiith helping from Veloso, the force of three ships and one hundred twenty two men, they won against Phra Ream and took over the Srei Sonthor, the capital city. In exchange, the king permitted Veloso could build galleys and vassels and generous trade commodities. They wrote, there is in Cambodia much of oil, pitch, tow, yellow silk, gold-bearing streams, sappanwood, much wax, much ivory, much cloth of every sort, much saltpeter.