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.

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
• Knowledge
• Law and Lawyers
• Leadership
• Learning
• Listening
• Losing
• Loyalty
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• Management
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• Media
• Meetings
• Mergers and Demergers
• 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
• Selling
• 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