Improving Corporate Boards: The Boardroom Insider Guidebook (Paper with CD-ROM)
ISBN: 9780471379379 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Must-Have, Firsthand Guidance for the 21st Century Boardroom
From the Wall Street Journal and top cable business news programs to global politics, the topic of corporate governance is in the business media spotlight. Yet despite this surge of popular attention and the board of directors' growing power and burdens, solid advice for running a better board remains scattered and inconsistent. At a time of sharp scrutiny and far tighter board accountability, today's corporate boards and top managers need practical wisdom more than ever. In this invaluable guidebook, the founder of... Must-Have, Firsthand Guidance for the 21st Century Boardroom
From the Wall Street Journal and top cable business news programs to glo... |
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254,87 zł |
Modern Project Finance: A Casebook
ISBN: 9780471434252 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This cutting-edge financial casebook is divided into four modules: Structuring Projects, Valuing Projects, Managing Project Risk, and Financing Projects. The cases have been carefully selected to reflect actual use of project finance over the past five years in terms of geographic location (the cases come from 15 different countries) and industrial sectors.
* Benjamin Esty, of the Harvard Business School, is one of the leading scholars in project finance. * Project finance is becoming the financing mechanism of choice for many private firms. * Cases require the reader to... This cutting-edge financial casebook is divided into four modules: Structuring Projects, Valuing Projects, Managing Project Risk, and Financing Projec...
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836,75 zł |
The Warren Buffet CEO: Secrets of the Berkshire Hathaway Managers
ISBN: 9780471442592 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Everyone knows Warren is the greatest investor of our time. . . .This book for the first time captures his genius as a manager."
--Jack Welch The first book to reveal the investment and management strategies of the Berkshire Hathaway all-star management team. Much has been written about Warren Buffett and his investment philosophy; little has been made public about the inside management of Berkshire Hathaway. With a market cap exceeding 100 billion, Berkshire Hathaway has a market value surpassing many icons of American business such as Dell, AT&T, Disney, Ford, Gillette,... "Everyone knows Warren is the greatest investor of our time. . . .This book for the first time captures his genius as a manager."
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268,28 zł |
Collection Management Handbook: The Art of Getting Paid
ISBN: 9780471456049 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You don't have to be gifted to be a great credit collector. All you need is a desire to learn from the best.. . . and that's the level of expertise this exhaustively researched volume puts right at your fingertips. The Collection Management Handbook puts you on the fast track to becoming a debt recovery dynamo. Drawing on actual cases from the collection industry's top achievers, this expanded edition redefines collection methodology. Focusing on multiple avenues of strategic creditor recourse, it goes beyond yesterday's dunning notices, showing you how to extract money from the most...
You don't have to be gifted to be a great credit collector. All you need is a desire to learn from the best.. . . and that's the level of expertise th...
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670,69 zł |
Managing Currency Risk: Using Financial Derivatives
ISBN: 9780471498865 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Control the number one cause of financial loss currency fluctuation
With cross-border commerce now the global norm, companies must now face the greatest threat to their financial stability: financial losses due to currency fluctuations. Written by an international business and banking expert, Managing Currency Risk is an authoritative, accessible look at the variety of methods used to minimize currency risk. Written for the financial market novice, the book explains the nature and uses of a variety of financial instruments without complicated mathematical equations. Discussed in... Control the number one cause of financial loss currency fluctuation
With cross-border commerce now the global norm, companies must now fa... |
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456,07 zł |
Tax Placement
ISBN: 9780595273638 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,77 zł |
ABCs of Activity Based Management: Crushing Competition Through Performance Improvement
ISBN: 9780595358717 / Angielski / Miękka / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you want a book on theory, philosophies, and generalities then read something else. But if you want to succeed in business and crush your competition, this is the book for you. "ABCs of Activity Based Management" is a how-to guide for developing and improving ABM systems. "ABCs of Activity Based Management" shows you what to do, how to do it, why to do it and what pitfalls to avoid. With over a decade of costing and process improvement experience, William Frost coaches you through the art of ABM using step-by-step examples, sample reports, and industry-leading best practices. In "ABCs of...
If you want a book on theory, philosophies, and generalities then read something else. But if you want to succeed in business and crush your competiti...
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76,90 zł |
Tax Placement
ISBN: 9780595656714 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,61 zł |
Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation
ISBN: 9780674022287 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The company is under-performing, its share price is trailing, and the CEO gets...a multi-million-dollar raise. This story is familiar, for good reason: as this book clearly demonstrates, structural flaws in corporate governance have produced widespread distortions in executive pay. Pay without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of managers' influence over their own pay--and of a governance system that must fundamentally change if firms are to be managed in the interest of shareholders. Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried demonstrate that corporate boards have... The company is under-performing, its share price is trailing, and the CEO gets...a multi-million-dollar raise. This story is familiar, for good rea... |
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204,23 zł |
The Promise of Private Pensions
ISBN: 9780674945203 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The private pension is a curiosity in the modern economic environment. Why do profit-seeking companies pay retirement benefits to those no longer on the job? In this new institutional history, Steven Sass explores the rise and growth of the financial support system that today commands trillions of dollars of investment capital and supports hundreds of thousands of older Americans. Before 1900 America's elderly derived their livelihood from simple sources. They worked if they could, relied on their children, and took charity if necessary. By the dawn of the twentieth century, however,... The private pension is a curiosity in the modern economic environment. Why do profit-seeking companies pay retirement benefits to those no longer o... |
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235,81 zł |
The Markets and the Media: Business News and Stock Market Movements
ISBN: 9780739113318 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years there has been a great influx of sources for business and financial news, yet the hope that this financial media boom would lead to the democratization of the financial markets has not been realized. Thomas Schuster's The Markets and the Media explores why the expansion of economic communication has proven to be of only limited benefit, arguing that the financial media boom has had negative repercussions resulting in substantial costs for the individual as well as the system. The Markets and the Media stands alone in its class: It is the first comprehensive analysis focusing...
In recent years there has been a great influx of sources for business and financial news, yet the hope that this financial media boom would lead to th...
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214,62 zł |
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
ISBN: 9780743247467 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inspiration for the film that won the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary, The Corporation contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality, whose destructive behavior, if unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin. Over the last 150 years the corporation has risen from relative obscurity to become the world's dominant economic institution. Eminent Canadian law professor and legal theorist Joel Bakan contends that today's corporation is a pathological institution, a dangerous possessor of the great power it...
The inspiration for the film that won the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary, The Corporation contends that the co...
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77,11 zł |
Strategic Management Accounting
ISBN: 9780750601108 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work places management accounting clearly within the context of the strategic management of the business, and provides an overview of both competitive and corporate strategic issues.
This work places management accounting clearly within the context of the strategic management of the business, and provides an overview of both compet...
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305,78 zł |
Corporate Bonds and Structured Financial Products
ISBN: 9780750662611 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a detailed account of the instruments that are used in the corporate bond markets, from conventional "plain vanilla" bonds to hybrid instruments and structured products. There is background information on bond pricing and yield, as well as a detailed look at the yield curve. The book covers the full set of instruments used by companies to raise finance, and which are aimed at a wide range of investors. It also discusses the analysis of these instruments. Topics covered include: *Bond basics
*The yield curve *Callable bonds *Convertible... This book is a detailed account of the instruments that are used in the corporate bond markets, from conventional "plain vanilla" bonds to hybrid inst...
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356,76 zł |
Venture Capital in Europe
ISBN: 9780750682596 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until recently, only the United States had an active venture capital market. This is changing rapidly, as many other countries have experienced rapid growth in venture capital financing over the past five years. This book contains new scientific articles showcasing the latest research on venture capital in Europe. Venture capital investment remains a hot topic with portfolio managers, individual investors, academics worldwide. This book examines in detail all the major issues regarding venture capital investment: contracting, financing, regulation, valuation, etc. and identifies new trends in...
Until recently, only the United States had an active venture capital market. This is changing rapidly, as many other countries have experienced rapid ...
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756,00 zł |
Japanese Finance: Corporate Finance and Capital Markets in Changing Japan
ISBN: 9780762310685 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japan has always been an odd man out from the standpoint of Western norm or Western finance. It is a country that is as developed as any in the West. However, it is also a country that possesses the significant institutional and cultural traits that separate it from the West. An important question in finance is to what extent the basic models of finance, developed with the Western perfect market view in mind, can be applied to Japan; or conversely, what critical adjustments must be made to make models amendable to the reality of Japanese finance. Japanese finance. This is an attempt to bring...
Japan has always been an odd man out from the standpoint of Western norm or Western finance. It is a country that is as developed as any in the West. ...
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940,07 zł |
Finance for Strategic Decision-Making: What Non-Financial Managers Need to Know
ISBN: 9780787965174 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finance for Strategic Decision Making demystifies and clarifies for non-financial executives the basics of financial analysis. It shows how they can make important financial decisions that can critically enhance their institution's ability to respond to competitive challenges, undertake new projects, overcome financial setbacks, and most importantly, create shareholder value. Written by M. P. Narayanan and Vikram K. Nanda--two of the country's leading authorities on financial strategy--this book offers a practical guide for using financial analysis to enhance strategicdecision making....
Finance for Strategic Decision Making demystifies and clarifies for non-financial executives the basics of financial analysis. It shows how the...
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182,37 zł |
Managing Risk in Organizations: A Guide for Managers
ISBN: 9780787965181 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managing Risk in Organizations offers a proven framework for handling risks across all types of organizations. In this comprehensive resource, David Frame--a leading expert in risk management--examines the risks routinely encountered in business, offers prescriptions to assess the effects of various risks, and shows how to develop effective strategies to cope with risks. In addition, the book is filled with practical tools and techniques used by professional risk practitioners that can be readily applied by project managers, financial managers, and any manager or consultant who deals...
Managing Risk in Organizations offers a proven framework for handling risks across all types of organizations. In this comprehensive resource, ...
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331,07 zł |
Increasing Shareholder Value: Distribution Policy, a Corporate Finance Challenge
ISBN: 9780792375173 / Angielski / Twarda / 151 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corporations earn incomes and amass wealth. There are many books offering advice how to increase the profitability of corporations by achieving excellence in operations and choosing the correct strategic path. Increasing Shareholder Value: Distribution Policy, A Corporate Finance Challenge is concerned with how the corporation should reward its shareholders after the incomes are earned.
Investment decisions, capital structure, and dividend policy must be coordinated so that the well being of the firm's stockholders is considered in the planning process. The corporate... Corporations earn incomes and amass wealth. There are many books offering advice how to increase the profitability of corporations by achieving excell...
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389,98 zł |
Applying for Research Funding: Getting Started and Getting Funded
ISBN: 9780803953659 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Getting research funding, from both government and the private sector, is becoming increasingly more competitive in an environment of shrinking resources. This useful book is designed to help both beginning and experienced researchers approach the grant application process and develop a successful application. The authors discuss: making initial choices; making key contacts; assessing research environments; what to include on, and when to write, an application; writing a persuasive application; targeting the application; and what to expect when an application is or is not accepted.
Getting research funding, from both government and the private sector, is becoming increasingly more competitive in an environment of shrinking resour...
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525,01 zł |