A comprehensive dictionary focusing on financial and investment terminology. An essential reference work for anyone working in the City or related industries.

• More than 2,600 essential financial terms and acronyms covering the stock, options, futures and capital markets, as well as personal finance.
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Financial management is a core subject which provides unavoidable part of the overall business management. This book adopts a fresh and innovative approach to the study of financial management for the students of B.Com., B.B.A., M.Com., M.B.A. and other professional courses like C.A., ICWA, C.S. The text is presented in the simplest language with easy concepts. Each paragraph has been arranged....     View More Details

Globalisation and opening up of our economy has made it essential to understand the functioning of international financial markets which are private and unregulated.

This book presents an overview of the international financial markets including foreign exchange market, international money, banking, equity (stock exchanges) and bond markets. The ongoing international financial cr....     View More Details

The traditional approach to M&A was to restrict the emergence of monopolies. The modern approach embodied in the takeover regulations is meant to ensure efficient use of corporate resources and protect the interests of minority shareholders. The two streams of corporate restructuring are governed by different legislations. Company law governs mergers and SEBI regulations govern takeovers. ....     View More Details

This book is structured to cover entirely the syllabus of B.Com., B.B.M., M.B.A., M.Com., M.A., L.L.B., etc. and also serves as a basic guide for various competitive examinations such as I.A.S., I.E.S., C.A., N.E.T. and I.I.B.

The present volume contains 19 chapters devoted mainly to the study of Commercial Banks, Central Bank, Reserve Bank of India, State Bank of India, Money and Capit....     View More Details

MBA has been attracting students of different streams in large numbers, a recent change in trend, unlike a decade, earlier. This book is aimed at the students of non-commerce background, who always experience difficulty to understand the concepts and application of finance, in a simple manner and easy way to learn. In this book, all the topics have been dealt with in a systematic manner, in th....     View More Details

The book presents the concepts and practices of the working of stock exchanges in India. A comparison of US as well stock exchanges abroad, both developed and emerging, have been presented. The evolution from forward trading, badla, to rolling settlement has been traced.

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The basic function of a commercial bank is risk management. Banks have to adopt a risk management approach to maximise shareholder value/net value and to conform to the RBI guidelines (1999). Further the adoption of ALM and diversification of activities to earn fee income has resulted in the assumption of risks which had to be hedged by derivatives. Since major banks are foreign exchange deale....     View More Details

Investment Management has assumed tremendous importance for business planning and growth in today`s competitive scenario. It is an integral element of the core syllabi at MBA, M.Com., B.Com., BBM,  BBA, MFA, PGDBM, PGDFM, ICWAI, and ICFAI. This book presents an indepth and comprehensive coverage of investment management.

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The book has been revised from its original form offered to MBA students, Anna University revised stream 2009 regulations. It is now fit for general readers and students particularly of universities such as Madras, Bharathidasan and IGNOU offering International Business as a course/subject. The book also helps international business professionals to perform their business activities in a well ....     View More Details

Students from diverse backgrounds like Engineering, Pharmacy, Arts and biological sciences join a multi disciplinary course like MBA. Many such students have no earlier exposure to basics of Accounting and Finance. Most students keep struggling with this subject, hoping to pass somehow. Many students share the view, even after passing, their concepts are not clear.

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The book would serve as an excellent text for B.Com., M.B.A., C.A., I.C.W.A.I. (Inter/Final), C.S. and other competitive examinations of Indian Universities/ Institutes. The book has the following distinct features:

• Theoretical concepts, working rules, etc. have been explained in a lucid language with appropriate examples, neatly drawn diagrams, table....     View More Details

This book 'Financial Mathematics' is a comprehensive work on the requirements of academic course at the undergraduate level. The lucid and comprehensive presentation of the complex and advanced subject matter will help the students in easy understanding. The concepts are explained with number of illustrations for clear understanding of the subject matter. Fully solved conceptual practical prob....     View More Details

The field of financial mathematics has developed tremendously over the past thirty years, and the underlying models that have taken shape in interest rate markets and bond markets, being much richer in structure than equity-derivative models, are particularly fascinating and complex. This book introduces the tools required for the arbitrage-free modelling of the dynamics of these markets. Andrew C....     View More Details

The Book International Business Environment and Foreign Exchange Economics has been designed for management students of U.P. Technical University, Integral University and Lucknow University. The book provides a complete overview about the foreign exchange business correlated to environment of international business and economics. There are nine chapters in the book with comprehensive co....     View More Details

This book is designed as a textbook primarily for MBA students. It is also useful for Accountancy (Chartered and Cost Accountancy), Commerce and Economics students. The book covers concepts, illustrations and problems in Statistics, Operations Research and Mathematics. Part I deals with statistical techniques for decision making; Part II studies various operations research techniques for manag....     View More Details

The book is primarily intended to serve as a textbook for students pursuing Management and Commerce courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The book will also be useful for students of professional courses like AICWA, ACA, CFA, etc. 'Security Analysis and Portfolio Management' is one of the important subjects in which students are expected to have a good understanding of the bas....     View More Details

Cochrane approaches empirical work with the Generalized Method of Moments, which studies sample average prices and discounted payoffs to determine whether price does equal expected discounted payoff. He translates between the discount factor, GMM, and state-space language and the beta, mean-variance, and regression language common in empirical work and earlier theory.

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Governments use them to sell everything from oilfields to pollution permits, and to privatize companies; consumers rely on them to buy baseball tickets and hotel rooms, and economic theorists employ them to explain booms and busts. Auctions make up many of the world's most important markets; and this book describes how auction theory has also become an invaluable tool for understanding economi....     View More Details

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