Authors:Robert A. G. Monks, Nell Minow,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: governance, corporate
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-03-07
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1405171065
ISBN-13: 9781405171069

The new edition of this successful text offers an indispensable guide to the key concepts of corporate governance every student and business professional should know. It includes more exercises and student questions, penetrating analysis of the latest examples of corporate failure and controversy, and the lively "cases in point" which have characterized previous editions. Features 16 case studies of corporations in crisis, including General Motors, American Express, Time Warner, IBM, and Premier Oil Contains an invaluable web link to The Corporate Library, the leading independent research firm

Authors:Robert A.G. Monks, Nell Minow,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: governance, corporate
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2003-12-19
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 1405116986
ISBN-13: 9781405116985

In the wake of the recent dramatic series of corporate meltdowns: Enron; Tyco; Adelphia; WorldCom; the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders. In addition to its authoritative overview of the history, the myth and the reality of corporate governance, this new edition has been updated to include: analysis of the latest cases of corporate disaster; An overview of corporate governance guidelines and codes of practice in developing and emerging

Authors:Robert A. G. Monks, Nell Minow,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: governance, corporate
Number of Pages: 542
Published: 2011-09-06
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0470972599
ISBN-13: 9780470972595

In the wake of the recent global financial collapse the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders.In addition to its authoritative overview of the history, the myth and the reality of corporate governance, this new edition has been updated to include:analysis of the financial crisis;the reasons for the global scale of the recessionthe failure of international risk managementAn overview of corporate governance guidelines and codes of practice;ne

Authors:Robert A. G. Monks, Alexandra Reed Lajoux,
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Keywords: governance, price, stock, special, situations, financial, bloomberg, flow, cash, portfolio, valuation, investment, analyzing, earnings, assets, corporate
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2010-11-09
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1576603172
ISBN-13: 9781576603178

A detailed guide to the discipline of corporate valuation Designed for the professional investor who is building an investment portfolio that includes equity, Corporate Valuation for Portfolio Investment takes you through a range of approaches, including those primarily based on assets, earnings, cash flow, and securities prices, as well as hybrid techniques. Along the way, it discusses the importance of qualitative measures such as governance, which go well beyond generally accepted accounting principles and international financial reporting standards, and addresses a variety of

Author: Mark J. Roe
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: corporate, governance, global, economy, new, legal, political, perspectives
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 1845421132
ISBN-13: 9781845421137

This insightful volume explores the issue of why some nations have deep securities markets while others do not, and investigates the new hope that securities markets could be the road to wealth and not just the result of it. This collection of key articles, together with the editor?s comprehensive introduction, examines the recently emergent theories in the field. 6 articles, dating from 1998 to 2003

Author: Oliver Marnet
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: governance, corporate, studies, routledge, rationality, behaviour
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-04-03
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0415437520
ISBN-13: 9780415437523

Corporate scandals due to bad accounting happen far too frequently for a system of corporate governance to be deemed effective.  This book tells why the safeguards designed to prevent bad accounting so often fail.  By studying why the auditors and members of a board of directors regularly fail to deliver the truth about a company’s financial state of affairs, this provocative book explores a serious problem in the system of reporting financial information.This book is unique in that it draws together various strands of the literature on corporate governance, accounting, law, cognitive rese

Author: Kees deKluyver
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Keywords: governance, corporate, collection, primer
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1606490044
ISBN-13: 9781606490044

This book is written for senior executives and corporate directors and is a primer on corporate governance - the system that defines the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different participants in the corporation, such as the board, managers, shareholders and other stakeholders, and spells out the rules and procedures for making decisions on corporate affairs. Corporate governance also deals with how a company’s objectives are set, and the means of attaining those objectives and monitoring performance. This book will help the reader become more effective as a participant