Quiry / Le Fur / Salvi Frequently Asked Questions in Corporate Finance

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-119-96069-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 516 Seiten, E-Book

The definitive question and answer guide to understandingcorporate finance
From the team behind the popular corporate finance website,Vernimmen.com comes a concise guide to the subject, presented in aneasy-to-use, highly accessible "question and answer" format. Anessential reference for students of corporate finance andpractising corporate financiers alike, Frequently AskedQuestions in Corporate Finance answers key questions infinancial engineering, valuation, financial policy, cost ofcapital, financial analysis, and financial management. Coveringboth the theory and practice of corporate finance, the bookdemonstrates how financial theory can be put to use solvingpractical problems.
* What advantages are there to a business looking to spin off itsdivisions into subsidiaries?
* Is there a formula that can be used to determine the change innormalised free cash flows?
* What are the possible reasons behind a share buyback? What arethe pros and cons of off-market share buy-back?
Filled with the answers to all of the most common, and not socommon, questions about corporate finance, the book presentsauthoritative, reliable information from a respected team ofexperts from the banking, corporate, and academic worlds.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quiry, Pascal

Le Fur, Yann

Salvi, Antonio

Dallocchio, Maurizio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Frequently Asked Questions 1
2 Topics 409
50 years of research in finance 410
Ten deadly mistakes in corporate finance 412
Five mistakes in corporate valuation 423
M&A: Six mistakes to be avoided 429
Rating agencies 432
Credit scoring 435
Behavioral finance: are investors really rational? 438
Micro-finance: helping the poor 444
Project finance 449
Corporate finance in Europe: confronting theory with
practice 454
Capital markets: some useful definitions 457
Transaction multiples: before and during the crisis 459
The making of an investment banker 469
Corporate finance books 472
Brainteasers - PART I 475
Brainteasers - PART II 478
Answers 481
True or false: test yourself 482
Answers 484
Crossword 487
Index 493

Über Autor(innen)

Pascal Quiry is a professor of finance at the leadingEuropean business school HEC Paris, and a managing director in theCorporate Finance arm of BNP Paribas specializing in M&A.
Maurizio Dallocchio is Bocconi University Nomura Chair ofCorporate Finance and Past Dean of SDA Bocconi, School ofManagement.
Yann Le Fur is a corporate finance teacher at HEC Parisbusiness school and an investment banker with Mediobanca in Parisafter several years with Schroders and Citi.
Antonio Salvi is Full Professor of Corporate Finance atJean Monnet University, Italy. He also teaches corporate finance atEMLyon Business School and SDA Bocconi School of Management.
Pierre Vernimmen who died in 1996, was both an M&Adealmaker and a finance teacher at HEC Paris. His book, Financed'Entreprise, was and still is the top-selling financialtextbook in French-speaking countries and is the forebear ofCorporate Finance: Theory and Practice.