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A detailed look at how to calculate WACC.

Content: Article | Authors: John Martin Dervå, Tore Olafsen | Source: Financial Engineering News | Subject: Finance

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In addition to supporting dimensional profitability, emerging techniques such as activity-based costing can play a greater role in overall business performance management.

Content: Article | Author: David Southiere | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Finance, Management

This article offers a brief introduction to the basic concepts used in research on the stock market – specifically market efficiency and behavioral aspects of investing.

Content: Article | Authors: L. Wayne Gertmenian, Ph.D., Nikolai Chuvakhin | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subject: Finance

How much do chief executives know about company finances? CFO Magazine asked more than 300 CFOs to rate their boss’s finance IQ.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance

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The idea that there is a relation between risk and returns is a cornerstone of modern portfolio theory. And yet, the concept has yet to affect the way most companies manage the real assets of the corporate portfolio. It’s an enormous missed opportunity. It is possible to integrate a rigorous assessment of uncertainty and risk into the very process of setting portfolio strategy. The result … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Balu Balagopal, Guy Gilliland | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Finance, Risk Management

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Moving beyond the strategies that managers have employed to create shareholder value – now the standard for business performance – management experts James McTaggart, Peter Kontes, and Michael Mankins reveal their powerful new framework for the systematic, day-to-day management of shareholder value. The authors attack head-on the fundamental weaknesses in current management practices, namely, the stranglehold that budgeting has over strategic planning and the lack … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: James M. McTaggart, Michael C. Mankins, Peter W. Kontes | Subjects: Finance, Management

I think we may have a glimpse into the future of text books with this one. It is the new Introduction to Corporate Finance by William Megginson and Scott Smart.

From videos for most topics, to interviews, to powerpoint, to a student study guide, to excel help…just a total integration of a text and a web site! Well done!

At St. Bonaventure we have adopted the text … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: FinanceProfessor.com | Subject: Finance

A new survey from Accenture and the Economist Intelligence Unit finds a lack of awareness about the role of technology in improving finance operations. Here are the areas of mastery – technology, structures, processes and outsourcing – that organizations need for a superior finance function.

Content: Article | Sources: Accenture, The Economist | Subjects: Best Practices, Finance

Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) have a useful role in business financing when used appropriately. However, there must be transparency, and all parties must understand the risks.

Content: Article | Authors: Edward H. Fredericks Jr., Peggy J. Crawford, Ph.D. | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Accounting, Finance

Writing in Financial Engineering News, Kevin Dowd explains how to use Excel to calculate VAR and other risk measures. This will be VERY HELPFUL in class!!!

For instance: “To estimate the daily VaR at, say, the 99 percent confidence level, we can use Excel’s Large command, which gives the kth largest value in an array. Thus, if our data are an array called ‘losses,’ we can … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kevin Dowd | Source: Financial Engineering News | Subject: Finance

Many executives are searching for a simple, yet effective measure of overall operational performance. This paper posits that working capital productivity is an indirect indicator of a well-run operation.

Content: Article | Authors: George Stalk Jr., Harold L. Sirkin | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Finance, Management

Knowing how to determine the credit-worthiness of your customers may help save your business.

Editor’s Note: this article is basically a look at the Z-score Model of Edward Altman…

Content: Article | Authors: L. Wayne Gertmenian, Ph.D., Nikolai Chuvakhin | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subject: Finance

The stock price of any company reflects investor expectations for the future. If investors expect a company to do very well, and these expectations are reflected in a high stock price, then delivering on those expectations will not increase the stock price; it will merely prevent it from falling. The only way to create sustained increases in shareholder value is to consistently surprise the market … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Deloitte | Subject: Finance

If you have 40 minutes and want to learn a great deal about finance, listen (and/or watch) Rene Stulz’s presidential address. He gave this at the 2005 AFA meetings in Philadelphia.

The basic theme of his speech is globalization. He points out that the world is not yet flat and the “impact of financial globabilization has been limited.” Why? “…because of the ‘twin agency problems’ that … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: M Stulz | Source: American Finance Association (AFA) | Subjects: Finance, International

A business performance management system is only as good as the information – and the analytical methodologies – it contains. Activity-based management (ABM) integrated with BPM ensures informed decision-making as well as accelerated profit and productivity improvement.

Content: Article | Author: Gary Cokins | Source: BetterManagement.com | Subjects: Finance, Management