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- Product code: 5436
- ISBN: 0273630911,
ISBN13: 9780273630913,
468 pages, paperback
Published by FT Prentice Hall on 1997
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Description of Mastering Finance - Financial Times |
Financial proficiency has never been more critical to the success of your business, or to the development of your own career.
FT Mastering Finance is an indispensable guide for anyone who is serious about understanding and applying the latest principles, practices and roles of finance.
From capital structure to caps and floors, from random walk to risk management, this book covers the key areas of corporate finance, financial markets and investment management. It delivers an unrivalled combination of new thiking and practical wisdom, direct from the cutting-edge of financial innovation.
For managers, corporate finance professionals and investment managers alike, FT Mastering Finance provides a perfect introduction to the foundations and frontiers of finance, bringing together the latest in financial expertise from the world's top three finance schools. The combination of faculties from the London Business School, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is unbeatable in the field of finance.
A world-class companion to the changing world of finance, and the launch-pad for any finance course, FT Mastering Finance is your best possible investment for a profitable future.
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Contents of Mastering Finance - Financial Times |
1. Value
Risk & return
Capital budgeting valuation
Approaches to the lbo
An APT alternative to assessing risk
Beta, size and price/book
Why it's worth being in control
2. Corporate Finance
Debt, folklore and financial
Why CEOs use insufficient debt
New equity issues and raising cash
Plenty of potential in private equity
Building on the benefits of project financing
Spin-offs
3. Accounting
International accounting standards
Creating a common accounting language
4. Managing Value
Motivations to manage value
Cash flows versus earnings
EVA's charm as a performance measure
Performance and the reverse LBO
Riding on the crest of a wave can be easy but . . .
5. The Nature of Financial Markets
The many roles of financial markets
Market efficiency - a mirror for information
Markets: the price may not be right
Myths surrounding short-termism
6. Equity Markets in Action
Solving the new equity puzzle
Stumbling block for the random walk
Giving markets a human dimension
The end of the year show
Assessing the costs of security trading
Stock Exchanges: forces of change
7. Debt Markets
Why markets are still worlds apart
The long and the short of investing in bonds
Evaluating the bond-rating agencies
Rationale for convertible bonds
Forecasting short-term interest rates
Securitization: unbundling for value
8. Portfolio Investment
The elusive butterfly of superior returns
Asset allocation: have investors got it wrong?
Why financial advisors like to stay at home
Is passive investing optimal?
9. Risk Management
Risk: enough rope to hang the business? The revolution in risk management Value at risk and hedging Exchange rate exposure and market value Hedging - an obstacle or a blessing? A strategy for managing foreign exchange
10. Derivatives
The world of futures, forwards and swaps
How to put a price on options
Derivatives as a new way of reducing risk
Metallgesellschaft: a hedge too far
11. Financial Institutions
The key role of the financial 'middle men'
The bank is dead! Long live the bank!
Banks respond to a changing world
Banking dissters: causes and prevention
12. Regulation and Governance
The market as international regulator
Riding on the benfits of the LBO wave
The tale of three insolvency codes
13. Finance and Government
Unraveling the workings of monetary policy
Managing government finances
Glossary
Subject index
Name Index
Organization Index
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