Finance and Accounting

This is the arresting 150-year story of one of the oldest and most illustrious merchant banks and of the men who made it. Founded in 1838 by an Am...

The role of government in East Asian economic development has been a continuous issue. Two competing views have shaped enquiries into the source of...

This book surveys recent developments in public economics by taking as a case-study the proposals for a basic income/flat tax scheme. It discusses ...

Since the early 1980s there has been an explosion of auditing activity in the United Kingdom and North America. In addition to financial audits the...

Transition Banking assesses the efforts since 1989 to develop financial sectors in the economies of Central and Eastern Europe. In finance above al...

Large multinational corporations shape our lives to an enormous extent. How is the growth, power, and significance of big business to be explained ...

The leading professional accounting bodies in Britain today boast more than a quarter of a million qualified members and accountants are moving int...

Capital formation plays a large part in any evaluation of economic growth and decline. In recent years the provision of capital in the British indu...

A complete guide to Forensic Accounting and Finance, this book is ideal for advanced-level students and new or mid-level forensic accounting profes...

New technology has revolutionized the nature and threatened the existence of traditional stock and futures exchanges. This book analyses how they h...

Since financial myths exploded in the 1980s, the perspective of time creates a unique opportunity to update and expand the analysis begun in Glenn ...

The essential premise of this book is that theory and practice are equally important in describing financial modeling. In it the authors try to str...

The book provides the investing public, real estates practitioners, regulators, and real estate and finance academics with up-to-date information o...

This book presents a radically different argument for what has caused, and likely will continue to cause, the collapse of emerging market economies...

Jointly sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, this book brings together experts from each...

This book is intended to lay out, in a clear and intuitive as well as comprehensive way, what we know - or think we know - about mergers and acquis...

This book takes a global approach, with an emphasis on North and Latin America respectfully, by discussing one of today's most controversial topics...

Elaborating on the concepts first introduced in Global Public Goods, this book addresses the long overdue issue of how to adjust the concept of pub...

Not since Edward Mason's groundbreaking book, The Corporation in Modern Society has there been a broad survey of the contemporary large business co...

Even as relations between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China continue to be strained, investment by Taiwanese businesses in China is growing...

Social Issues is a text for courses on social issues and policies. Given recent cuts in government budgets, issues such as taxation, welfare, healt...

The countries of East and Southeast Asia have the world's most dynamic money markets. Essential to the Asian economy, their performance plays a cru...