- Cover Page
- Preface
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Section 1: Trends in Finance Theory
- Section 2: Adding Value Through Investment
- SECTION OVERVIEW
- NOTES
- Chapter 3: Why Bad Projects Are So Hard to Kill
- Chapter 4: Realizing the Potential of Real Options
- CASE STUDY 3: Real Options
- Chapter 5: Mergers, MNEs and Innovation
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. RESEARCH ON MERGER PERFORMANCE
- 3. MICRO-MERGER SNAFUS: THE UNDERESTIMATED PROBLEM OF INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES
- 4. THE CONUNDRUM: PERFORMANCE SO POOR, DEALS SO MANY
- 5. THE NEED FOR AN EXPANDED RESEARCH AGENDA TO INCLUDE DEAL-MAKERS AND THE IMPACT OF MERGERS ON INNOVATION
- 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- CASE STUDY 4: Why Most Cross-Border Deals End in Tears
- Section 3: Adding Value through Financing
- SECTION OVERVIEW
- NOTES
- Chapter 6: The Capital Structure Puzzle
- Chapter 7: Disappearing Dividends
- Chapter 8: The Value of Share Buybacks
- CASE STUDY 5: Capital Ideas
- CASE STUDY 6: Death of the Dividend?
- CASE STUDY 7: Sciona: A Venture Capital Case Study
- Chapter 9: Initial Public Offerings
- CASE STUDY 8: Google Press Cuttings
- Section 4: Adding Value through Risk Management
- SECTION OVERVIEW
- Chapter 10: Operating Exposure
- Chapter 11: Currency Exchange Trading and Rogue Trader John Rusnak
- INTRODUCTION
- CURRENCY MARKETS
- EXCHANGE CONTRACTS
- SPOT EXCHANGE
- FORWARD EXCHANGE
- CURRENCY FUTURES AND SWAP TRANSACTIONS
- OPTIONS
- CURRENCY HEDGING
- TRADING STRATEGY OF JOHN RUSNAK
- BOGUS OPTIONS
- FALSIFIED DOCUMENTS
- PRIME BROKERAGE ACCOUNTS
- VALUE AT RISK CALCULATIONS
- SALE OF OPTIONS
- LOSSES REVEALED
- THE LUDWIG REPORT
- TECHNOLOGY
- ACCOUNTING PRACTICES
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 12: Value at Risk
- Chapter 13: Learning to Live with Fixed Rate Mortgages
- Chapter 14: Credit Derivatives
- CASE STUDY 9: Journey to Junk
- CASE STUDY 10: Who Rates the Raters?
- Section 5: Measuring Performance
- SECTION OVERVIEW
- NOTES
- Chapter 15: What can be Expected from Accounting Standards?
- CASE STUDY 11: Queens Moat Houses plc
- CASE STUDY 12: Learn by Numbers
- Chapter 16: A Star to Sail By?
- Chapter 17: EVA Implementation, Market Over-Reaction and the Theory of Low-Hanging Fruit
- Chapter 18: Transforming the Balanced Scorecard from Performance Measurement to Strategic Management: Part I
- THE BALANCED SCORECARD EMERGES
- INTANGIBLE ASSETS: VALUATION VS. VALUE CREATION
- THE BALANCED SCORECARD SUPPLEMENTS CONVENTIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING
- STRATEGY MAPS
- STAKEHOLDER AND KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR SCORECARDS
- APPLYING THE BSC TO NONPROFITS AND GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
- BEYOND MEASUREMENT TO MANAGEMENT
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 19: Performance Indicators
- Section 6: Governance and Ethics
- SECTION OVERVIEW
- Chapter 20: It's Time to Rebalance the Scorecard
- THE CORRECTIVE ACTIONS TAKEN SO FAR
- SOME CAUSES OF SUCH BEHAVIORS
- WHAT GETS MEASURED GETS DONE – ENTER THE BALANCED SCORECARD
- REBALANCING THE SCORECARD
- THE REBALANCING ACT
- WHAT ARE CORPORATIONS CURRENTLY DOING TO INCLUDE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ISSUES ON THEIR SCORECARD?
- IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
- NOTES
- Chapter 21: Stakeholder Capitalism
- CASE STUDY 13: The State of Denial We're In
- Chapter 22: Controversy Incorporated
- CASE STUDY 14: An Interview with Microsoft's CFO
- CASE STUDY 15: Corporate Governance Failures: To What Extent is Parmalat a Particularly Italian Case?
- CASE STUDY 16: Companies Still Failing to Fill the Funding Gap
- Index
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