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The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global body for professional accountants. With over 100 years of providing world-class accounting and finance qualifications, the ACCA has significantly raised its international profile in recent years and now supports a BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting and an MBA.BPP Learning Media is an ACCA Official Publisher. The new ACCA syllabus for paper P4 is about the practical application of financial theory to problems that managers face, such as investment appraisal, funding policies, risk management, growth, organic or through mergers and acquisitions and dividend policy. The paper also covers crucial issues such as corporate governance and ethical and environmental aspects of financial policy.The BPP text provides a comprehensive treatment of the new ACCA syllabus for P4 and addresses all learning outcomes and the higher skills to be assessed in the professional examination in an integrated and practical way. The material, despite the technical nature of certain areas, follows a practical, common sense approach with plenty of case studies and real life business examples. The key points of each topic are summarised in a chapter roundup and tested in a diagnostic quiz at the end of each chapter. A question bank at the end of the book provides practice on exam style questions.BPP Learning Media is the publisher of choice for many ACCA students and tuition providers worldwide. Join them and plug into a world of expertise in ACCA exams.
The examining team reviewed P4 Study Text covers all the relevant ACCA P4 syllabus topics. It focuses on how to apply the knowledge and skills of a senior financial professional to make sound financial decisions and/or recommendations for organisations. The material follows a practical, common sense approach and detailed case studies and real life business examples throughout the text will help build your understanding and reinforce learning. Key points are also summarised in chapter roundups.
The BPP Study Text provides a comprehensive treatment of the updated ACCA syllabus for P4. It addresses all learning outcomes and the higher skills required in an integrated and practical way. The material, despite the technical nature of certain areas, follows a practical, common sense approach with plenty of case studies and real life business examples. The key points of each topic are summarised in a chapter roundup and tested in a diagnostic quiz at the end of each chapter. A question bank at the end of the book provides practice on exam style questions.
PVaR is a new indicator for connecting risks to the most important questions in project management: when will the project be completed and at what cost? It is based on the widely accepted VaR financial indicator. PVaR will change how you think about project management and about risks. The book introduces the amazing progress and mini revolutions currently taking place in risk management and shows how project management and organizations could gain from it all. The book includes practical questionnaires and examples that will add value to your current project management practices. Will project management become more quantitative? Stay the same? Change completely? The insights in PVaR highlight the path ahead for project management.
World Class Strategies for Environmental Business Management Integrating scientific, regulatory, and bottom-line business issues, Rao Kolluru's massive "ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES HANDBOOK" shows you how to build sound environmental tactics into any corporate plan--virtually assuring long-term competitiveness, viability, and growth. Packed with case studies, this hands-on guide advises you on everything from assessing risk and reducing liability exposure to developing new products and controlling costs. Over 30 experts in law, business, and environmental science explain how to: apply proven pollution and TQM techniques; develop environmentally-friendly products; project a "green" corporate image; plan fully compliant production or expansion; make remediation cost-effective; defuse headline-making environmental crises; exploit new environmental investment opportunities; much, much more!
This book describes five qualitative investment decision-making methods based on the hesitant fuzzy information. They are: (1) the investment decision-making method based on the asymmetric hesitant fuzzy sigmoid preference relations, (2) the investment decision-making method based on the hesitant fuzzy trade-off and portfolio selection, (3) the investment decision-making method based on the hesitant fuzzy preference envelopment analysis, (4) the investment decision-making method based on the hesitant fuzzy peer-evaluation and strategy fusion, and (5) the investment decision-making method based on the EHVaR measurement and tail analysis.
Investment and risk management problems are fundamental problems for financial institutions and involve both speculative and hedging decisions. A structured approach to these problems naturally leads one to the field of applied mathematics in order to translate subjective probability beliefs and attitudes towards risk and reward into actual decisions. In Risk and Portfolio Analysis the authors present sound principles and useful methods for making investment and risk management decisions in the presence of hedgeable and non-hedgeable risks using the simplest possible principles, methods, and models that still capture the essential features of the real-world problems. They use rigorous, yet elementary mathematics, avoiding technically advanced approaches which have no clear methodological purpose and are practically irrelevant. The material progresses systematically and topics such as the pricing and hedging of derivative contracts, investment and hedging principles from portfolio theory, and risk measurement and multivariate models from risk management are covered appropriately. The theory is combined with numerous real-world examples that illustrate how the principles, methods, and models can be combined to approach concrete problems and to draw useful conclusions. Exercises are included at the end of the chapters to help reinforce the text and provide insight. This book will serve advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners in insurance, finance as well as regulators. Prerequisites include undergraduate level courses in linear algebra, analysis, statistics and probability.
Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.