Corporate Governance (The Prentice Hall Series in Finance) - Softcover

Kim, Kenneth A.; Nofsinger, John R.; Mohr, Derek J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136096980 ISBN 13: 9780136096986

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2009

Synopsis

Corporate Governance, in its flexible, modular format, sheds light on these recent problems and scandals through a detailed explanation of the corporate governance mechanism, and the various incentives within today’s governance system, while offering potential solutions in context.

Corporations and Corporate Governance; Executive Incentives; Accountants and Auditors; The Board of Directors; Investment Banks and Securities Analysts; Creditors and Credit Rating Agencies; Shareholders and Shareholder Activism; Corporate Takeovers: A Governance Mechanism?; The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Moral Hazard, Systemic Risk and Bailouts; Corporate Citizenship

For readers interested in understanding corporate governance and how it applies to today’s business world.

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About the Author

Kenneth A. Kim, Ph.D., is associate professor of finance at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. Kim is coauthor of the CFA Institute’s “body of knowledge” material pertaining to corporate governance. During 1998 and 1999, he worked as a senior financial economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC, where he worked on a wide variety of corporate finance and governance issues, including mergers and acquisitions regulations. His primary research interests include corporate finance and corporate governance. His research has been highlighted in the financial press including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and BusinessWeek. He has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Banking and Finance, among other leading journals. He recently coauthored a review paper on international corporate governance for the journal Corporate Governance: An International Review. Kim is also coauthor of Infectious Greed and the textbook, Global Corporate Finance.

John R. Nofsinger, Ph.D., is associate professor of finance at Washington State University and author of Investment Madness, The Psychology of Investing, Investment Blunders, and coauthor of Infectious Greed. Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading experts in investor psychology and behavioral finance, he is frequently quoted in financial media including The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, SmartMoney, Bloomberg, and CNBC, as well as other media from the Washington Post to Wired.com. Nofsinger has published more than 20 articles in leading scholarly and professional journals. His research has won awards at the Financial Management Association, Chicago Quantitative Alliance, and PACAP conferences. He has also done advanced research for private firms, the New York Stock Exchange and the CFA Institute. He posts on a blog called “Mind on My Money” at the Psychology Today blog site.

Derek J. Mohr, J.D., is visiting assistant professor of finance at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo where he co-developed the MBA course in ethics and corporate governance. Before SUNY Buffalo, he worked for six years as a corporate attorney advising clients on forming, buying and selling businesses, as well as securities and tax issues. He conducts research and provides consulting/legal advice on corporate governance and related legal matters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0136096980
• ISBN 13: 9780136096986
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 185