Authors
- Jefferey R. Cornwall
- David O. Vang
Publication date: 2009-04
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $69.95
Price: $55.32
Review Entrepreneurial Financial Management / M.E. Sharpe:This practical text presents an applied, realistic view of entrepreneurial finance for today's changing business environment. It provides an integrated set of concepts and applications, drawing from entrepreneurship, finance, and accounting, that will prepare aspiring entrepreneurs for the world they will most likely face as they start their new businesses. The contents are designed to follow the life cycle of a new business venture, with topics presented in the logical order that entrepreneurs are likely to face them. Although the authors cover venture capital and public offerings, they put them in their proper perspective as unlikely vehicles for most entrepreneurs. The book includes a comprehensive financial spreadsheet template with step-by-step instructions that allows for applications of many of the concepts to actual businesses. This new edition adds a nonprofit version of the spreadsheet, and both templates can be downloaded from the author's website. The book also includes a comprehensive survey of funding sources, including all-new chapters on financing over the life of a venture and financing from the entrepreneur, family and friends.
Publication date: 2001-10-10
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $99.50
Price: $151.39
Review Managing Tomorrow Today: Dynamic Financial Management ("Financial Times") (Financial Times Series) / Financial Times Management:Are you confused by accountancy jargon? Do you struggle to relate accountancy information to your business activities? Are you searching for a fast track method of understanding the financial information that faces you and what it means to your business? With the speed of business today we need information now - dynamic information - information that changes as our business changes. The traditional approach to finance - of waiting until tomorrow to discover the implications of today's actions - is no longer acceptable. The time has come to be less reliant on accountants and more financially astute ourselves. The time has come to propel ourselves into the arena of the dynamic manager where we can manage tomorrow today. Managing Tomorrow Today will help you manage your business better using the information already at your fingertips. It will provide you with new tools and techniques to enable you to focus on the numbers necessary to diagnose the health of your business and project its performance in the future. By capturing the appropriate information and applying the appropriate time and effort to understand the financial aspects of your business you will be able to maximize profits with minimum effort. This book outlines a new approach where the numbers work with you, for you, and where the finances of your business can be brought back into focus. Design your company's future. Manage tomorrow today. [+]Managing Tomorrow Today is based on a course developed by the authors to help entrepreneurs and business managers understand finance in their business. By adopting dynamic financial management tools and techniques you can understand and improve your business performance, enabling you to keep your finger firmly on the pulse. This book won't teach you standard accountancy practices, how to produce a profit and loss, or how to calculate your liquidity ratio. What it will do is teach you how to control and communicate the performance of your business to the professionals and understand more than they do about the finances of your business. It describes the key indicators that both drive the business and reflect business activities and management decisions, such as what is the maximum discount you can give without eating away all your profits, or how much money you need to fund a sales increase. Dynamic financial management is all about learning which figures to focus on and how to really get them to work for you. It's also about learning which figures to ignore - the time wasters. The authors are keen advocators of the 80:20 rule - 80% information for 20% effort. With this in mind, they show you how to pinpoint the relevant figures and key indicators quickly without having to wade through a sea of statistics. The book incorporates decision-making methods based on mathematical modelling that increase the user knowledge of their business and reduce risk in their decisions. That doesn't mean that you'll be bombarded with mathematical jargon and incomprehensible calculations. The techniques are presented in an easy-to-understand manner, with a wealth of visual aids and complementary case studies. Managing Tomorrow Today is an ideal resource for small companies that cannot afford to employ an accountant or for companies with an accountant who want to understand what it is they do or should be doing. It will enable you to take control of your company's finances, function more effectively and make good business decisions today for success tomorrow. Visit the accompanying website at www. dfmuk. com.
Authors
- Stephen Ross
- Randolph Westerfield
- Jeffrey Jaffe
Publication date: 2009-09-29
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $55.75
Price: $55.75
Review Corporate Finance / McGraw-Hill:
Publication date: 2002-09-26
Dewey code: 174.4
List Price: $269.99
Price: $170.88
Review The Balanced Company: A Corporate Integrity Theory / Oxford University Press, USA:This book contains a cohesive overview of the most important theories and insights in the field of business ethics. At the same time, it further tailors these theories to the situation in which organizations function, presenting criteria that can be used to measure, assess, improve and report on corporate integrity.
Publication date: 1992-05
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $74.95
Price: $74.95
Review Beyond the Bottom Line / Gower Publishing Company:The sequel to "The Bottom Line", containing the story of Phil Moorley and Chris Goodhart. Moorley considers financial matters such as stock market valuation, acquisitions/mergers, strategic cost analysis, accounting for management control and transfer pricing.
Authors
- Pierre Vernimmen
- Antonio Salvi
- Maurizio Dallochio
- Yann Le Fur
- Pascal Quiry
Publication date: 2005-08-12
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $95.00
Price: $56.00
Review Corporate Finance: Theory & Practice / Wiley:Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice covers the theory and practice of Corporate Finance from a truly European perspective. It shows how to use financial theory to solve practical problems and is written for students of corporate finance and financial analysis and practising corporate financiers. Corporate Finance is split into four sections and covers the basics of financial analysis; the basic theoretical knowledge that you will need to value a firm; the major types of financial securities: equity, debt & options and finally financial management which shows you how to organise a company’s equity capital, buying and selling companies, M&A, bankruptcy and cash flow management. Key features include: A section on financial analysis – a Corporate Financier must understand a company based on a detailed analysis of its accounts. Large numbers neglected this approach during the last stock market bubble and were caught in the crash that inevitably followed. How many investors took the trouble to read Enron’s annual report? Those who did found that it spoke volumes! End of Chapter Summary, Questions and Answers, Glossary, European Case Studies A supporting Website http://www. vernimmen. com with free access to statistics, a glossary & lexicon; articles, notes on financial transactions, basic financial figures for more than 10,000 European and US listed companies, thesis topics, a bibliography; case studies, Q&A; A letter box for your questions to the authors – a reply guaranteed within 72 hours! A free monthly newsletter on Corporate Finance sent out to subscribers to the site. The book, the website www. vernimmen. [+]com and the Vernimmen. com newsletter are all written and created by an author team who are both investment bankers/corporate financiers and academics. "Impressive book for finance professionals - Probably the best recently published Corporate Finance book with a truly European emphasis. The balance between theory and practice makes this book an excellent tool for Investment Bankers and other finance professionals, as it covers both basic as well as more sophisticated topics. Particularly impressive is their commitment to continuously updating material, as well as the regular publication of a newsletter containing timely articles on various current finance topics. The possibility of asking questions to the authors and effectively receiving in-depth answers for free is a very valuable feature. I sincerely recommend this text. " Amazon. co. uk 31 October 2005 "An excellent book for all business students - For a few months already, the Vernimmen. com website had been helping me for my finance class, as well as the monthly newsletter. I finally bought the book, and I have not been disappointed: the style is clear, very practical ; theories are mixed with real cases, which makes them easy to understand. Valuation techniques are well explained (discounted cash flow methods, methods based on ratios). Fundamental concepts (accounting, finance, financial markets) are recalled in the first part; when more complex concepts are tackled (investment analysis, LBOs, capital structure. ), they are explained with lots of simplicity and conciseness. I recommend this book for every student in Management or Finance!" Amazon. co. uk 30 July 2005.
Publication date: 2001-10-10
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $99.50
Price: $151.39
Review Managing Tomorrow Today: Dynamic Financial Management ("Financial Times") (Financial Times Series) / Financial Times Management:Are you confused by accountancy jargon? Do you struggle to relate accountancy information to your business activities? Are you searching for a fast track method of understanding the financial information that faces you and what it means to your business? With the speed of business today we need information now - dynamic information - information that changes as our business changes. The traditional approach to finance - of waiting until tomorrow to discover the implications of today's actions - is no longer acceptable. The time has come to be less reliant on accountants and more financially astute ourselves. The time has come to propel ourselves into the arena of the dynamic manager where we can manage tomorrow today. Managing Tomorrow Today will help you manage your business better using the information already at your fingertips. It will provide you with new tools and techniques to enable you to focus on the numbers necessary to diagnose the health of your business and project its performance in the future. By capturing the appropriate information and applying the appropriate time and effort to understand the financial aspects of your business you will be able to maximize profits with minimum effort. This book outlines a new approach where the numbers work with you, for you, and where the finances of your business can be brought back into focus. Design your company's future. Manage tomorrow today. [+]Managing Tomorrow Today is based on a course developed by the authors to help entrepreneurs and business managers understand finance in their business. By adopting dynamic financial management tools and techniques you can understand and improve your business performance, enabling you to keep your finger firmly on the pulse. This book won't teach you standard accountancy practices, how to produce a profit and loss, or how to calculate your liquidity ratio. What it will do is teach you how to control and communicate the performance of your business to the professionals and understand more than they do about the finances of your business. It describes the key indicators that both drive the business and reflect business activities and management decisions, such as what is the maximum discount you can give without eating away all your profits, or how much money you need to fund a sales increase. Dynamic financial management is all about learning which figures to focus on and how to really get them to work for you. It's also about learning which figures to ignore - the time wasters. The authors are keen advocators of the 80:20 rule - 80% information for 20% effort. With this in mind, they show you how to pinpoint the relevant figures and key indicators quickly without having to wade through a sea of statistics. The book incorporates decision-making methods based on mathematical modelling that increase the user knowledge of their business and reduce risk in their decisions. That doesn't mean that you'll be bombarded with mathematical jargon and incomprehensible calculations. The techniques are presented in an easy-to-understand manner, with a wealth of visual aids and complementary case studies. Managing Tomorrow Today is an ideal resource for small companies that cannot afford to employ an accountant or for companies with an accountant who want to understand what it is they do or should be doing. It will enable you to take control of your company's finances, function more effectively and make good business decisions today for success tomorrow. Visit the accompanying website at www. dfmuk. com.
Authors
- Kenneth A. Kim
- Seung Hee Kim
- Suk H. Kim
Publication date: 2006-12-30
Dewey code: 658.1599
Price: $55.37
Review Global Corporate Finance: Text and Cases / Blackwell Publishers:This revised and updated edition introduces students and practitioners to those principles essential to an understanding of global financial problems and the policies multinational companies use to contend with them. The book is designed to serve as the main text for international finance courses in business schools or economics departments, as well as for courses in international financial markets, international banking and international investments. Using actual data, the authors present a balanced view of both theory and applications. Topics include the balance of payments, international monetary system, financial derivatives (the foreign exchange market), financing both foreign trade and foreign investment, global asset management and multinational accounting. In addition, the authors highlight contemporary issues, important research findings, and new financial instruments and techniques. Several elements of the text are new to the fourth edition, including the following: each of the first 19 chapters has a mini-case at the end, all of which are undisguised real cases; three cases focus on December 1994's Mexican peso crisis and 1997's Asian currency crisis; and a new chapter covers exchange rate forecasting.
Publication date: 2001-12-20
Dewey code: 658.155
List Price: $110.00
Price: $67.99
Review Liabilities, Liquidity, and Cash Management: Balancing Financial Risks / Wiley:"This book provides a very helpful and informative insight into an aspect of finance that has become quite intricate and complex but is nevertheless very fascinating. "-Dr. Henry Kaufman, President, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc. Strategies and advice on balancing financial risk for leveraged companies In today’s highly leveraged economy, good liabilities management has become vitally important. Entire sectors of the economy, and some of the biggest financial and industrial companies, face dramatic overexposure problems. But adequate internal liability controls can greatly reduce risk. Featuring case studies in a number of industries and examples of both proper and improper liabilities management in major organizations, Liabilities, Liquidity, and Cash Management shows managers, accountants, investment advisors, and other professionals who deal with liabilities and overexposure how they can implement good internal controls on liability and overexposure. It provides modern tools, critical strategies, and timely advice specifically tailored to the needs of companies facing overexposure and debt risk in a volatile economy. Topics include: Loss of capitalization Derivatives Risks of globalization Sensitivity analysis, gap analysis, stress testing, and value-added solution Real-time financial reporting and virtual balance sheets Liquidity management Money markets, yield curves, and interest rates Mismatch risk profiles Credit risk Risk in the new economy.
Authors
- Kenneth A. Kim
- Suk H. Kim
- Seung Hee Kim
Publication date: 2006-12-30
Dewey code: 658.1599
Price: $55.37
Review Global Corporate Finance: Text and Cases / Blackwell Publishers:This revised and updated edition introduces students and practitioners to those principles essential to an understanding of global financial problems and the policies multinational companies use to contend with them. The book is designed to serve as the main text for international finance courses in business schools or economics departments, as well as for courses in international financial markets, international banking and international investments. Using actual data, the authors present a balanced view of both theory and applications. Topics include the balance of payments, international monetary system, financial derivatives (the foreign exchange market), financing both foreign trade and foreign investment, global asset management and multinational accounting. In addition, the authors highlight contemporary issues, important research findings, and new financial instruments and techniques. Several elements of the text are new to the fourth edition, including the following: each of the first 19 chapters has a mini-case at the end, all of which are undisguised real cases; three cases focus on December 1994's Mexican peso crisis and 1997's Asian currency crisis; and a new chapter covers exchange rate forecasting.
Authors
- C. Nightingale
- Adrian Montague
Review Joint Ventures / Sweet & Maxwell:Designed for use both as a transaction-related manual and as a day-to-day source reference, this volume deals with the practice and law of both incorporated and unincorporated joint ventures, while the appendices include checklists, precedents and full drafting notes to guide the practitioner through the intricacies of particular transactions. Taxation aspects are also considered.
Publication date: 1992-05
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $74.95
Price: $74.95
Review Beyond the Bottom Line / Gower Publishing Company:The sequel to "The Bottom Line", containing the story of Phil Moorley and Chris Goodhart. Moorley considers financial matters such as stock market valuation, acquisitions/mergers, strategic cost analysis, accounting for management control and transfer pricing.
Publication date: 2001-12-20
Dewey code: 658.155
List Price: $110.00
Price: $67.99
Review Liabilities, Liquidity, and Cash Management: Balancing Financial Risks / Wiley:"This book provides a very helpful and informative insight into an aspect of finance that has become quite intricate and complex but is nevertheless very fascinating. "-Dr. Henry Kaufman, President, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc. Strategies and advice on balancing financial risk for leveraged companies In today’s highly leveraged economy, good liabilities management has become vitally important. Entire sectors of the economy, and some of the biggest financial and industrial companies, face dramatic overexposure problems. But adequate internal liability controls can greatly reduce risk. Featuring case studies in a number of industries and examples of both proper and improper liabilities management in major organizations, Liabilities, Liquidity, and Cash Management shows managers, accountants, investment advisors, and other professionals who deal with liabilities and overexposure how they can implement good internal controls on liability and overexposure. It provides modern tools, critical strategies, and timely advice specifically tailored to the needs of companies facing overexposure and debt risk in a volatile economy. Topics include: Loss of capitalization Derivatives Risks of globalization Sensitivity analysis, gap analysis, stress testing, and value-added solution Real-time financial reporting and virtual balance sheets Liquidity management Money markets, yield curves, and interest rates Mismatch risk profiles Credit risk Risk in the new economy.
Creator: John Prebble
Publication date: 2006-06-01
Dewey code: 343
List Price: $59.95
Price: $55.40
Review Taxing Offshore Investment Income / Fiscal Publications:The authors, an international panel of experts, address the design and operation of offshore investment fund regimes. They explore questions such as: what interests do they cover? How do regimes calculate, or estimate, residents' shares of income? What credit is there for foreign tax? When do regimes allow residents to set off losses on their foreign investments against domestic income? How is the bite of regimes limited to save costs of compliance and administration or to relieve tax burdens on internationally mobile executives? This book is comparative, dealing with topics issue-by-issue rather than country-by-country. It is written for practitioners who need to understand how foreign investment fund regimes work, for scholars and students of international tax law and principles, and for policy makers tasked with designing foreign investment fund regimes for their countries.
Publication date: 2002-09-26
Dewey code: 174.4
List Price: $269.99
Price: $170.88
Review The Balanced Company: A Corporate Integrity Theory / Oxford University Press, USA:This book contains a cohesive overview of the most important theories and insights in the field of business ethics. At the same time, it further tailors these theories to the situation in which organizations function, presenting criteria that can be used to measure, assess, improve and report on corporate integrity.
Authors
- Pascal Quiry
- Maurizio Dallochio
- Pierre Vernimmen
- Antonio Salvi
- Yann Le Fur
Publication date: 2005-08-12
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $95.00
Price: $56.00
Review Corporate Finance: Theory & Practice / Wiley:Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice covers the theory and practice of Corporate Finance from a truly European perspective. It shows how to use financial theory to solve practical problems and is written for students of corporate finance and financial analysis and practising corporate financiers. Corporate Finance is split into four sections and covers the basics of financial analysis; the basic theoretical knowledge that you will need to value a firm; the major types of financial securities: equity, debt & options and finally financial management which shows you how to organise a company’s equity capital, buying and selling companies, M&A, bankruptcy and cash flow management. Key features include: A section on financial analysis – a Corporate Financier must understand a company based on a detailed analysis of its accounts. Large numbers neglected this approach during the last stock market bubble and were caught in the crash that inevitably followed. How many investors took the trouble to read Enron’s annual report? Those who did found that it spoke volumes! End of Chapter Summary, Questions and Answers, Glossary, European Case Studies A supporting Website http://www. vernimmen. com with free access to statistics, a glossary & lexicon; articles, notes on financial transactions, basic financial figures for more than 10,000 European and US listed companies, thesis topics, a bibliography; case studies, Q&A; A letter box for your questions to the authors – a reply guaranteed within 72 hours! A free monthly newsletter on Corporate Finance sent out to subscribers to the site. The book, the website www. vernimmen. [+]com and the Vernimmen. com newsletter are all written and created by an author team who are both investment bankers/corporate financiers and academics. "Impressive book for finance professionals - Probably the best recently published Corporate Finance book with a truly European emphasis. The balance between theory and practice makes this book an excellent tool for Investment Bankers and other finance professionals, as it covers both basic as well as more sophisticated topics. Particularly impressive is their commitment to continuously updating material, as well as the regular publication of a newsletter containing timely articles on various current finance topics. The possibility of asking questions to the authors and effectively receiving in-depth answers for free is a very valuable feature. I sincerely recommend this text. " Amazon. co. uk 31 October 2005 "An excellent book for all business students - For a few months already, the Vernimmen. com website had been helping me for my finance class, as well as the monthly newsletter. I finally bought the book, and I have not been disappointed: the style is clear, very practical ; theories are mixed with real cases, which makes them easy to understand. Valuation techniques are well explained (discounted cash flow methods, methods based on ratios). Fundamental concepts (accounting, finance, financial markets) are recalled in the first part; when more complex concepts are tackled (investment analysis, LBOs, capital structure. ), they are explained with lots of simplicity and conciseness. I recommend this book for every student in Management or Finance!" Amazon. co. uk 30 July 2005.
Authors
- Jeffrey Jaffe
- Randolph Westerfield
- Stephen Ross
Publication date: 2009-09-29
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $55.75
Price: $55.75
Review Corporate Finance / McGraw-Hill:
Creator: John Prebble
Publication date: 2006-06-01
Dewey code: 343
List Price: $59.95
Price: $55.40
Review Taxing Offshore Investment Income / Fiscal Publications:The authors, an international panel of experts, address the design and operation of offshore investment fund regimes. They explore questions such as: what interests do they cover? How do regimes calculate, or estimate, residents' shares of income? What credit is there for foreign tax? When do regimes allow residents to set off losses on their foreign investments against domestic income? How is the bite of regimes limited to save costs of compliance and administration or to relieve tax burdens on internationally mobile executives? This book is comparative, dealing with topics issue-by-issue rather than country-by-country. It is written for practitioners who need to understand how foreign investment fund regimes work, for scholars and students of international tax law and principles, and for policy makers tasked with designing foreign investment fund regimes for their countries.
Authors
- Adrian Montague
- C. Nightingale
Review Joint Ventures / Sweet & Maxwell:Designed for use both as a transaction-related manual and as a day-to-day source reference, this volume deals with the practice and law of both incorporated and unincorporated joint ventures, while the appendices include checklists, precedents and full drafting notes to guide the practitioner through the intricacies of particular transactions. Taxation aspects are also considered.
Authors
- David O. Vang
- Jefferey R. Cornwall
Publication date: 2009-04
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $69.95
Price: $55.32
Review Entrepreneurial Financial Management / M.E. Sharpe:This practical text presents an applied, realistic view of entrepreneurial finance for today's changing business environment. It provides an integrated set of concepts and applications, drawing from entrepreneurship, finance, and accounting, that will prepare aspiring entrepreneurs for the world they will most likely face as they start their new businesses. The contents are designed to follow the life cycle of a new business venture, with topics presented in the logical order that entrepreneurs are likely to face them. Although the authors cover venture capital and public offerings, they put them in their proper perspective as unlikely vehicles for most entrepreneurs. The book includes a comprehensive financial spreadsheet template with step-by-step instructions that allows for applications of many of the concepts to actual businesses. This new edition adds a nonprofit version of the spreadsheet, and both templates can be downloaded from the author's website. The book also includes a comprehensive survey of funding sources, including all-new chapters on financing over the life of a venture and financing from the entrepreneur, family and friends.
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