Financial Times Handbook of Corporate Finance: A Business Companion to Financial Markets, Decisions & Techniques - Softcover

Arnold, Glen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273726560 ISBN 13: 9780273726562

Publisher: FT Publishing International, 2010

Synopsis

A crystal-clear introduction and real world problem solving guide to the fundamental financial issues that touch every aspect of corporate business.• This new edition is fully updated, including a major new section on taxation, updated sections on derivatives, further additions on corporate governance and corporate responsibility and an updated further reading and glossary section with web links.• Specifically designed for practitioners and managers.• First edition (9780273688518) published in 2004 is still a strong seller, selling over 800 copies in 2008 (TCM Nielsen Bookscan).•Benchmark: The Financial Times Guide to Investing 4,550 copies sold in 2008 (TCM Nielsen Bookscan 2008 full year).

About this title

About the Author

Glen Arnold is a businessman, investor and a professor of finance at Salford University. He’s the author of Corporate Financial Management, now  in its fourth edition, Essentials of Corporate Financial Management, The Financial Times Guide to Value Investing, now in its second edition, and the market leading, The Financial Times Guide to Investing also in its second edition.

From the Back Cover

The Financial Times Handbook of Corporate Finance is the authoritative introduction to the principles and practices of corporate finance and the financial markets. Whether you are an experienced manager or finance officer, or you’re new to financial decision making, this handbook identifies all those things that you really need to know:

 

·        An explanation of value-based management

·        Mergers and the problem of merger failures

·        Investment appraisal techniques

·        How to enhance shareholder value

·        How the finance and money markets really work

·        Controlling foreign exchange rate losses

·        How to value a company

 

The second edition of this bestselling companion to finance has been thoroughly updated to ensure that your decisions continue to be informed by sound business principles. New sections include corporate governance, the impact of taxation on investment strategies, using excess return as a new value metric, up-to-date statistics which reflect the latest returns on shares, bonds and merger activities and a jargon-busting glossary to help you understand words, phrases and concepts.

Edition details

• Publisher: FT Publishing International
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273726560
• ISBN 13: 9780273726562
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 812