Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Finance - Financial Risk Management

Accounting for Financial Instruments is about the accounting and regulatory framework associated with the acquisition and disposal of financial instruments; how to determine their value; how to manage the risk connected with them; and ultimately compile a business valuation report.

Specifically, the book covers the following topics, amongst others: Accounting for Investments; Bills of exchange; Management of Financial Risks; Financial Analysis (including the Financial Analysis Report); Valuation of a business (including the Business Valuation Report) and Money...

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Warren Edward Buffet is a legendary investor and one of the most respected businessmen in the world. He is the chairman, CEO and the largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway.

Among investing legends, Buffett has had the longest track record for beating the market. Berkshire Hathaway's stock price increased by a mind-blowing 1,000,000% between December 1964 and December 2015. The S&P 500, on the other hand,...

This book underscores the complexity of the equity markets, the challenges they face, and the fact that they are still a work in process. Three interacting forces drive market change: competition, technology change, and regulatory change. The markets have one major objective in particular to achieve: the delivery of accurate price discovery for both traders and the broader market. Are we getting it? Are competition, technology, and regulation acting together to improve market quality, or are they adding to the complexity of the markets and making accurate price discovery harder to achieve?...

This book will be a -must- for people who want good knowledge of big data concepts and their applications in the real world, particularly in the field of insurance. It will be useful to people working in finance and to masters students using big data tools. The authors present the bases of big data: data analysis methods, learning processes, application to insurance and position within the insurance market. Individual chapters a will be written by well-known authors in this field.

The Cyber Risk Handbook is the practitioner's guide to implementing, measuring and improving the counter-cyber capabilities of the modern enterprise. The first resource of its kind, this book provides authoritative guidance for real-world situations, and cross-functional solutions for enterprise-wide improvement. Beginning with an overview of counter-cyber evolution, the discussion quickly turns practical with design and implementation guidance for the range of capabilities expected of a robust cyber risk...

This book will provide an accessible yet detailed overview of the risks posed by financial institutions designated systemically important. The types of firms covered will primarily include large U.S. banks and Central Counterparties ("CCPs"). The book's approach will emphasize coherency, practitioner relevance, conceptual explanations, quantitative detail, and practical examples. The following practitioner-relevant elements will be explored:

• What are the specific regulations enacted post credit-crisis that designate financial institutions as systemically important?
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Rogues of Wall Street analyzes the recent risk failures and errors that have overwhelmed Wall Street for the past decade. Written by a veteran risk, compliance, and governance specialist, this book helps bank leaders and consultants identify the tools they need to effectively manage operational risk. Citing different types of risk events such as: Rogue and Insider Trading, cyber security, AML, the Mortgage Crisis, and other major events, chapters in the first half of the book detail each operational risk...

On average, a company will lose 25% of its revenue from an organizational disaster - and that's the good news. The average cost to have prevented it? Less than one-tenth of 1%. But that's not the worst of it; in virtually every case, the organization's leadership will already know this...

Cultural Calamity: presents Joseph W. Mayo's breakthrough theory on organizational risk culture. Exploring over a century of such disasters, Mayo introduces his groundbreaking Risk Hurricane model, which identifies the perfect conditions for organizational disaster. A must read for both Risk...

On average, a company will lose 25% of its revenue from an organizational disaster - and that's the good news. The average cost to have prevented it? Less than one-tenth of 1%. But that's not the worst of it; in virtually every case, the organization's leadership will already know this...

Cultural Calamity: Culture Driven Risk Management Disasters and How to Avoid Them presents Joseph W. Mayo's...