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Enlist the help of an actual former CFO to introduce your students to the key financial management topics with the latest edition of PRACTICAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. Author, former successful CFO, and recognized instructor William R. Lasher captivates your students with unique insights into the issues and challenges facing financial managers every day. From a look at hidden agendas and the biases of decision makers in the firm to their effect on the analyses of financial proposals, Lasher’s practical, relevant presentation promises to keep students reading. This edition examines the latest financial developments, including the impact of the financial crisis of 2008-2009 on organizations worldwide. Throughout this edition, Lasher delivers an engaging, thorough presentation that is perfectly matched to the needs of today’s business students. He substitutes advanced math in theory sections with everyday math, numerous worked-out examples, and graphical and intuitive presentations. This edition even provides Thomson ONE--Business School Edition exercises to give your students experience using the same financial research tool that professional brokers and analysts trust every day. Lasher’s PRACTICAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, Sixth Edition, delivers the solid understanding of financial management your business students need for future success. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
This handbook in two parts covers key topics of the theory of financial decision making. Some of the papers discuss real applications or case studies as well. There are a number of new papers that have never been published before especially in Part II.Part I is concerned with Decision Making Under Uncertainty. This includes subsections on Arbitrage, Utility Theory, Risk Aversion and Static Portfolio Theory, and Stochastic Dominance. Part II is concerned with Dynamic Modeling that is the transition for static decision making to multiperiod decision making. The analysis starts with Risk Measures and then discusses Dynamic Portfolio Theory, Tactical Asset Allocation and Asset-Liability Management Using Utility and Goal Based Consumption-Investment Decision Models.A comprehensive set of problems both computational and review and mind expanding with many unsolved problems are in an accompanying problems book. The handbook plus the book of problems form a very strong set of materials for PhD and Masters courses both as the main or as supplementary text in finance theory, financial decision making and portfolio theory. For researchers, it is a valuable resource being an up to date treatment of topics in the classic books on these topics by Johnathan Ingersoll in 1988, and William Ziemba and Raymond Vickson in 1975 (updated 2 nd edition published in 2006).
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