QFinance: The Ultimate Resource
QFinance: The Ultimate Resource
Editor: Qatar Financial Center
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: A&C Black
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-84-930005-6
Category: Business, Finance & Economics - Economics
Image Count:
285
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
QFINANCE: The Ultimate Resource offers articles with key themes in over 250 best practice and thought leadership articles. This edition comprises key perspectives on environmental, social, and governance factors -- essential for understanding the long-term sustainability of a company.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Advisory panel
- Staff, Contributors, and Advisers
- Contributors
- User Guide
- BEST PRACTICE
- Balance Sheets and Cash Flow
- Advantages of Finance Best Practice Networks - Hans-Dieter Scheuermann
- Allocating Corporate Capital Fairly - John L. Mariotti
- Asset Liability Management for Pension Funds - Ruud Kleynen
- Best Practices in Cash Flow Management and Reporting - Hans-Dieter Scheuermann
- Capital Budgeting: The Dominance of Net Present Value - Harold Bierman, Jr
- Capital Structure: Perspectives - John C. Groth
- Comparing Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return - Harold Bierman, Jr
- Corporate Finance for SMEs - Terry Carroll
- Dangers of Corporate Derivative Transactions - David Shimko
- Factoring and Invoice Discounting: Working Capital Management Options - Irena Jindrichovska
- Formulating a Contingency Funding Plan to Manage Liquidity Risks - Gary Deutsch
- How Taxation Impacts on Liquidity Management - Martin O’Donovan
- How to Assess a Company’s Global Treasury Needs and Objectives Successfully - Gary Silha
- How to Better Manage Your Financial Supply Chain - Juergen Bernd Weiss
- How to Manage Pension Costs - Edmund Truell
- Introduction to Islamic Financial Risk Management Products - Qudeer Latif and Susi Crawford
- Investment Risk in Islamic Finance - Kamal Abdelkarim Hassan and Hassan Ahmed Yusuf
- Managing 21st Century Finances - Terry Carroll
- Managing Capital Budgets for Small and Medium-Sized Companies - Neil Seitz
- Managing Counterparty Credit Risk - David Shimko
- Managing Liquidity Risk in a Financial Institution: The Dangers of Short-Term Liabilities - David Shimko
- Managing Retirement Costs - Beverly Goldberg
- Viewpoint: Moving Away from Traditional Budgeting - Lawrence Phillips
- Navigating a Liquidity Crisis Effectively - Klaus Kremers
- Payment Factories: How to Streamline Financial Flows - Chris Skinner
- Pension Schemes: A Unique and Unintended Basket of Risks on the Balance Sheet - Amarendra Swarup
- Pricing Framework for Banks’ Internal Funds: A Best-Practice Methodology - Moorad Choudhry
- Quantifying Corporate Financial Risk - David Shimko
- Risk Management of Islamic Finance Instruments - Andreas Jobst
- Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Risk in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Managing Risk and Boosting Profit - Omar Fisher
- Viewpoint: Sustainability Reporting and Assurance—A Market-Driven Transformation - Brendan Le Blanc and Barruch Ben-Zekry
- To Hedge or Not to Hedge - Steve Robinson
- Tools for Measuring Interest Rate Risk - Steven V. Mann
- A Total Balance Sheet Approach to Financial Risk - Terry Carroll
- Using Structured Products to Manage Liabilities - Shane Edwards
- The Value and Management of Intellectual Property, Intangible Assets, and Goodwill - Kelvin King
- Valuing Pension Fund Liabilities on the Balance Sheet - Steven Lowe
- Financial Markets
- ALM in Financial Intermediation: The Derivatives Business - Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski
- Analyzing a Bank’s Financial Performance - by Jyothi Manohar
- Banking Transparency and the Robustness of the Banking System - Solomon Tadesse
- Banks and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Recent Business Developments - Sergio Schmukler, Augusto de la Torre, and María Soledad Martínez Pería
- Viewpoint: Bitcoin and the Authorities, Monetary, Political and Regulatory: Houston, We May Have a Problem - Anthony Harrington
- Capital Adequacy Requirements for Islamic Financial Institutions: Key Issues - M. Kabir Hassan and Ebid Smolo
- Viewpoint: Capitalism no longer needs to defend itself with fairy stories - Steve Keen
- Viewpoint: Challenges in Global Energy and Their Potential Impact on the Cost of Energy - Pau Morilla-Giner
- Climate Change and Insurance - Stephen Haddrill
- Viewpoint: Corporate Responsibility in a Community of Companies - Michelle Greene
- Credit Derivatives—The Origins of the Problem - Eric R. Dinallo
- Viewpoint: The Distorted System: Iceland’s Lessons Yet To Be Learned - Anat Admati and Gudrun Johnsen
- The Emergence and Development of Islamic Banking - Umar Oseni and M. Kabir Hassan
- Viewpoint: Energy Self-Sufficiency through Shale Gas Changes the Game for the United States - Angelos Damaskos
- Viewpoint: Finance Teaching After the Global Financial Crisis - Jayanth R. Varma
- The Globalization of Inflation - Diana Choyleva
- Viewpoint: Governments of All Stripes Still Have Much to Learn from Keynes - Robert, Lord Skidelsky
- Insurance—Bruised, Not Crushed - Robert P. Hartwig
- The International Role of Islamic Finance - Andreas Jobst
- Viewpoint: Investment Lessons from the Crash - Jeremy Beckwith
- Islamic Insurance Markets and the Structure of - Takaful Suzanne White
- Issues in Issuing Insurance-Linked Securities - Morton Lane
- Viewpoint: A Lesson in Austrian School Economics: The Real Cause of the Crash - Jesús Huerta de Soto
- Viewpoint: Lessons from the 2008 Financial Crisis-Part I: Banking Policy - Richard A. Werner
- Viewpoint: Lessons From the 2008 Financial Crisis-Part II: Central Banks and Monetary Reform - Richard A. Werner
- Middle East and North Africa Region: Financial Sector and Integration - Samy Ben Naceur and Chiraz Labidi
- Mixflation - Giles Keating
- Viewpoint: Nothing but Painful Choices Ahead as the Global Debt Supercycle Ends - John Mauldin
- The Origins and Current State of the Buyout Market for Pension Funds - Steven Haasz
- Outsourcing and the Banks - Shamus Rae
- Viewpoint: Pension Funds—The Dangers of Taking Off-Benchmark Foreign Exchange Risk - Mark Hogg
- Viewpoint: Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis - Sheila Dow
- Viewpoint: The Role of Insurance in Bringing Resilience to Societies Challenged by Global Warming - David Bresch
- Rules versus Discretion in Supervisory Interventions in Financial Institutions - Marc Quintyn
- Viewpoint: Shariah Lawc—Bringing a New Ethical Dimension to Banking - Amjid Ali
- Viewpoint: A Single Currency for Asia? - Amitendu Palit
- Viewpoint: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Risk in the Insurance Sector - Alex McNeil
- Viewpoint: The Tragedy of the Euro - Philipp Bagus
- Viewpoint: The Unintended Consequences of Globalization - Paul Wharton
- Viewpoint: US Monetary Policy And Its Impact On China and Emerging Economies - Simon Derrick
- Viewpoint: What Models Do We Need for Risk Management? - Riccardo Rebonato
- Viewpoint: Why Financial and Other Serious Risks Are Such Slippery Concepts to Get Hold Of - David Ropeik
- Viewpoint: Why We Must Break Up the Financial Herd - Avinash Persaud
- Viewpoint: Why the Thinking of the Austrian School of Economics Matters in Today’s Economy - Annette Godart-van der Kroon
- Viewpoint: Why Turning Growth into Profit Is Challenging for Asian Economies - Peter Elston
- Financial Regulation and Compliance
- Viewpoint: Accounting for Value: Why the Accountancy Bodies Are Losing Their Way in the Standard-Setting Process - Stephen Penman
- Aligning the Internal Audit Function with Strategic Objectives - Ilias G. Basioudis
- Viewpoint: The Audit Committee and Corporate Governance - Richard Wilson
- Auditing Islamic Financial Institutions - Roszaini Haniffa
- Auditor Sensitivity to Source Reliability - Denise Cicchella and Stuart Gardner
- An Auditor’s Approach to Risk-Based Auditing: What to Audit and When - Paul J. Sanchez
- Best Practices in Risk-Based Internal Auditing - Sheryl Vacca
- Viewpoint: Challenges Faced by the Audit Profession After the Crash - James Chadwick
- Classification and Treatment of Leases - Roger Lister
- Considerations when Outsourcing Internal Audit - Peter Tickner
- Contemporary Developments in International Auditing Regulation - Christopher Humphrey and Anne Loft
- Continuous Auditing: Putting Theory into Practice - Norman Marks
- Costs and Benefits of Accounting-Based Regulation in Emerging Capital Markets - Wang Jiwei
- Cultural Changes in External Auditing - Jyothi Manohar
- The Effect of SOX on Internal Control, Risk Management, and Corporate Governance Best Practice - David A. Doney
- Engaging Senior Management in Internal Control - Philip Ratcliffe
- Has Financial Reporting Impacted on Internal Auditing Negatively? - Andrew Chambers
- How Can Internal Audit Report Effectively to Its Stakeholders? - Andrew Cox
- How Internal Auditing Can Help with a Company’s Fraud Issues - Gail Harden
- How Much Independence for Supervisors in Financial Market Regulation? - Marc Quintyn
- How to Implement a Standard Chart of Accounts Effectively - Aziz Tayyebi
- Identifying the Main Regulatory Challenges for Islamic Finance - Bilal Rasul
- Implementing an Effective Internal Controls System - Andrew Chambers
- Incorporating Operational and Performance Auditing into Compliance and Financial Auditing - Andrew Cox
- Internal Audit and Partnering with Senior Management - Bruce Turner
- The Internal Audit Role—Is There an Expectation Gap in Your Organization? - Jeffrey Ridley
- Managing the Relationships between Audit Committees and the CAE - Richard E. Cascarino
- New Assurance Challenges Facing Chief Audit Executives - Simon D’Arcy
- Optimizing Internal Audit - Andrew Chambers
- Origins and Rationale for IFRS Convergence - Peter Walton
- Performance Reporting under IFRS - Peter Casson
- Principles versus Rules in Financial Supervision—Is There One Superior Approach? - Marc Quintyn
- Procedures for Reporting Financial Risk in Islamic Finance - Daud Vicary Abdullah and Ramesh Pillai
- Pros and Cons of Using External Auditorsfor Internal Auditing and Other Services - Curtis C. Verschoor
- Starting a Successful Internal Audit Function to Meet Present and Future Demands - Jeffrey Ridley
- Threats to Auditor Independence and Possible Remedies - Gilad Livne
- Total Quality Management and Internal Auditing - Jeffrey Ridley
- Understanding the Requirements for Preparing IFRS Financial Statements - Véronique Weets
- What Are the Leading Causes of Financial Restatements? - Todd DeZoort
- What Is the Range of the Internal Auditor’s Work? - Andrew Cox
- Viewpoint: Why Accounting Needs To Be More Business-Centric - Andrew Howie
- Viewpoint: Why Integrated Reporting Is The Way Ahead For All Stakeholders - Jonathan Labrey
- Why Organizations Need to be Regulated—Lessons from History - Bridget Hutter
- World-Class Internal Audit - Robin Pritchard
- Funding and Investment
- The Ability of Ratings to Predict the Performance of Exchange-Traded Funds - Gerasimos G. Rompotis
- Acquiring a Secondary Listing, or Cross-Listing - Meziane Lasfer
- Viewpoint: Africa s Emerging Bond and Real Asset Markets - David Lashbrook and Zee de Gersigny
- Viewpoint: Africa: Still Challenging, But More Progress Beneath the Surface Than Most People Think - Stephen Chan
- Viewpoint: After Squandering a Decade of Good Fortune, Africa Needs Real Change to Achieve Its Potential - Marko Papic
- Assessing Venture Capital Funding for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises - Alain Fayolle and Joseph LiPuma
- Asset Allocation Methodologies - Tom Coyne
- Viewpoint: Balances and Imbalances in the two major Asian economies - Matt Gertken
- Viewpoint: Bias-Free Investing Offers the Best Hope for Pension Funds - Yves Choueifaty
- Viewpoint: Capturing the Equity Premium - Erik Gosule
- Carrying Out Due Diligence on Hedge Funds - Amarendra Swarup
- Carrying Out Due Diligence on Private Equity Funds - Rainer Ender
- The Case for SMART Rebalancing - Arun Muralidhar and Sanjay Muralidhar
- The Cost of Going Public: Why IPOs Are Typically Underpriced - Lena Booth
- Credit Ratings - David Wyss
- Ethical Funds and Socially Responsible Investment: An Overview - Chendi Zhang
- Viewpoint: Fast Finance to Slow Finance - Gervais Williams
- Financial Steps in an IPO for a Small or Medium-Size Enterprise - Hung-Gay Fung
- Funds of Hedge Funds versus Single-Manager Funds - Steve Wallace
- Viewpoint: Green Investing—Looking beyond the Financial Metrics - Stéphane Voisin
- How and When to Use Nonrecourse Financing - Thomas McKaig
- The Impact of Index Trackers on Shareholders and Stock Volatility - Martin Gold
- Viewpoint: The Indian Economy: A Political Conundrum? - Nirvikar Singh
- Investing Cash: Back to Basics - Mark Camp and Emma Du Haney
- Viewpoint: Investing in Corporate Debt in Difficult Market Conditions - Robert Marquardt
- Investing in Structured Finance Products in the Debt Money Markets - Moorad Choudhry
- IPOs in Emerging Markets - Janusz Brzeszczynski
- Islamic Microfinance: Fulfilling Social and Developmental Expectations - Mehmet Asutay
- Islamic Modes of Finance and the Role of - Sukuk Abdel-Rahman Yousri Ahmad
- Issuing Corporate Debt - Steven Lowe
- Managing Activist Investors and Fund Managers - Leslie L. Kossoff
- Managing Shariah-Compliant Portfolios: The Challenges, the Process, and the Opportunities - John Sandwick
- Measuring Company Exposure to Country Risk - Aswath Damodaran
- Measuring Country Risk - Aswath Damodaran
- Minimizing Credit Risk - Frank J. Fabozzi
- Optimizing the Capital Structure: Finding the Right Balance between Debt and Equity - Meziane Lasfer
- Viewpoint: Outperformance through Ethical Lending - Dan Hird
- Passive Portfolio Management and Fixed-Income Investing - Andrew Ainsworth
- The Performance of Socially Responsible Mutual Funds - Luc Renneboog
- Price Discovery in IPOs - Jos van Bommel
- Viewpoint: Principles for Responsible Investment—Looking Beyond the Financial Metrics - James Gifford
- Public-Private Partnerships in Emerging Markets - Peter Koveos and Pierre Yourougou
- Raising Capital in Global Financial Markets - Reena Aggarwal
- Raising Capital in the United Kingdom - Lauren Mills
- Rigidity in Microfinancing: Can One Size Fit All? - Dean Karlan and Sendhil Mullainathan
- Risk Management Revisited - Duncan Hughes
- The Role of Commodities in an Institutional Portfolio - Keith Black and Satya Kumar
- The Role of Institutional Investors in Corporate Financing - Hao Jiang
- The Role of Short Sellers in the Marketplace - Raj Gupta
- Securitization: Understanding the Risks and Rewards - Tarun Sabarwal
- Sources of Venture Capital - Lawrence Brotzge
- Viewpoint: Tanzania: The Hard Road to Stability - Charles Laurie
- Understanding Equity Capital in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises - Siri Terjesen
- Viewpoint: Understanding the Risks in Liability-Driven Investment (LDI) for Pension Funds - Marcus Mollan
- Understanding the Role of Diversification - Guofu Zhou
- Understanding the True Cost of Issuing Convertible Debt and Other Equity-Linked Financing - Roger Lister
- Venture Capital Funds as an Alternative Class of Investment - Michael D. McKenzie and Bill Janeway
- WACC versus APV Valuation: Financial Policy and the Discount Rate - Antoine Hyafil
- Viewpoint: Why Mathematical Investing Beats Active Investment Managers Over the Medium Term - David Schofield
- Viewpoint: Why Quantitative Investing Can Do Well in Turbulent Markets - Janet Campagna
- Governance and Ethics
- Balancing Senior Management Compensation Arrangements with Shareholders’ Interests - Henrik Cronqvist
- Best Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility - Alison Kemper and Roger Martin
- Best Practices in Investment Governance for Pension Funds - Roger Urwin
- Business Ethics - Sue Newell
- Viewpoint: The Challenge of Bringing Realism to the Global Warming Debate - Bjørn Lomborg
- Viewpoint: Challenges to growth prove the value of sustainability for corporate Africa - Malango Mughogho
- Viewpoint: The Companies Bill, 2012, and its Impact on the Future of Corporate Social Responsibility in India - Sudhir Singh Dungarpur
- Viewpoint: The “Comply or Explain” Approach to Improving Standards of Corporate Governance - Sir Christopher Hogg
- Corporate Board Structures - Vidhan Goyal
- Corporate Foreign Policy - Timothy L. Fort
- Corporate Governance in Transitional Countries—Shareholders or Stakeholders? - Irena Jindrichovska
- Corporate Responsibility in a Global World: Marrying Investment in Human Capital with Focus on Costs - Angela Baron
- Dividend Policy: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Harold Bierman, Jr
- Viewpoint: Embedding CSR and Sustainability in Corporate Culture: The Boots Experience - Richard Ellis
- Executive Rewards: Ensuring That Financial Rewards Match Performance - Shaun Tyson
- Financial Reporting: Conveying the Message Down the Line - Leslie L. Kossoff
- Viewpoint: The Growth of Sustainability Reporting - Wim Bartels
- Identifying the Right Nonexecutive Director - Terry Carroll
- Improving Corporate Profitability Through Accountability - Marc J. Epstein and Priscilla Wisner
- Internal Auditing’s Contribution to Sustainability - Jeffrey Ridley
- Viewpoint: Leveraging Influence to Impact Climate-Change Policy - Mark Kenber
- Viewpoint: Mobilizing the Power of Pension Funds to Transform Corporate Behavior - Catherine Howarth
- Viewpoint: The Paradox of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Sincerity Nexus - Alexandra Countess of Frederiksborg and Timothy L. Fort
- Reinvesting in the Company versus Rewarding Investors with Distributions - Ruth Bender
- Role of Internal Auditing at Board Committee Level - Sridhar Ramamoorti
- Trustworthy Business Cultures - Timothy L. Fort
- Viewpoint: Working Toward Equity in Africa’s Extractive Industries - Caroline Kende-Robb
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Accounting for Business Combinations in Accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Requirements - Shân Kennedy
- Acquisition Integration: How to Do It Successfully - David Sadtler
- The Art of Acquiring in Emerging Markets - Satu Teerikangas
- Capital Structure: A Strategy that Makes Sense - John C. Groth
- Capital Structure: Implications - John C. Groth
- Viewpoint: The CFO and the Sustainable Corporation - Ravi Nedungadi
- Coping with Equity Market Reactions to M&A Transactions - Scott Moeller
- Cultural Alignment and Risk Management: Developing the Right Culture - R. Brayton Bowen
- Due Diligence Requirements in Financial Transactions - Scott Moeller
- Going Private: Public-to-Private Leveraged Buyouts - Luc Renneboog
- Grow Globally: The New Altitude of Cross-Border M&A - Mona Pearl
- How to Set the Hurdle Rate for Capital Investments - Jon Tucker
- Identifying and Minimizing the Strategic Risks from M&A - Peter Howson
- In Search of Growth: Choosing Between Organic, M&A, and Strategic Alliance Strategies - Duncan Angwin
- Leveraged Buyouts and Recession - Louise Scholes and Mike Wright
- Leveraged Buyouts: What, Why, When, and How - Scott S. Johnson
- Maximize the Selling Price of Your Business - Frederick Lipman
- Maximizing a New Strategic Alliance - Peter Killing
- Maximizing Value when Selling a Business - John Gilligan
- MBOs: A High-Octane and Life-Changing Mode of Business - Andy Nash
- Mergers and Acquisitions: Patterns, Motives, and Strategic Fit - Siri Terjesen
- Mergers and Acquisitions: Today’s Catalyst Is Working Capital - James S. Sagner
- The Missing Metrics: Managing the Cost of Complexity - John L. Mariotti
- Valuing Start-Ups - Aswath Damodaran
- Why Mergers Fail and How to Prevent It - Susan Cartwright
- Operations and Performance
- Aligning Structure with Strategy: Recalibrating for Improved Performance and Increased Profitability - R. Brayton Bowen
- An Approach to Understanding Reputation Risk in Financial Services - Philip Whittingham
- Viewpoint: The Art of Building Momentum for Innovation - Geoff Mulgan
- Viewpoint: Balancing Control with Dynamic Flexibility in Large Multinationals—The View from the Finance Function - Toby Willson
- Building Potential Catastrophe Management into a Strategic Risk Framework - Duncan Martin
- Business Continuity Management: How to Prepare for the Worst - Andrew Hiles
- The Case for Continuous Auditing of Management Information Systems - Robert E. Davis
- The CEO’s Role in Reputation Management - Leslie Gaines-Ross
- Viewpoint: Challenges in Management Skills Development - Simon Earp and Eddie Cochrane
- Viewpoint: The Changing Role of the CFO - Thibault de Tersant
- The Cost of Reputation: The Impact of Events on a Company’s Financial Performance - Daniel Diermeier
- Countering Supply Chain Risk - Vinod Lall
- Creating Value with EVA - S. David Young
- Crisis Management and Strategies for Dealing with Crisis - Jon White
- Digital Reputation Management - Shireen Smith
- Digital Strategies for Enhancing Reputation - Paul A. Argenti and Georgia Aarons
- Employee Stock Options - Peter Casson
- Engaging Your Stakeholders: How To Make Allies of Investors and Activists - Peter Firestein
- Enhance Competitive Performance via Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) - Zahirul Hoque
- Essentials for Export Success: Understanding How Risks and Relationships Lead to Rewards - Paul Beretz
- Viewpoint: Every Company Is a Media Company - Richard Sambrook
- Everything You Need to Know About Benchmarking - Robin Mann
- Viewpoint: The Evolving Role of the CFO - Aldo Mareuse
- Fraud: Minimizing the Impact on Corporate Image - Tim Johnson
- Growing and Maximizing SME Profitability Without Compromising ROI - Neil Marriott
- How Firms Should Fight Rumors - Andrew Hiles
- How to Manage Emerging Market Risks with Third Party Insurance - Rod Morris
- Human Risk: How Effective Strategic Risk Management Can Identify Rogues - Thomas McKaig
- The Human Value of the Enterprise - Andrew Mayo
- The Impact of Climate Change on Business - Graham Dawson
- Viewpoint: The Importance of Trust—In Everything - Jonathan M. Karpoff
- Viewpoint: In Data We Trust - Björn Bloching
- Viewpoint: India Today and Tomorrow - Rajiv Dogra
- International Arbitration: Basic Principles and Characteristics - Stavros Brekoulakis
- Joint Ventures: Synergies and Benefits - Siri Terjesen
- Managing Reputational Risk: Business Journalism - Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb
- Multidimensional Performance Measurement Using the Balanced Scorecard - Priscilla Wisner
- Multinationality and Financial Performance - Alan Rugman
- Political Risk: Countering the Impact on Your Business - Ian Bremmer
- Viewpoint: Poverty of Thinking in University Economics and Accountancy Departments - Richard Murphy
- Profitability Analysis Using Activity-Based Costing - Priscilla Wisner
- Protecting Your Intellectual Property—Nonregistered Rights - Jeremy Phillips
- Protecting Your Intellectual Property—Registered Rights - Jeremy Phillips
- Real Options: Opportunity from Risk - David Shimko
- Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiency by Outsourcing and Selecting Suppliers - Paul Davies
- Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiency with New Management Information Systems - Beverly Goldberg
- Reducing Costs through Production and Supply Chain Management - Vinod Lall
- Return on Talent - Subir Chowdhury
- Risk Management: Beyond Compliance - Bill Sharon
- Smart Use of Reputation Capital: How to Benefit from Different Reputation Investment Strategies - Joachim Klewes and Robert Wreschniok
- Statistical Process Control for Quality Improvement - Priscilla Wisner
- Using Decision Analysis to Value R&D Projects - Bert De Reyck
- Using Financial Analysis to Evaluate Strategy - David Sadtler
- Why EVA Is the Best Measurement Tool for Creating Shareholder Value - Erik Stern
- Viewpoint: Why Management Development Is a Challenge for Both Business Schools and Client Organizations - Andrew Kakabadse
- CHECKLISTS
- Balance Sheets and Cash Flow
- Assessing Cash Flow and Bank Lending Requirements
- Building a Forex Plan
- Developing a Contingency Funding Plan
- Estimating Enterprise Value with the Weighted Average Cost of Capital
- The Foreign Exchange Market: Its Structure and Function
- Hedging Credit Risk—Case Study and Strategies
- Hedging Foreign Exchange Risk—Case Studies and Strategies
- Hedging Interest Rate Risk—Case Study and Strategies
- Hedging Liquidity Risk—Case Study and Strategies
- How to Manage Your Credit Rating
- Identifying and Managing Exposure to Interest and Exchange Rate Risks
- Insuring Against Financial Loss
- Invoicing and Credit Control for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
- Key Components of an Optimal Enterprise Resource Planning System
- Managing Risk in Islamic Finance
- Managing the Time Value of Money
- Managing Working Capital
- Managing Your Credit Risk
- Measuring Financial Health
- Measuring Liquidity
- Methods for Dealing with Inflation Risk
- Preparing a Budget
- Preparing a Cash Flow Forecast
- Setting Up a Dividend Policy
- Swaps, Options, and Futures: What They Are and Their Function
- Understanding Activity-Based Costing
- Understanding and Calculating the Total Cost of Risk
- Understanding and Using Carry Trades
- Understanding and Using Currency Swaps
- Understanding and Using Inflation Swaps
- Understanding and Using Interest Rate Swaps
- Understanding and Using the Cash Conversion Cycle
- Understanding Asset-Liability Management (Full Balance Sheet Approach)
- Understanding Capital Structure Theory: Modigliani and Miller
- Understanding Key Financial Terms and Statements
- Understanding the Balance Sheet
- Understanding the Cost of Capital and the Hurdle Rate
- Understanding the Relationship between the Discount Rate and Risk
- Understanding the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
- Understanding Yield/Revenue Management
- Financial Markets
- Banks “Planning for Failure”—Living Wills as Resolution and Recovery Plans
- Calculating Your Total Economic Capital
- Catastrophe Bonds: What They Are and How They Function
- Derivatives Markets: Their Structure and Function
- The Interbank Market: Its Structure and Function
- Islamic Equity Funds
- Key Islamic Banking Instruments and How They Work
- Key Principles of Islamic Finance
- Merchant Banks: Their Structure and Function
- Possibilities for Shariah-Compliant Derivatives
- Retail Banks: Their Structure and Function
- The Role of the Shariah Advisory Board in Islamic Finance
- Stress Testing to Evaluate Insurance Cover
- Sukuk: Islamic Bonds
- Takaful Insurance
- Understanding and Calculating Probable Maximum Loss (PML)
- Understanding Financial Scenario Analysis for Banking and Insurance Institutions
- Understanding the Components of an Insurance Contract
- Financial Regulation and Compliance
- Adopting an Internal Audit Capability Model
- Auditing Information Technology and Information Systems
- Avoiding Conflict of Interest in Internal Audits
- The Chief Audit Executive’s (CAE) Roles and Responsibilities
- Choosing an External Auditor
- Cosourcing Internal Audits
- Establishing a Framework for Assessing Risk
- The EU Regulatory Regime
- The IIA Code of Ethics
- Independence of the Internal Audit Function
- Insolvency/Bankruptcy Regulations in Major Regions
- Internal Audit Charters
- Internal Auditing for Financial Firms
- Internal Auditing for Fraud Detection and Prevention
- Internal Auditing for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
- Internal Auditing for the Public Sector
- International and Multinational Internal Auditing
- International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): The Basics
- Key Accounting Standards and Organizations
- Key Competencies for Internal Auditors
- The Key Components of an Audit Report
- Middle East: Regulatory Structure and Powers
- MiFID—Its Development and Aims
- Preparing and Executing an Internal Audit Review
- Preparing Financial Statements: Balance Sheets
- Preparing Financial Statements: Profit and Loss Accounts (P&Ls)
- Principles of Financial Services Regulation
- Quality Assessment of Internal Audits
- Regulatory and Capital Issues under Shariah Law
- The Role of the Audit Committee
- Sarbanes-Oxley: Its Development and Aims
- Solvency II: Its Development and Aims
- Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis for Keeping Up with Regulation
- The Ten Accounting Principles
- Understanding Impairment Accounting: What It Is and When It Is Used
- Understanding Internal Audits
- Understanding the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP)
- Understanding the Key Components of GAAP: The Continuing Concern Concept
- What Is Forensic Auditing?
- XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) and Internal Auditing
- Funding and Investment
- Analysis Using Monte Carlo Simulation
- Applying the Gordon Growth Model
- The Bond Market: Its Structure and Function
- Calculating a Company’s Net Worth
- Calculating Total Shareholder Return
- Dealing with Venture Capital Companies
- The Efficient Market Hypothesis
- Financial Intermediaries: Their Role and Relation to Financial Markets
- Franchising a Business
- Fund of Hedge Funds: Understanding the Risks and Returns
- Hedge Funds: Understanding the Risks and Returns
- How to Use Credit Rating Agencies
- How to Use Receivables as Collateral
- Islamic Microfinance
- Mean-Variance Optimization: A Primer
- Measuring Gearing
- Money Markets: Their Structure and Function
- Murabahah Sale Instruments and Their Applications
- Obtaining an Equity Value Using the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
- Options for Raising Finance
- An Overview of Loan Agreements
- An Overview of Shariah-Compliant Funds
- An Overview of Stockholders’ Agreements
- An Overview of Tax Deeds
- Raising Capital by Issuing Bonds
- Raising Capital by Issuing Shares
- Raising Capital through Private and Public Equity
- Sovereign Wealth Funds—Investment Strategies and Objectives
- Steps for Obtaining Bank Financing
- Stock Markets: Their Structure and Function
- Structured Investment Vehicles
- Trading in Commodities: Why and How
- Trading in Corporate Bonds: Why and How
- Trading in Equities on Stock Exchanges
- Trading in Government Bonds: Why and How
- Understanding and Using Leverage Ratios
- Understanding and Using the Repos Market
- Understanding Capital Markets, Structure and Function
- Understanding Debt Cover
- Understanding Fixed-Charge Coverage
- Understanding Portfolio Analysis
- Understanding Price Volatility
- Using Dividend Discount Models
- Using Mezzanine Financing
- Using Multistage Dividend Discount Models
- Using Shareholder Value Analysis
- Governance and Ethics
- The Board’s Role in Executive Compensation
- Business Ethics in Islamic Finance
- Conflicting Interests: The Agency Issue
- Corporate Governance and Its Interpretations
- Corporate Governance Practices in Private Equity-Owned Firms
- Creating a Sustainable Development Policy
- Creating Executive Compensation
- Defining Corporate Governance: Its Aims, Goals, and Responsibilities
- Directors’ and Officers’ (D&O) Liability Insurance
- Directors’ Duties: A Primer
- Governance Practices in Family-Owned Firms
- Internal Control Frameworks: COSO, CoCo, and the UK Corporate Governance Code
- Investors and the Capital Structure
- Regulatory Responsibilities of Executive and Nonexecutive Directors: An International Overview
- The Responsibilities of Trustees
- Selecting the Board and Evaluation Process
- Social Return on Investment
- The Triple Bottom Line
- Understanding Economic Efficiency Theory
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Achieving Success in International Acquisitions
- Acquiring a Company
- Acquisition Accounting
- M&A Regulations: A Global Overview
- Management Buyouts
- Planning the Acquisition Process
- Planning the Disposal Process
- The Rationale for an Acquisition
- Structuring M&A Deals and Tax Planning
- Understanding Anti-Takeover Strategies
- Using IRR for M&A Financing
- Using the Comparable Net Worth Method in Squeeze Outs
- Using the Market-Value Method for Acquisitions
- Operations and Performance
- Applying Cost-Benefit Analysis to Project Appraisal
- Applying Stress-Testing to Business Continuity Management
- Applying Stress-Testing to Operational Risk Exposure
- Appraising Investment Opportunities
- Assessing Business Performance
- Assessing Economies of Scale in Business
- Assessing the Value of Outsourcing and Offshoring
- Basic Steps for Starting a Business
- Building an Efficient Credit and Collection Accounts System
- Building an Electronic Invoicing System
- Business Process Reengineering
- Choosing the Right Payment Policy
- Commercial Aspects of Licensing
- Competition Law: Key Financial Issues
- Corporate Insurance Cover: A Primer
- Costing a New Project
- Creating a Risk Register
- Distribution Agreements
- Efficient Invoicing Procedures
- How to Optimize Stock Control
- Identifying Your Continuity Needs
- Insuring Against Business Interruption
- Intellectual Property—Copyright
- Intellectual Property—Patents—An International Overview
- Intellectual Property—Registered Designs and Trademarks
- Inventory—How to Control It Effectively
- Islamic Commercial Law
- Islamic Law of Contracts
- Managing Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Nonperformance and Breach of Contract
- Performing Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
- Practical Purchasing Procedures
- Practical Techniques for Commercial Mediation
- The Principles of Litigation
- Setting Up a Key Risk Indicator (KRI) System
- Structuring and Negotiating Joint Ventures
- Structuring, Negotiating, and Drafting Agency Agreements
- Understanding Continuity Insurance
- Understanding Crisis Management
- Understanding Decision-Tree Analysis
- Understanding Key Performance Indicators
- Understanding Real Options
- Understanding Strategy Maps
- Understanding the Financial Aspects of Employing People
- What Is Benchmarking?
- CALCULATIONS AND RATIOS
- Accounts Payable Turnover Ratio
- Accounts Receivable Turnover
- Accrual Rate
- Acid-Test Ratio
- Activity-Based Costing
- Alpha and Beta Values of a Security
- Amortization
- Annual Percentage Rate
- Asset Turnover
- Asset Utilization
- Basis Point Value
- Binomial Distribution
- Bond Yield
- Book Value
- Borrowing Costs and Capitalization
- Break-Even Analysis
- Capital Asset Pricing Model
- Capital Expenditure
- Capitalization Ratios
- Central Limit Theorem
- Contribution Margin
- Conversion Price
- Conversion Ratio
- Convertible Preferred Stock
- Cost of Goods Sold
- Covariance
- Creating a Balance Sheet
- Creating a Cash Flow Statement
- Creating a Profit and Loss (P&L) Account
- Creditor and Debtor Days
- Current Price of a Bond
- Current Ratio
- Days Sales Outstanding
- Debt/Capital Ratio
- Debt/Equity Ratio
- Defining Assets
- Depreciation
- Discounted Cash Flow
- Distinguishing between a Capital and an Operating Lease
- Dividend Yield
- Earnings at Risk
- Earnings per Share
- EBITDA
- Economic Value Added
- Efficiency and Operating Ratios
- Elasticity
- Enterprise Value
- Exchange Rate Risk
- Expected Rate of Return
- Fair Value Calculations
- Fixed-Deposit Compound Interest
- Forward Interest Rates
- Future Value
- Future Value of an Annuity
- Goodwill and Patents
- Gross Profit Margin Ratio
- Interest Coverage
- Internal Rate of Return
- Liquidity Ratio Analysis
- Management Accounts
- Marginal Cost
- Marginal Rate of Substitution
- Market/Book Ratio
- Net Added Value (NAV) and Adjusted NAV
- Net Present Value
- Nominal and Real Interest Rates
- Option Pricing
- Payback Period
- Payout Ratio
- Portfolio Analysis: Duration, Convexity, and Immunization
- Price/Earnings Ratio
- Price Elasticity
- Price/Sales Ratio
- Quantitative Methods
- Rate of Return
- Reading an Annual Report
- Reserve Ratio
- Residual Value
- Return on Assets
- Return on Investment
- Return on Sales
- Return on Stockholders’ Equity
- Risk-Adjusted Rate of Return
- Scenario Analysis
- Sharpe Ratio
- Statistical Process Control Methods
- Stochastic Modeling
- Stress Testing
- Swap Valuation
- Term Structure of Interest Rates
- Tick Value
- Time Value of Money
- Total Return
- Treynor Ratio
- Value at Risk
- Weighted Average Cost of Capital
- Working Capital
- Working Capital Cycle
- Working Capital Productivity
- Yield
- Z-Score
- FINANCE THINKERS AND LEADERS
- Prince Al-Walid bin Talal
- Louis Bachelier
- Gary Becker
- Peter L. Bernstein
- Fischer Black
- Warren Buffett
- Andrew Carnegie
- Ronald Harry Coase
- John C. Cox
- Herman Daly
- Joseph de la Vega
- W. Edwards Deming
- Marc Faber
- Eugene Fama
- Irving Fisher
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
- Benjamin Graham
- Alan Greenspan
- Friedrich Hayek
- Daniel Kahneman
- John Maynard Keynes
- Edwin Lefe`vre
- Burton Malkiel
- Harry Markowitz
- Robert Merton
- Merton Miller
- Hyman Philip Minsky
- Franco Modigliani
- J. P. Morgan
- Paul H. O’Neill
- Michael Eugene Porter
- David Ricardo
- John D. Rockefeller
- Stephen A. Ross
- Nouriel Roubini
- Paul Samuelson
- Jean-Baptiste Say
- Myron Scholes
- Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
- Joseph Schumpeter
- William F. Sharpe
- Jeremy Siegel
- Adam Smith
- George Soros
- Joseph Stiglitz
- Richard Thaler
- James Tobin
- Amos Tversky
- Arnold, Lord Weinstock
- Jack Welch
- Muhammad Yunus
- Robert Zoellick
- FINANCE LIBRARY
- Absolute Returns: The Risk and Opportunities of Hedge Fund Investing - Alexander M. Ineichen (2003)
- Advances in Behavioral Finance - Richard H. Thaler (ed) (1993)
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk - Peter L. Bernstein (1996)
- The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World - Alan Greenspan (2007)
- The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market - George Soros (1987)
- Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism - George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller (2009)
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - Niall Ferguson (2009)
- Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action - Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (1996)
- Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank - Muhammad Yunus and Alan Jolis (1998)
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007)
- Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell (2005)
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant - W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne (2005)
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It - Paul Collier (2007)
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Marc Levinson (2006)
- Cashflow Reengineering: How to Optimize the Cashflow Timeline and Improve Financial Efficiency - James Sagner (1997)
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors - Michael E. Porter (1980)
- Confusión de Confusiones - Joseph de la Vega (1688)
- Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression - Robert R. Prechter, Jr (2nd ed 2009, originally 2003)
- Corporate Financial Management - Glen Arnold (5th ed 2012, originally 1998)
- Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value in the Multibusiness Company - Michael Goold, Andrew Campbell, and Marcus Alexander (1994)
- Corporate Strategy: An Analytic Approach to Business Policy for Growth and Expansion - H. Igor Ansoff (1965)
- Cost and Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance - Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper (1997)
- Damodaran on Valuation: Security Analysis for Investment and Corporate Finance - Aswath Damodaran (2nd ed 2006, originally 1994)
- A Demon of Our Own Design - Richard Bookstaber (2007)
- The Essence of Financial Management - David R. Myddelton (1995)
- The EVA Challenge: Implementing Value-Added Change in an Organization - Joel M. Stern and John S. Shiely (2001)
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon - Brad Stone (2013)
- Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy - Raghuram G. Rajan (2010)
- FIASCO: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader - Frank Partnoy (1997)
- Finance - Zvi Bodie and Robert C. Merton (2000)
- Financial Accounting and Reporting - Barry Elliott and Jamie Elliott (16th ed 2013, originally 1993)
- Financial Management - Jae K. Shim and Joel G. Siegel (3rd ed 2009, originally 1986)
- Financial Management for the Small Business - Colin Barrow (6th ed 2006, originally 1984)
- The Financial Times Handbook of Financial Management - Steve Robinson (1995)
- Financial Strategy - Janette Rutterford, Martin Upton, and Devendra Kodwani (eds) (2006)
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2nd ed 2005, originally 2001)
- Foundations of Multinational Financial Management - Alan C. Shapiro and Atulya Sarin (6th ed 2008, originally 1991)
- Frank Wood’s Business Accounting, Volumes 1 and 2 - Frank Wood and Alan Sangster (12th ed 2011, originally 1967)
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (2005)
- Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy - Joseph Stiglitz (2010)
- Futures, Options, and Swaps - Robert W. Kolb and James A. Overdahl (5th ed 2007, originally 1994)
- The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective - Dwight B. Crane, Kenneth A. Froot, Scott P. Mason, André F. Perold, Robert C. Merton, Zvi Bodie, Erik R. Sirri, and PETER TUFANO (1995)
- Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph Stiglitz (2002)
- Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality, and an Uncertain World - Stephen Green (2009)
- Governance and Risk: An Analytical Handbook for Investors, Managers, Directors, and Stakeholders - George Dallas (ed) (2004)
- The Great Crash, 1929 - John Kenneth Galbraith (1955)
- The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives - Michael Heller (2008)
- How the Stock Market Works: A Beginner’s Guide to Investment - Michael Becket (4th ed 2012, originally 2002)
- Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance - Andrei Shleifer (2000)
- Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron’s Collapse - Malcolm S. Salter (2008)
- Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations - Thomas A. Stewart (1997)
- The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham (1949)
- International Financial Management - Cheol S. Eun and Bruce G. Resnick (6th ed 2011, originally 1998)
- Introduction to Accounting - Pru Marriott, J. R. Edwards, and H. J. Mellett (3rd ed 2002, originally 1989)
- An Introduction to Islamic Finance Theory and Practice - Zamir Iqbal and Abbas Mirakhor (2007)
- Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It - Nicholas Dunbar (2000)
- Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions - Joshua Rosenbaum and Joshua Pearl (2009)
- Investments - Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, and Alan J. Marcus (9th ed 2010, originally 1989)
- IOU: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay (also published as Whoops) - John Lanchester (2010)
- Irrational Exuberance - Robert J. Shiller (2nd ed 2005, originally 2000)
- Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street - Michael Lewis (1989)
- Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World - Liaquat Ahamed (2009)
- Macroeconomics - N. Gregory Mankiw (8th ed 2012, originally 1992)
- Management Accounts: How to Use Them to Control Your Business - Tony Skone (1995)
- Managing Financial Resources - Mick Broadbent and John Cullen (3rd ed 2003, originally 1993)
- Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders - Jack D. Schwager (1989)
- Mastering Financial Management: Demystify Finance and Transform Your Financial Skills of Management - Stephen Brookson (1998)
- Mastering Risk, Volume 1: Concepts - James Pickford (ed) (2000)
- Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start Up to IPO on Your Terms - Jeffrey Bussgang (2010)
- The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing - Lisa Gansky (2010)
- The (Mis)behavior of Markets - Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson (2004)
- The Money Game - Adam Smith (1976)
- Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle - John Rolfe and Peter Troob (2000)
- More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite - Sebastian Mallaby (2010)
- Multinational Business Finance - David K. Eiteman, Arthur I. Stonehill, and Michael H. Moffett (13th ed 2012, originally 1973)
- My Life as a Quant - Emanuel Derman (2004)
- A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street - Andrew W. Lo and A. Craig MacKinlay (1999)
- One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market - Peter Lynch (1989)
- Option Volatility and Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques - Sheldon Natenberg (1994)
- Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives - John C. Hull (8th ed 2011, originally 1989)
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty - Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2011)
- The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting - Theodore Grossman and John Leslie Livingstone (eds) (4th ed 2009, originally 1992)
- Portfolio Selection: Efficient Diversification of Investments - Harry M. Markowitz (2nd ed 1991, originally 1959)
- Portfolio Theory and Capital Markets - William Sharpe (1970)
- Principles of Corporate Finance - Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers, and Franklin Allen (11th ed 2013, originally 1983)
- Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power - Steve Coll (2012)
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing - Burton G. Malkiel (10th ed 2012, originally 1973)
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - Edwin Lefe`vre (1923)
- The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning - Henry Mintzberg (1994)
- The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance - Peter S. Pande, Robert Neuman, and Roland R. Cavanagh (2000)
- The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind (2003)
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life - Alice Schroeder (2008)
- Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-Term Investment Strategies - Jeremy J. Siegel (5th ed 2013, originally 1994)
- Take On the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don’t Want You to Know - Arthur Levitt (2002)
- Taxes and Business Strategy: A Planning Approach - Myron S. Scholes, Mark A. Wolfson, Merle M. Erickson, Edward L. Maydew, and Terrence J. Shevlin (4th ed 2008, originally 1992)
- Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications - John J. Murphy (1999)
- Test Your Financial Awareness - John Hodgson (2000)
- The Theory of Finance - Eugene F. Fama and Merton H. Miller (1972)
- The Theory of Social and Economic Organization - Max Weber (1924)
- This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly - Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff (2009)
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
- Traders, Guns, and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives - Satyajit Das (2006)
- The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford (2006)
- Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies - Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, and David Wessels (5th ed 2010, originally 1990)
- Value at Risk - Philippe Jorion (3rd ed 2006, originally 1997)
- Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment - James Montier (2009)
- The Warren Buffett Way - Robert G. Hagstrom (2nd ed 2004, originally 1994)
- The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith (1776)
- What Went Wrong at Enron: Everyone’s Guide to the Largest Bankruptcy in US History - Peter C. Fusaro and Ross M. Miller (2002)
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management - Roger Lowenstein (2001)
- When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change - Mohamed A. El-Erian (2008)
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything - Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams (2006)
- Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution - Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu (2010)
- COUNTRY AND SECTOR PROFILES
- Country Profiles
- Algeria
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- The Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel and the Palestinian Territories
- Italy
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Monaco
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Nauru
- The Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Peru
- The Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Republic of Korea
- Romania
- Russia
- St Kitts and Nevis
- Saudi Arabia
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- SECTOR PROFILE
- Automobiles
- Aviation
- Banking and Financial Services
- Chemicals
- Construction and Building Materials
- Defense
- E-Commerce
- Electronics
- Energy
- Engineering
- Food and Agribusiness
- Health Care and Pharmaceuticals
- Information Technology
- Insurance
- Media
- Mining
- Oil and Gas
- Professional Services
- Real Estate
- Retail
- Shipping
- Steel
- Telecoms
- Tourism
- Transport and Logistics
- Water
- FINANCE INFORMATION SOURCES
- Accounting
- Acquisitions, Takeovers, and Mergers
- Analytical Techniques and Statistics
- Asset and Liability Management
- Auditing and Management Audit
- Bankruptcy and Business Failure
- Behavioral Finance
- Benchmarking
- Bonds/Fixed Income
- Budgeting
- Business Appraisal and Performance Measurement
- Business Ethics and Codes of Practice
- Business Plans and Planning
- Business Process Reengineering
- Capital Markets and Stock Markets
- Central Banking
- Contingency, Crisis, Disaster Management
- Corporate Insurance
- Corporate Strategy
- Corporate Valuation
- Credit and Debt Management
- Currency and Foreign Exchange
- Derivatives and Quantitative Finance
- Econometrics
- Emerging Market Finance
- Energy and Commodity Finance
- Financial Economics
- Financial Modeling
- Forecasting and Scenario Planning
- Hedge Funds, Fund Management, and Alternative Investments
- Intellectual Property
- International Finance
- Investment
- Islamic Finance
- Knowledge Management
- Leadership
- Management Buyouts
- Mathematical Finance
- Money Laundering
- Mortgage Finance
- Operations Management
- Outsourcing
- Pension Fund Finance
- Pricing
- Private Equity
- Process Control and Statistical Process Control
- Project Finance
- Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
- Retail Banking
- Risk Management
- Selling and Salesmanship
- Small and Growing Businesses
- Social Responsibility of Management
- Structured Finance
- Technical Analysis
- Trading
- Transport Finance
- Venture Capital
- Wealth Management
- QUOTATIONS
- Ability
- Accounting
- Accuracy
- Achievement
- Action
- Adversity
- Advertising
- Ambition
- Attitude
- Banking
- Blame
- Boasting
- Boldness
- Boom and Bust
- Brands
- Budgeting
- Bureaucracy
- Business Ethics
- Capitalism
- Capitalism versus Socialism
- Careers
- Challenge
- Change
- Character
- Choice
- Civilization
- Common Sense
- Communication
- Competition
- Computers
- Confidence and Self-Belief
- Conscience
- Consultants and Advisers
- Consumption
- Contracts
- Cooperation
- Corporate Culture
- Corporate Responsibility
- Corruption and Scandal
- Creativity
- Criticism
- Customers
- Debt
- Decisions
- Delegating
- Details
- Determination
- Discrimination
- Doing Business in Africa
- Doing Business in Asia-Pacific
- Doing Business in Europe
- Doing Business in India
- Doing Business in Latin America
- Doing Business in North America
- E-Commerce
- Economics
- Education
- Efficiency
- Employees
- Employers
- Enthusiasm
- Entrepreneurs
- Environment
- Excellence
- Executives
- Expectations
- Experience
- Failure
- Fear
- Finance
- Focus
- Forecasting
- Getting Started
- Globalization
- Goals and Objectives
- Government
- Greed
- Growth
- Hiring and Firing
- Honesty
- Ideas
- Image
- Imagination
- Independence
- Industrial Relations
- Industry
- Information
- Innovation
- Intelligence
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- Judgment
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- Law and Lawyers
- Leadership
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- Listening
- Losing
- Loyalty
- Luck
- Management
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- Mistakes
- Money
- Motivation
- Negotiation
- Nepotism
- Office Politics
- Opinions
- Opportunity
- Order
- Organizations
- Originality
- People and Relationships
- Perfection
- Performance
- Persistence
- Personalities
- Philanthropy
- Planning
- Power
- Praise and Recognition
- Principles
- Priorities
- Problems and Obstacles
- Procrastination
- Productivity
- Products
- Profits
- Progress
- Publicity
- Quality
- Reputation
- Research
- Responsibility
- Risk Taking
- Science
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- Service
- Sincerity
- Socialism and Communism
- Society
- Speeches
- Statistics
- Strategy
- Stress
- Success
- Talent
- Targets
- Taxes
- Teams
- Technology
- Time Management
- Travel
- Trust
- Value
- Vision
- Wages
- Wealth
- Winners and Winning
- Women in Business
- Work and Employment
- DICTIONARY
- Credits