Geschaftliche Vorhaben, Investitionen, Kapitalanlagen und Unternehmen zu bewerten, ist zu einer wichtigen Grundaufgabe in der Wirtschaft geworden. Die "richtige" Investition zu wahlen und die "falsche" zu meiden, ist eine Entscheidungsaufgabe hohen Ranges unserer Gesellschaft, und auch sie setzt die Bewertung der jeweiligen Vorhaben voraus. Die Unternehmensbewertung - ein etabliertes Fach der Betriebswirtschaftslehre - verlangt es, zukunftige und unsichere Geldbetrage zu diskontieren, Kapitalkosten zu bestimmen, und zu verstehen, mit welchen Bewertungsansatzen Projekte und Unternehmen bewertet werden konnen. Das Lehrbuch erlautert die grundlegenden Ansatze der Unternehmensbewertung, so die als Best-Practice betrachtete DCF-Methode. Ebenso werden Varianten und weitere Ansatze zur Unternehmensbewertung dargestellt, darunter das recht haufig angewandte Vorgehen ein Multiple auf eine Basisgrosse anzuwenden oder das in der Praxis hoch geschatzte Konzept der Residual Income Valuation."

Advancements in technology have created more opportunities for mobile applications in modern society. In the financial realm, these innovations provide better user experience and digital capabilities. NFC Payment Systems and the New Era of Transaction Processing provides a thorough examination on the impact of NFC payment technology on the convenience, flexibility, and usability of transactions. Including a range of pertinent topics such as network threats, operating modes, and data security, this publication is an ideal reference source for researchers, students, academics, professionals, and practitioners interested in the rise of mobile technology in financial systems.

Strategische Allianzen haben grosse Bedeutung zur Gewinnung und/oder Sicherung von Wettbewerbsvorteilen. Das Werk liefert dazu auch empirisch uberprufte Daten und Fakten."

Einfuhrende Lehrbuchdarstellung zur integrierten -Betrachtung der finanziellen Fuhrung mit ihren verschiedenen Elementen."

Gegenstand dieses Buches sind die dokumentaren Zahlungs- und Sicherungsinstrumente sowie die Bankgarantien des Aussenhandels. Der Bruckenschlag zwischen Theorie und Praxis wird in verschiedener Hinsicht vollzogen: durch ausfuhrliche, auf die Fragestellung der betrieblichen Praxis eingehende Rechtskommentare zu den einschlagigen Einheitlichen Richtlinien der Internationalen Handelskammer (ICC) und damit zugleich zu den Rechtsfragen, wie sich bei der praktischen Abwicklung von Akkreditiven, Inkassi und Bankgarantien stellen; durch eine umfassende Darstellung der betriebswirtschaftlichen Abwicklung dieser internationalen Zahlungs- und Sicherungsinstrumente, angereichert mit Erlauterungen, Risikoanalysen, Ratschlagen, Pruflisten, Fallbeispielen und Mustertexten fur Exporteure und Importeure sowie fur die Banken."

With the transition into the Knowledge Economy, a formidable series of new challenges arise within the corporate governance space. This book tackles the issue of corporate governance along two axes. Firstly, it confronts the developments in corporate governance within the context of the Knowledge Economy and all its implications in relation to the pre-eminence of intangible assets, the advent of technologies such as smartphones and advanced forms of artificial intelligence, and cultural changes associated with the incorporation of Gen Y into the workforce and the proliferation of social networks and effects such as Big Data and cyber-threats. Secondly, it highlights the challenges for multinational organizations and the tension that exists between headquarters and subsidiary offices due to the need to combine the corporation's ethical culture and corporate governance values with the institutional forces of the subsidiaries' context. The combination of these two axes addressed viz a viz the relationship between senior management and the rank and file of the organization to create an ethical corporate culture leads to a completely different positioning of corporate governance and make the book truly unique and of interest to researchers, students of corporate finance and corporate governance alongside practitioners within financial organizations and more broadly.

Das Ziel dieses Werkes besteht darin, die wesentlichen Aspekte der Bilanzierung nach IFRS im Einzel- und im Konzernabschluss in Form von einzelnen Beitragen zu behandeln. Innerhalb dieser Beitrage wird die jeweilige Thematik auf den einfuhrenden Seiten zunachst hinsichtlich der gegebenenfalls zu beachtenden Normen erlautert. Der zweite Teil eines Beitrags umfasst dann die beispielhafte Anwendung der Inhalte. Die Autoren der Beitrage haben den Schwerpunkt auf die didaktische Aufbereitung der Inhalte gelegt. Das ubersichtlich gestaltete Werk erleichtert die Einarbeitung in eine komplexe Materie."

Integrated Reporting is having a profound impact on corporate thinking and reporting. Value is being assessed on the basis of the sources of value creation used by an organisation and not through a financial lens alone. In Chief Value Officer: Accountants Can Save the Planet, Mervyn King, a global corporate governance and reporting leader, challenges some of the systemic issues preventing organisations from managing in an integrated value-creation way. The shareholder-centric governance model, currently favoured by most companies, will not result in changes to corporate behaviour that can create value in a sustainable manner. The book, therefore, firmly places the accountant in the position of changemaker – the finance professional today should be more of a value officer than a financial officer. Consequently, the Chief Finance Officer should be known as the Chief Value Officer. This book explains this new approach. It encapsulates the essential reasons for adopting integrated reporting, explains its application to date and proposes the next steps needed to achieve change that will improve business, social and environmental sustainability.

This book is a practical textbook for first-year students. It begins by describing the nature and environment of accounting and continues with an examination of the double entry book-keeping system. There are chapters on the principles which govern accounting practice and the presentation and interpretation of accounts. Inflation accounting is also covered as are cash budgets and funds flow.

Ziel dieses Buches ist es, mehr Verstandnis bei Anlegern, Managern und Studierenden fur die wechselseitigen Abhangigkeiten zwischen Wirtschaft und Finanzmarkten zu wecken. Anlegern soll das Buch die wirtschaftlichen Erfolgs- und Risikofaktoren ihrer Kapitalanlage an Finanzmarkten verdeutlichen. Jedoch werden auch gezielte Anlageempfehlungen gegeben und erfolgreiche Anlagestrategien sowohl bei Aktien als auch Anleihen vorgestellt. Manager konnen mit diesem Buch ihre betriebswirtschaftlichen Kenntnisse um wichtige gesamtwirtschaftliche Zusammenhange erganzen. Auch werden Ruckwirkungen von Finanzmarkten auf die Unternehmensebene transparent. Studierenden, vornehmlich der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, die sich des ofteren im Theorie-"Dschungel" schwer verstandlicher Paradigmen und praxisferner Partialmodelle verlaufen haben, mochte dieses Buch als Orientierungshilfe dienen."

As researchers reveal the increasing complexities of accounting practices in emerging economies, there is a growing need for an overview of the topic. The Routledge Companion to Accounting in Emerging Economies is a prestige work offering an introduction to current scholarship in the field, with indications of future directions for enhancing the contribution to knowledge. With regional coverage of key emerging economies such as Brazil, Russia, India and China, the team of contributors analyse issues in accounting in detail, while shedding light on the role of the accounting profession in providing accountability and governance across the developing world. Each chapter is headed up by an internationally recognised author who is a leading expert in designing and implementing research approaches to the topic. Within the team of authors, some are experienced senior contributors while others are developing new avenues of exploration on the basis of high-quality doctoral study. This range of author experience has been deliberately chosen to allow the reader to envisage working in such a team while growing in confidence. This unique reference offers a comprehensive guide to advanced students, academics, practitioners and policy makers on the current state of, and potential developments in, accounting in developing economies globally. This work will be of particular interest to students and researchers looking to identify topics in emerging economies, academics and practitioners seeking convenient access to an unfamiliar area, and established researchers seeking a single repository on the current state of knowledge, current debates and relevant literature.

Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research is a publication of emerging theory, methods, and practical applications for behavioral research within accounting and auditing. It is dedicated to promoting peer-reviewed research that spans all facets of accounting behavioral research, including but not limited to: applied psychology, sociology, management science, ethics, and economics. In so doing, it provides a unique, interdisciplinary forum for the discussion, development, and expansion of theories within these related subjects. This 24th volume features five papers from experts writing on accountability pressure and budgetary slack, whistle-blowing, limited attention, audit quality and auditor responsibility, and psychological contracts. Working on both the individual and organizational level, it is essential reading for accounting students and educators, with valuable insights on practice for those working in the field.

The recent financial crisis has sparked debates surrounding the nature and role of accounting in informing capital markets and regulatory bodies about the financial performance and position of a firm. These debates have drawn attention to the broader implications of accounting for the economy and society. Accounting and Business Economics brings together leading international scholars to examine the current state of accounting theory and its fundamental connection with the economics and finance of firms, viewing the business entity from not only accounting, but also national, economic, social, political, juridical, anthropological, and moral points of view.

The rapidly evolving nature of emerging technologies, and the transformative and disruptive tendencies offered by these are reshaping professional activities, operations and functions as well as value creation.Exploring the wide ranging implications of the use of multiple emerging technologies by professional accountants, Social Media and Cloud Technology Use in Accounting providing illuminating insights in an exploratory study that reviews emerging technologies within an developing economy.Femi Oladele and Timothy Oyewole present a robust analysis of the literature surrounding established concepts and constructs within Accounting and explore changes for training and the wider framework for all areas of Accounting practice.The results of an in-depth predictive and interpretive value-analyses of Accountants' Training Framework (ATF) and Perception (PCT) on professional accountants' use of SoMoClo technologies are presented.The book offers reviews of existing theories presented alongside a brand new theoretical framework, drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to define new conceptual understandings of this fast moving business area.

This new book, Restaurant Financial Management: A Practical Approach, provides valuable guidance on how to apply the concepts of accounting and finance to real-life restaurant business activities. This book is unique because it provides an understandable framework that breaks it down into three clear steps of applying techniques of accounting and finance to evaluate a restaurant business: It introduces how to consolidate major activities of a restaurant business into useful accounting information. It explains how accounting information is analyzed and then used to forecast the future. And it introduces the methods of projecting the future and determining the current value of a restaurant business. Using this approach, readers can develop useful knowledge on how to relate accounting and finance to a real-life restaurant business. Using an imaginary restaurant business (based on a real restaurant) as an example to demonstrate a series of relevant business activities, the book walks the reader through provides the restaurant accounting activities and shows how they provide meaningful information, giving the reader a bird's eye view.

Introduction to the Accounting Process brings clarity to to the process of setting up an accounting system, including a basic explanation of how to enter numbers into the system manually. The clear structure of the book provides students with good insight into the basics of accounting.

The book consists of four parts:

• designing an accounting system
• special entries and frequently occurring themes such as VAT, clearing of invoices and discounts
• international aspects of accounting, including ratio analysis
• an integrated case enabling students to show their knowledge in practice

The simple structure and concise nature of the book, combined with a useful companion website, will help students to improve on any deficiencies in the subject.

Volume 31 of Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting (SMFA) covers contemporary issues in performance measurement and management control.These papers are taken from 8th Conference On Performance Measurement And Management Control 2015. The topic of this edition is contemporary issues in performance measurement and management control. This is a broad topic by design with the intent of reporting on important research and issues relevant today. For example, papers in the book explore the following: Performance measurement and management control in emerging markets; the use of social and or informal controls; Linkages between creativity, innovation, and control; Innovative control practices in healthcare; Behavioral effects of alternative incentive schemes; Performance evaluation for different organizational designs; Performance measurement in high-performing firms.

The recent financial crisis has sparked debates surrounding the nature and role of accounting in informing capital markets and regulatory bodies about the financial performance and position of a firm. These debates have drawn attention to the broader implications of accounting for the economy and society. Accounting and Business Economics brings together leading international scholars to examine the current state of accounting theory and its fundamental connection with the economics and finance of firms, viewing the business entity from not only accounting, but also national, economic, social, political, juridical, anthropological, and moral points of view.

Environment management and protection are top global priorities. Between cyclones affecting more than 2.6 million people across Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, and tornadoes ripping through the Mid-West in the United States, climate change is front and centre in the public mind. The six papers in this volume of Advances in Environmental Management and Accounting provide much needed information for academics, practitioners and policy makers about environmental accounting and management in Africa. Despite one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) being Climate Action, very little is known about environmental accounting and management practices in Africa. Including research based on South Africa and Nigeria, two of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, the research here is a significant contribution to understanding these practices. This volume asks: how useful is environmental and social information to regulators, investors, financial institutions and practitioners? To what extend do food producers report on their water use given that water shortage is among the top 10 global risks? What influences the adoption of environmental management techniques? How do different environmental management practices affect the financial performance of Small and Medium-Sized enterprises? Are environmental management and reporting regulations complied with and if not why?