Publication date: 1992-05
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $74.95
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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: 2009-01-07
Dewey code: 332.632
List Price: $79.95
Price: $50.35
Review CDS Delivery Option: Better Pricing of Credit Default Swaps / Bloomberg Press:For professionals trying to navigate the increasingly volatile credit default swap market, CDS Delivery Option provides worked-out examples, over 30 charts, a case study of Delphi, and detailed explanations of how the subprime crisis caused the credit crisis and the near collapse of the GSEs. The book includes detailed information on: how to value a CDS contract, how to value the delivery option, how contract value changes when the yield curve flattens or becomes steeper, how contract value changes with bullish or bearish market moves, how to figure out when to buy protection and when to sell protection, how to hedge CDS risk, when and how to unwind a contract prior to settlement, when to hold a trade through delivery, how to navigate a “squeeze” (when the notional value of contracts going through delivery is larger than the supply of the cheapest-to-deliver issue), when buying contracts can make their prices go down, how to construct a basis trade, how to find arbitrage opportunities, how to analyze default probability and corporate debt, when to settle via auction and when to settle via physical delivery, and which note is the cheapest to deliver. This book is an indispensable resource for all market professionals working in the CDS market.
Authors
- Thomas McCarty
- Michael Bremer
- Brian McKibben
Publication date: 2005-12-15
Dewey code: 658.15
List Price: $89.95
Price: $56.70
Review Six Sigma Financial Tracking and Reporting: Measuring Project Performance and P&L Impact (Six SIGMA Operational Methods) / McGraw-Hill Professional:As Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise techniques continue to evolve and become more and more engrained in the business, it is harder and harder to track the impact of savings on a project by project basis. Especially when you have more than one project concentrating on different functional areas, through the use of case studies, worked out examples, and bench marking techniques, Michael Bremer, a Senior Instructor at Motorola University, helps you to put the right infrastructure in place for project identification, project scoping, and financial reporting.
Creator: Stephen Hoye
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2009-04-01
Dewey code: 332.10922
List Price: $99.99
Price: $50.43
Review Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World / Tantor Media:With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century. Amazon Exclusive: Liaquat Ahamed on the Economic Climate In December 1930, the great economist Maynard Keynes published an article in which he described the world as living in “the shadows of one of the greatest economic catastrophes in modern history. ” The world was then 18 months into what would become the Great Depression. The stock market was down about 60%, profits had fallen in half and unemployed had climbed from 4% to about 10%. If you take our present situation, 16 months into the current recession, we're about at the same place. The stock market is down 50 to 60 percent, profits are down 50 percent, unemployment is up from 4. 5% to over 8%. Over the next 18 months between January 1930 and July 1932 the bottom fell out of the world economy. It did so because the authorities applied the wrong medicine to what was a very sick economy. They let the banking system go under, they tried to cut the budget deficit by curbing government expenditure and raising taxes, they refused to assist the European banking system, and they even raised interest rates. [+]It was no wonder the global economy crumbled. Luckily with the benefit of those lessons, we now know what not to do. This time the authorities are applying the right medicine: they have cut interest rates to zero and are keeping them there, they have saved the banking system from collapse and they have introduced the largest stimulus package in history. And yet I cannot help worrying that the world economy may yet spiral downwards. There are two areas in particular that keep me up at night. The first is the U. S. banking system. Back in the fall, the authorities managed to prevent a financial meltdown. People are not pulling money out of banks anymore—in fact, they are putting money in. The problem is that as a consequence of past bad loans, the banking system has lost a good part of its capital. There is no way that the economy can recover unless the banking system is recapitalized. While there are many technical issues about the best way to do this, most experts agree that it will not be done without a massive injection of public money, possibly as much as $1 trillion from you and me, the taxpayer. At the moment tax payers are so furious at the irresponsibility of the bankers who got us into this mess that they are in no mood to support yet more money to bail out banks. It is going to take an extraordinary act of political leadership to persuade the American public that unfortunately more money is necessary to solve this crisis. The second area that keeps me up at night is Europe. During the real estate bubble years, the 13 countries of Eastern Europe that were once part of the Soviet empire had their own bubble. They now owe a gigantic $1. 3 trillion dollars, much of which they won’t be able to pay. The burden will have to fall on the tax payers of Western Europe, especially Germany and France. In the U. S. we at least have the national cohesion and the political machinery to get New Yorkers and Midwesterners to pay for the mistakes of Californian and Floridian homeowners or to bail out a bank based in North Carolina. There is no such mechanism in Europe. It is going to require political leadership of the highest order from the leaders of Germany and France to persuade their thrifty and prudent taxpayers to bail out foolhardy Austrian banks or Hungarian homeowners. The Great Depression was largely caused by a failure of intellectual will—the men in charge simply did not understand how the economy worked. The risk this time round is that a failure of political will leads us into an economic cataclysm.
Authors
- Curtis L. Norton
- Gary A. Porter
Publication date: 2006-06-12
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $56.95
Price: $50.73
Review General Ledger and Spreadsheet CD-ROM for Porter/Norton's Financial Accounting: The Impact on Decision Makers, 5th / South-Western College Pub:Developed for the learning market, this resource helps students understand the use of general ledger software and spreadsheet templates in an accounting environment. Selected assignments, identified by icons in the text, may be completed using the general ledger software or by the spreadsheet templates provided.
Creator: James D. Willson
Publication date: 1989-08
List Price: $50.75
Price: $50.75
Review Financial Information Systems Manual, 1989 Update With Cumulative Index (Financial Information Systems Manual Cumulative Supplement) / Warren Gorham & Lamont:
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2007-04-27
Dewey code: 332.6457
List Price: $90.00
Price: $51.01
Review GLOBAL DERIVATIVES: Products, Theory And Practice / World Scientific Publishing Company:This book provides a broad description of the financial derivatives business from a practitioner's point of view, with a particular emphasis on fixed income derivatives, a specific development on fixed income derivatives and a practical approach to the field. With particular emphasis on the concrete usage of mathematical models, numerical methods and the pricing methodology, this book is an essential reading for anyone considering a career in derivatives either as a trader, a quant or a structurer.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-11-25
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $59.95
Price: $50.95
Review Hedgefonds für Einsteiger (German Edition) / Springer:Tatsächliche Performancedaten widerlegen zunehmend die Meinung, dass Hedgefonds gefährliche, exotische oder spekulative, hoch riskante und nur für die Elite geeignete Investments sind. Um Vorteile und Risiken der Hedgefonds richtig einschätzen zu können, müssen diese im Kontext der Finanzwelt betrachtet werden. Das Buch ist keine Investmentberatung, sondern soll interessierten Investoren helfen, die Herausforderung zu meistern, ohne ein Vorwissen über die Hedgefonds vorauszusetzen. Nach Einführung in die allgemeinen Grundbegriffe gibt das Buch einen Überblick über die Kategorien der Hedgefonds, die Indizes, die wichtigsten Strategien der Hedgefonds und die strukturierten Produkte. Anschließend werden die Themen Bewertung, Risiko und ökonomische Funktion der Hedgefonds behandelt. Das Buch schließt mit einer Betrachtung der Hedgefonds-Investments aus Kundensicht. Der Anhang enthält Performancecharts und ein Kapitel über das Hedgefonds-Angebot in Deutschland im Zusammenhang mit dem Investmentmodernisierungsgesetz.
Creator: Gary Crittenden
Publication date: 2007-04-27
Dewey code: 658.152
List Price: $75.00
Price: $57.42
Review Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management: Aligning Investment Proposals with Organizational Strategy / Wiley:If where an organization allocates its resources determines its strategy, why is it that so few companies actively manage the resource allocation process? "Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management: Aligning Investment Proposals with Organizational Strategy" goes beyond platitudes about why you should use corporate portfolio management (CPM) by offering a practical methodology to bring this powerful discipline to your organization. "Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management" takes an expansive view of where CPM can be utilized by demonstrating that it can be used across any business line, product group or functional area, e. g. , IT, R&D, innovation, marketing, salesforce, capital expenditure, etc. CPM is appropriate anywhere discretionary investments are being selected and executed. As a result, other terms used to describe portfolio management such as IT portfolio management, enterprise portfolio management, and project portfolio management are all merely subsets or slices of CPM. The book is written by Anand Sanwal, an expert on CPM, who has led American Express' CPM discipline (referred to as American Express Investment Optimization). American Express' CPM efforts are widely recognized as the most extensive, substantial and progressive deployment of CPM across any organization. Sanwal avoids academic theories and consultant jargon to ultimately deliver pragmatic and proven recommendations on how to make CPM a reality. The book features a foreword by Gary Crittenden, former CFO and EVP of American Express, and several case studies from leading financial services, technology, and government organizations utilizing CPM. [+]Additionally, the book has received significant praise from thought leaders at Google, HP, American Express, The CFO Executive Board, Gartner, Accenture Marketing Sciences, The Wharton School of Business and many others.
Publication date: 2008-08-15
Dewey code: 332.15
List Price: $74.95
Price: $60.14
Review Offshore Finance and Small States: Sovereignty, Size and Money (International Political Economy) / Palgrave Macmillan:One path towards development taken by a number of small jurisdictions is the establishment of an offshore financial centre. This text analyses the actual economic contribution for several small Caribbean economies and the impact to continued operation arising from an international initiative for the exchange of taxpayer information.
Creator: Gerhard Stahl
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-06-15
Dewey code: 658.155
List Price: $79.95
Price: $50.35
Review Measuring Risk in Complex Stochastic Systems / Springer:During the last decade, problems in the world of finance have been the main driving force for developing sophisticated mathematical methods which may be used for identifying and measuring risk. The focus is still on quantifying market and credit risk, but general operational risks will become more important in the future. In this book the reader will find approaches from economic theory, allocation problems, credit scoring, volatility structures, general market risk, country risk and extreme value theory. The contributions of this book reflect the views of leading practitioners and academics in the field of risk management. Most of the models considered for the evolution of asset values are of a complex and stochastic nature, including stochastic volatility models in continuous time as well as their counterparts in discrete time, the family of GARCH-like time series. The contents reflect the fact that a major part of recent research has been motivated by applications in finance, but most of the mathematical approaches may be used for risk analysis in engineering and science in a rather straightforward manner. As known from insurance mathematics for some time, extreme damages from natural disaster follow similar stochastic laws as extreme losses from certain investments. The articles discuss critical concepts such as value-at-risk, volatility and other risk masures in nonstandard situations. Stochastic processes beyond geometric Brownian motion allow for a more realistic reflection of stylized facts like leptokurtosis or skewness of return distrubutions which often are observed in real data. Procedures for detecting change points in time series allow for dealing with the risk of a sudden structural change of the market. [+]Models for extremal events in financial time series or stochastic processes in continuous time are of prime importance for risk management as, in practice, these rare events frequently dominate the whole profit/loss-process.
Publication date: 2009-07-07
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $85.00
Price: $50.76
Review Islamic Money and Banking: Integrating Money in Capital Theory (Wiley Finance) / Wiley:This book examines how money, in the absence of interest (Riba) and money market can become an endogenous variable of an economic system. It further tries to integrate money in capital theory and to make monetary sector part of the real sector aiming at removing the problems that arise from separation of the two.
Authors
- Steven V. Mann
- Frank J. Fabozzi
- Moorad Choudhry
Publication date: 1996-08-15
Dewey code: 332.632
List Price: $89.95
Price: $51.00
Review Measuring and Controlling Interest Rate and Credit Risk / Wiley:Measuring and Controlling Interest Rate and Credit Risk, Second Edition offers a systematic evaluation of how to measure and control the interest rate risk and credit risk of a bond portfolio or trading position under various financial conditions. Financial experts Frank Fabozzi, Steven Mann, and Moorad Choudhry clearly define and illustrate interest rate risk and credit risk using practical examples with market data. These experts also discuss various hedging instruments, including futures contracts, interest rate swaps, exchange-traded options, OTC options, and credit derivatives. This completely revised Second Edition is filled with calculated examples and tables that will aid you in understanding numerous important issues such as: Measuring yield curve risk Controlling interest rate risk with derivatives Forecasting yield volatility Implementing Value at Risk (VaR) approaches to measure interest rate risk Performing credit derivative valuation Managing credit risk using credit derivatives and structured products Filled with in-depth analysis and insights from recognized experts in the field, Measuring and Controlling Interest Rate and Credit Risk, Second Edition is a must-read for portfolio managers and traders who need to continually sharpen their financial skills.
Publication date: 2001-05-18
Dewey code: 657.458
List Price: $119.95
Price: $70.97
Review Implementing and Auditing the Internal Control System / Palgrave Macmillan:Dimitris N. Chorafas defines both auditing and internal control, and explains the value of internal control, why it must be audited, and how it can be most effectively achieved. He addresses top management's accountability for internal control and uses case studies to demonstrate the application of such systems, as well as the importance of sound analysis of the information gathered. Based on an extensive research project in the UK, US, and continental Europe, this book is an invaluable source of practical advice for implementing internal control systems and making existing systems more efficient.
Publication date: 2008-11-30
Dewey code: 332.4941
List Price: $55.00
Price: $51.00
Review Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism / Edward Elgar Pub:`Tim Congdon has been Britain's leading monetarist for about three decades. He has a sharp eye for statistics, for history, for the twists and flows of intellectual fads, and for the political arena where debate hardens suddenly into the stone of decision. He is subtle, practical, bellicose and highly articulate. This volume is vintage Congdon in every sense. ' - Peter Sinclair, The Business Economist `Tim Congdon's book revisits the intellectual battlefields of British monetary theory and policy. A doughty advocate of monetarism, he is stimulating, controversial and entertaining. ' - Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK `Whether rescuing Keynes from the "Keynesians" or finding support in his earlier works for a distinctly British version of Monetarism, Tim Congdon writes with engaging and provocative enthusiasm. This is a timely collection too, coming from a long-standing exponent of ideas that policy makers are once again beginning to take seriously. [+]It deserves the careful attention of anyone interested in British monetary policy. ' - David Laidler, University of Western Ontario, Canada `As with all Tim Congdon's writing, beautifully written and vigorously argued. ' - Robert Sidelsky, author of the biography John Maynard Keynes: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism is a major contribution to the continuing debate on macroeconomic policy-making. Tim Congdon has been a strong supporter of monetarist economic principles for over 30 years. His writings - in the newspapers and for parliamentary committees, as well as in academic journals - played an influential role in the transformation of British macroeconomic policy in the 1980s and 1990s. This book brings together the main papers written by the author since his 1992 collection, Reflections on Monetarism. It challenges several `conventional wisdoms' about UK macroeconomic policy (and thinking about policy), arguing - for example - that the Keynesians' advocacy of incomes policy and fiscal activism in the immediate post-war decades did not have a clear basis in Keynes's own writings. The book denies that the UK had a `Keynesian revolution', in the sense of a deliberately pursued fiscal activism to promote `full employment'. Implicit throughout the volume is a distinctive view of how the economy works, with an account of the transmission mechanism (from money to the economy) in which movements in asset prices and aggregate demand are strongly influenced by the quantity of money. Congdon uses this approach to demonstrate that monetary policy has had more powerful effects on macroeconomic activity in the post-war period than fiscal policy. He also suggests that the now fashionable `New Keynesian' view of policy-making acknowledges the primacy of monetary policy and would be better termed `output gap monetarism'. In short, Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism contends that monetarism defeated Keynesianism in the battle of ideas in the 1970s and 1980s. The achievement of greater macroeconomic stability in the last 15 years is largely due to the impact of monetarist thinking on policy-making. The book is clearly and attractively written, and covers topics that are fundamental to macroeconomic thinking and policy-making. It will be a provocative and appealing read for scholars at all levels of economics, macroeconomics and monetary theory. It will also find an audience among policymakers in central banks and finance ministries, business economists working in companies, and financial economists in the City of London and other centres.
Publication date: 2004-12-20
Dewey code: 332.6457
List Price: $78.95
Price: $51.11
Review Understanding Credit Derivatives and Related Instruments (Academic Press Advanced Finance) / Academic Press:Understanding Credit Derivatives offers a comprehensive introduction to the credit derivatives market. Rather than presenting a highly technical exploration of the subject, it offers intuitive and rigorous summaries of the major subjects and the principal perspectives associated with them. The centerpiece is pricing and valuation issues, especially discussions of different valuation tools and their use in credit models. * Offers a broad overview of this growing field* Discusses all the main types of credit derivatives* Provides back-of-the-book summary of statistics and fixed-income mathematics.
Authors
- Mark Shenkman
- William Maxwell
Publication date: 2009-10-09
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $79.95
Price: $50.37
Review Leveraged Financial Markets: Loans, High-Yield Bonds, and Credit Default Swaps / McGraw-Hill:Whether you're a money manager or an institutional investor, you can turn to Leveraged Financial Markets for a comprehensive overview of the volatile yet lucrative high-yield debt market (a. k. a. junk bonds). This expert investment tool details every essential aspect of high-yield bonds, and also covers collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), credit derivative swaps (CDSs), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), and leveraged loans.
Publication date: 2008-09
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $51.00
Price: $51.00
Review Banking Reform (HC) / Stationery Office:This report follows on from the Committee's report on the crisis at Northern Rock ("The Run on The Rock (HC 56-I)", ISBN 9780215038388) and the lessons to be learned by the Treasury, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and the Bank of England (the Tripartite authorities). It examines legislative and practical changes that are needed. The overall case for legislative action in the field of banking regulation is compelling but the Government's preparations for new legislation may not be in place by late February 2009. The Committee recommends that the legislation provide: greater clarity about the nature and objective of 'heightened supervision'; an explicit statutory power for the Bank of England to recommend to the FSA that a firm be made subject to the new Special Resolution Regime; and, a clear institutional separation between the executive functions of the Bank and the non-executive role of the Court of the Bank of England. Practical measures should include: the strengthening FSA's capacity to regulate; the Tripartite authorities must develop a communications strategy to secure public and market confidence in their new powers; and, depositor protection arrangements, which will function smoothly and effectively in the event of a bank failure, must be developed. The Committee makes recommendations on 'heightened supervision' and the Special Resolution Regime, identifies priorities for reform of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme to protect depositors, and sets out proposals for strengthening the Bank of England. The new Tripartite Standing Committee must assume a central and continuing role in the financial stability work of the authorities at all time.
Creator: Jose L. Jimenez Caballero
Publication date: 2004-06-30
Dewey code: 346
List Price: $68.95
Price: $50.33
Review Gestion Financiera De La Empresa (Economia Y Empresa) (Spanish Edition) / Piramide Ediciones:
Publication date: 1997-10
Dewey code: 332.110973
List Price: $60.50
Price: $60.50
Review The International Origins of the Federal Reserve System / Cornell University Press:The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created the infrastructure for the modern American payments system. Probing the origins of this benchmark legislation, J. Lawrence Broz finds that international factors were crucial to its conception and passage. Until its passage, the United States had suffered under one of the most inefficient payment systems in the world. Serious banking panics erupted frequently, and nominal interest rates fluctuated wildly. Structural and regulatory flaws contributed not only to financial instability at home but also to the virtual absence of the dollar in world trade and payments. Key institutional features of the Federal Reserve Act addressed both these shortcomings but it was the goal of internationalizing usage of the dollar that motivated social actors to pressure Congress for the improvements. With New York bankers in the forefront, an international coalition lobbied for a system that would reduce internal problems such as recurring panics, and simultaneously allow New York to challenge London's preeminence as the global banking center and encourage bankers to make the dollar a worldwide currency of record. To those who organized the political effort to pass the Act, Broz contends, the creation of the Federal Reserve System was first and foremost a response to international opportunities.
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