Das Buch zeigt die Grundlagen der Internen Revision, mit Blick auf die Compliance. Der Rechtsteil behandelt wesentliche Rechtsfragen beider Unternehmensfunktionen. Der operative Teil orientiert sich an den typischen Revisionsaufgaben und Revisionsprozessen im privatwirtschaftlichen und im oeffentlichen Kontext - mit Spiegelung zu den Aufgaben der Compliance. Der Fokus liegt auf einer pragmatisch-praxistauglichen Darstellung, Erlauterung und Umsetzung der Berufsgrundlagen und Best Practices der Internen Revision. Das Werk bietet eine fundierte UEbersicht uber die Grundlagen und die Ursprunge der Compliance- und Revisionsarbeit - und geht dabei auf erfrischende Weise uber den sonst ublichen rein rechtlichen Rahmen hinaus. Der Bezug auf aktuelle Themen, verbunden mit einer direkten und offenen Auseinandersetzung mit Fehlern und Schwachstellen im System der Unternehmenscompliance, machen das Buch zu einer sehr lesenswerten Lekture.Joerg Nierhaus, LL.M., Chief Compliance Officer, Essen

Die enge Verzahnung von Theorie und Praxis macht das Werk zu einem Leitfaden fur die Einfuhrung von Vertriebscontrolling im eigenen Unternehmen. Der breite theoretische Unterbau vermittelt die notwendigen Kompetenzen, um die Methodik auf vorhandene Strukturen zu ubertragen. Es ist somit auch im Rahmen der Neugestaltung von Managementprozessen einsetzbar. Besondere Relevanz besitzt das Werk fur kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU), fur welche die Effizienz des Vertriebs ein entscheidender Erfolgsfaktor ist. Geeignet fur die Nachwuchsschulung im Unternehmen. Didaktik des Buches: Vorstellung etablierter Verfahren (Statistik, Kostenrechnung etc.), eingebettet in konkrete Handlungsvorschlage. Am Ende jeder Theorieeinheit folgen Verstandnisfragen zur Selbstkontrolle. Anhand von zahlreichen Praxisbeispielen wird die Wirkungsweise verdeutlicht. Dadurch ist der Einsatzbereich leicht auf die individuellen Erfordernisse des Vertriebs ubertragbar. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei bewusst abseits der Inhalte ublicher Handbucher zu den Themen Marktforschung, CRM, Kommunikationsgestaltung im Vertrieb.

Urban design enables better places to be created for people and is thus seen in Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process as a place-making activity, rather than the application of architectural aesthetics. Urban design policy can change the 'decision environment' of developers, financiers, designers and other actors in the real estate development process to make them take place-making more seriously. This book reports diverse international experience from Europe and North America on the role and significance of urban design in the real estate development process and explores how higher quality development and better places can be achieved through public policy. The book is focused on four types of policy tool or instrument that have been deployed to promote better urban design: those that seek to shape, regulate or provide stimulus to real estate markets along with those aim to build capacity to achieve these. Urban design is therefore seen as a form of public policy that seeks to steer real estate development towards policy-shaped rather than market-led outcomes. The editors set the examples, case studies and evidence from international contributors within a substantive discussion of the impact of urban design policy tools and actions in specific development contexts. Contributions from leading urban design theorists and practitioners explore how: * Masterplanning and infrastructure provision encourage high quality design * Design codes reconcile developers' needs for certainty and flexibility * Clear policy combined with firm regulation can transform developer behaviour * Intelligent parcelisation can craft the character of successful new urban districts * Powerful real estates interests can capture regulatory initiatives * Stimulus instruments can encourage good design * Development competitions need careful management * Design review can foster developer commitment to design excellence * Speculative housebuilders respond in varied ways to the brownfield design challenge * Physical-financial models could help in assessing the benefits of design investment * Urban design can add value to the benefit of developers and cities as a whole.

Dieses Standardwerk macht systematisch mit der doppelten Buchhaltung vertraut, ohne dass buchhalterische Vorkenntnisse erforderlich sind. Der didaktisch geschickt aufbereitete Lernstoff wird durch eine Vielzahl von Beispielen unterstutzt. Zu jedem Kapitel sind kurze UEbungsaufgaben mit Loesungen angegeben, die eine selbststandige Kontrolle des Lernerfolges ermoeglichen. Zielsetzung der "Grundzuge der doppelten Buchhaltung" ist die Vermittlung der Buchungstechnik vor dem Hintergrund einer Einfuhrung in die theoretischen Grundlagen der Buchhaltung und Bilanz. Damit bietet dieses Lehrbuch eine einzigartige Synthese von Buchhaltungstechniken mit bilanzanalytischen und bilanztheoretischen Zusammenhangen. Die achte Auflage berucksichtigt insbesondere die rechtlichen AEnderungen durch das BilMoG und seine Umsetzung im HGB sowie die relevanten Neuerungen aus dem Unternehmenssteuerreformgesetz 2008. Daruber hinaus sind alle wichtigen AEnderungen aus EStG und EStR eingearbeitet.

A DETAILED PRIMER ON TODAY'S MOST SOPHISTICATED AND CONTROVERSIAL TRADING TECHNIQUE

Unfair . . . brilliant . . . illegal . . . inevitable. High-frequency trading has been described in many different ways, but one thing is for sure--it has transformed investing as we know it.

"All About High-Frequency Trading" examines the practice of deploying advanced computer algorithms to read and interpret market activity, make trades, and pull in huge profi ts--all within milliseconds. Whatever your level of investing expertise, you'll gain valuable insight from "All About High-Frequency Trading"'s sober, objective explanations of: The markets in which high-frequency traders operate How high-frequency traders profi t from mispriced securities Statistical and algorithmic strategies used by high-frequency traders Technology and techniques for building a high-frequency trading system The ongoing debate over the benefi ts, risks, and ever-evolving future of high-frequency trading

Using a rigorous and concise framework, this book teaches the foundations of modern macroeconomic theory and its methods. It is ideally suited for students taking a first graduate course in macroeconomics as part of an MBA, finance, or economics degree. The book explains recent advances of modern macroeconomic theory with respect to growth, business cycles, and asset pricing by focusing on aspects of firm and household behavior that are embedded in modern macroeconomic studies. Throughout the book data issues are discussed in detail: where to find the data, how to download it, and the correspondence of data with model predictions. The mathematical level assumes that students have taken a course in calculus. With its emphasis on dynamic inter-temporal macroeconomics and the use of data, the book provides students with a core toolkit that will equip them both for more advanced study and for professional careers as economists.

'Fascinating' Stylist magazine 'A powerful reminder that we cannot discuss 'wellness' without also talking about the elephant in the room: money. This book isn't just about getting reconnected with a helpful app or spreadsheet but something much more important than that: it will inspire you to reconnect with yourself.' Emma Gannon Financial Wellness and How to Find It takes finance out of the business pages and into our personal lives. It tells us that the way we think about money has a lot to do with the way we think about ourselves, and the stories we believe about what we deserve. When you feel bad about money, it's hard to feel good about life. We focus on health and wellness as essential for happiness, but so often we choose to bury our heads in the sand when it comes to taking positive action over our finances. Financial wellness doesn't mean being rich, having a portfolio of stocks and shares, or being #debtfree. It's about understanding your emotions around money, knowing who you can turn to for support and being aware of your subconscious beliefs about self-worth. Melanie Eusebe, founder of Money Moves, shares the tools and resources you need to reset your relationship with money, and take charge of your financial happiness, whatever your situation, and regardless of the economy. Financial Wellness and How to Find It is empowering and essential reading for anyone who ever earned a paycheque (and spent it).

The $600 billion gorilla in the room

"Dr. Joe Koletar has provided an effective road map to the problem of occupational fraud, in both the public and private sectors, in America. Such frauds affect every American worker, shareholder, and taxpayer. His insights and ideas are an important contribution to the effort to fight this growing menace."
–– Congressman John E. Sweeney, New York’s 22nd District

"A superb and timely book for every executive to read. Joe Koletar has brought together all the works done in the past on occupational fraud and given us a road map of what needs to be done. It will be required reading for every candidate in an MBA program."
–– Thomas J. Pickard, Vice President, Corporate Security, Bristol-Myers Squibb and former Deputy Director, FBI

"Joe Koletar deserves high praise for this timely and trenchant analysis of corporate crime. Bringing to bear his extensive experience in the FBI and the private sector, Koletar dissects the roots of corporate fraud, the means to prevent it, and the best way to investigate it when it occurs. Anyone wanting to understand the current spate of corporate accounting scandals should read this book."
–– David Zornow, Litigation Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and former Federal Prosecuter

While occupational fraud has long been accepted as the cost of doing business, Enron, Global Crossing, and other high-profile cases have proven its potential for catastrophic damage to be significant. And, paradoxically, these headline-grabbing examples are only the tip of the iceberg. The lion’s share of the estimated $600 billion lost every year to workplace fraud comes from small-time kickbacks and "ghost vendor" scams that go undetected and unpunished. Fraud Exposed lets the white-collar crime cat out of the bag, presenting comprehensive, provocative solutions for eliminating occupational fraud. Topics covered include:

• Law enforcement response models
• Internal and financial controls
• Organizational intelligence
• Game theory and other fresh, radical perspectives
• Preventive and punitive measures

Auditors, fraud examiners, CFOs, and controllers will find Fraud Exposed to be an essential addition to their professional libraries.

Focusing on recent advances in option pricing under the SABR model, this book shows how to price options under this model in an arbitrage-free, theoretically consistent manner. It extends SABR to a negative rates environment, and shows how to generalize it to a similar model with additional degrees of freedom, allowing simultaneous model calibration to swaptions and CMSs. Since the SABR model is used on practically every trading floor to construct interest rate options volatility cubes in an arbitrage-free manner, a careful treatment of it is extremely important. The book will be of interest to experienced industry practitioners, as well as to students and professors in academia. Aimed mainly at financial industry practitioners (for example quants and former physicists) this book will also be interesting to mathematicians who seek intuition in the mathematical finance.

In recent years, household indebtedness in the United States reached its highest levels in history. From mortgages to student loans, from credit card bills to US deficit spending, debt is widespread and increasing. Drawing on scholarship from economics, accounting, and critical rhetoric and social theory, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins critiques debt not as an economic indicator or a tool of finance but as a cultural system. Through case studies of the student-loan crisis, medical debt, and the abuses of municipal bonds, Sharp-Hoskins reveals that debt is a rhetorical construct entangled in broader systems of wealth, rule, and race. Perhaps more than any other social marker or symbol, the concept of “debt� indicates differences between wealthy and poor, productive and lazy, secure and risky, worthy and unworthy. Tracking the emergence and work of debt across temporal and spatial scales reveals how it exacerbates vulnerabilities and inequities under the rhetorical cover of individual, moral, and volitional calculation and equivalency. A new perspective on a serious problem facing our society, Rhetoric in Debt not only reveals how debt organizes our social and cultural relations but also provides a new conceptual framework for a more equitable world.

Gary Gastineau and Mark Kritzman team up once again for the third edition of this classic reference tool designed for financial analysts and managers. Anyone involved in financial risk management must have a proper understanding of the words, terms, and phrases used in this fast paced field-and Dictionary of Financial Risk Management clearly provides that understanding. Risk management terminology is a part of almost any financial operation, including cash, forwards/futures, swaps, options-and is found in many disciplines: probability and statistics, tax and financial accounting, and law. The vocabulary of the risk manager continues to expand with the creation of new products and new concepts. This volume carefully defines and illustrates all the words and phrases that financial professionals need to know and understand. The Dictionary of Financial Risk Management includes listings of common acronyms, profit/loss diagrams of new financial instruments, and extensive coverage of derivatives and quantitative techniques. This invaluable reference guide provides comprehensive definitions of the key terms and concepts that many financial professionals need to know on a day-to-day basis.

Derivatives and credit derivatives have emerged as significant areas of interest in portfolio planning and risk management. In this book, Mark Anson examines the accounting and taxation implications of these instruments, including the new accounting rules for derivative instruments promulgated by the financial Accounting Standards in the United States, the Accounting Standards Board in Great Britain, and the International Accounting Standards Committee. Regulatory requirements for disclosing derivatives and tax considerations for derivative instruments are discussed (including TRA-97.)
Additionally, the book reviews the regulatory accounting deadlines introduced by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Dieses Buch erlautert fundiert und praxisnah, wie ein effektives und kundenorientiertes Forderungsmanagement als zentrale betriebliche Funktion ausgestaltet werden kann. Der Autor zeigt anschaulich, wie Risiken fruhzeitig erkannt, wie Ausfalle so gering wie moeglich gehalten werden koennen und damit die Liquiditat des Unternehmens sichergestellt werden kann. Er gewahrt ausserdem Einblick in seine langjahrige Erfahrung mit etablierten Loesungsansatzen und unkonventionellen Alternativen. Praxistipps und Entscheidungshilfen sowie Checklisten und Musterschreiben erleichtern die Umsetzung im Unternehmen. Die 2., uberarbeitete Auflage befasst sich intensiv mit dem Gesetz zur Bekampfung von Zahlungsverzug im Geschaftsverkehr, den aktuellen AEnderungen im Geldwaschegesetz, innovativen Versicherungsloesungen sowie der Reform der Insolvenzanfechtung. Ausserdem bietet der Autor einen erweiterten UEberblick uber zukunftsfahige Software zur Unterstutzung des Forderungsmanagements.

Lex Fullarton's book "Heat, Dust and Taxes: A story of tax schemes in Australia's outback" set in the picturesque but treacherous landscape in the Outback of North-western Australia, tells the story of one of the greatest series of tax avoidance schemes in history. This book is not only an interesting read, it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of taxpayer compliance behaviour development in the highly problematic area of mass marketed tax schemes. Dr Paul Kenny, Associate Professor in Taxation Law, Flinders University, Flinders Business School

A state-of-the-art introduction to the powerful mathematical and statistical tools used in the field of finance
The use of mathematical models and numerical techniques is a practice employed by a growing number of applied mathematicians working on applications in finance. Reflecting this development, Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics: A MATLAB?-Based Introduction, Second Edition bridges the gap between financial theory and computational practice while showing readers how to utilize MATLAB?--the powerful numerical computing environment--for financial applications.
The author provides an essential foundation in finance and numerical analysis in addition to background material for students from both engineering and economics perspectives. A wide range of topics is covered, including standard numerical analysis methods, Monte Carlo methods to simulate systems affected by significant uncertainty, and optimization methods to find an optimal set of decisions.
Among this book's most outstanding features is the integration of MATLAB?, which helps students and practitioners solve relevant problems in finance, such as portfolio management and derivatives pricing. This tutorial is useful in connecting theory with practice in the application of classical numerical methods and advanced methods, while illustrating underlying algorithmic concepts in concrete terms.
Newly featured in the Second Edition:
* In-depth treatment of Monte Carlo methods with due attention paid to variance reduction strategies
* New appendix on AMPL in order to better illustrate the optimization models in Chapters 11 and 12
* New chapter on binomial and trinomial lattices
* Additional treatment of partial differential equations with two space dimensions
* Expanded treatment within the chapter on financial theory to provide a more thorough background for engineers not familiar with finance
* New coverage of advanced optimization methods and applications later in the text

Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics: A MATLAB?-Based Introduction, Second Edition presents basic treatments and more specialized literature, and it also uses algebraic languages, such as AMPL, to connect the pencil-and-paper statement of an optimization model with its solution by a software library. Offering computational practice in both financial engineering and economics fields, this book equips practitioners with the necessary techniques to measure and manage risk.

Do you know what a balloon payment or a credit score is? A Sharpe ratio? A market-timer? Unfortunately, most people do not know these and many other important financial terms--until it is too late.
In The Finish Rich Dictionary, best-selling author David Bach defines and demystifies the language of finance, giving readers the power to understand their finances, manage their money more effectively, and plan for their future. This compact volume provides clear definitions (with frequent sample sentences and occasional usage notes) for terms such as "adjustable rate mortgage," "consumer price index," "Fannie Mae," "keiretsu," "Latte factor," "monetarism," "narrow money," "no-load," "Patriot bond," "rack rent," "Roth IRA," "Sallie Mae," "stagflation," "tiger economy," "value stock," "white goods," and "zaibatsu." In addition to the essential 1001 words, the book also includes many explanatory essays about important (and often confusing) topics. Readers can learn if they have a credit card problem and, if so, how to solve it. Other essays shed light on how to buy a home, the top ten money mistakes people make, understanding your credit score, how to hire a financial advisor, and how to plan for retirement. Finally, the book includes a list of common financial equations, an interest rate calculator table, and an extensive listing of books for further reading, making The Finish Rich Dictionary a truly practical all-around financial guide and reference book.
Whether you are a business school student or a homeowner taking out a mortgage, The Finish Rich Dictionary is the ideal companion to the complex world of money and finance.

Due to the nature of not-for-profits, fraud may be more common than it seems. This book shows how to recognize red flags of fraud, including cyber fraud. It offers a comprehensive learning approach using real-world examples, explanations of audit standards, and informative case studies that analyze several unique frauds which occurred in the not-for-profit industry. Key topics covered are: misappropriation of benefits, pledges and contributions, cyber fraud, and grant expense allocations.

EINFACH RICHTIG GELD VERDIENEN MIT FUNDAMENTALANALYSE Sie suchen nach einer verlasslichen Basis fur Ihre Anlageentscheidung? Sie wollen sich nicht blind auf den Markt verlassen? Sie wollen selbst den Wert eines Unternehmens prognostizieren? EINFACH RICHTIG GELD VERDIENEN MIT FUNDAMENTALANALYSE ist ein Einsteigerbuch fur Anleger, die nachhaltig erfolgreich mit Aktien Geld verdienen wollen. Clemens Kustner und Ulrich Krings stellen Ansatze vor, mit denen Sie Marktpreise hinterfragen und beurteilen koennen, ob Unternehmen und Aktien fair bewertet sind. Damit richtet sich das Buch an gewissenhafte und vorsichtige Investoren, die der Bewertung eines Unternehmens durch den Markt und dem Rat wohlmeinender "Spezialisten" nicht blind vertrauen wollen und sich lieber selbst ein Bild uber den fundamental gerechtfertigten Wert eines Unternehmens machen. Einfach richtig Geld verdienen mit Fundamentalanalyse hat einen sehr praktischen Fokus. Ihnen werden robuste Techniken und Instrumente vorgestellt, mit deren Hilfe Sie wesentliche Fragestellungen einer fundamentalen Unternehmens- und Wertanalyse beantworten koennen. Die diskutierten Ansatze werden durchgehend anhand von Beispielen und Fallstudien verdeutlicht.

The CFA Institute has announced that all 2021 exams will continue to reflect the official 2020 curriculum. Wiley's Study Guides and Test Bank for 2020 Level I CFA(R) program exam are proven to help candidates understand, retain, and master the CFA Program Curriculum. Complete with color-coded Study Guides and coverage of every Learning Outcome Statement on the exam. With over 1,300 pages of distilled knowledge from our staff of charterholders and instructors, these books are a highly effective and proven study aid filled with exam tips, fundamental concepts, and in-depth examples. Our authors have used their years of personal teaching experience with students from a variety of backgrounds to develop study guides that improve the study experience of CFA Level I candidates and include practical and helpful tips and test-taking advice though-out the text. The color-coding feature, which makes it easier for you to follow cases and examples that make references to graphs and sets of financial statements. Most subjects, especially Economics, Portfolio Management and Fixed Income use plenty of figures and diagrams to illustrate important concepts. Our study guides include all those figures and additional commentary to make the material easily understandable. The Test Bank features approximately 4000 multiple choice questions, with rationales and full explanation for the multiple-choice questions. Students can filter question set by subtopic and also view as 'new', 'seen before' and 'never seen before'. You can also randomize to prevent memorization, create unlimited custom practice sessions and tests. The Test Bank is optimized for desktop and tablet use. Just wanted to let you know I am VERY happy with the notes. Much more clear than other providers! --Brian, USA The Study Guides were more clearly and thoroughly (and yet somehow more concisely!) written than the competitors. --Vanessa, Spain Your study guides, lectures and practice questions are really helping me grasp these difficult concepts better. Thanks! --Amy, USA Wiley's prep material was a huge part of my success on the exam... Thank you so much for all of the support you have provided. I truly believe in the Wiley products, and will be recommending them to students for years to come. --Lindsey G, USA Looked at the economics module you sent me, the notes at University do not even come close, and its probably true for a lot of people, including those who have already completed an honors degree or MBA at some of the top universities around the world. --Geoffrey, South Africa

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine leicht verstandliche Einfuhrung in die moderne Finanzmathematik und erlautert grundlegende mathematische Konzepte der Optionsbewertung, der Portfolio-Optimierung und des Risikomanagements. Hierzu gehoeren die Preisbestimmung durch Arbitrageuberlegungen, die Preisbestimmung von amerikanischen Optionen uber die Loesung optimaler Stopp-Probleme, die Bestimmung von optimalen Konsum- und Investitionsstrategien und Erwartungswert-Varianz Portfolios. Aktuelle Konzepte der Risikomessung wie Value at Risk und Expected Shortfall werden ebenso vorgestellt.Grundlagen in Stochastik und Optimierung reichen fur das Verstandnis der Inhalte aus und zahlreiche UEbungsaufgaben mit ausfuhrlichen Loesungen sowie drei Anhange erleichtern das Selbststudium.

Mutual funds form the bedrock of retirement savings in the United States, and, considering their rapid growth, are sure to be more critical in the future. Because the size of fees paid by investors to mutual fund advisers can strongly affect the return on investment, these fees have become a contentious issue in Congress and the courts, with many arguing that investment advisers grow rich at the expense of investors.

This ground-breaking book not only conceptualizes a new economic model of the mutual fund industry, but also uses this model to test for price competition between investment advisers, evaluating the assertion that market forces fail to protect investors' returns from excessive fees. Highly experienced authors track the growth of the industry over the past twenty-five years and present arguments and evidence both for and against theories of adviser malfeasance. The authors review the regulatory history of mutual fund fees and summarize leading case decisions addressing excessive fees.

Revealing the extent to which the governance structure of mutual funds truly impacts fund performance, this book provides the best understanding of today's mutual fund industry and is a vital tool for investors, money managers, fund directors, securities lawyers, economists, and anyone concerned with the regulation of mutual funds.

Nearly seventy years after the last great stock market bubble and crash, another bubble emerged and burst, despite a thick layer of regulation designed since the 1930s to prevent such things. This time the bubble was enormous, reflecting nearly twenty years of double-digit stock market growth, and its bursting had painful consequence. The search for culprits soon began, and many were discovered, including not only a number of overreaching corporations, but also their auditors, investment bankers, lawyers and indeed, their investors. In Governing the Modern Corporation, Smith and Walter analyze the structure of market capitalism to see what went wrong.
They begin by examining the developments that have made modern financial markets--now capitalized globally at about $70 trillion--so enormous, so volatile and such a source of wealth (and temptation) for all players. Then they report on the evolving role and function of the business corporation, the duties of its officers and directors and the power of its Chief Executive Officer who seeks to manage the company to achieve as favorable a stock price as possible.
They next turn to the investing market itself, which comprises mainly financial institutions that own about two-thirds of all American stocks and trade about 90% of these stocks. These investors are well informed, highly trained professionals capable of making intelligent investment decisions on behalf of their clients, yet the best and brightest ultimately succumbed to the bubble and failed to carry out an appropriate governance role.
In what follows, the roles and business practices of the principal financial intermediaries--notably auditors and bankers--areexamined in detail. All, corporations, investors and intermediaries, are found to have been infected by deep-seated conflicts of interest, which add significant agency costs to the free-market system. The imperfect, politicized role of the regulators is also explored, with disappointing results. The entire system is seen to have been compromised by a variety of bacteria that crept in, little by little, over the years and were virtually invisible during the bubble years.
These issues are now being addressed, in part by new regulation, in part by prosecutions and class action lawsuits, and in part by market forces responding to revelations of misconduct. But the authors note that all of the market's professional players--executives, investors, experts and intermediaries themselves--carry fiduciary obligations to the shareholders, clients, and investors whom they represent. More has to be done to find ways for these fiduciaries to be held accountable for the correct discharge of their duties.