Case Studies in Finance: Managing for Corporate Value Creation
by Robert F. Bruner
from McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Case Studies in Finance links managerial decisions to capital markets and the expectations of investors. At the core of almost all of the cases is a valuation task that requires students to look to financial markets for guidance in resolving the case problem. The focus on value helps managers understand the impact of the firm on the world around it. These cases also invite students to apply modern information technology to the analysis of managerial decisions.
Global Corporate Finance: Text and Cases
by Suk Kim
from Wiley-Blackwell
Global Corporate Finance, sixth edition provides students with the practical skills needed to understand global financial problems and techniques.
Retains the user-friendly format of previous editions while offering expanded material on corporate finance and governance, international markets, global financial dynamics and strategies, and risk management techniques
Each chapter begins with a real-world case study to be explained by theories and research findings presented throughout the chapter
End-of-chapter mini-cases further reinforce students’ understanding of the material covered
This edition is supported by a comprehensive Study Guide and an Instructor's Manual, available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/kim.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters
by Greg Palast
from Pluto Press
Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation in the US and abroad. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a living legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership.
This exciting new collection brings together some of Palast's most powerful writing of the past decade. Included here are his celebrated "Washington Post" exposé on Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election in Florida, and recent stories on George W. Bush's payoffs to corporate cronies, the payola behind Hillary Clinton, and the faux energy crisis. Also included in this volume are new and previously unpublished material, television transcripts, photographs and letters.
Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy: A Complete Guide to Predicting & Avoiding Distress and Profiting from Bankruptcy (Wiley Finance)
by Edward I. Altman
from Wiley
Predict, Avoid, Manage—and Even Profit From—Bankruptcy With this new Second Edition of the first definitive guide This new edition of the premier business failure, insolvency, default, and bankruptcy guide provides financial professionals of every stripe with a master reference to the latest banking, credit, investment, legal, financial, and management thought and practice. To help readers combat corporate distress in the '90s and beyond, distinguished author Edward I. Altman includes coverage of…
- Unique statistical tools—author-developed techniques for assessing firms' distress potential, measuring debt price movements, benchmarking debt investor and market performance, establishing the present value of loans, and so much more.
- Junk bonds—Altman revisits this market to provide an in-depth analysis of the role and risk-return trade-offs of this controversial source of finance
- Emerging trends—complete explorations of debtor-in-possession lending, prepackaged bankruptcy, and the epidemic of fraudulent conveyance suits resulting from ill-conceived restructurings
- An evaluation of the Chapter 11 process, now under public scrutiny and criticism
- Bankruptcy reorganization case histories—real-world data to help readers carry out debtor valuation analyses and restructurings, featuring Duplan Corporation and Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation
Studies in International Corporate Finance and Governance Systems: A Comparison of the U.S., Japan, and Europe
from Oxford University Press, USA
The past decade has given rise to a growing debate over the relative efficiency of different national economic systems. There are two basic corporate finance and governance systems that predominate in today's developed economies. One is the Anglo-American market based model, with widely dispersed shareholders and a fairly vigorous corporate control market. The other is the Japanese and German relationship based system, with its large bank and intercorporate holdings (and conspicuous absence of takeovers). Given the increasing globalization of business, which of these two systems can be expected to prevail over time? Or will the most valuable aspects of each be blended into a single new system? The story now being told by economists and management experts -- one that this book presents -- is a complicated one. Here is a sampling of the arguments:
Corporate strategist Michael Porter states that the U.S. system of allocating capital both within and across companies appears to be failing because of both capital market and internal pressures on U.S. companies to underinvest in the relatively intangible assets that contribute to corporate capabilities. In contrast to Porter, financial economist Michael Jensen maintains that the most formidable challenge now facing the U.S. economy -- and, indeed, the economies of all industrialized nations -- is the corporate overinvestment problem, a problem that was addressed in the U.S. by the leveraged restructuring of the 1980s. Nobel-Prize economist Merton Miller answers both Porters concern about U.S. underinvestment and Jensens pessimism about U.S. control systems with a classic defense of the shareholder-value principle. Corporate strategist C.K. Prahalad, unconvinced by the arguments of both Miller and Jensen, challenges the wisdom of corporate Americas commitment to maximizing shareholder value. In a roundtable discussion, Prahalad debates with shareholder value advocate Bennett Stewart about the effects of shareholder primacy in the U.S. and its absence in Japan.
Studies in International Corporate Finance and Governance Systems consists of 28 articles (and two roundtable discussions) written by academic and management experts in the fields of corporate finance and governance. Given its commitment to translating outstanding academic research into relatively plain English for practicing businessmen, this text should prove especially useful for corporate executives as well as students in MBA and executive development programs.
The Revolution in Corporate Finance
by Liza H. Jacobs
from Wiley-Blackwell
The Revolution in Corporate Finance has established itself as a key text for students of corporate finance with wide use on a range of courses. Using seminal articles from the highly regarded Bank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, it gives students real insight into the practical implications of the most recent theoretical advances in the field. This extensively revised and updated fourth edition contains a significant amount of new material while retaining key original articles from previous editions. It offers, in one volume, coverage of the latest academic thinking, written by leading financial economists in a way that is accessible to students and corporate management.
- Uses seminal articles from the highly regarded Bank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance.
- Gives insight into the practical implications of recent theoretical advances in the field.
- Enhanced by new material, including two new sections on International Finance and International Corporate Governance.
- Highlights contributions of Nobel Laureate Merton Miller to the field of Finance.
This extensively revised and updated fourth edition contains a significant amount of new material while retaining key original articles from previous editions. The new material highlights important recent developments whilst including two new sections devoted to International Finance and International Corporate Governance. It offers, in one volume, coverage of the latest academic thinking, written by leading financial economists in a way that is accessible to students and corporate management.
Global Development Finance 2007 (Vol I. Analysis and Outlook): The Globalization of Corporate Finance in Developing Countries (Global Development Finance (Vol. 1: Analysis & Outlook))
from World Bank Publications
Global Development Finance (GDF), is the World Bank's annual review of recent trends in and prospects for financial flows to developing countries. It is an indispensable resource for governments, economists, investors, financial consultants, academics, bankers, and the entire development community. Vol I: Analysis and Outlook reviews recent trends in financial flows to developing countries. Also available as a two volume set, Vol II. Summary and Country Tables* includes comprehensive data for 138 countries, as well as summary data for regions and income groups. Also available on CD-ROM, with more than 200 historical time series from 1970 to 2005, and country group estimates for 2006.
The Geography of Finance: Corporate Governance in a Global Marketplace
by Gordon L. Clark
from Oxford University Press, USA
The Geography of Finance tackles crucial issues regarding the emerging global market for corporate governance. The authors describe and explain the transformation of European corporate governance in the light of the imperatives driving global financial markets, using an innovative analytical framework.
The authors chart the response of corporate managers to the interest of global portfolio managers in transparent and accountable modes of corporate governance. In doing so, the authors provide an innovative perspective on a rapidly changing environment; and a challenge to those who ignore the gathering momentum of global financial markets.
Corporate Finance
This text is an essential introduction to corporate finance for undergraduate and MBA students on financial management and corporate finance courses.
Adopting an international perspective throughout, the text provides a solid, theoretical foundation and demonstrates the relevance of the theory with a large number of intuitive, illustrative examples. Features include: * A conceptual approach * Definitions of technical terms as they appear * End-of-chapter problems which reinforce the financial concepts presented in the chapter * Simple mathematical calculations to enhance the student's understanding of analytical techniques
Corporate Financial Structures in Developing Countries (International Finance Corporation, Technical Paper No. 1)
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