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Global Corporate Finance: Text and Cases

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Global Corporate Finance, sixth edition provides students with the practical skills needed to understand global financial problems and techniques.

Retains the user-friendly format of previous editions while offering expanded material on corporate finance and governance, international markets, global financial dynamics and strategies, and risk management techniques

Each chapter begins with a real-world case study to be explained by theories and research findings presented throughout the chapter

End-of-chapter mini-cases further reinforce students’ understanding of the material covered

This edition is supported by a comprehensive Study Guide and an Instructor's Manual, available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/kim.

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Author:	Suk Kim
Hardcover:	544 pages
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date:	February 13, 2006
Language:	English
ISBN:	140511990X
Product Length:	7.7 inches
Product Width:	1.5 inches
Product Height:	10.0 inches
Product Weight:	2.85 pounds
Package Length:	9.76 inches
Package Width:	7.09 inches
Package Height:	1.5 inches
Package Weight:	2.73 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 3 reviews

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Abysmal. Biased and very poorly written. May 06, 2009 By look_its_tony
This is the worst textbook I have ever read. The authors embrace hopelessly unbalanced views; for a book purporting to be "global", it dotes almost exclusively on Japan and the USA. The language is so mechanical, trite and hollow that I have had to read most paragraphs several times to understand the essence.

Many terms are left undefined, but many concepts are explained in pedantic detail. As such the book is not well suited to either the beginning or advanced student of global money and capital markets.

Here are some gems:
"Critics charge that Japanese firms participate in keiretsu to insulate themselves from outside competitors in all aspects of operations. In Japanese, the word 'keiretsu' stands for large, financially linked groups of companies, but foreign critics translate it as meaning something else...they wag their fingers at kerietsu as barriers to everything."

"Apparently, Japan keeps most of its foreign assets in short-term capital as compared with the USA and other industrial countries, which do not. No wonder, then, so many Japanese banks are still suffering from bad short-term loans that they have made abroad in the past."

"The reserve account presents a great difficulty when one tries to classify its transactions as debits or credits. One the one hand, an increase in any of the assets represents a use of funds or a debit entry in the balance of payments. On the other hand, a decrease in any reserve asset indicates a source of funds or a credit entry. By the same token, a decrease in any official liability is entered as a debit, and an increase in any official liability is recorded as a credit. In other words, any transaction that finances the balance-of-payments surplus should be recorded as a debit (increase in reserve assets and decrease in official liability); any transaction that finances the balance-of-payments deficit should be recorded as a credit (decrease in reserve assets and increase in official liability."

The only "great difficulty" is trudging through this paragraph to understand what I think they are saying, that the reserve account has a credit balance.

A lot of information, but badly written. Apr 14, 2011 By PeaceCutter
This book has a lot of information - I mean a lot. There are some really useful gems in there. That being said, the language skills of the authors leave something to be desired. The monotonous reading makes for a very good sleep aid (and I actually like finance). The authors dabble in fancy sentences that end up being just confusing. Maybe the non-native English of the authors creates this phenomenon, but at the end, all it matters is that you have to re-read many paragraphs to get what they are trying to say.

Badly written, monotonous, very short-sighted. I wouldn't have purchased this book if it wasn't required by one of my classes.

Good Book May 06, 2010 By Lucis Ferre "Lucis Ferre"
Looks to be a very economically produced book. Contains a lot of relevant information to the topic without all the useless glossy graphics and pictures. Served my purpose very well.