Introducing... Essentials of Investments, 9th Global Edition, by Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane and Alan J. Marcus. We are pleased to present this Global Edition, which has been developed specifically to meet the needs of international Investment students. A market leader in the field, this text emphasizes asset allocation while presenting the practical applications of investment theory without unnecessary mathematical detail. The ninth edition includes new coverage on the roots and fallout from the recent financial crisis and provides increased content on the changes in market structure and trading technology. Enhancements to this new Global Edition include: - New `On the market front' boxes highlight important investment concepts in real world situations across the globe, to promote student thinking without taking a full case study approach. Topics include short-selling in Europe & Asia, credit default swaps and the debt crisis in Greece and include examples from Commerzbank, JP Morgan, Facebook, Coca-Cola, Santander, The European Energy Exchange, plus many more! - Revised worked examples illustrate problems using both real and fictional scenarios from across the world to help students develop their problem solving skills. Regional examples include Hutchinson Whampoa (Asia), The Emirates Group (The Middle East) and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (The Netherlands). - Revised end-of chapter material includes brand new global questions and global internet exercises that feature currencies, companies and scenarios from Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia to increase engagement for international students. - Global Edition of Connect Plus Finance, McGraw-Hill's web-based assignment and assessment platform with eBook access, helps students learn faster, study more efficiently, and retain more knowledge. This Global Edition has been adapted to meet the needs of courses outside of the United States and does not align with the instructor and student resources available with the US edition.

Get where you need to be with CORNERSTONES OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING, 3e, International Edition. Cornerstones delivers a truly unique learning system that is integrated through the entire introductory managerial accounting journey -- ensuring students will leave the course with the knowledge they need to be future business leaders. Students are guided through: Building A Strong Foundation: Students need to build a strong foundation of the fundamentals before they can move forward in this course. The unique Cornerstones approach gets them through the fundamentals FASTER so that they can transition to analyzing and applying concepts. Understanding Relationships: Rather than focusing on concepts in isolation, students should understand accounting as a system and recognize how the end result changes based on how the numbers affect each other. CORNERSTONES aids students in this step as an important part in training them to be good decision makers. Making Decisions: Armed with the knowledge they have gained from working through the other aspects of the Cornerstones approach, students are now given the tools to bring their knowledge full-circle and practice making good business decisions. Students love this approach because it presents materials the way they learn. Instructors love it because it gets students to master the foundations more quickly and allows more time to learn and apply the analysis and decision making of accounting. Get There with Cornerstones!

Finance is the life-blood of an enterprise and sound financial management is critical to the ongoing health and vitality of an enterprise - even the best companies can go out of business because of poor financial management. In Basic Financial Management the authors address the major elements and principles of sound financial management in an easily understandable and practical way, from basic accounting and financial statements to business statistics. The book opens with an introduction to financial management for marketing managers. The examination and analysis of basic accounting and financial statements that follow, use exercises and practical examples to reinforce the various financial concepts. The authors then investigate the capital requirements of an enterprise and discuss various ways of financing these requirements. Diagrams and graphs explain the important concept of financial break-even analysis. The book also considers different types of business budgets and shows how to manage credit and stock/inventory. It concludes with a detailed discussion on the increasingly important subject of business statistics.

A comprehensive look at the equity valuation process

With the "Second Edition" of "Equity Asset Valuation, " the distinguished team of Jerald Pinto, Elaine Henry, Thomas Robinson, and John Stowe, fully update information associated with this important discipline. Blending theory with practice, they detail the contemporary techniques used to determine the intrinsic value of an equity security, and show you how to successfully apply these techniques in both foreign and domestic markets.

Unlike alternative works in this field, the "Second Edition" of "Equity Asset Valuation" clearly integrates finance and accounting concepts into the discussion-providing the evenness of subject matter treatment, consistency of notation, and continuity of topic coverage that is so critical to the learning process.Addresses essential issues in this arena, including the equity valuation process, discounted dividend valuation, free cash flow valuation, and residual income valuationEach author brings his own unique experiences and perspectives to the equity analysis processDistills the knowledge, skills, and abilities you need to succeed in today's fast-paced financial environmentCompanion Workbook also available

Valuable for classroom study, self-study, and general reference, this book contains clear, example-driven coverage of many of today's most important valuation issues.

An application of the principles required to understand consolidations.

The primary aim of Financial Accounting: Applied Questions is to provide a spectrum of practical questions applicable to a typical first-year accounting syllabus.

The questions in this question book will test students' insight and will make a valuable contribution to the development of the skills required to be successful in accounting.

In this updated edition of the book, introductory aspects of cost and management accounting have also been included.

The content has been presented in simple, clear language which makes the book accessible to everyone.

We have aimed to keep the structure simple, concise and to the point.

This revised and updated fifth edition of Accounting for Managers builds on the international success of the previous editions in explaining how accounting is used by non-financial managers. Emphasizing the interpretation rather than the construction of accounting information, Accounting for Managers encourages a critical, rather than an unthinking acceptance of accounting techniques. Whilst immensely valuable for planning, decision-making and control, users of accounting information need to recognize the assumptions behind, and the limitations of particular accounting techniques. As in the previous editions, the book links theory with practical examples and case studies drawn from real business situations across a wide range of manufacturing, retail and service industries.

The purpose of this book is to set out the principles and conceptual issues of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). In addition, the book includes schematic summaries of the accounting and disclosure requirements of the applicable accounting standards.

The essential guide to fixed income portfolio management, from the experts at CFA Fixed Income Analysis is a new edition of Frank Fabozzi's Fixed Income Analysis, Second Edition that provides authoritative and up-to-date coverage of how investment professionals analyze and manage fixed income portfolios. With detailed information from CFA Institute, this guide contains comprehensive, example-driven presentations of all essential topics in the field to provide value for self-study, general reference, and classroom use. Readers are first introduced to the fundamental concepts of fixed income before continuing on to analysis of risk, asset-backed securities, term structure analysis, and a general framework for valuation that assumes no prior relevant background. The final section of the book consists of three readings that build the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage fixed income portfolios, giving readers a real-world understanding of how the concepts discussed are practically applied in client-based scenarios. Part of the CFA Institute Investment series, this book provides a thorough exploration of fixed income analysis, clearly presented by experts in the field. Readers gain critical knowledge of underlying concepts, and gain the skills they need to translate theory into practice. * Understand fixed income securities, markets, and valuation * Master risk analysis and general valuation of fixed income securities * Learn how fixed income securities are backed by pools of assets * Explore the relationships between bond yields of different maturities Investment analysts, portfolio managers, individual and institutional investors and their advisors, and anyone with an interest in fixed income markets will appreciate this access to the best in professional quality information. For a deeper understanding of fixed income portfolio management practices, Fixed Income Analysis is a complete, essential resource.

Step-by-step guide to successful implementation and control of IT systems including the Cloud Many auditors are unfamiliar with the techniques they need to know to efficiently and effectively determine whether information systems are adequately protected. Now in a Second Edition, Auditor's Guide to IT Auditing presents an easy, practical guide for auditors that can be applied to all computing environments. * Follows the approach used by the Information System Audit and Control Association's model curriculum, making this book a practical approach to IS auditing * Serves as an excellent study guide for those preparing for the CISA and CISM exams * Includes discussion of risk evaluation methodologies, new regulations, SOX, privacy, banking, IT governance, CobiT, outsourcing, network management, and the Cloud * Includes a link to an education version of IDEA--Data Analysis Software As networks and enterprise resource planning systems bring resources together, and as increasing privacy violations threaten more organization, information systems integrity becomes more important than ever. Auditor's Guide to IT Auditing, Second Edition empowers auditors to effectively gauge the adequacy and effectiveness of information systems controls.

In the Third Edition of "Managing Investment Portfolios," financial experts John Maginn, Donald Tuttle, Jerald Pinto, and Dennis McLeavey provide complete coverage of the most important issues surrounding modern portfolio management.

Now, in "Managing Investment Portfolios Workbook," Third Edition, they offer you a wealth of practical information and exercises that will solidify your understanding of the tools and techniques associated with this discipline. This comprehensive study guide--which parallels the main book chapter by chapter--contains challenging problems and a complete set of solutions as well as concise learning outcome statements and summary overviews.

Topics reviewed include:

The portfolio management process and the investment policy statement

Managing individual and institutional investor portfolios

Capital market expectations, fixed income, equity, and alternative investment portfolio management

Monitoring and rebalancing a portfolio

Global investment performance standards

Because of multiple changes from the amendment Bills to the promulgatedActs in recent years, and the many errors in the 2020 Bills, SAICA agreed topostpone publication of Volume 3 from December 2020 until afterpromulgation of the amendment Acts in January 2021.

Tax Legislation included:

• Income Tax Act (1962)
• Value-Added Tax Act (1991)
• Estate Duty Act (1955)
• Transfer Duty Act (1949)
• Securities Transfer Tax Act (2007)
• Tax AdministrationAct (2011)

SAICA Student Handbook 2020/2021: Volume 2 covers the following:

Volume 2A (1) - International Audit Standards
Volume 2A (2) - International Audit Standards
Volume 2B - SAICA & IRBA Pronouncements; Legislation; Governance

To ensure that SAICA Handbooks include the latest/new and revised standards issued after the IAASB 2018 version, a Volume 2A supplement is available HERE to order.

The supplement is a separate book published to include:

• ISA 220 (Revised), Quality Management for an Audit oF FinancialStatements, effective from 15 December 2022
• ISA 315 (Revised 2019), Identifying and Assessing the Risks of MaterialMisstatement, effective from 15 December 2021
• ISRS 4400 (Revised), Agreed-Upon Procedure Engagements, effective from1 January 2022
• ISQM 1, Quality Management for Firms that Perform Audits or Reviews ofFinancial Statements, or Other Assurance or Related ServicesEngagements, effective from 15 December 2022
• ISQM 2, Engagement Quality Reviews, effective from 15 December 2022 Conforming Amenments to ISAs and RelatedMaterial Arising from the Quality Management Projects

Preceding versions of these standards listed above will be omitted from the 2020/2021 version of the SAICA Handbook Volume 2A.

SAICA Student Handbook 2020/2021: Volume 1 includes Part A1, Part A2, Part B, Part C1, Part C2.

The Annotated IFRS Standards are standards issued at January 2020, reflecting changes not yet required.

The objective of the authors and publishers of Silke: SA Income Tax is to provide a book that simplifies the understanding and application of tax legislation in a South African context for both students and general practitioners.

About Financial Accounting Volume 1 deals with the concepts, principles and procedures of financial accounting. Volume 2 (suitable for NQF level 6) deals with accounting for partnerships, close corporations, branches and manufacturing entities.

This edition has been updated with the March 2018 Conceptual Framework and introduces Inter­national Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) to readers. The standards that are covered in Volume 2 are IAS 1 (presentation of financial statements), an introduction to financial instruments, and IAS 7 (cash flows).

The purpose of this book is to set out the basic principles and conceptual issues of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

The second European edition of Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy provides comprehensive coverage of financial markets and corporate finance, brought to life by real world examples, cases and insights. Placed in a truly international context, this new and updated edition takes an academic and practical view-point to guide students through the challenges of studying and practicing finance. Aimed specifically at an international audience, this edition boasts hundreds of references to new and relevant non-US research papers from top finance journals. Whilst retaining the well respected structure of the successful US text, Professor David Hillier has also made a number of additions which include: Fully updated research, data and examples in every chapter. Coverage of the global financial crisis, the impact it made on the financial markets and the lessons being learnt by the finance industry. A stronger emphasis on corporate governance and agency theory. Updates on accounting standards, bankruptcy laws, tax rules and tax systems.