Finance for Executives: Managing for Value Creation - Hardcover

Hawawini, Gabriel; Viallet, Claude

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0324274319 ISBN 13: 9780324274318

Publisher: South-Western, 2006

Synopsis

This text is a concise yet thorough, analytically sound 14-chapter introduction to financial management designed especially for the experienced executive. Where most texts prove to be either too simplistic or too advanced for most non-financial managers, this text employs the appropriate level of both practicality and rigor for the executive audience. Its practical approach makes it ideal for a course taught from a case approach or as a complement to a more technical introductory text. Self-contained chapters make it an excellent and concise reference text and useful for readers who want to learn the concepts on their own outside of the traditional classroom.

About this title

About the Author:

Gabriel Hawawini (Ph.D., New York University) is the Henry Grunfeld Chaired Professor of Investment Banking at INSEAD, where he is also a professor of finance and formerly served as dean. Professor Hawawini has taught finance at INSEAD, New York University, Columbia University, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition to teaching value-based management seminars around the world, Professor Hawawini is the author of ten books and more than seventy research papers on financial markets and corporate finance. He also sits on the boards of several companies.

Review:

"The unique aspect of this text is its acceptance that there is some validity to financial statements and [their] managerial focus. Chapters 3, 4, and 14 are unique contributions that are important for the type of course I teach which focuses on a managerial rather than theoretical approach to the topics."

"This chapter (Chapter 10, Estimating the Cost of Capital) is always a difficult area for students to understand. I think the authors have done a commendable job in not making the discussion too technical."

About this edition

• Publisher: South-Western
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0324274319
• ISBN 13: 9780324274318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 632