Global Corporate Finance: Text and Cases - Softcover

Kim, Suk H.; Kim, Seung Hee; Kim, Kenneth A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631229523 ISBN 13: 9780631229520

Publisher: Blackwell Science Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Global Corporate Finance provides students with the practical skills needed to understand global financial problems and techniques. The fifth edition of this distinguished text emphasizes shareholder value and corporate governance, global strategy, and corporate finance practice. A user-friendly text organized for students, its chapters progress from a sturdy foundation of essential basic topics to advanced material and applications. Each chapter begins with a real-world mini case that is explained further by theories and research findings presented in that chapter. Other features include: illustrations, examples, figures, and tables integrated throughout the text to clarify financial concepts and techniques; short chapter summaries that provides a handy overviews of key concepts for review; and a generous number of questions and problems that support text discussions and re-emphasize definitions, concepts, and the application of theory. Strenghthening the teaching value of this book are the extensive supplementary materials. These include: A Student Study Guide An Instructor's Manual and Test Bank Transparency Masters of Lecture Notes Author's Global Corporate Finance Website and Web Resources: www mich.com/~kimsuk/ 40 Internet ExercisesWith the addition of twenty-six new case studies, an enhanced focus on international topics, and increased coverage of emerging markets, this new edition is an indispensable text for undergraduate and graduate students.

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From the Back Cover

Global Corporate Finance: Text and Cases, Fourth Edition, introduces students and practitioners to those principles essential to an understanding of global financial problems and the policies multinational companies use to contend with them. The book is designed to serve as the main text for international finance courses in business schools or economics departments as well as for courses in international financial markets, international banking and international investments. Using actual data, the authors present a balanced view of both theory and applications. Topics include the balance of payments, international monetary system, financial derivatives (the foreign exchange market), financing both foreign trade and foreign investment, global asset management and multinational accounting. In addition, the authors highlight contemporary issues, important research findings, and new financial instruments and techniques. Users will benefit from the book's practicability, user-friendly format, readability, brevity and the highly competitive set of supplements.

Several elements of the text are new to the fourth edition, including the following: each of the first 19 chapters has a mini-case at the end, all of which are undisguised real cases; three cases focus on December 1994's Mexican peso crisis and 1997's Asian currency crisis; and a new chapter covers exchange rate forecasting.

Strengthening the value of this book are the extensive on-line supplementary materials that include a study guide, lecture notes and case websites. Visit http://www.mich.com/~kimsuk/ for details.

About the Author

Suk H. Kim, Professor of International Finance, is Program Coordinator of Finance and International Business at University of Detroit Mercy. Kim has authored or co-authored 14 finance textbooks and 60-plus refereed-journal publications. He is the editor of Multinational Business Review and serves on the editorial review boards of several academic journals.

Seung H. Kim, Professor of Finance and International Business, is Director of the Institute of International Business at the School of Business and Administration, Saint Louis University. Kim is the author of several books and journal articles. He has served as a consultant or board member for multinational companies, international banks and professional councils.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackwell Science Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0631229523
• ISBN 13: 9780631229520
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 582