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- Capital Budgeting Analysis

- Creating Value through Financial Management

- Evaluating Financial Performance

- Finance Essentials Tutorial

- Financial Planning & Forecasting

- Introduction to Options

- Managing Cash Flow

- Mergers and Acquisitions(1)

- Mergers and Acquisitions(2)

- Professor Robert Shiller's Financial Markets Course at Yale

- Strategic Planning

- TeachMeFinance

- The Management of Capital

- Time and Money Web Tutorials and Tools

Links (68)
- .xls

- ABCs of Figuring Interest

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- Business Analysis and Valuation Model

- Business Valuation Resources

- Calculator Tutorials

- Center for Research in Financial Economics

- CFO PeerMetrix

- Corporate Finance Network (CorpFiNet)

- Corporate Finance Spreadsheets

- Damodaran Online

- DividendDiscountModel.com

- Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network

- Economic Policy Institute

- Economic Stats Briefing Room

- Economy.com's FreeLunch

- Fed Beige Book

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- Finance Test Questions Wiki

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- Financial Data Finder

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- Financial Scandals

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- Financing Your Business

- Free Excel Spreadsheets

- Glenn Kelman's Financial Model

- Global Database: Economics and Finance

- Glossary for Traders

- Glossary of Terms Used in Payments and Settlements Systems

- Historical Statistics on Banking

- How Finance Works (moneychimp)

- Hypertextual Finance Glossary

- Institute of International Project Finance

- Introduction to Options

- InvestorWords

- IPO.com

- Map of the Market

- Money: What It Is and How It Works

- MoneyChimp

- Multilingual Financial Terminology Database

- My Business Analyst (MBA)

- Northern Light Special Edition: Banking Industry

- Project Finance Portal

- Rice University Seminar Series in Finance

- RiskCenter

- Securities Class Action Clearinghouse

- Stocks and the Stock Market Resource Center

- StudyFinance.com

- Teachmefinance.com

- The 2001 Finance Education Special Report

- The Knowledge Guide to the Euro

- The Relationship of Brand Strategy and Stock Price

- The S&P 500 at Your Fingertips

- The Ultimate Valuation Guide

- Trillion Dollar Bet (PBS Nova)

- ValuationResources.Com

- Vernimmen.com

- Wachowicz's Web World: Web sites for discerning finance students

- What Was the Exchange Rate Then?

- William F. Sharpe's Website

- XE.com - The Universal Currency Converter ®

- Your Career in Finance

Articles (588)
- Does Market Efficiency Trump Behavioral Bias in Finance Decisions?

- Greenbaum on Corporate Governance

- The future of text books?

- The value of hedging revisited...

- "Every Crisis Begins with a Shock"

- "Going Private": Business and Procedural Considerations...

- $950 Billion in Extra Capital

- (Don't) Look Deep into My Lease

- 10 Cures for Performance Reporting Anxiety

- 5 Moves Toward Better BPM

- 6 Strategies for Payroll Best Practices

- 7 Steps to Optimize A/R Management

- 7 Ways to Ease Claims Pains

- A Better Way to Understand TRS

- A Better Way to Value Startups?

- A Fine Balance

- A Fresh Look at Merger Risk

- A Fresh Look At Mutual Funds' Performance Data

- A GAAP of Their Own

- A New Kind Of Business Case

- A New Paradigm for Managing Shareholder Value

- A New Vision for Accounting

- A Non-Random Walk Through Financial Innovation: Four Titans Explain How It Occurs

- A Phenomenon of the Market: Stock Market-Based Mergers and Acquisitions

- A Survey of Behavioral Finance

- A Unified Theory of Ten Financial Puzzles

- A Whole New Currency Game

- According to Form: Choosing the Right Business Entity

- Accounting For Higher Profits

- Accounting Reform: The Costs and Benefits of Marking-to-Market

- Accounting Returns Revisited: Evidence of their Usefulness in Estimating Economic Returns

- Acquired Tastes

- Activity-Based Costing in the Info Age, Part I

- Activity-Based Power App

- Adapting to the Winds of Change

- Adapting Your Accounting Practices to Triple Bottom Line Reporting

- Adding an Ethical Dimension to Portfolio Management

- Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

- After the Bubble Burst: A Groundbreaking Analysis

- After the Deluge

- Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity

- Agreeing to Disagree: Differing Beliefs Lead to Price Drift

- Align the Books

- All For One? Currency Fitting with Dollarization

- American Venture Capital Syndication from 1960 to 2004

- An ROI primer: Learn the basics and the key shortcomings of this metric

- Analyze This

- Analyzing the Analysts: When do Recommendations Add Value? (.pdf)

- Anatomy of the Cash Cow

- Are 'Mark-to-market' Accounting Rules on the Mark?

- Are Analysts Playing Us for Suckers?

- Are Stock Options In Your Future?

- Are Stocks Still Good for the Long Run?

- Are Unmanaged Earnings Always Better for Shareholders?

- Art of the Auction

- Asset-Based Financing Gains Ground

- Background Report: Employee Stock Options (.pdf)

- Backward-Looking Accounting

- Balancing ROIC and Growth to Build Value

- Bankers pay is deeply flawed

- Banking on International Financial Stability

- Basel's New Balance

- Battery Ventures Cuts Heads, Fees

- Beneath a Canopy of Options: Strategy in the Shade of Decision Trees

- Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function

- Bet With the Pros

- Better Options

- Better than Plan: Managing Beyond the Budget

- Better Than the Alternatives

- Birth of a New Budget Culture

- Blinded by the Light

- Blinded with Silence

- Boosting Overseas Revenues Through Foreign Exchange

- BPM's Lifeline for Capital Spending

- BPO Takes Off

- Brand Valuation: Why Measuring the Intangibles Makes Business Sense

- Brands: The Difficulty of Measuring the Intangible

- Bridging the Fx Tool Gap

- Bubble Trouble - And What Policymakers Should Do About It

- Building the Healthy Corporation

- Business Intelligence Buyer's Guide

- Business Magazine Covers as Contrarian Indicators

- Business Valuation

- Business valuation... the wrong way

- But for You I'll Charge an Additional 10 Percent

- Buy, Hold or Sell: Do Conflicts of Interest Mar Analysts' Stock Recommendations?

- Buybacks or Giveaways?

- Buyout

- Can ABM Outstay Its Welcome?

- Can the Market Add and Subtract? Mispriced Stocks Break the Rules of Efficient Markets

- Can't a dot-com get a loan?

- Capital Choices: The 2004 Capital-Spending Scorecard

- Capital Ideas: Back to the Future of Valuation

- Capitalizing on Economic Value Added

- CAPM: The Dangers of Calculated Risk

- Cash Flow and Outcomes

- Cash Flow Forecasting: Keeping Your Company One Step Ahead

- Cash for Growth: The Neglected Power of Working-Capital Management

- Cash Forecast: Cloudy but Clearing

- CFOs and the Board of Directors: Is finance doing all it can to improve oversight?

- CI For the Non-financial Analyst - Part 1

- Class Struggle

- Clearing the Capacity Cobwebs

- Close Encounters with Chapter 11: The Corporate Restructuring Alternative

- Commercial Paper Chase

- Communicating with the marketplace

- Comparing Performance When Invested Capital is Low

- Compensation and Cash Flow

- Compromising Positions

- Conducting Monetary Policy - Remarks by Governor Edward M. Gramlich

- Confidence in the Familiar: An International Perspective

- Conservatism in Accounting - Part I: Explanations and Implications

- Core Finance Trends in the Top MBA Programs in 2005

- Corporate Governance Standards in the United States for Foreign Private Issuers

- Corporate Hedging: The Impact of Financial Derivatives on the Broad Credit Channel of Monetary Policy

- Corporate Portfolio Management: Theory and Practice

- Corporate Short-Term Thinking And The Winner Take All Market

- Cost Modeling: A Foundation Purchasing Skill

- Courting Automation

- Create a user-defined function in Microsoft Excel

- Creating Value Through E.V.A.- Myth or Reality

- Credit and Collections Gain New Clout

- Crisis? What Crisis?

- Currency Risk: To Hedge or Hedge Not?

- Debt Linked to Lower Firm Performance

- Deflecting Check Fraud

- Demergers - are they the next wave?

- Derivative Wisdom

- Details, Details

- Did the SEC Gut Sarbanes-Oxley?

- Differences Between European and American IPO Markets

- Disagreement, Tastes, and Asset Prices

- Disappointment Without Prior Expectation

- Disclosure Practices of Foreign Companies Interacting with U.S. Markets

- Discretion Meets Disclosure

- Dissecting the Decline

- Dividend Policy, Agency Costs, and Earned Equity

- Do Fundamentals or Emotions Drive the Stock Market?

- Do International Financial Reporting Standards Live Up to Their Promise?

- Do Profits Matter?

- Does BPM Build Shareholder Value?

- Does Decimalization Harm or Help Institutional Investors?

- Does the Internet Lead to Increased Trading by Your Average Investor?

- Don't Expect Too Much of Your Share Price

- DuPont ROI Model Yields Business-case Results

- E-Procurement Grows Up

- Economic Value Added

- Economic Value Added (EVA)

- Edifice Complex

- Elastic Plastic: How Consumers Respond to Changes in Credit Card Limits and Rates

- Enhanced Business Reporting

- Enriched Performance Data

- Environmental economics

- Equity Loans: How to Sell What You Do Not Own

- Escaping Excel Hell

- ESOPs: Split Personality

- Estimating Risk Measures (How to use VAR, ETL in Excel)

- European Banks on Shopping Spree in U.S.

- EVAluating Mergers and Acquisitions - How to avoid overpaying

- Everything You Wanted to Know about Credit Default Swaps--but Were Never Told

- Excellence in Capital Projects: Leveraging the knowledge and scale of a portfolio of projects

- Exchange Shopping

- Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

- Expense Management: Better Ways to Buy

- Facing Up to the Possibility of Deflation

- Fair-Value Revolution

- Federal Offenses

- Finance Breaks Out

- Financial Reporting Should Include Customer Equity

- Financial Services Industry Sectors: Implications of the Split

- Financing Challenges and Solutions For Small to Medium-Sized Import Enterprises (.pdf)

- Financing Supply Chains

- Five Things You Must Know About the Fed

- FMA Online--Cliff Smith

- Foolproof Compliance For Your IT Systems

- Foolproofing Treasury Functions

- Forging a Stronger Supply Chain

- Four Principles to Consider Before You Choose A Lender (.pdf)

- From Buyouts To Small Biz

- From Consolidation to Regulation FD: Financial Services Face a Major Upheaval

- Full Disclosure

- Funding Fun House

- Future Finance: How Technology Can Help Create a High-performance Finance Function

- Game Theory Versus Practice

- Gearing Up to Go Private

- Get a Grip on Assets

- Get Real About Real Options

- Getting International Banking Rules Right

- Getting Technical - Trading with the help of stock charts

- Getting the Compensation Structure Right in the Mutual Fund Industry

- Getting the price right: The power of strategic intent in deal-making

- Getting the Right Asset Allocation Mix

- Getting to the Bottom of a Company's Debt

- Global Securities Markets Present Tough Challenges for Investors and Regulators

- Globalization of Financial Institutions: Evidence from Cross-Border Banking Performance

- Good Deeds Deliver

- Good to Rate

- Good Work

- Goodbye GAAP

- Goodwill to All Pieces

- Governance Mechanisms and Equity Prices (.pdf)

- Growth Options, Beta, and Cost of Capital

- Guess Again

- Has Bank Consolidation Been Good for Customers, or Bad?

- Have Banks, After 25 Years, Made Peace with the Community Reinvestment Act?

- Hedging Strategies for Uncertain Times

- Herd Behavior in Financial Markets - A Review

- History of Finance

- How Audits Must Change

- How Did We Get Here?

- How Employees Value (Often Incorrectly) Their Stock Options

- How Foreign Firms Can Attract U.S. Investors: Overcoming 'Home Bias'

- How Fractals Can Explain What's Wrong with Wall Street

- How Inflation Can Destroy Shareholder Value

- How Money Migrates

- How Private Equity Investors Value Entrepreneurial Ventures

- How Profitable are Your Customers … Really?

- How Profitable Are Your Customers?

- How the Inflation Illusion Killed the CAPM

- How to Beat the Budget Blues

- How to Become a GAAP Geek

- How to Collect from Anyone (Even Enron)

- How to Create a Smart Credit Policy

- How To Make E-Billing Pay

- How to Nab the Rogues: 10 Fraud Tips

- How to Raise Your Firm's Financial IQ

- How to use the Fama French Model

- How Well Do 401(k) Plans Work, and Who Benefits Most From Them?

- Ignore That Rate Curve

- In Case You Were Wondering, the E-Economy IS Different

- In Pursuit of a Cutting Edge

- In Pursuit of Procurement Excellence: An Interview with Randy Watson of A.T. Kearney

- In Sync: Why Stocks in Some Markets Move Together

- In Uncertain Times, Businesses Need Dynamic Planning to Chart the Course to High Performance

- Inside an Internet IPO

- Institutional Investors and Executive Compensation (.pdf)

- Intangibles Impact on IPO Success (research findings)

- Integrating Value and Risk in Portfolio Strategy

- Internal Audit in Flux

- Internal Rate of Return: A Cautionary Tale

- International Evidence on Financial Derivative Usage

- Interpersonal Effects in Consumption: Evidence from the Automobile Purchases of Neighbors

- Interview with Kenneth French

- Introduction to the Securities Laws

- Investment, Compensation, and Risk Aversion

- Investors all choked up over collars

- IPO Pricing in "Hot" Market Conditions: Who Leaves Money on the Table?

- Irrational Optimism

- Is growth good for shareholders?

- Is It Time to Get Rid of EBITDA?

- Is Our Industry Intellectually Lazy?

- Is Your Company Nudging the Numbers?

- Japan's Lost Decade: Lessons for America

- Japan: Land of the Hostile Takeover?

- Keeping Expenses in Check

- Laying the Groundwork for a Successful IPO

- Leading Practices in Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting

- Leading Your Business to Maximum Results: The Three Questions Every Executive Needs to Answer -- First

- Less Ado about Options

- Less-Taxing IT Systems

- Letting Down Your Guard

- Leverage and Investment

- Liquidity Rules: Manage innovation or risk repeating history

- Long-Term Consumption: A Microeconomic Approach to Studying Asset Pricing

- Looking for a Company to Run? Search Funds Could Be the Answer

- Looking for Evidence of Accounting Chicanery? Try Digging Deeper

- Losing faith in PayPal

- Love Your "Dogs"

- Lowering the Bar

- Lowering the Bar

- Luxury Goods and the Equity Premium

- M.P.T. - Modern Portfolio Theory

- Making the CFO Chief Profitability Officer

- Making the Metric Work

- Making Your Company Inflation Ready

- Man of Steel

- Management Lessons of Premium Conglomerates

- Managerial Entrenchment and the Debt-Equity Choice

- Managing for Value: EVA and Portfolio Strategy

- Managing the Derivatives Risk

- Mapping Out Your Options

- Market Due Diligence (MDD) - Analysis of Companies from the Market Point of View

- Market Mechanics: A Guide to U.S. Stock Markets

- Maximising shareholder value: an ethical responsibility?

- Maximizing the Value of Equipment Leasing

- Measures of the Future

- Measures of Value

- Measuring Intellectual Assets

- Measuring Long-Term Performance

- Measuring Returns on IT Investments: Some Tools and Techniques

- Measuring Stock Market Performance

- Mergers and Acquisitions: Reducing the Private Firm Discount

- Mimicking Repurchases

- Modeling the bid/ask spread: Measuring the inventory-holding premium (.pdf)

- Modern Finance vs. Behavioural Finance: An Overview of Key Concepts and Major Arguments

- Modigliani and Miller Meet Chandler: Organizational Complexity and Capital Structure

- MVPs of MVA

- Natural Performers

- Necessary Evil

- Net Income May Not Be The Best Way To Measure All Companies

- New Brand Day

- New Concepts in Value-Based Management: TRS Mapping and Total Economic Profit

- New Developments in Valuation: An interview with Tom Copeland

- New Payment Methods Give Old-fashioned Checks and Credit Cards a Run for Their Money

- No More Mr. Nice Guy

- Non-financial Performance Measures: What Works and What Doesn't

- Now Anyone Can Be a Venture Capitalist

- Now, Dow?

- Numbers Investors Can Trust

- Of Knock-ins, Knock-outs & KIKOs

- One Simple Test of Samuelson's Dictum for the Stock Market

- Online Asset Disposition: Finding Value in Surplus Assets

- Opening Up to Investors

- Operational Risk Poses Challenges to Financial Institutions and Regulators

- Optimize your Balance Sheet for Sustainable Growth (.pdf)

- Opting for Stock Options

- Options-Pricing In, CAPM Out?

- Other People's Money

- Out of Options

- Outdated Accounts

- Outlines Isolate Summary Data

- Outside Upside: Finding Focus through Finance Outsourcing

- Paperless Trade Finance: Pulp Fiction?

- Parlez-vous U.S. GAAP? IAS? Oh, Never Mind...

- Partial Clearing

- Patently Correct IP Risk Management

- Pay Dirt

- Pay for Nonperformance?

- Payback Time: Making Sure ROI Measures Up

- Paying Entrepreneurs to Find the Right Business

- Perfect Treasury For an Imperfect World

- Performance anxiety

- Pigging Out?

- Poison Pill Popping

- Poking Holes in a Theory on Markets

- Post-Acquisition Receivables Blues

- Powerful CEOs and their Impact on Corporate Performance

- Pre-Money

- Predicting Bankruptcy in the WorldCom Age

- Preparing for a financial crisis

- Private Banks as Corporate Shareholders: Lessons from History

- Private Equity's New Challenge

- Private Equity's New Path to Profits

- Pro Forma Earnings Reports: A Deceptive View of Performance

- Profit-Margin Math: Leveraging ABM Data for Exceptional BPM Results

- Project Analysis? Climb the Decision Tree

- Project ROI

- Purchasing Cards' New Velocity

- Questions of Value

- Raising Equity Online

- RAVE™: Integrated Value Management for Customer, Human Supplier and Invested Capital

- RCA at Clopay

- Re-examining Stock Options as a Way to Compensate Executives

- Real Options = Real Value

- Real Options, Real Opportunities

- Real Options: Valuing Flexibility in Strategic Investments

- Reality Check for Real Options

- Reconciling Efficient Markets with Behavioral Finance: The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis

- Red Ink

- Regulatory Challenges Facing U.S. Equity Markets

- Remaking Market Making

- Remuneration: Where We've Been, How We Got to Here, What are the Problems, and How to Fix Them

- Reporting: See-Through Finance

- Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

- Rethinking ROI

- Rethinking Stock Returns: New Evidence on Value Versus Growth

- Return of the Corporate Raiders: Bring Back the Barbarians

- Return of the LBO

- Revealed Preferences for Corporate Leverage

- Rewriting the Letter of Credit

- Right-Sizing the Balance Sheet

- Ring of Thieves

- Risk and Return in Emerging Markets: Family Matters

- Risk and Return: Some New Evidence

- Risks and Costs of Socially Responsible Investing

- Risks For the Long Run: A Potential Resolution of Asset Pricing Puzzles

- ROC Solid

- ROI: The IT Department's Moving Target

- SAB 101 Resource Center

- SBA Loans: Myths and Realities

- Secrets of the Private Equity Trade

- Seeing Activity-Based Costs

- Seeking a Smooth Ride (.pdf)

- Separate but Liable

- Separating Winners from Losers

- Shareholder Rights and Corporate Performance

- Shell Game

- Should I Exercise my Options?

- Should You Follow the Insiders?

- Six Steps to Improving your Planning and Budgeting System

- So Many Countries, So Few GTCs

- So, Why Be Public?

- So,why be public?

- Socially Responsible Investing: The Eco-Efficiency Premium Puzzle

- Softer Landings For Laid Off Workers

- Sourcing Goes Strategic

- Special Purpose Entities: Throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

- Special Report on 401(k)s: Dear Prudence

- Special Report on Travel & Entertainment Expense

- Spend or Cut?

- Spreadsheet "Worst Practices"

- Spreadsheet Hell

- Spreadsheets at Work: Rating Your Own IRR

- Starting Up on a Shoestring

- Startup Stock Options

- Still Thinking Of Doing An IPO?

- Stock Buybacks Speak Volumes

- Stock Indices

- Stock Option Repricing: Employees Benefit But What about Investors?

- Stock Options and Long Term IPO Performance

- Stock Options Aren’t for Everyone

- Stock Options: The End of the Affair?

- Stock Prices and IPO Waves (.pdf)

- Strategies for Going Public

- Street Smarts: What Are You, a Bank?

- Stress and Short-Termism (.pdf)

- Survey: 17% of CFOs Have Been Pressured

- Systemic Banking Crises: A New Database

- Take Stock When Using Stock In Trade Part 2: Stock and Options

- Taking The Fear Out of Factoring

- Taking The Frenzy Out Of Forecasting

- Tech Report on Budgeting Software: An Acquired Taste

- Ten Myths that Create Barriers to the Implementation of Activity-Based Cost Systems

- Ten Sure Signs Your Finance Department Is Second-Rate

- Thailand Builds a Bond Market

- The "Greening" of Corporate America

- The $33 Billion Phone Bill

- The 10 Biggest Booby Traps of Term Sheets

- The 14-Year Bear Itch

- The ABB Edge

- The Art of the Tie-In

- The Balanced Scorecard Meets BPM

- The Bank Cash/Book Cash Disconnect

- The Benefits of Transparency

- The Big Money for Big Projects

- The Big Payoff Of Quicker Payments

- The Buffett Approach to Valuing Stocks

- The Buyback Bust?

- The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence

- The Case Against Budgeting

- The Cash Flow, Return & Risk Characteristics of Private Equity

- The CEO’s Guide to Corporate Finance

- The Changing Use of Derivatives: More Hedging, Less Speculation

- The Conscientious Investor

- The Corporate Conundrum - Is It Better To Buy An Asset Or To Lease It? (.pdf)

- The Danger of Stock Option Grants

- The Devil's in the Details

- The Dynamic Relationship Between the Federal Funds Rate and the Treasury Bill Rate

- The Effects of Dual-class Ownership on Ordinary Shareholders

- The End

- The Expectations Treadmill

- The Fed Model: Flawed!

- The Foundations of Freezeout Laws in Takeovers (.pdf)

- The Future of Securities Regulation

- The Future of the Euro-Dollar Relationship Depends a Lot on the U.S.

- The Global 100

- The Global Treasury Squeeze

- The Great Divide

- The Great Stock Illusion

- The Greening of American Capitalism

- The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

- The Hedge Fund as Activist

- The Holes in Black-Scholes

- The Holy Grail of Shareholder Value Measurement

- The Illusory Nature of Momentum Profits

- The Impact of Clientele Changes: Evidence from Stock Splits

- The impact of corporate risk management on monetary policy transmission: some empirical evidence

- The Impact of Empowered Employees on Corporate Value

- The Impact of Market Design and Institutional Features on World Equity Market Performance: The Relation Between Market Design

- The Information Content of Share Repurchase Programs

- The irrational component of your stock price

- The IT Asset Money Pit

- The Limits of Financial Globalization

- The Misguided Practice of Earnings Guidance

- The Missing Assets: An Introduction

- The Missing Link

- The Myth of Smooth Eearnings

- The Next Frontier: Building an Integrated Strategy for Value Creation

- The Pack Mentality: A Behavioral Finance View of Stock Price Comovement

- The Perils of Impairment

- The PIPEs Are Flowing

- The pitfalls of EVA

- The Practice of Central Bank Intervention: Looking Under the Hood

- The Price Response to S&P 500 Index Additions and Deletions: Evidence of Asymmetry and a New Explanation (.pdf)

- The Project Management Advantage

- The Purchasing Chessboard: Buying in a Seller's Market

- The Rational-Behavioral Debate in Financial Economics

- The Real Cost of Cybersecurity

- The Real Power of Real Options

- The Real Value of Intangibles

- The Real World of Real Options

- The Reality of Real-Time Reporting

- The Regulator Who Isn't There

- The Relationship Between the Federal Funds Rate and the Fed's Federal Funds Rate Target

- The Right Role for Multiples in Valuation

- The Role of Central Banks in Fostering Efficiency and Stability in the Global Financial System

- The Role of Finance in the Strategic-Planning and Decision-Making Process

- The Second Annual Knowledge Capital Scoreboard: A Knowing Glance

- The Secrets of Great Due Diligence

- The Speed-Reading Organization

- The Tax Man vs. Hedonists

- The Top 10 Consolidation and Reporting Pitfalls and How To Avoid Them

- The Top 10 Traps of Budgeting

- The Unpredictable Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate

- The Value of Control

- The Value of Share Buybacks

- The Value-Based Management Commitment

- The Warren Buffett Business Factors

- The Weighted Average Cost of Capital

- There's Still a Lot of Life Left in These Old Economy Companies

- Think of a Number

- Thinking Differently About Dividends

- Thinking in Real (Options) Time

- Time for CFOs to step up

- Time to Rethink Performance Metrics and Valuation Methods

- To Guide or Not to Guide

- To Have and To Hold

- Too Much Cash

- Top Down vs. Bottom Up

- Total Shareholder Returns

- Toting Up Stock Options

- Training the portfolio

- Transaction Structures in the Developing World: Evidence from Private Equity

- Trash The Budget

- Treating Investors Like Customers

- True Finance

- Trying to Grasp the Intangible

- Turning Managers Into Forecasters

- Understanding Financial Statements

- Understanding Investor Sentiment: You Can Profit From Investor Mistakes

- Understanding Profits Through BPM

- Understanding the Linkage Between ROI and the Economic Rate of Return

- Understanding the True Cost of Sourcing

- Upfront: Focus on Control, Cost Management Falls Short

- Use a Rolling Forecast to Spot Trends

- Using Football To Teach Finance

- Valuation Essentials For CFOs

- Valuation of Intellectual Property

- Value reporting: it's time to act

- Value-Based Management and the Corporate Profit Centre

- Valuing Employee Stock Options: A Comparison of Alternative Models (.pdf)

- Valuing Intellectual Property

- Variabilization

- Venture Fund Distributions - Cash versus Stock

- Visible Options

- Volatility: An Eerie Calm

- Wall Street's Toxic Tool

- Want to Really Know How a Stock is Doing? Don't Just Look at the Company's Bottom Line

- Wanted: A Company to Call Their Own

- Warren Buffet Speaks Out on Derivatives

- Watch How You Think

- We Can Work It Out: The 2002 Working Capital Survey

- Weighted Averages Help Transfer Pricing

- What Does Your CEO Really Know?

- What Drives Companies to Repurchase Their Stock?

- What Goes Around

- What is Value-Based Management?

- What Makes Your Stock Price Go Up and Down

- What to Do When Traditional Diversification Strategies Fail

- What's a Stock Worth?

- What's Wrong with This Picture?

- What's Your Company Worth Now?

- When carve-outs make sense

- When Do Companies Outgrow Their Spreadsheets?

- When Labor Has a Voice in Corporate Governance

- When Less Is More

- When Shareholder Groups Complain, Management Would Do Well to Listen

- When the Gold Standard Lost Its Lustre

- Whither Now Dow?

- Who Rules Accounting?

- Why Banks and Telecoms Must Merge to Surge

- Why Bonds Aren't Boring

- Why Budget Games Don't Add Up

- Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

- Why Firms Restate Annual Earnings and Why Investors Should Beware

- Why Harvard Is Bad for Wall Street

- Why Is Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO) Important?

- Why Some Private Equity Firms Do Better Than Others

- Why the U.S. dollar keeps falling, and why we should care

- Why Your Bank May Cut You Loose

- Will high-tech CFOs adapt to slower growth?

- Will Real Options Take Root?

- Will Stock Prices Keep Falling? Look Again at the P/E Ratio

- Will the U.S. Trade Deficit Inevitably Lead to Monetary Crisis?

- Winning the Competition for Capital

- Working Capital Productivity: The Overlooked Measure of Business Performance Improvement

- Yanked from Obscurity: Why Finance Experts Are Rethinking LIBOR

- You Could Have Shorted Dot-coms: You Just Didn't

Cases (11)
- Cadbury Schweppes (A): The Strategic Dilemma of Trebor Bassett; Cadbury Schweppes (B): Managing for Value; Cadbury Schweppes

- DCF Versus Real Options, How Best to Value Online Financial Companies (with an Application to Egg)

- Enron unravelled

- Great Eastern Toys (D) Case

- How going global compromised Parmalat

- Interbrew's IPO

- Is This Any Way to Run a Railroad?

- Keeping Secrets

- Kremed!

- Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, NV: Financing from Start-up through IPO

- Log On America

Downloadable Files (19)
- Activity-Based Costing: Better Costing For Better Decisions
- BCG Value Mgmt Framework.ppt
- Economic Value Added: The Real Key To Creating Shareholder Wealth
- Estimating the real total cost of ownership
- EVA Valuation
- Financial Performance Presentation Template
- Financial Ratios Formula Sheet
- FRM2+Errata+Sheet.doc
- Inc.com Sample Financial Projections Worksheet
- Internet Valuations.pdf
- Knowledge Capital Scorecard
- Stock Valuation Models Spreadsheet
- Tax Schedule.xls
- The Warren Buffett Business Factors
- Time Value of Money Presentation
- Time Value of Money Spreadsheet
- Valuation & Return Dynamics of New Ventures
- Valuing an Expansion Option
- Valuing an Option to Delay a Project
Market Research (86)
- 401(k) Report Card
- Accelerating the Monthly and Quarterly Closing Process
- Aggregation Finding Its Place in Online Banking
- Are companies getting better at M&A?
- Asset-Based Financing in the U.S.
- Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) in the U.S.
- B2B Payment Activity Via the ACH Network
- Budget Process Benchmarks
- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Market
- Cards 'More Popular than Cash' in UK
- Charting the IPO Revival
- Corporate Barter Barometer Rises
- Cost of Being Public Soars
- Cost of Perks Piling Up
- Cost of Public Ownership in 2003
- Deception Perception
- Defined-Benefit and Defined-Contribution Plans in the US
- Derivatives Market
- Developing and Distributing Research in the Financial Industry
- Does Your Plan Measure Up?
- E-procurement ROI
- EBPP Promise and Reality
- Elastic Plastic: How Consumers Respond to Changes in Credit Card Limits and Rates
- Electronic Payments Market
- Email and Credit Card Payments Market (U.S.)
- Employee Severance Package Statistics
- Expense Management Automation (EMA) Market
- F&A Outsourcing Accelerates
- Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Market
- Firms Going Private
- Flabby or Fit? A Survey of CFO Readers Measures Finance Departments
- Forecasting Improves, While Closing Cycles Suffer
- Good Deeds Deliver - The Value of Socially Responsible Investing
- How Banks Stack Up on Underwriting
- Institutional Ownership Continues To Climb
- IPO Market 2005
- Is Finance Strategically Challenged?
- Leveraged Buyout (LBO) Activity
- M&A Statistics
- mBanking in Western Europe
- Much Ado About Dividends
- Online Banking in Europe
- Online Banking in Latin America
- Online Bill Payment Forecast
- Online Drug Sales Stats
- Online Investing Statistics
- Online Mortgage Market
- Online P2P Payment / Funds Transfer / Credit Card Markets
- Online Trading Market in Asia
- Online Trading Statistics
- Paper Checks and Electronic Payments in the U.S.
- Paper Checks and Electronic Payments in the U.S.
- Paying with Plastic
- Performance Management's Growing Pains
- PIPE Activity 2000-2004
- Price of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Declines
- Private Equity's Road Map to Profits
- Profit-Sharing and 401(k) Reality Check
- Purchasing Card Program Use
- Reduction in Restatements
- Rethinking Options
- Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Costs
- Sarbanes-Oxley Fails To Slow Fraud
- Shrinking Options
- Size of IPO Deals Heading Up
- Sizing Up World-Class Procurement
- Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Market
- Survey: Finance Department Pay Up 8%
- Survival of the Fittest? Financial and Economic Distress and Restructuring Outcomes in Chapter 11
- Tax Rates, DSO and the Bottom Line
- The Credit-Derivatives Market
- The Fed and US Banking Transactions
- The IPO Game - Leading Players and Typical Costs
- The Next Great Controversey: Pro Forma Earnings
- The Right to Bear Checks
- The State of Today's Finance Organizations (focus on IT)
- To Err Is Human, and Common
- Torrent of Capital Streams Through PIPEs
- U.S. 401(k) Market
- U.S. Banking Industry M&A Activity 1980-1998
- Uptick in Pension Plan Funding
- US Equity Lending Market
- Value of Securitized Trade Receivables
- What U.S. Investors Want from Corporate Websites
- Will Micropayments Make It Big?
- Wireless Financial Services (mBanking) Forecast
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- Associations Gateway

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- America's Community Bankers

- American Bankers Association

- Association for Financial Professionals

- Bank Administration Institute

- Commercial Finance Association (CFA)

- Financial Managers Society

- International Finance & Commodities Institute

- National Association of Personal Financial Advisors

- The Bond Market Association

- The New York Society of Security Analysts

