Corporate finance Books

First published in 1989, this book is based on detailed comparative case studies of eight firms' responses to the recession of the early 1980s, the worst crisis for British manufacturing in the post-war period. Following these companies' progress from...

"Once-in-a-lifetime" financial crises have been a recurrent part of life in the last three decades. It is no longer possible to dismiss or ignore them as aberrations in an otherwise well-functioning system. Nor are they peculiar to recent times. Going...

""Bearing And Importance Of Commercial Treaties In The Twentieth Century: A Lecture"" is a book written by Thomas Barclay in 1906. The book explores the significance and relevance of commercial treaties in the 20th century. It delves into the history of...

Focussing on the dominance of the Big Four auditing firms - PwC, EY, Deloitte and KPMG - this concise volume provides an authoritative critical assessment of the state and future of the audit market, currently the subject of much debate and the focus of...

The book develops both direct and indirect measures of Chief Financial Officers' (CFOs) attitudes towards risk. This study firstly provides theoretical issues on financial management and the results of previous research, while the second part is...

The tax implications of social media are numerous and highly debated, spanning issues like the taxation of influencers, the digital barter and digital services taxes. This book offers a detailed overall analysis of the tax implications of social media,...

Integrated reporting in corporate communication is a process that results in improved communication, most visibly an 'integrated report,' about value creation over time. An integrated report is a concise communication about how an organization's...

This book presents a critical review of the status of tax systems in Asia and the Pacific in the era of the digital economy.

Philip Brown is one of the most admired and respected accounting academics alive today. He was a pioneer in capital markets research in accounting, and his 1968 article, co-authored with Ray Ball, "An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers,"...

What will you do when your benefits costs threaten your profitability? Good pension and benefit plans make your company an attractive place to work. But it is getting almost impossible to stay competitive. Sooner or later, your benefits costs will become...

This book explores the swiftly emerging nexus between sustainability, finance, and technology.Leading practitioners and academic thought leaders reflect on the ways in which technology and digitalization shape how sustainable finance professionals...

This book provides comprehensive and advanced analysis of the characteristics of social entrepreneurship in Europe. It offers innovative, up-todate research on the ecosystems of social entrepreneurship, the behavior of social entrepreneurs, their ability...

Your business plan isn't meant to appeal to you but to your backers. Learn how to grab their attention and secure their investment.

This guide explains how to measure people's willingness to pay for goods and services, such as improved air quality, that are not traded in a market. It aims to help improve the assessment of potential investment projects.Accounting for the value of...

The firm's capital structure - how it funds operations by raising capital from a variety of sources -- has attracted considerable attention from both academics and practitioners. The empirical capital structure literature explores both the...

Developing an internal auditing capability within an organization is as important to the continued success of that organization as any other initiative or process. An "audit" is a systematic, independent, and documented process for obtaining evidence and...

This book provides a new point of view on the subject of the management of uncertainty. It covers a wide variety of both theoretical and practical issues involving the analysis and management of uncertainty in the fields of...

The relationship between ownership structure and firm performance has been studied extensively in corporate finance and corporate governance literature. Nevertheless, the mediation (path) analysis to examine the issue can be adopted as a new approach to...

Global Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach, 4th edition (GCF4) introduces students and practitioners to the principles that are essential to the understanding of global financial problems and the policies that global business managers contend with. The...

This book is a good collection of state-of-the-art approaches to financial engineering. It will be especially useful to new researchers and practitioners working in this field and will help them to quickly grasp the current state of financial engineering...

You've hit a wall with your financial advisory business. You're burnt out, overwhelmed, or don't know how to keep growing your company. Whether you want to earn more revenue or break into other markets, you need to infuse something new into your business...

This book is a critical examination of the main ideas regarding disruptive change and startups. It systematically lays out the full set of challenges and tasks one needs to master in order for existing organizations to weather severe change or make a...

This book explores startups that have thrived against the odds in places where startup success was deemed to be unlikely. Discussing a number of technology startups from around the world that have succeeded without state backing nor local venture and...

This book explores current financing optionsfor small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), with particular insight into theEuropean market. The authors position SME funding within a risk-averse lendingenvironment with high regulatory costs on business...

This book provides clear and practical insight into bond portfolios and portfolio management through key empirical analysis.

This book aims to overcome the limitations the variations in bank-specifics impose by providing a bank-specific valuation theoretical framework and a new asset-side model. The book includes also a constructive comparison of equity and asset side...

Crowdfunding for SMEs: A European Perspective provides a valuable insight into this new source of capital. Inparticular, the authors focus on financial return crowdfunding, which repaysthe crowd either through debt or equity. This source of capital might...

This book uses modern linear and nonlinear econometric methods to characterize how shocks to the yield of risky fixed income securities, such as sub-prime asset-backed or low-credit rating sovereign bonds, are transmitted to the yields in other markets.

This book provides an overview of the development of corporate governance with a focus on literature concerning the UK.

Recent large-scale corporate collapses, such as Lehman Brothers, Enron, Worldcom, and Parmalat, highlight the implosion of traditional models of fraud prevention. By focusing on risk factors at the micro level, they have failed to take into account the...

Financial Communications examines financial communication processing and the media's role in distilling information to the public, as well as the ethical considerations that impact decision-making procedures between financial marketers and consumers. Wang

This book examines the controversial issue of securitization in a global, historical context. It traces its origins and compares evidence of securitization across countries, linking differences to variations in legal, political, and cultural regimes. By...

In the dynamic landscape of the modern financial world, E-Financial Perception, authored by Peter Louis, delves into the transformative power of electronic financial systems and their profound impact on how individuals perceive and engage with financial...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensforschung, Operations Research, Note: 1,8, Hochschule Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit bietet eine Unternehmensanalyse der Delignit AG für das Geschäftsjahr 2017. Es werden...

This book focuses on political connections in the United States. It contributes to the literature on the link between politics and business, and on the impact of political connections on firm value, by considering industry-level regulation as a...

This book explains how to restructure and successfully turn around a bank or financial institution at a time when the global financial system is facing a new wave of disruption ushered in by innovation from digital financial technology, or FinTech. It is...

This book offers fresh impulses from different industries on how to deal with innovation processes. Authors from different backgrounds, such as artificial intelligence, mechanical engineering, medical technology and law, share their experiences with...

This textbook introduces readers to the most relevant aspects of Investment Evaluation in the context of enterprise evaluation. It utilises a clear didactic concept and concisely presents representative cases, supported by calculations and their...

This book provides unique information to prepare graduates and newly hired corporate and investment banking professionals for a career in the global markets environment of large universal and international investment banks. It shows the...

This book provides the reader with the cognitive keys and practical guidelines to manage acquisitive growth in the digital era. It takes a distinct managerial perspective on acquisitions, with a relentless focus on how Enterprise Architecture (EA)...

Explaining the underlying logic behind financial ratios, this book adds to the discussion on the importance and implementation of ratios and illustrates the essential role that they play in company evaluations and investment screening. The author...

Consideration of harmful short-termism in capital markets is prevalent amongst legal and business academics. It is also garnering increased attention in corporate board rooms and executive suites, and from the investing public. As a result, correcting...