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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance brings together twenty-nine...
International Finance
Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
International Finance presents the corporate uses of international financial markets to upper undergraduate and graduate students of business finance and financial economics. Combining practical knowledge, up-to-date theories, and real-world applications, this textbook explores issues of valuation,...
Compliance to Commercial
The QUIET approach to Finance Business Partnering
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The Accounting profession is in the middle of a significant change. No longer are accountants considered “number crunchers” who deliver compliance services as their key functional role. Gone are the days of tax returns and statutory accounts, as these key functions become commodotised and are...
Project Finance in Theory and Practice
Designing, Structuring, and Financing Private and Public Projects
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
This book presents comprehensive coverage of project finance in Europe and North America. The Second Edition features two new case studies, all new pedagogical supplements including end-of-chapter questions and answers, and insights into the recent market downturn. The author provides a complete...
Reach the Top in Finance
The Ambitious Accountant's Guide to Career Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Every year thousands of ambitious individuals embark on a career in finance, attracted by its potential to offer meaningful work, good remuneration and professional advancement. Yet finance is also a highly competitive profession, so it is tough to reach the top.
Those who make it to the most...
The Pillars of Finance
The Misalignment of Finance Theory and Investment Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Written by bestselling finance author Guy Fraser-Sampson, this is a provocative account of the severe limitations of modern finance, advocating a bold new way forward for the finance industry. The Pillars of Finance is a lively and provocative read, challenging some of the core beliefs of modern finance.
Heaven's Bankers
Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A trillion dollar financial industry is revolutionizing the global economy. Governments and corporations across the Islamic world are increasingly turning to finance that complies with Shari‘a law in order to fund economic growth. Even in the West, Islamic finance is rapidly becoming an important...
by Brian Kettell
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Case Studies in Islamic Banking and Finance is a pioneering resource that provides practical insights into the real world of Islamic financial transactions, and illustrates the complexities of this rapidly growing mode of modern finance.
Based around 12 individual cases, the book stimulates...
Contracts and Deals in Islamic Finance
A User's Guide to Cash Flows, Balance Sheets, and Capital Structures
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
A very accessible and concise guide to Islamic finance
Contracts and Deals in Islamic Finance provides a clear breakdown of Islamic financial contracts and deal structures for beginners. The embedded requirements within selected Islamic financial contracts, such as risk weightage, capital structures,...
Policy and Choice
Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Traditional public finance provides a powerful framework for policy analysis, but it relies on a model of human behavior that the new science of behavioral economics increasingly calls into question. In Policy and Choice economists William Congdon, Jeffrey Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan argue that...
by Daniela Federici, Giancarlo Gandolfo
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This rigorous textbook tames technicalities and makes even the most complex models accessible to students. Its unique two-tier structure makes the book attractive for undergraduates, graduates and researchers alike. In fact, the coverage is primarily directed to undergraduate students and is mainly...
CAPM vs Behavioral Finance
Risk and return: Does behavioral finance provide better explanations than the CAPM?
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 7/10, Maastricht University, language: English, abstract: 'The chance to win is overestimated by all people. The chance to lose is underestimated by most people.' was already formulated by the moral philosopher and famous...
by Terence C.M. Tse
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level. It aims to take the fear out of corporate finance and add the fun in, presenting the subject in a way that is simple to grasp and easy to digest. Its aim is to explain – and demystify –...
by E. R. Yescombe
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
The Second Edition of this best-selling introduction for practitioners uses new material and updates to describe the changing environment for project finance. Integrating recent developments in credit markets with revised insights into making project finance deals, the second edition offers a balanced...