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| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Best Practice Kimberly Chong, 2018-10-18 In Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management consultancy that has been hired by Chinese companies, including Chinese state-owned enterprises. She shows how consulting emerges as a crucial site for considering how corporate organization, employee performance, business ethics, and labor have been transformed under financialization. To date financialization has been examined using top-down approaches that portray the rise of finance as a new logic of economic accumulation. Best Practice, by contrast, focuses on the everyday practices and narratives through which companies become financialized. Effective management consultants, Chong finds, incorporate local workplace norms and assert their expertise in the particular terms of China's national project of modernization, while at the same time framing their work in terms of global “best practices.” Providing insight into how global management consultancies refashion Chinese state-owned enterprises in preparation for stock market flotation, Chong demonstrates both the dynamic, fragmented character of financialization and the ways in which Chinese state capitalism enables this process. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Creating Value in Financial Services Edward L. Melnick, Praveen R. Nayyer, Michael L. Pinedo, Sridhar Seshadri, 2012-12-06 Creating Value in Financial Services is a compilation of state-of-the-art views of leading academics and practitioners on how financial service firms can succeed in today's competitive environment. The book is based on two conferences held at New York University: the first, `Creating Value in Financial Services', held in March 1997, and the second, `Operations and Productivity in Financial Services', in April 1998. The book is essentially designed to be a compendium of leading edge thinking and practice in the management of financial services firms. There is no book today that has this focus. It contains ideas that can apply to other service industries. Topics addressed are increasingly important worldwide as the financial services industries consolidate and search for innovative new directions and ways to create value in a fiercely competitive environment. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Applied Corporate Finance Aswath Damodaran, 2014-10-27 Aswath Damodaran, distinguished author, Professor of Finance, and David Margolis, Teaching Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business, has delivered the newest edition of Applied Corporate Finance. This readable text provides the practical advice students and practitioners need rather than a sole concentration on debate theory, assumptions, or models. Like no other text of its kind, Applied Corporate Finance, 4th Edition applies corporate finance to real companies. It now contains six real-world core companies to study and follow. Business decisions are classified for students into three groups: investment, financing, and dividend decisions. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Corporate Level Strategy Olivier Furrer, 2016-04-13 The challenges faced by diversified corporations—firms that operate in more than one industry or market—have changed over the years. In this new edition, Olivier Furrer helps students of corporate strategy to consider the impact of critical changes in resources, businesses and headquarters roles on the firm’s ability for establishing and sustaining corporate advantage. New to this edition are stimulating pedagogical features and additional material such as a new chapter on the theoretical foundations of multibusiness firms, along with a host of new examples from across the world. A companion website supplements the book, providing PowerPoint slides, a test bank of questions, and lists of suggested case studies. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Firm Value Paolo Saona Hoffmann, 2018-08-01 This edited volume aims to discuss the most contemporary state of the determinants of the firm value. This book presents theoretical works as well as empirical studies that contrast the arguments offered by the leading, ground-breaking theories on the firm value. What variables determine the firm value? Are these determinants controllable or uncontrollable by the managers of the companies? Is the impact of corporate governance systems on the firm value symmetrical between different institutional contexts? Do the financial reports affect the value of the firm? What role does corporate social responsibility play as a determinant of the firm value? These and other questions are analyzed and scrutinized step by step throughout this book. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Research in Competence-Based Management Ron Sanchez, 2008-11-01 Focuses on a range of fundamental issues in developing competence-base theory and in undertaking competence-based research intended to contribute to management theory development. This work assesses the areas in which restatements or extensions of competence theory may be needed or would be useful. |
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| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Corporate Governance in India Arindam Das, 2019-08-09 This book looks at how we can promote better governance practices in business organizations of developing economies. It presents a mix of conceptual perspectives and observations on corporate governance practices in a concise manner and illustrates through empirical evidence drawn from the Indian business environment. The secondary data analysis provides insights into Indian firms' corporate governance practices. This book is a useful reference for anyone who wishes to identify leading practices and develop broad recommendations applicable to corporate governance practices in developing economies in general. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Finance Essentials Scott Moeller, 2012-04-26 Collated by Scott Moeller of Cass Business School, this collection brings together the informative articles a budding finance practitioner needs to operate effectively in today's corporate environment. Bringing together core finance knowledge and cutting-edge research topics in an engaging and effective way, this text is the ideal companion for all practitioners and students of finance. You will find insights into the practical applications of theory in key areas such as balance sheets and cash flow, financial regulation and compliance, funding and investment, governance and ethics, mergers and acquisitions, and operations and performance. Contributors to this collection include some of the leading experts in their respective fields: Aswath Damodaran, Harold Bierman, Jr, Andreas Jobst, Frank J. Fabozzi, Ian Bremmer, Javier Estrada, Marc J. Epstein, Henrik Cronqvist, Daud Vicary Abdullah, Meziane Lasfer, Dean Karlan, Norman Marks, Seth Armitage, and many others. In this collection you will discover: * Over 80 best-practice articles, providing the best guidance on issues ranging from risk management and capital structure optimization through to market responses to M&A transactions and general corporate governance * Over 65 checklists forming step-by-step guides to essential tasks, from hedging interest rates to calculating your total economic capital * 55 carefully selected calculations and ratios to monitor firms' financial health * A fully featured business and finance dictionary with over 5,000 definitions |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund David Fry, 2011-01-04 Many investors are intrigued by the profit potential of today’s hedge funds, but most feel like they’re on the outside looking in, due to the high investment requirements and complexity of these vehicles. Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund allows you to break down these barriers and effectively operate within this environment. By focusing on the essential approaches of global macro long/short and aggressive growth, this book will help you create a fund that can take advantage of both bullish and bearish conditions across the globe. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: R. Edward Freeman’s Selected Works on Stakeholder Theory and Business Ethics Sergiy D. Dmytriyev, R. Edward Freeman, 2023-09-20 Ed Freeman’s influential ideas on stakeholder theory, business ethics, humanities, and capitalism became foundational in the management field and turned around the mainstream thinking about business. Stakeholder theory developed by Freeman and others posits that business is not as much about profits, but rather about creating value for its stakeholders, including employees, customers, communities, financiers, and suppliers. The relationship between a company and its stakeholders is the essence of business and should be of utmost attention to its managers. Managers should avoid resorting to trade-offs by prioritizing one stakeholder group (e.g., shareholders) over the others and strive to run their companies in the interests of all stakeholders. The idea of pursuing the interests of all stakeholders became revolutionary in management and went far beyond the management field, expanding to Law, Health Care, Education, Public Policy and Administration, and Environmental Policy. This book is a collection of Ed Freeman’s most influential and important works on stakeholder theory as well as business ethics, humanities, and capitalism. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: The AMA Handbook of Financial Risk Management John Hampton, 2011-04-20 In this indispensable book from the industry-leading American Management Association, financial expert John Hampton offers game-changing tips for dealing with the most important areas of financial decision-making. Filled with strategies, principles, and measurement techniques, The AMA Handbook of Financial Risk Management shows readers how to categorize financial risks, reduce risks from cash flow and budget exposures, analyze operating risks, understand the interrelationship of risk and return, manage risks in capital investment decisions, determine the value of common stock, and optimize debt in the capital structure. Engaging and detailed explanations and practical applications enable anyone involved in the financial management of an organization to recognize the factors at stake and the solutions that would produce the best organizational outcomes. Managing financial risk boils down to understanding how to reduce a complex business environment into workable concepts and models. This strategic guide shows you how to make these individual decisions with the big picture in mind. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Knowledge Management Handbook Jay Liebowitz, 1999-02-25 Many organizations are now realizing that their competitive edge lies mostly in the brainpower-the intellectual capital-of their employees and management. To stay ahead of the pack, companies must leverage their knowledge, internally and externally. But it is not enough to develop lessons-learned databases. Experts now believe the current savior of organizations is knowledge management-the conceptualization, review, consolidation, and action phases of creating, securing, combining, coordinating, and retrieving knowledge-in short, the process of creating value from an organization's intangible assets. Jay Liebowitz, one of the leading knowledge management and expert systems authorities in the world, brings together over thirty articles contributed by the top researchers and practitioners to produce what seems destined to become the key reference for this emerging field. With it you will find: How to create a knowledge-sharing environment How senior executives can show tangible benefits using methods that value the intellectual capital-especially the human capital within the organization How knowledge management is not the same as information management How senior management commitment and involvement are essential to the success of a knowledge management system |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications Management Association, Information Resources, 2014-06-30 In todays interconnected society, media, including news, entertainment, and social networking, has increasingly shifted to an online, ubiquitous format. Artists and audiences will achieve the greatest successes by utilizing these new digital tools. Digital Arts and Entertainment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications examines the latest research and findings in electronic media, evaluating the staying power of this increasingly popular paradigm along with best practices for those engaged in the field. With chapters on topics ranging from an introduction to online entertainment to the latest advances in digital media, this impressive three-volume reference source will be important to researchers, practitioners, developers, and students of the digital arts. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers (HBR Guide Series) Harvard Business Review, 2012-09-18 DON’T LET YOUR FEAR OF FINANCE GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR SUCCESS Can you prepare a breakeven analysis? Do you know the difference between an income statement and a balance sheet? Or understand why a business that’s profitable can still go belly-up? Has your grasp of your company’s numbers helped—or hurt—your career? Whether you’re new to finance or you just need a refresher, this go-to guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to master the fundamentals, as all good managers must. The HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers will help you: Learn the language of finance Compare your firm’s financials with rivals’ Shift your team’s focus from revenues to profits Assess your vulnerability to industry downturns Use financial data to defend budget requests Invest smartly through cost/benefit analysis |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Game Theory: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice Management Association, Information Resources, 2017-06-19 Developments in the use of game theory have impacted multiple fields and created opportunities for new applications. With the ubiquity of these developments, there is an increase in the overall utilization of this approach. Game Theory: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice contains a compendium of the latest academic material on the usage, strategies, and applications for implementing game theory across a variety of industries and fields. Including innovative studies on economics, military strategy, and political science, this multi-volume book is an ideal source for professionals, practitioners, graduate students, academics, and researchers interested in the applications of game theory. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Financial Management of the Small Firm Ernest Winfield Walker, J. William Petty, 1986 |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Business Sustainability, Corporate Governance, and Organizational Ethics Zabihollah Rezaee, 2019-11-06 A comprehensive framework for understanding the most important issues in global business This is the e-book version of Business Sustainability, Corporate Governance, and Organizational Ethics. In today's business environment, multinational corporations are under pressure from investors, lawmakers, and regulators to improve their corporate governance, business sustainability, and corporate culture. Business sustainability, corporate governance, and organizational ethics are taking center stage in the global business environment. This long-awaited text covers each of these three important areas in detail, guiding readers to a robust understanding with features including chapter summaries, essential terms, discussion questions, and cases for each topic covered. |
| financial managers primarily create firm value by: Value Creation in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances Kathrin Bösecke, 2009-09-30 Kathrin Bösecke analyses the factors that determine the success of business combinations. Based on her analysis of 126 acquisitions and 66 alliances in the European utility industry, she identifies the origin of the participating firms as well as the target country as essential determinants of value creation. |
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ESG and Corporate Financial Performance: A Panel Study
create value for investors with long-lasting sustainable business models. These ESG parameters represent the non-financial performance of an organization and are numerous and ever
Exchange Rate Risk Measurement and Management: Issues …
The paper also provides some data on the use of financial derivatives instruments, and hedging practices by U.S. firms. JEL Classification ... 3. Economic risk, which reflects basically the risk …
Acquisition Valuation - New York University
Aswath Damodaran 3 Steps involved in an Acquisition Valuation n Step 1 : Establish a motive for the acquisition n Step 2: Choose a target n Step 3: Value the target with the acquisition motive …
INTERNAL MARKETS, PERSONAL NETWORKS, AND …
Groysberg, Lee, & Nanda, 2008), the ability to find and create complementary matches between people and jobs within the firm represents a key source of value creation in modern …
Understanding How We Are Compensated for Financial …
When we do business with you, the firm and our financial advisors benefit from fees, commissions and other . payments from you and our investment providers. These financial incentives may …
Seven levers to business value creation guide - KPMG
Key value creation levers and potential actions These seven value creation levers are examples that organizations may wish to consider. To start, we recommend gathering and analyzing the …
The Effect of Ownership Structure and Intellectual Capital on …
Firm value is very important because it reflects the ’s performance, so can affect firm investors’ perceptions of the firm. The firm expects financial managers to take the best actions for the firm …
OVERINVESTMENT AND UNDERINVESTMENT PROBLEMS: …
can lead to a decrease in the firm’s total value when the chance arises (Jensen and Meckling, 1976). Beyond their goal of maximising stock value, managers consider the firm a source of …
Information Asymmetry and Capital Structure
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Identifying and Managing Key Value Drivers - L.E.K.
important to a particular firm, management can direct strategic planning to focus on growth strategies. In short, value drivers ensure that strategy is grounded in the reality of operating …
Ten Suggestions for Improving Profitability and …
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vated CEO can destroy or increase firm value. Managerial Summary: Many corporate leaders take public stances on sociopolitical issues and observers suggest that this practice can …
The Influence of Good Corporate Governance on Firm Value …
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Understanding Financial Management (MCR006) - UBSS
The key financial decisions facing the financial manager In running a business, the financial manager faces three key basic decisions, and these decisions should be made in a way that …
LEASE FINANCING AND BUSINESS VALUATION - ACHE
• Explain how lease financing affects financial statements and taxes. • Conduct a basic lease analysis from the perspective of the lessee. • Discuss the factors that create value in lease …
Understanding Financial Management: A Practical Guide
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Competitive Advantage as Mediating Factor for Creating Firm …
agency problems should create firm value (Taufik et al., 2018). Noronha et al. (2018) stated that the func-tion of control in corporate governance would create a positive influence on firm value. …
Metrics for Linking Marketing to Financial Performance
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CHAPTER 12 VALUATION: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE - New …
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What is a leveraged buyout (LB0)? Corporate Restructuring …
What size firm, large or small, is more prone to business failure? •Bankruptcy is more frequent among smaller firms. •Large firms tend to get more help from external sources to avoid …
STAGGERED BOARDS AND FIRM VALUE REVISITED
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The Effect of Tax Planning on Firm Value: A Case Study in …
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Quality Guide for Case Managers and Case Management …
The Indiana BDDS Core Competencies for case managers were developed to: • Ensure quality case management; • Define foundational competencies to clarify the role and purpose of case …
Financial leverage and firm valuation: an empirical study of
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Andrew C. Wicks - JSTOR
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Course 8: Creating Value through Financial Management
Course 8: Creating Value through Financial Management Prepared by: Matt H. Evans, CPA, CMA, CFM This course provides a concise overview of how financial management is used to …
Accounting information for managerial decision-making in …
Keywords Business ethics Decision-making Firm value Stakeholder-value Value based management Multi-criteria decision-making JEL Classification L21 M14 M41 1 Introduction By …
Companies Should Maximize Shareholder Welfare Not Market …
JournalofLaw,Finance,andAccounting,2017,2:247–274 Companies Should Maximize Shareholder Welfare Not Market Value OliverHart1 and LuigiZingales2∗ 1Department of Economics, …
Motivating people: Getting beyond money - McKinsey
whole, require more time and commitment from senior managers. One HR director we interviewed spoke of their tendency to “hide” in their offices—primarily reflecting uncertainty about the …
RE-THINKING THE WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AND …
Financial managers primarily rely on firm trade credit policy, bank financing, personal financial contributions, operating financing and lease financing (Abdul-Hamid, Sawandi & Simon, 2018). …
Key Principles of Effective Financial Planning and Analysis
About the Authors Lawrence Serven is an internationally recognized authority on enterprise performance management (EPM). He is the author of Value Planning: The New Approach to …
Agency Problems and Risk Taking At Banks - Federal Reserve …
1 Recent legislative initiatives seem to recognize the importance of both types of agency problems at banks. The Prompt Corrective Action provisions of the FDIC Improvement Act (FDICIA) …
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT - elib.bsu.by
1. Introduction to financial management The role of the financial manager in modern corporation Until around the first half of the 1900s financial managers primarily raised funds and managed …
Technology Investment, Firm Performance and Market Value: …
Controlling for firm size, less profitable banks spent more on technology, suggesting that the expanded technology spending is less likely due to better firm performance. Meanwhile, …
Financial Management: Principles and Applications - Pearson
that the financial manager plays within the firm. We also ad-dress some of the ethical dilemmas that the financial manager must face daily. Finally, we take an in-depth look at the five …
Understanding a financial statement audit - PwC
The need for companies’ financial statements1to be audited by an independent external auditor has been a cornerstone of confidence in the world’s financial systems. The benefitof an audit is …
Stakeholder theory, strategy, and organization: Past, present, …
agency theory, sees managers’ duty as maximizing the financial market value of firms (Friedman, 1970; Jensen, 2002), stakeholder theory holds that the job of managers is to foster cooperative …
INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE FINANCIAL …
4 Understanding Healthcare Finance Management example, the provision of health services is dominated by not-for-profit or nonprofit organizations (private and governmental), which are …
