Publication date: 2001-07-26
Dewey code: 330.126
List Price: $95.00
Price: $58.70
Review The Welfare State As Piggy Bank: Information, Risk, Uncertainty, and the Role of the State / Oxford University Press, USA:Barr contends that the welfare state exists for reasons besides poverty relief, reasons arising out of pervasive problems of imperfect information, risk and uncertainty. As a result, he argues, the welfare state is here to stay, since 21st century developments don't address these additional reasons.
Publication date: 2005-05-02
Dewey code: 332.04101
List Price: $117.00
Price: $58.93
Review The Cost of Capital: Intermediate Theory / Cambridge University Press:This volume provides a thorough exposition of the theory relating to the cost of capital-a core subject in academic finance and also of genuine practical importance. Any serious attempt to value a business requires an estimate of its cost of capital. This book explains models and arguments in a way which does justice to this reasoning, while minimizing the prior knowledge of finance and maths expected of the reader. It is intended primarily for students at advanced undergraduate levels.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-05-01
Dewey code: 346.51048
List Price: $98.95
Price: $58.52
Review Intellectual Property and Doing Business in China (International Business and Management) / Pergamon:Hardbound. An intellectual property (IP) system was established in China in 1985. Since then, the merits and drawbacks of the system have become apparent in theory and practice. Despite the fact that a great deal has been written about the Chinese IP system, systematic studies of the subject are still scarce, especially from a corporate management perspective. The book has three aims. It evaluates the problems UK and US multinational enterprises have encountered in their IP Flows into different enterprises in China. It also analyses the causes of these problems and suggests methods of avoiding future problems. The overall rationale for the book is to fill a void in our understanding of IP rights in China, particularly from a corporate perspective. It is important to draw upon a variety of discipline approaches when exploring these issues, which are influenced by the political context, the legislative framework, economic factors and the existence of cu.
Publication date: 1993-12
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $58.50
Price: $152.34
Review Corporate Strategy and Financial Analysis: Managerial, Accounting and Stock Market Perspectives / Trans-Atlantic Publications:This student-centred book provides a set of financial tools and techniques for gaining access to and evaluating a company's corporate and business strategy. It helps students to research information on a company, develop a generic Frameworks for analysing a company's business environment and the industry in which it operates. Students learn how to combine financial and non-financial information in order to come up with a balanced overall assessment of a company's strategy and hence its likely future performance. A third of the book is devoted to the way in which stock-market information can be used to assess and value a company.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2001-10-15
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $118.00
Price: $58.69
Review Shareholder Value: A Business Experience (Quantitative Finance Series) / Butterworth-Heinemann:'Shareholder Value' presents a powerful and useful toolkit of market-based perspectives, analytic approaches, valuation techniques, and specific financial metrics for use in everyday business life. The author helps a broad spectrum of professionals understand the salient points and real world implications of a 'value management' movement which has taken hold in many corporations in the United States and around the world. This movement is being supported by some of the major institutional investors who influence financial markets. The main goal of 'Shareholder Value' is to help working professionals grasp the concept of value 'creators' and 'destroyers', along with the implications. He also provides tools to measure the success (or failure) of major strategic and operational initiatives and enables corporate managers to understand how shareholder value is created, and then directs behaviour toward 'value-based' planning and action. Although mainly aimed at the professional market, 'Shareholder Value' will also be of use to students of business and finance as it is intended to provide a comprehensive foundation for important elements of business strategy and acquisition valuation, corporate financial analysis, capital investments, corporate financing and economic value based metrics. AUTHOR'S REVIEW:When developing this book, I strived to achieve the following:* Provide the finance professional and student of finance with a comprehensive template of shareholder value concepts and techniques – geared toward use in a corporate setting. * Give the non-financial professional an understanding of the underpinnings and behavioural aspects of economic value management. * Outline and provide details of an effective process for implementing a value-based financial performance system within a corporation. * …And, combine learning with enjoyable reading by presenting technical material through a story. [+]The "story" and "characters" are unique features of Shareholder Value – A Business Experience. The reader can get an appreciation of the environment surrounding value-based management, along with challenges that arise when transitioning from traditional "accounting" performance (where earnings and earnings per share reign supreme) to "economic" performance (where cash flow and return on investment are emphasized). Characters occupying operating and staff roles have been created to represent people that those working inside companies (large, medium and small) may encounter and, also, to invoke some humour. Insights into how to function in different corporate roles can be gained by following the characters through the story. Presents a combination of analysis and case study in which a strong technical treatment is blended with a fictional case study to offer clarity and explanationA practical and effective implementation process for a comprehensive financial performance systemOffers a perspective of the role of different corporate and business unit functions in the implementation of value-based financial performance within a company.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-03-22
Dewey code: 332.6
List Price: $84.95
Price: $66.66
Review Portfolio Selection and Asset Pricing / Springer:Provides a comprehensive review of the original theory, and efforts to improve the theory afterwards and future works to be done. Addresses the inaccuracy in the estimation of expected returns of securities by putting the expected returns of securities as variables rather than known constant. Softcover.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-03-19
Dewey code: 658.155
List Price: $125.00
Price: $63.30
Review Alternative Risk Transfer: Integrated Risk Management through Insurance, Reinsurance, and the Capital Markets (The Wiley Finance Series) / Wiley:The Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) market has expanded in recent years to become a vital source of risk solutions and risk capacity and an important mechanism for the creation of integrated corporate risk management programs. The ART market unites the risk management and product development skills of financial institutions, insurers and reinsurers with the capital of global investors to give corporate risk managers the best possible means of managing financial and operating risks. In a time when natural and man-made disasters and financial volatility are constantly present, the need for dependable, equitably priced risk capacity and innovative, holistic risk solutions has never been greater. The ART market, which can supply both, is thus becoming an integral component of the 21st century financial markets. Alternative Risk Transfer, written by a veteran of the banking and insurance industries, provides a practical, detailed and up-to-date review of the topic. The text is divided into four parts, including Risk and the ART market Insurance and Reinsurance Capital Markets Enterprise Risk Management and the Future of ART The book contains numerous worked examples and case studies to place the subject in a practical light, and is ideal reading for CFOs, corporate risk managers, treasurers, institutional investors and fund managers seeking to understand the ART market.
Publication date: 1999-08
Dewey code: 658.155
List Price: $78.95
Price: $78.66
Review Winning Business : How to Use Financial Analysis and Benchmarks to Outscore Your Competition / Gulf Professional Publishing:Today's business environment is a competition, and business managers need the right game plan if they want to win. Successful businesses do a lot of the same things well. They track inventories, expenses, growth, break-even units, margins, employee turnover, compensation plans, return on training, sales, earnings per employee, and a host of other statistics. But to win in business, managers need to do more than track these benchmarks. They need to improve results. Winning Business provides the benchmarks business managers should track. It shows managers how to calculate each benchmark, AND presents ways to improve their results. In short, this book provides a company with a blueprint for success. Each benchmark produces a value that managers can track over time to monitor the impact on their operations. To help managers evaluate their performance, it provides industry-wide benchmarks that list the results retailers, manufacturers, and even publishers should target. [+]Winning Business provides benchmarks for:Managerial accounting Sales and marketing Employee benefits Financial performance Market indicators Inventory analysis Many others Included FREE is a full, multimedia version of Winning Business. The CD-ROM includes Winning Business MultiMedia in Adobe pdf (Portable Document Format) file format for Win 95/98/NT 3. 51 or above, Mac System 7. 5 or higher, UNIX, and other platforms. You'll get all 257 tips from the book complete with their workable equations. BONUS for Windows 95, 98, NT 3. 51 or above users: Financial Analysis Calculator, Version 1. 1. 0. With this free program, you can enter your company's financial statement information and watch as the program automatically performs all of the ratio calculations for you. In an instant, you can have a vast array of critical performance characteristics mapped out for you.
Authors
- John Stephens
- John J. Stephens
Publication date: 2000-12-01
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $89.95
Price: $58.42
Review Managing Commodity Risk: Using Commodity Futures and Options / Wiley:Most businesses will face commodity risk in some form. It is how the company manages this risk that will help to determine the success of the firm. In this highly practical book, John J. Stephens explains in a clear concise manner the best techniques for managing such risks. Aimed at the ordinary businessperson, this book is a practical primer for those who wish to manage and minimise the risk to their industry, through instruments such as commodity futures, without wishing to have the technical knowledge of professional financiers. This book provides the ideal starting point for the good manager not only to minimise commodity risk but to gain benefit also.
Authors
- L. Caibano Calvo
- Leandro Caanibano Calvo
Publication date: 1999-09
List Price: $58.50
Price: $58.17
Review Autofinanciacion y Tesoreria En La Empresa (Economia y Administracion de Empresas) (Spanish Edition) / Piramide:
Edition: 3rd
Publication date: 1997-08-25
Review Financial Management / Prentice-Hall (Australia):
Publication date: 2007-04-30
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $64.00
Price: $58.64
Review New Trends in the German Financial Services Market / VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K.:
Creator: Mike Wright
Publication date: 1997-10-02
Dewey code: 658.4
List Price: $218.00
Price: $131.17
Review Corporate Governance: Economic and Financial Issues / Oxford University Press, USA:There is little doubt that corporate governance has become one of the key issues for students of business and management in the 1990s. This book is the first to draw together the various strands of the debate from the economics, finance, and accounting perspectives, and from an international angle that includes discussion of the issues as they relate to governance in the UK, USA, Germany, Japan, and Eastern Europe.
Authors
- Terry A. Isom
- R. Leininger
- Shawn D. Halladay
- Sudhir P. Amembal
Dewey code: 658.15242
Price: $89.50
Review Equipment Leasing: A Complete Handbook / Amembal Halladay & Isom:
Publication date: 1988-09
Price: $68.00
Review Financial Engineering / Lexis Law Publishing (Va):
Publication date: 1982-01
Review Controller Involvement in Management / Prentice Hall:
Edition: 1a. ed
Publication date: 1995-09
List Price: $59.25
Price: $59.25
Review Divisas y Riesgos de Cambio (Spanish Edition) / Esic Editorial:
Authors
- D. Eric Hirst
- Mary Lea McAnally
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 657
List Price: $59.67
Price: $59.00
Review Cases in Financial Reporting (6th Edition) / Prentice Hall:This collection of financial accounting cases is designed to help learners become financial statement users. Each case utilizes financial statement information (balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flow and/or footnotes) and a number of topical questions. KEY TOPICS Readers use the financial statement information to infer and interpret the economic events underlying the numbers. Related articles taken from business publications accompany some cases, and information from the articles is incorporated into the case question material. For working professionals studying for the CFA exams.
Edition: 3rd
Publication date: 2003-06
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $46.95
Price: $123.71
Review Practical Financial Management / Thomson South-Western:
Publication date: 1994-06
List Price: $76.40
Price: $58.06
Review Manual Para La Evaluacion de Inversiones (Spanish Edition) / Gestion 2000:
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