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Groth -- The cost of going public: why IPOs are typically underpriced / Lena Booth -- Credit ratings / David Wyss -- Equity issues by listed companies: rights issues and other methods / Seth Armitage -- Financial steps in an IPO for a small or medium-size enterprise / Hung-Gay Fung -- How and when to use nonrecourse financing / Thomas McKaig -- IPOs in emerging markets / Janusz Brzeszczynski -- Islamic modes of finance and the role of Sukuk / Abdel-Rahman Yousri -- Issuing corporate debt / Steven Lowe -- Managing activist investors and fund managers / Leslie L. Kossoff -- Optimizing the capital structure: finding the right balance between debt and equity / Meziane Lasfer -- Private investments in public equity / William K. 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Doney -- Effective financial reporting and auditing: importance and limitations / Andrew Higson -- Engaging senior management in internal control / Philip Ratcliffe -- Enterprise risk management and solvency II / Andrew Davies -- Viewpoint: Viral Acharya, Julian Franks -- Fair value accounting: SFAS 157 and IAS 39 / Kevin Ow Yong -- Has financial reporting impacted on internal auditing negatively? / Andrew Chambers -- How internal auditing can help with a companys fraud issues / N. Gail Harden -- How much independence for supervisors in financial market regulations? / Marc Quintyn -- How to effectively implement a standard chart of accounts / Aziz Tayyebi -- Identifying the main regulatory challenges for Islamic finance / Bilal Rasul -- Implementing an effective internal controls system / Andrew Chambers -- Incorporating operational and performance auditing into compliance and financial auditing / Andrew Cox -- Internal audit and partnering with senior management / Bruce Turner -- Internal audit planning: how can we do it better? / Michael Parkinson -- Viewpoint: Ernst Ligteringen -- The internal audit role: is there an expectation gap in your organization? / Jeffrey Ridley -- Internal auditors and enterprise risk management / Ian Fraser -- The LIFO conundrum: convergence of US GAAP with IFRS and its implications on US company competitiveness / William W. White -- Managing the relationships between audit committees and the CAE / Richard E. 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Hutter.;Calculations and ratios -- Accounts payable turnover ratio -- Accounts receivable turnover -- Accrual rate -- Acid-test ratio -- Activity-based costing -- Alpha and beta values of a security -- Amortization -- Annual percentage rate -- Asset turnover -- Asset utilization -- Basis point value -- Binomial distribution -- Bond yield -- Book value -- Borrowing costs and capitalization -- Break-even analysis -- Capital asset pricing model -- Capital expenditure -- Capitalization ratios -- Central limit theorem -- Contribution margin -- Conversion price -- Conversion ratio -- Convertible preferred stock -- Cost of goods sold -- Covariance -- Creating a balance sheet -- Creating a cash flow statement -- Creating a profit and loss (P & L) account -- Creditor and debtor days -- Current price of a bond -- Current ratio -- Days sales outstanding -- Debt/capital ratio -- Debt/equity ratio -- Defining assets -- Depreciation -- Discounted cash flow -- Distinguishing between a capital and an operating lease -- Dividend yield -- Earnings at risk -- Earnings per share -- EBITDA -- Economic value added -- Efficiency and operating ratios -- Elasticity -- Enterprise value -- Exchange rate risk -- Expected rate of return -- Fair value calculations -- Fixed-deposit compound interest -- Forward interest rates -- Future value -- Future value of an annuity -- Goodwill and patents -- Gross profit margin ratio -- Interest coverage -- Internal rate of return -- Liquidity ratio analysis -- Management accounts -- Marginal cost -- Marginal rate of substitution -- Market/book ratio -- Net added value (NAV) and adjusted NAV -- Net present value -- Nominal and real interest rates -- Option pricing -- Payback period -- Payout ratio -- Portfolio analysis: duration, convexity, and immunization -- Price/earnings ratio -- Price elasticity -- Price/sales ratio -- Quantitative methods -- Rate of return -- Reading an annual report -- Reserve ratio -- Residual value -- Return on assets -- Return on investment -- Return on sales -- Return on stockholders equity -- Risk-adjusted rate of return -- Scenario analysis -- Sharpe ratio -- Statistical process control methods -- Stochastic modeling -- Stress testing -- Swap valuation -- Term structure of interest rates -- Tick value -- Time value of money -- Total return -- Treynor ratio -- Value at risk -- Weight average cost of capital -- Working capital -- Working capital cycle -- Working capital productivity -- Yield -- Z-score -- Finance thinkers and leaders -- Prince Al-Walid bin Talal -- Igor Ansoff -- Louis Bachelier -- Gary Becker -- Peter L. 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Epstein -- Reinvesting in the company versus rewarding investors with distributions / Ruth Bender -- Insurance and financial markets including macroeconomics -- Viewpoint: Amjid Ali -- Banks and small and medium-sized enterprises: recent business developments / Sergio Schmukler, Augusto de la Torre, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria -- Viewpoint: Jacques Attali -- Viewpoint: Jagdish Bhagwati -- Climate change and insurance / Stephen Haddrill -- Viewpoint: Roger Bootle -- The crash and the banking sector: laying the foundations / Angela Knight -- Viewpoint: Todd Buchholz -- Viewpoint: Bill Hembrecht -- Credit derivatives: the origins of the problem / Eric Dinallo -- Viewpoint: Fred Hu -- ERM, Bests ratings, and the financial crisis / Gene C. Lai -- Viewpoint: Justin Yifu Lin -- Viewpoint: Augusto Lopez-Claros -- The globalization of inflation / Diana Choyleva -- Viewpoint: Maureen J. Miskovic -- How the settlement infrastructure is surviving the financial meltdown / Yves Poullet -- Viewpoint: Jon Moulton -- Viewpoint: Michael J. Panzner -- Insurance: bruised, not crushed / Robert P. Hartwig -- Viewpoint: Brian Reading -- The insurance sector: plenty of silver lining to be found / Andrew Milligan -- Viewpoint: Ricardo Rebonato -- Viewpoint: Jim Rogers -- Islamic capital markets: the role of Sukuk / Rodney Wilson -- Viewpoint: Leigh Skene -- Islamic insurance markets and the structure of Takaful / Suzanne White -- Viewpoint: Bernhard Speyer, Norbert Walter -- Viewpoint: Achim Steiner, Pavan Sukdhev -- Longevity, reserves, and annuities: a difficult circle to square / Paul Belok -- Viewpoint: Jean-Claude Trichet -- Middle East and North Africa region: financial sector and integration / Samy Ben Naceur, Chiraz Labidi -- Viewpoint: Richard A. Werner -- The payment services directive: a crucial step toward payment harmonization across the EU / Bjorn Flismark -- Viewpoint: Paul Wilmott -- The perfect storm: why did no one see it coming? The missing piece in risk management / Nigel Walder -- Viewpoint: Linda Yueh -- Why printing money sometimes works for central banks / Paul Kasriel -- Viewpoint: Muhammad Yunus.;Making and managing investments -- The ability of ratings to predict the performance exchange-traded funds / Gerasimos G. 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Black, Satya Kumar -- The role of short sellers in the marketplace / Raj Gupta -- Understanding the role of diversification / Guofu Zhou -- Valuation and project selection when the market and face value of dividends differ / Graham Partington -- When form follows function: how core-satellite investing has sparked an era of convergence / Christopher Holt -- Mergers and acquisitions -- Acquisition integration: how to do it successfully / David R. Sadtler -- Coping with equity market reactions to M & A transactions / Scott Moeller -- Cultural alignment and risk management: developing the right culture / R. Brayton Bowen -- Due diligence requirements in financial transactions / Scott Moeller -- Identifying and minimizing the strategic risks from M & A / Peter Howson -- Leveraged buyouts and recession / Louise Scholes, Mike Wright -- Leveraged buyouts: what, why, when, and how / Scott S. Johnson -- Maximizing value when selling a business / John Gilligan -- Merger integration and transition management: a new slant for finance executives / Price Pritchett -- Mergers and acquisitions: patterns, motives, and strategic fit / Siri Terjesen -- Mergers and acquisitions: todays catalyst is working capital / James S. Sagner -- Valuing start-ups / Aswath Damodaran -- Why mergers fail and how to prevent it / Susan Cartwright -- Operations management -- Building potential catastrophe management into a strategic risk framework / Duncan Martin -- Business continuity management: how to prepare for the worst / Andrew Hiles -- Countering supply chain risk / Vinod Lall -- Dealing with cybersquatters / Shireen Smith -- Dispute resolution: the forum selection clause / Elisabeth de Nadal, Victor Manuel Sanchez -- Electronic invoicing in the European Union / Hansjorg Nymphius -- Employee stock options / Peter Casson -- Essentials for export success: understanding how risks and relationships lead to rewards / Paul Beretz -- Exporting against letters of credit / Buddy Baker -- Viewpoint: Thierry Malleret -- Financial techniques for building customer loyalty / Ray Halagera -- Fraud: minimising the impact on corporate image / Tim Johnson -- Geopolitical risk: countering the impact on your business / Ian Bremmer -- How to manage emerging market risks with third party insurance / Rod Morris -- Human risk: how effective strategic risk management can identify rogues / Tom McKaig -- The human value of the enterprise / Andrew Mayo -- Intellectual capital / Thomas A. 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March -- Being digital / Nicholas Negroponte -- The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Blink: the power of thinking without thinking / Malcolm Gladwell -- Blue ocean strategy: how to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant / W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne -- The bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it / Paul Collier -- The box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger / Marc Levinson -- Business @ the speed of thought: succeeding in the digital economy / Bill Gates -- The caring economy: business principles for the new digital age / Gerry McGovern -- Cashflow reengineering: how to optimize the cashflow timeline and improve financial efficiency / James Sagner -- Common stocks and uncommon profits / Philip A. Fisher -- Competing for the future / Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad -- The competitive advantage of nations / Michael E. Porter -- Competitive strategy: techniques for analyzing industries and competitors / Michael E. Porter -- Confusion de confusiones / Joseph de la Vega -- Conquer the crash: you can survive and prosper in a deflationary depression / Robert R. Prechter -- Corporate financial management / Glen Arnold -- Corporate-level strategy: creating value in the multibusiness company / Michael Goold, Andrew Campbell, Marcus Alexander -- Corporate strategy: an analytic approach to business policy for growth and expansion / H. Igor Ansoff -- Cost and effect: using integrated cost systems to drive profitability and performance / Robert S. Kaplan, Robin Cooper -- Damodaran on valuation: security analysis for investment and corporate finance / Aswath Damodaran -- The death of distance: how the communications revolution is changing our lives and our work / Frances Cairncross -- A demon of our own design / Richard Bookstaber -- Digital capital: harnessing the power of business webs / Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, Alex Lowy -- The essence of financial management / David R. Myddelton -- The EVA challenge: implementing value-added change in an organization / Joel M. Stern, John S. Shiely -- Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds / Charles Mackay -- A farewell to alms: a brief economic history of the world / Gregory Clark -- FIASCO: the inside story of a Wall Street trader / Frank Partnoy -- Finance / Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton -- The finance manual for non-financial managers: the power to make confident financial decisions / Paul McKoen, Leo Gough -- Financial accounting and reporting / Barry Elliott, Jamie Elliott -- Financial control for non-financial managers / David Irwin -- Financial management / Jae K. Shim, Joel G. Siegel -- Financial management: an introduction / Jim McMenamin -- Financial management for the small business / Colin Barrow -- Financial strategy: adding stakeholder value / Janette Rutterford (ed.) -- The Financial Times handbook of financial management / Steve Robinson -- Fooled by randomness: the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Foundations of multinational financial management / Alan C. Shapiro, Atulya Sarin -- Frank Woods Business accounting, volumes 1 and 2 / Frank Wood, Alan Sangster -- Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner -- The functions of the executive / Chester I. Barnard -- Futures, options, and swaps / Robert W. Kolb -- The global financial system: a functional perspective / Dwight B. Crane, Kenneth A. Froot, Scott P. Mason, Andre F. Perold, Robert C. Merton, Zvi bodie, Erik R. Sirri, Peter Tufano -- Globalization and its discontents / Joseph Stiglitz -- Governance and risk: an analytical handbook for investors, managers, directors, and stakeholders / George Dallas (ed.) -- The Great Crash, 1929 / John Kenneth Galbraith -- The gridlock economy: how too much ownership wrecks markets, stops innovation, and costs lives / Michael Heller -- How the stock market works / Michael Becket -- How to be rich / J. Paul Getty -- Inefficient markets: an introduction to behavioral finance / Andrei Shleifer -- Information rules: a strategic guide to the network economy / Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian -- Innovation corrupted: the origins and legacy of Enrons collapse / Malcolm S. Salter -- Intellectual capital: the new wealth of organizations / Thomas A. Stewart -- The intelligent investor / Benjamin Graham -- International financial management / Cheol S. Eun, Bruce G. Resnick -- Introduction to accounting / Pru Marriott, J.R. Edwards, H.J. Mellett -- An introduction to Islamic finance theory and practice / Zamir Iqbal, Abbas Mirakhor -- Inventing money: the story of long-term capital management and the legends behind it / Nicholas Dunbar -- Investments / Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, Alan J. Marcus -- Irrational exuberance / Robert J. Shiller -- Juran on planning for quality / Joseph M. Juran -- Liars poker: rising through the wreckage on Wall Street / Michael Lewis -- The living company: habits for survival in a turbulent business environment / Arie de Geus -- Macroeconomics / N. Gregory Mankiw -- Management accounts: how to use them to control your business / Tony Skone -- Managing / Harold Geneen, Alvin Moscow -- Managing across borders: the transnational solution / Christopher A. Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal -- Managing financial resources / Mick Broadbent, John Cullen -- Market wizards: interviews with top traders / Jack D. Schwager -- Mastering financial management: demystify finance and transform your financial skills of management / Stephen Brookson -- Mastering risk, volume 1: Concepts / James Pickford (ed.) -- The (mis)behavior of markets / Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson -- The money game / Adam Smith -- Monkey business: swinging through the Wall Street jungle / John Rolfe, Peter Troob -- Multinational business finance / David K. Eiteman, Arthur I. Stonehill, Michael H. Moffett -- My life as a Quant / Emanuel Derman.;Making and managing investments -- Calculating a companys net worth -- Calculating total shareholder return -- Fund of hedge funds: understanding the risks and returns -- Hedge funds: understanding the risks and returns -- how to use credit rating agencies -- Investing in employee pension plans: understanding the risks and returns -- mean-variance optimization: a primer -- An overview of Shariah-compliant funds -- Overview of tax deeds -- Structured investment vehicles -- Trading in commodities: why and how -- Trading in corporate bonds: why and how -- Trading in equities on stock exchanges -- Trading in government bonds: why and how -- Understanding and using the Repos Market -- Understanding price volatility -- Understanding private-equity strategies: an overview -- Using investment funds (unit and investment trusts) -- Using shareholder value analysis -- Mergers and acquisitions -- Achieving success in international acquisitions -- Acquiring a company -- Acquisition accounting -- M & A regulations: a global overview -- Management buyouts -- Planning the acquisitions process -- Planning the disposal process -- Structuring M & A deals and tax planning -- Using dividend and discount models -- Using IRR for M & A financing -- Using the comparable net worth methods in squeeze outs -- Using the market-value method for acquisitions -- Operations management -- Administering contracts successfully -- Applying cost-benefit analysis to project appraisal -- Applying stress-testing to business continuity management -- Applying stress-testing to operational risk exposure -- Basic steps for starting a business -- Building an efficient credit and collection accounts system -- Building an electronic invoicing system -- Business process reengineering -- Calculating return on investment in human resources -- Choosing the right payment policy -- Commercial aspects of licensing -- Competition law: key financial issues -- Corporate insurance cover: a primer -- Costing a new project -- Creating a risk register -- Distribution agreements -- Efficient invoicing procedures -- Ensuring effective financial control -- How to optimize stock control -- Identifying your continuity needs -- Insuring against business interruption -- Intellectual property: copyright -- Intellectual property: patents: an international overview -- Intellectual property: registered designs and trademarks -- International comparisons of company law -- Inventory: how to control it effectively -- Invoicing and credit control for small and medium-sized enterprises -- Islamic commercial law -- Islamic law of contracts -- Managing and auditing the risk of business interruption -- Managing bankruptcy and insolvency -- Performing a skills gap analysis -- Performing total cost of ownership analysis -- Practical purchasing procedures -- Practical techniques for commercial mediation -- The principles of litigation -- Setting up a key risk indicator system -- Structuring and negotiating joint ventures -- Structuring, negotiating, and draft agency agreements -- Understanding and calculating RORAC, RAROC, and RAROPRAC -- Understanding continuity insurance -- Understanding the financial aspects of employing people -- What is benchmarking -- Raising finance -- The bond market: its structure and function -- Dealing with venture capital companies -- Financial intermediaries: their role and relation to financial markets -- Franchising a business -- How to use receivables as collateral -- Measuring gearing -- Money markets: their structure and function -- Options for raising finance -- Overview of loan agreements -- An overview of stockholders agreements -- Raising capital by issuing bonds -- Raising capital by issuing shares -- Raising capital through private and public equity -- Sovereign wealth funds: investment strategies and objectives -- Steps for obtaining bank financing -- Stock markets: their structure and function -- Understanding and using interest coverage ratios -- Understanding and using leverage ratios -- Understanding capital markets, structure, and function -- Understanding debt cover -- Understanding fixed-charge coverage -- Using mezzanine financing -- Regulation and compliance -- Balancing hedging objectives with accounting rules (FAS 133) -- The Chief Audit Executives (CAE) roles and responsibilities -- Establishing a framework for assessing risk -- The EU regulatory regime -- IFRS: the basics -- The IIA Code of Ethics-- Key accounting standards and organizations -- Key components of a corporate risk register -- The key components of an audit report -- Middle East: regulatory structure and powers -- MiFID: its development and aims -- Preparing financial statements: balance sheets -- Preparing financial statements: profit and loss accounts (P & Ls) -- Principles of financial services regulation -- Regulatory and capital issues under Shariah Law -- Sarbanes-Oxley: its development and aims -- Solvency II: its development and aims -- Stress testing and scenario analysis for keeping up with regulation -- The ten accounting principles -- Understanding internal capital adequacy assessment process (ICAAP) -- Understanding impairment accounting: what it is and when it is used -- Understanding internal audits -- Understanding the key components of GAAP: the continuing concern concept -- United Kingdom: regulator structure and powers -- Using and understanding financial ratios for analysis -- What is forensic auditing? -- Strategy and performance -- Appraising investment opportunities -- Assessing business performance -- Assessing economies of scale in business -- Understanding decision-tree analysis -- Understanding key performance indicators -- Understanding Paretos Law -- Understanding real options -- Understanding strategy maps.