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International Business Risk is an attempt to help investors and students of contemporary Asian affairs navigate the risk environments of Asia. Using highly relevant information and analytical techniques, the 2002 volume analyses the political, economic, regulatory, and security environments of 12 Asian countries. Each country is assessed for its political and economic trends, investment risks, and opportunities in a way that is clear, concise and easily accessible. The handbook conveys forecast information through a series of charts, graphs, and boxed summaries of data, making it a handy reference guide for all readers.
Indie Film Producing explains the simple, basic, clear cut role of the independent film producer. Raising funds to do your dream project, producing award-winning films with a low budget, putting name actors on your indie film-it's all doable, and this book guides you through the entire process of being a successful producer with bonus tips on how to effortlessly maneuver through the sphere of social media marketing and fundraising tactics. Indie film producer Suzanne Lyons pilots you through the actual making of low budget films to show you how easy and fun it can be. Laid out in a step-by-step, A to Z, matter-of-fact style that shows how the producer's role can be easy, how to treat the film as a business, and especially how to avoid the painful pitfalls faced by so many producers, this book gives you the essential tools you need to make your film a success from the ground up. . Begins with the earliest stages of concept development, continues through production & post, and ultimately concludes with distribution . Shows you how to create a buzz for your film through marketing and promotions . Interviews with global producers who produced films using social media, festivals, apps, and more, give you real-world insight that can be applied to your own films . Website points you to a fantastic collection of resources that you'll need to produce your own films (www.focalpress.com/cw/lyons-9780240817637/)
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Praise for Fired-Up Fundraising Turn Board Passion into Action "Fired-Up Fundraising is honest, realistic, practical, and
inspiring. It transforms the whole concept of fundraising from
obligation and drudgery into passion and fun. Every CEO,
development director, development consultant, and board chair needs
to have and use this book." "A breakthrough! Fired-Up Fundraising takes the mystery out of
engaging your board in the ongoing work of fundraising. In this
well-organized little book, Gail Perry lays out a commonsense,
four-step process that will fire up your board and help you meet
your fundraising goals, year after year." "Fired-Up Fundraising: Turn Board Passion into Action is by far
the best book I have ever read on how to involve board members in
the entire process of fundraising, from identifying prospects,
cultivating them, and finally making 'the ask.' Just as important,
it is an invaluable guide on how to select, enlist, train and
especially inspire board members so they take ownership of their
institutions. Every nonprofit CEO and development officer should
read this book." "This is the book for which EVERY nonprofit chief executive has
been yearning since time immemorial. Every nonprofit needs money to
survive and thrive, and every nonprofit has a board of trustees to
help raiseit, but few nonprofits come anywhere near using their
boards to maximum benefit. Fired-Up Fundraising, a reader-friendly,
realistic, and practical playbook written by a richly experienced,
highly literate fundraiser turned consultant, takes readers by the
hand and leads them step-by-step through eminently doable ways of
inspiring the greatest possible engagement of--and return
from--their trustees. It will instantly become the gold-standard
guide for building successful boards."
How to make strategic plan to help your nonprofit navigate turbulent financial waters and achieve strengthened revenues During this time of upheaval and instability with the country's financial markets and economy, you might be wondering how your nonprofit can emerge stronger from this unprecedented turmoil and prepare for future economic cycles. Practical and timely, "Nonprofit Finance for Hard Times: Leadership Strategies When Economies Falter "helps your nonproft get strategic in the weak economy. "Nonprofit Finance for Hard Times" shows you how surviving the current economic conditions means dedicating yourself to understanding the details of the current financial crisis and identifying those Board members and other leaders who can give you deep analysis on the crisis and act as your analysts of the winners and losers in real time.Emphasizes that the core of all strategy is engagementHelps you reassess your nonprofit's communications tools for both messages and marketsAsserts that the operative need is for strategy, not panicRevisits all assumptionsExplains how to sort and cull past supporters for those who will emerge from the turmoil first and strongestReveals how to identify new audiences Providing the guidance your nonprofit needs-not to just hang on for the white-knuckle ride, but to plan their best strategy to survive and succeed-"Nonprofit Finance for Hard Times" equips you with the tools you need to get started.
Organizational encounters with risk range from errors and anomalies to outright disasters. In a world of increasing interdependence and technological sophistication, the problem of understanding and managing such risks has grown ever more complex. Organizations and their participants must often reform and reorganise themselves in response to major events and crises, dealing with the paradox of managing the potentially unmanageable. Organizational responses are influenced by many factors, such as the representational capacity of information systems and concerns with legal liability. In this collection, leading experts on risk management from a variety of disciplines address these complex features of organizational encounters with risk. They raise critical questions about how risk can be understood and conceived by organizations, and whether it can be 'managed' in any realistic sense at all. This book is an important reminder that the organisational management of risk involves much more than the cool application of statistical method.
PRAISE FOR Outperform with Expectations-Based Management "This is a stimulating book that places traditional financial
management in an expanded framework. It demonstrates that
uncertainty and the revisions of market expectations require a new
orientation for management decision-making. It contains many
conceptual extensions of traditional ideas. The numerous examples
of actual companies illuminate the applicability of the new
theories explained. This book has many important and exciting ideas
that can improve management decisions and performance." "What drives shareholder returns is of immense interest to
managers and investors. Bringing expectations squarely into the
picture through Expectations-Based Management (EBM) sorts out the
issues practitioners and theorists have had with earnings and cash
flow measures. The book is a fine companion to Tom Copeland's
path-breaking work in corporate finance, valuation, and real
options." "This book is a tour de force critique of the way we measure
corporate performance. And it offers a sound remedy that for the
first time reflects the fact that value creation is significantly
about exceeding investor expectations. Well written and amply
researched and illustrated, Outperform with Expectations-Based
Management will sharpen the way you judge financial results and the
managers who produce them. This is a must-read for thoughtful
investors, directors, CEOs, students, and all aspirants to superior
performance."
Statistical techniques can be used to address new situations. This is important in a rapidly evolving risk management and financial world. Analysts with a strong statistical background understand that a large data set can represent a treasure trove of information to be mined and can yield a strong competitive advantage. This book provides budding actuaries and financial analysts with a foundation in multiple regression and time series. Readers will learn about these statistical techniques using data on the demand for insurance, lottery sales, foreign exchange rates, and other applications. Although no specific knowledge of risk management or finance is presumed, the approach introduces applications in which statistical techniques can be used to analyze real data of interest. In addition to the fundamentals, this book describes several advanced statistical topics that are particularly relevant to actuarial and financial practice, including the analysis of longitudinal, two-part (frequency/severity), and fat-tailed data. Datasets with detailed descriptions, sample statistical software scripts in "R" and "SAS," and tips on writing a statistical report, including sample projects, can be found on the book s Web site: http: //research.bus.wisc.edu/RegActuaries.
The new edition of this popular book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use financial management and budgeting tools in the public sector. The book features a practical, case-study approach, and includes plentiful exercises and examples. It is designed as a textbook for courses on public financial management or public budgeting that focus on the application of budgeting and financial management tools. Public service professionals will also benefit from this handy primer.
Raise the skill and competency level of project finance organizations Project Finance for Business Development helps readers understand how to develop a competitive advantage through project finance. Most importantly, it shows how different elements of project finance, such as opportunity screening and evaluation, project development, risk management, and due diligence come together to structure viable and financeable projects--which are crucial pieces missing from the current literature. Eliminating misconceptions about what is really important for successful project financings, this book shows you how to develop, structure, and implement projects successfully by creating competitive advantage. By shedding light on project finance failures, it also helps you avoid failures of your own. - Offers a roadmap for successful financing, participant roles and responsibilities, and assessing and testing project viability - Considers project finance from a broad business development and competitive advantage - Provides a strategic decision-forecasting perspective - Delves deeper than existing treatments of project finance into decisions needed to create and implement effective financing plans Helping readers develop, structure, and implement projects successfully by creating competitive advantage, this book is a useful tool for project sponsors and developers, helping them structure and implement projects by creating competitive advantage.
"The budget and financial reporting processes are well known sources of frustration for most CFOs. Seeking a quick fix to the problem, the common solution is to pour more money into new and better software. This leaves the root cause, the inefficient and dysfunctional underlying processes and routines, unaddressed. As this book shows, substantial and sustainable improvements are only achieved through an holistic approach to process improvement, technology, strategy, and people." Proven methods for improving efficiency Corporations face a high turnover among financial managers, rapid changes in technology, lack of time and process redesign skills, and ongoing ambiguity about primary objectives behind the budgeting and financial reporting processes. Amid this frenzy, it is the fundamental efficiency of these processes that dramatically impact overall business performance. Process Improvement for Effective Budgeting and Financial Reporting provides financial managers with a compelling blueprint for increasing efficiency and eliminating waste of time and energy. Four operational experts lay out an 80/20 plan–improving 80% of processes in 20% of the time it would take to improve 100%–and explain a Business Process Improvement (BPI) plan that incorporates:
There is no substitute for improved efficiency. CFOs, controllers, budget managers, and financial analysts will significantly benefit from adding this authoritative guide to their professional libraries.
This book for advanced students and professionals in management and finance explains the financial appraisal of capital budgeting projects. It develops basic concepts, principles and techniques and applies them to case studies in forestry, property and international investments. Resource constraints are introduced to the capital budgeting decisions with a variety of worked examples using linear programming techniques. All calculations are extensively supported by Excel workbooks on the Web, and end of chapter questions.
The theory of Value at Risk (VaR), which quantifies the probability of large losses in financial transactions, won the Nobel Prize in economics for Robert Merton. As trading systems have become more complex, however, the dangers of very large losses have become more acute. The near collapse of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management, based on the VaR theory, is perhaps the most spectacular example: it was not stable against large and sudden fluctuations in the financial markets. This collection of papers by leading researchers addresses the weaknesses of VaR and how it might be possible to circumvent them. A crucial question is to establish what is a good measure of risk, and the further developments of VaR are considered in this light.
In the past year, crowdfunding platforms helped generate a staggering $34 billion dollars in funding. But the harsh reality is that the majority of crowdfunding campaigns fail-only 40% meet their goals. And failing means failing hard. If you fall short of your goal by the deadline, not only won't you see any of the money you've worked so hard to raise, but you might actually tarnish your shiny idea. Alex Daly is a hugely successful crowdfunding expert who has run some of Kickstarter's biggest campaigns, from TLC's new album to Neil Young's music player to Joan Didion's documentary "We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live." In this book, she shows you how to: * Build a deep fan base prior to launch * Understand the psychology of why people give and create the right narrative around your project * Find the right platform on which to raise funds * Deal with unfulfilled promises and angry backers * Create intimacy and promote shareability of your project * Best use influence and exclusivity to get funded. Woven throughout is Alex's own entrepreneurial story-the unconventional career path she took to ultimately start her business, Vann Alexandra, thanks to crowdfunding. And she will take readers deep into her most successful campaigns, showing them how she helped them get funded. As someone who's spent lots of time in the trenches, she has learned the hard way how to communicate and connect with people on the Internet-and offers tangible tools to run your own crowdfunding campaigns. Above all, this is a book about how to fully connect with the crowd, get people to pay attention, and inspire them to act.
Today, nearly every aspect of higher education--including student recruitment, classroom instruction, faculty research, administrative governance, and the control of intellectual property--is embedded in a political economy with links to the market and the state. Academic capitalism offers a powerful framework for understanding this relationship. Essentially, it allows us to understand higher education's shift from creating scholarship and learning as a public good to generating knowledge as a commodity to be monetized in market activities. In " Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization," Brendan Cantwell and Ilkka Kauppinen assemble an international team of leading scholars to explore the profound ways in which globalization and the knowledge economy have transformed higher education around the world. The book offers an in-depth assessment of the theoretical foundations of academic capitalism, as well as new empirical insights into how the process of academic capitalism has played out. Chapters address academic capitalism from historical, transnational, national, and local perspectives. Each contributor offers fascinating insights into both new conceptual interpretations of and practical institutional and national responses to academic capitalism. Incorporating years of research by influential theorists and building on the work of Sheila Slaughter, Larry Leslie, and Gary Rhoades, "Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization" provides a provocative update for understanding academic capitalism. The book will appeal to anyone trying to make sense of contemporary higher education.
Information technology decisions are usually made by IT experts who often lack the finance and accounting skills to fully understand the financial implications of this capital spending. This book is aimed at IT managers, addressing issues such as: how to budget and account for IT appropriately; how to build a financial case for IT investment; how to use investment appraisal techniques, as well as how to use numerous financial tricks of the trade.
The comprehensive guide for CFOs who need an overview of leadership basics from strategies to management improvement tips Filled with pragmatic insights and proactive strategies, "The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Third Edition" is destined to become your essential desktop companion. This thorough guidebook is filled with best practices to help you, as CFO, to improve efficiency, mitigate risks, and keep your organization competitive.Includes updated information on the relationship of the CFO with the Treasurer, registration statements and Fedwire payments, acquisitions integration, legal types of acquisitions, and government regulationsContains control flowcharts for the main accounting cyclesProvides new chapters on Investor Relations and Risk Management for Foreign Exchange and Interest RatesFeatures an itemized list of the key tasks every new CFO should complete when first entering the position, a checklist of 100 performance measures, and a detailed discussion of employee compensation plans The reference CFOs and other financial managers can turn to for quick answers to questions they have as well as to help them plan their financial strategy, "The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Third Edition" is mandatory reading for every CFO wanting to play a strategic role in their organization.
This text provides full coverage of all the topics typically encountered in business or managerial economics. It is designed to be appropriate for intermediate and final year undergraduate, first year graduate and MBA programmes in managerial economics and applied microeconomic analysis. Building upon a core of microeconomic principles, the text covers all areas of managerial economics courses in a style which is easy to follow, using applied material to complement theoretical concepts. The book also incorporates areas of resent research and debate, including organizational architecture and investment appraisal. Special features of the text include: lists of key terms; chapter summaries; and review questions.
"The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Managerial Economics"
provides clear, concise, up to the minute and highly informative
definitions and explanations covering the whole field of managerial
economics. Bringing together specially commissioned and carefully
edited entries from an international team, this will become the
standard reference for students, researchers, academics and
practitioners. The "Dictionary" has been carefully designed to give both the
expert and the newcomer overviews and succinct presentations of the
most important issues in modern managerial economics. With entries
ranging from extended explorations of major topics to short
definitions of key terms, this major reference work gives the
user: This dictionary is part of the "Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management" which contains ten further volumes covering each of the key areas of management science developed under the editorship of Professor Cary Cooper from the Manchester Business School of Management and Professor Chris Argyris of Harvard Business School.
This study focuses on the role of institutions and organizations in the historical development of corporate finance. The book provides an overview of the evolution of practice in this field from the Italian merchant banks of the Renaissance through the formation of conglomerates and leveraged-buy-out partnerships in contemporary Wall Street. It also puts forth a compelling argument for the closer integration of historical and quantitative research methodologies in advancing finance theory. Additionally, the epilogue defines an original algorithm that explains the relationship between the short-term, firm-specific factors and longer-term, environmental elements that have shaped the historical development of finance.
Oliver Hart's Clarendon Lectures are an important contribution to contact theory as it is developing in economic analysis, and especially in the context of the firm. He starts by developing a general model of the firm, and then analyses in greater depth the financial structure of firms, debt collecting and bankruptcy. The book will interest teachers, graduate students and advanced students in microeconomics, the theory of the firm, industrial organization and finance.
In this comprehensive reference, Roy T. Meyers provides an invaluable tool for anyone who wants to learn how the government budgeting process works, where it doesn't work, and how it can be improved. Filled with insights and wisdom from thirty-six contributors, this book presents an encyclopedic account of budgeting innovations today. Seven sections and twenty-nine chapters cover everything from current basic processes to the uncertain future of budgeting. Handbook of Government Budgeting is the definitive resource for anyone interested in the ways governments acquire and spAnd money. Nationally and internationally respected experts such as Bob Bland, Naomi Caiden, James Chan, Philip Cooper, Larry Jones, A. Premchand, Irene Rubin, and Barry White offer the reader a full spectrum of information and ideas gleaned from a broad base of practice and research. The contributors are authorities in the fields of political science, economics, accounting, and management. They include executives, managers, analysts, consultants, and academics who have studied or worked with governments. The combined wisdom of these experts ensures the most concise, complete, and thought-provoking compilation concerning government budgeting today. Each section of the Handbook of Government Budgeting presents multiple chapters offering different perspectives on budgetary subjects. Topics include: an overview of government budgeting; credit markets, the economy, and budget balancing; taxation in budgeting; the informational foundations of budgeting; budgeting by institutions; politics, management, and analysis in budgeting; and budgeting over time for large amounts. This comprehensive volume will prove a priceless tool to government professionals as well as professors of budgeting courses. Budgeting students and practitioners will find up-to-date information on the latest budget issues and politics in governments across federal, state, and local levels. The teaching supplement is available directly from the author. Interested parties should e-mail him at [email protected]. |
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