Finance Essentials
The Practitioners' Guide
Published on 26. April 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
640 pages
978-1-84930-040-7 (ISBN)
Description
Collated by Scott Moeller of Cass Business School, this collection brings together the informative articles a budding finance practitioner needs to operate effectively in today's corporate environment. Bringing together core finance knowledge and cutting-edge research topics in an engaging and effective way, this text is the ideal companion for all practitioners and students of finance.
You will find insights into the practical applications of theory in key areas such as balance sheets and cash flow, financial regulation and compliance, funding and investment, governance and ethics, mergers and acquisitions, and operations and performance.
Contributors to this collection include some of the leading experts in their respective fields: Aswath Damodaran, Harold Bierman, Jr, Andreas Jobst, Frank J. Fabozzi, Ian Bremmer, Javier Estrada, Marc J. Epstein, Henrik Cronqvist, Daud Vicary Abdullah, Meziane Lasfer, Dean Karlan, Norman Marks, Seth Armitage, and many others.
In this collection you will discover:
* Over 80 best-practice articles, providing the best guidance on issues ranging from risk management and capital structure optimization through to market responses to M&A transactions and general corporate governance
* Over 65 checklists forming step-by-step guides to essential tasks, from hedging interest rates to calculating your total economic capital
* 55 carefully selected calculations and ratios to monitor firms' financial health
* A fully featured business and finance dictionary with over 5,000 definitions
You will find insights into the practical applications of theory in key areas such as balance sheets and cash flow, financial regulation and compliance, funding and investment, governance and ethics, mergers and acquisitions, and operations and performance.
Contributors to this collection include some of the leading experts in their respective fields: Aswath Damodaran, Harold Bierman, Jr, Andreas Jobst, Frank J. Fabozzi, Ian Bremmer, Javier Estrada, Marc J. Epstein, Henrik Cronqvist, Daud Vicary Abdullah, Meziane Lasfer, Dean Karlan, Norman Marks, Seth Armitage, and many others.
In this collection you will discover:
* Over 80 best-practice articles, providing the best guidance on issues ranging from risk management and capital structure optimization through to market responses to M&A transactions and general corporate governance
* Over 65 checklists forming step-by-step guides to essential tasks, from hedging interest rates to calculating your total economic capital
* 55 carefully selected calculations and ratios to monitor firms' financial health
* A fully featured business and finance dictionary with over 5,000 definitions
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reinforced binding
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 350 mm
Weight
1055 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84930-040-7 (9781849300407)
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E-Book
04/2012
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Information
€32.99
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Person
Editor Scott Moeller is professor in the practice of finance and the founder and director of the M&A Research Centre at Cass Business School, London. He is the author of several best-selling business books and a former senior executive at Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. While at Deutsche Bank, Professor Moeller held roles as global head of the corporate venture capital unit, managing director of the Global eBusiness division, and managing director responsible for worldwide strategy and new business acquisitions, and while at Morgan Stanley was based first in New York and then Tokyo and Frankfurt. Prior to his career in investment banking, he was a management consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton (now Booz & Co). He has been a nonexecutive director of several nonprofit and financial services companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.