Finance and the finance industry

A comprehensive and fully up-to-date introductory textbook to Islamic finance and banking Islamic finance and banking is being used increasingly globally especially in the regions of Middle East and North Africa, South East and South Asia.

Updated and revised, this second edition applies advanced financial analytics within a strategic framework that recognizes an environment where sustainable competitive advantage is a progressively more difficult task.

Recessions are a recurring phenomenon and there are repeated debates about how to combat them when the crisis hits and after the economy begins to grow again.

There is a seasonal bias to the stock market, and by paying attention to the seasonal market tendencies you can gain an edge in the stock market over the long haul.

The comprehensive and crystal-clear companion to making the right acquisition decisions and executing them well: Acquisition is the most powerful corporate development tool available to companies and will therefore always be on the business agenda.

Elaborating on the concepts first introduced in Global Public Goods, this book addresses the long overdue issue of how to adjust the concept of public goods to today's economic and political realities.

An objective and perceptive account of the literature of monetary theory, this volume, by a central banker who has studied monetary theory over the last quarter of a century, clearly shows how its inherent complexity is much enriched by the study of its history.

Finanzielle Entscheidungen sind vielschichtig und komplex.

Annuity investment has become an increasingly popular option for many investors with the market topping more than $100 billion in sales in recent years.

This inter-disciplinary and wide-ranging study unravels the social processes of decision-making at the interface of central banks and financial market participants, and thereby raises important questions about responsible central bank governance and its obligations to stakeholders in society.

This book provides a critical analysis of the evolution of corporate disclosure.

Recent financial crises and instances of corporate malpractice have prompted many questions about how companies are run - and whether this tallies with how they should be run.

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A comprehensive introduction to the statistical and econometric methods for analyzing high-frequency financial dataHigh-frequency trading is an algorithm-based computerized trading practice that allows firms to trade stocks in milliseconds.

This volume provides an overview of United States federal and state law governing business organizations.

More extensive regulations, new technologies, and new means of communication have significantly changed the financing landscape for startups and small to medium-sized companies (SMEs).

Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real world of today's capitalist corporations and the alternatives?

Learn OECD guidance on business taxation in multiple countries A business that is not aware of all of its exposure to the tax policy of each country in which it does business may find itself paying more in taxes that the share of profit it generates.

Despite the globalization of accounting standards occurring through convergence to International Financial Reporting Standards, local accounting systems are deeply intertwined with each country's unique institutions such as its corporate system, disclosure practices and enforcement mechanisms.

Now in its 17th Edition, this book has been updated to cover the many significant changes to the tax treatment of UK property in recent years.

Edited by Nora Lustig, the Commitment to Equity Handbook: Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty (Brookings Institution Press and CEQ Institute-Tulane University, 2nd edition, 2022) is a unique manual on the theory and practical methods to estimate the impact of taxation and public spending on inequality and poverty.

Ordnung in das Chaos bringen Es gibt eigentlich nichts spannenderes als das Geschehen an den Finanzmärkten.

This book explores sustainable wealth management and the challenges that arise for asset managers in times of ecological crises and climate change.

In this long-awaited handbook, noted experts Charles Stone and Anne Zissu provide an enlightening overview of how securitization works and explain how future cash flows from various asset classes from credit card receipts to mortgage payments can be packaged into bond-like products and sold to investors.

This book is for actuaries and financial analysts developing their expertise in statistics and who wish to become familiar with concrete examples of predictive modeling.

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The Advisor's Guide to Group Life and AD&D Insurance is a unique reference that enables you to understand group concepts and specifically manage individual, real-world issues.

Housing and Home Unbound pioneers understandings of housing and home as a meeting ground in which intensive practices, materials and meanings tangle with extensive economic, environmental and political worlds.

'One of the best books on stock market investing that I've ever read.

FINALIST: American Book Fest Best Book Awards 2024 - Business: Entrepreneurship & Small BusinessHow do female entrepreneurs overcome hurdles, redress power imbalances and create a business with coveted unicorn status?

This book explores implications of the modern view of central banks rising from the proposition that words have no meaning beyond their use in a particular context and setting.

Lucille Orr, Principal of AWARE Properties and best-selling author of six books, has created a business opportunity and highlighted this in her latest book titled, AWARE - A Business in a Book.

This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective.

Many economies in the world are characterised by a bank-based financial system, that is, the financial intermediation process is mostly performed by banks.

This is the first book to focus comparatively on the development processes of finance in China and Japan during the prewar period.

Already in just a decade of existence, cryptocurrencies have been the world's best-performing financial asset, outperforming stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies.

Dans un contexte de stagnation économique et de dépendance aux rentes extractives, ce livre propose une lecture renouvelée de l’économie politique de l’Afrique centrale.

Accessible VBA coding for complex financial modelling How to Implement Market Models Using VBA makes solving complex valuation issues accessible to any financial professional with a taste for mathematics.

Environmental finance and green banking are central drivers of the transition to a sustainable economy and essential components in solutions to climate change.