Absolute Essentials of Corporate Governance (Absolute Essentials of Business and Economics)

This shortform textbook, a concise overview of the development and current state of corporate governance, provides a critical narrative on the field. Beginning with insightful historical background, the author shows how value-adding corporate governance involves&#12288; more than unthinking compliance to a recitation of statutes, regulations and principles, devoid of context. Features include basic definitions, reviews of theoretical governance problems, and a world-wide review of current governance provisions along with more detail on the UK situation. Revealing the geology of governance in the business world, the book highlights its progress set into a framework of regulation and law. &#12288; This textbook provides an a brief, authoritative summary of the field for two core audiences: as a reference for specialist readers, and as an concise introduction for non-specialist readers

Business & Money

Bloomfield, Stephen

Management & Leadership

Routledge

Product Description This shortform textbook, a concise overview of the development and current state of corporate governance, provides a critical narrative on the field.Beginning with insightful historical background, the author shows how value-adding corporate governance involves more than unthinking compliance to a recitation of statutes, regulations and principles, devoid of context. Features include basic definitions, reviews of theoretical governance problems, and a worldwide review of current governance provisions along with more detail on the UK situation. Revealing the geology of governance in the business world, the book highlights its progress set into a framework of regulation and law.This textbook provides a brief, authoritative summary of the field for two core audiences: as a reference for specialist readers, and as an concise introduction for non-specialist readers. Review "...Provides a platform that moves beyond unthinking compliance, with particular reference to the UK and Europe, concludes with a prescient global review [and] deserves the widest possible readership in the domain of corporate business."Gabriel Flynn, Dublin City University, Ireland About the Author Stephen Bloomfield was a member and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators for more than twenty-five years. After a thirty-year career in both public and private sectors, he has also lectured and led corporate governance teaching at institutions such as Ashcroft International Business School, Kingston University and London South Bank University, UK.

Understand what company accounts really mean and analyse what the numbers tell you, such as: Are the reported profits corroborated by the cash coming in? Do the margins look sufficient? Are the borrowings sustainable? Is future growth likely, or just wishful thinking? What might you reasonably predict? Are they trying to conceal something?

Reading Between the Lines of Company Accounts

Right Way Plus

Venture Capital Funding: A Practical Guide to Raising Finance

After the problems caused by the dot.com boom, there is now renewed interest in venture capital: private equity funds are reporting significantly increased levels of activity both in the UK and worldwide. The Bank of England regards assisting firms to become "investment ready" as the single most important task facing financial professionals over the next decade. This practical handbook provides advice and support for those considering attracting outside funding to their businesses. It describes step by step the mechanics of obtaining venture capital. Venture Capital Funding is refreshingly informal and conversational in style. Thankfully also jargon-free, it looks at every aspect of this fascinating subject, from deciding when to use outside funding, to post investment considerations such as what running the business with venture capitalists on board entails. The nuts and bolts of actually securing capital is broken down into the key considerations such as: the significance of the business plan, types of investor, targeting and attracting a funder, negotiation and initial valuation, the preliminary offer, detailed description of the "due diligence" process, investor strategies, and the types of investment instruments used. It also explores the variety of reasons for which funding can be sought and discusses the points in the business life cycle for which they are appropriate. An essential guide, Venture Capital Funding will enable anyone to understand the driving forces behind each stage of the investment process, and equip them to deal with venture capitalists and other professionals involved.

Economics

Kogan Page Business Books

Identifying and attracting the right kind of investor can be a difficult process. Venture Capital Funding gives a step-by-step guide for small and medium-sized businesses to obtain venture capital – from building a management team through the maze of due diligence procedures.
Though the book is firmly rooted in UK and EU practice, US entrepreneurs will nonetheless find the discussion of the nuts and bolts of venture capital of interest. The practicalities of competing for, and winning, additional capital are broken down into key areas, such as: the significance of the business plan, types of investor, targeting and attracting a funder, negotiation and initial valuations, the due diligence process, and the available investment vehicles. It also explores the many reasons why companies seek out additional funding, and discusses the points in the business life cycle when such injections are appropriate.

Finance

Kogan Page.

The Ethics of Species: An Introduction (Cambridge Applied Ethics)

Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance explains how the real world of corporate governance works. It offers new definitions of governance and new conceptual models for investigating governance and corporate behaviour, based on both practical experience and academic investigation. In examining the historical development of corporate governance, it integrates issues of company law, regulatory practice and company administration with contemporary corporate governance policies and structures. An extensive range of international examples, both recent and historical, is used to compare theoretical explanations of governance behaviour with practical outcomes. This book will be particularly suitable for students taking an ICSA-accredited course - giving a necessary critical view on governance, law and regulation - and will also be suitable for accountancy courses. Through utilising new conceptual models, it will stimulate debate among both theorists and practitioners looking to develop their expertise.

Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance: An Integrated Approach

Cambridge University Press

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Absolute Essentials of Corporate Governance (Absolute Essentials of Business and Economics)

Absolute Essentials of Corporate Governance (Absolute Essentials of Business and Economics)

Reading Between the Lines of Company Accounts

Venture Capital Funding: A Practical Guide to Raising Finance

Venture Capital Funding: A Practical Guide to Raising Finance

Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance: An Integrated Approach