The growth in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity around the world masks a high rate of failure. M&A can provide companies with many benefits, but in the optimism and excitement of the deal many of the challenges are often overlooked. This comprehensive collection, bringing together an international team of contributors, moves beyond the theory to focus on the practical elements of mergers …
The legal, financial, and business primer to the M&A process Mergers and Acquisitions offers accessible step-by-step guidance through the M&A process to provide the legal and financial background required to navigate these deals successfully. From the initial engagement letter to the final acquisition agreement, this book delves into the mechanics of the process from beginning to end, favoring …
This book provides a comprehensive look at the field's growth and development, and places M & As in realistic context amidst changing trends, legislation, and global perspectives. All-inclusive coverage merges expert discussion with extensive graphs, research, and case studies to show how M & As can be used successfully, how each form works, and how they are governed by the laws of major countr…
A practical introduction to understanding the Financial Management of companies in today’s rapidly changing business world. This book is particularly well-suited to introductory courses in financial management, for a professional qualification and as a reference for practitioners.
Gitman’s proven learning goal system—a hallmark feature of Principles of Managerial Finance—weaves pedagogy into concepts and practice, providing readers with a roadmap to guide them through the text and supplementary tools.The thirteenth edition features new coauthor Chad Zutter of the University of Pittsburgh who brings his contemporary thinking and pedagogy to the text.
For MBA/graduate students taking a course in corporate finance. An Emphasis on Core Financial Principles to Elevate Individuals' Financial Decision Making Using the unifying valuation framework based on the Law of One Price, top researchers Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo have set the new canon for corporate finance textbooks. Corporate Finance, Fourth Edition blends coverage of time-tested pri…
Part 1: Introduction to Financial Management 1. Getting Started-Principles of Finance 2. Firms and the Financial Markets 3. Understanding Financial Statements 4. Financial Analysis-Sizing Up Firm Performance Part 2: Valuation of Financial Assets 5. The Time Value of Money-The Basics 6. The Time Value of Money-Annuities and Other Topics 7. An Introduction to Risk and Return-History of Financial …
The best-selling Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (FCF) has three basic themes that are the central focus of the book: 1) An emphasis on intuition—the authors separate and explain the principles at work on a common sense, intuitive level before launching into any specifics. 2) A unified valuation approach—net present value (NPV) is treated as the basic concept underlying corporate financ…
Corporate Finance, by Ross, Westerfield, and Jaffe emphasizes the modern fundamentals of the theory of finance, while providing contemporary examples to make the theory come to life. The authors aim to present corporate finance as the working of a small number of integrated and powerful intuitions, rather than a collection of unrelated topics. They develop the central concepts of modern finance…
One of the business world's foremost though leaders presents a "social responsibility bible" for corporations. Companies on the whole are looking to support more good causes, but are ill-informed of their options - both in terms of the organizations they might choose among and also how to work philanthropy into their existing budgets.