Author: Robin G. Adams
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1789737877
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book brings together perspectives from economics, specifically minerals economics, to the management of global mining companies. It covers volatile price forecasting, cost analysis, investment decisions, and the social, environmental, and developmental impacts of mining.
Modern Management in the Global Mining Industry
Author: Robin G. Adams
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1789737877
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book brings together perspectives from economics, specifically minerals economics, to the management of global mining companies. It covers volatile price forecasting, cost analysis, investment decisions, and the social, environmental, and developmental impacts of mining.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1789737877
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book brings together perspectives from economics, specifically minerals economics, to the management of global mining companies. It covers volatile price forecasting, cost analysis, investment decisions, and the social, environmental, and developmental impacts of mining.
Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management
Author: Anand Sanwal
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470149604
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
If where an organization allocates its resources determines its strategy, why is it that so few companies actively manage the resource allocation process? "Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management: Aligning Investment Proposals with Organizational Strategy" goes beyond platitudes about why you should use corporate portfolio management (CPM) by offering a practical methodology to bring this powerful discipline to your organization. "Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management" takes an expansive view of where CPM can be utilized by demonstrating that it can be used across any business line, product group or functional area, e.g., IT, R&D, innovation, marketing, salesforce, capital expenditure, etc. CPM is appropriate anywhere discretionary investments are being selected and executed. As a result, other terms used to describe portfolio management such as IT portfolio management, enterprise portfolio management, and project portfolio management are all merely subsets or slices of CPM. The book is written by Anand Sanwal, an expert on CPM, who has led American Express' CPM discipline (referred to as American Express Investment Optimization). American Express' CPM efforts are widely recognized as the most extensive, substantial and progressive deployment of CPM across any organization. Sanwal avoids academic theories and consultant jargon to ultimately deliver pragmatic and proven recommendations on how to make CPM a reality. The book features a foreword by Gary Crittenden, former CFO and EVP of American Express, and several case studies from leading financial services, technology, and government organizations utilizing CPM. Additionally, the book has received significant praise from thought leaders at Google, HP, American Express, The CFO Executive Board, Gartner, Accenture Marketing Sciences, The Wharton School of Business and many others.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470149604
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
If where an organization allocates its resources determines its strategy, why is it that so few companies actively manage the resource allocation process? "Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management: Aligning Investment Proposals with Organizational Strategy" goes beyond platitudes about why you should use corporate portfolio management (CPM) by offering a practical methodology to bring this powerful discipline to your organization. "Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management" takes an expansive view of where CPM can be utilized by demonstrating that it can be used across any business line, product group or functional area, e.g., IT, R&D, innovation, marketing, salesforce, capital expenditure, etc. CPM is appropriate anywhere discretionary investments are being selected and executed. As a result, other terms used to describe portfolio management such as IT portfolio management, enterprise portfolio management, and project portfolio management are all merely subsets or slices of CPM. The book is written by Anand Sanwal, an expert on CPM, who has led American Express' CPM discipline (referred to as American Express Investment Optimization). American Express' CPM efforts are widely recognized as the most extensive, substantial and progressive deployment of CPM across any organization. Sanwal avoids academic theories and consultant jargon to ultimately deliver pragmatic and proven recommendations on how to make CPM a reality. The book features a foreword by Gary Crittenden, former CFO and EVP of American Express, and several case studies from leading financial services, technology, and government organizations utilizing CPM. Additionally, the book has received significant praise from thought leaders at Google, HP, American Express, The CFO Executive Board, Gartner, Accenture Marketing Sciences, The Wharton School of Business and many others.
The Price of Government
Author: David Osborne
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786736976
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Government is broke. The 2004 federal deficit is the highest in U.S. history. The states have suffered three years of record shortfalls. Cities, counties, and school districts are laying off policemen and teachers, closing schools, and cutting services. But the fiscal pain won't go away, and the bankrupt ideologies of left and right offer little guidance.The Price of Government presents a radically different approach to budgeting -- one that focuses on buying results for citizens rather than cutting or adding to last year's spending programs. It advocates consolidation, competition, customer choice, and a relentless focus on results to save millions while improving public services.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786736976
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Government is broke. The 2004 federal deficit is the highest in U.S. history. The states have suffered three years of record shortfalls. Cities, counties, and school districts are laying off policemen and teachers, closing schools, and cutting services. But the fiscal pain won't go away, and the bankrupt ideologies of left and right offer little guidance.The Price of Government presents a radically different approach to budgeting -- one that focuses on buying results for citizens rather than cutting or adding to last year's spending programs. It advocates consolidation, competition, customer choice, and a relentless focus on results to save millions while improving public services.
Modern Investment Management and the Prudent Man Rule
Author: Bevis Longstreth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195364694
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In recent years the field of finance has exploded with innovation. New products, services and techniques abound. The risks of inflation, the volatility of interest rates, the deregulation of financial intermediaries and the unbundling of financial services have combined to present investment managers with challenges and opportunities far greater than in the past. For trustees and managers of pension, trust, endowment, and similar funds, the task of meeting the challenges and exploiting the opportunities is much more difficult. These fiduciaries must measure their investment decisions against constrained interpretations of a legal standard--the prudent man rule--that have caused it to lag far behind changes in investment theory and the marketplace. Drawing on financial history, a major opinion survey of institutional investors, and comprehensive reviews of the law and of the lessons of modern portfolio theory for prudence, this book presents a powerful case that the prudent man rule as elaborated in legal treatises and much of the case law would virtually compel a fiduciary to act imprudently in terms of financial theory and marketplace reality. In proposing a modern paradigm of investment prudence, the book uses illustrations drawn from such traditionally suspect categories of investment fiduciaries as securities lending, real estate, venture capital, options and futures and repurchaser agreements. An unusual examination of the interaction of the worlds of law and finance, this work will be of interest to fiduciaries who are subject to some from of prudent man rule and all others, including judges, lawyers and investment managers, who are called upon to interpret and apply that legal standard.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195364694
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In recent years the field of finance has exploded with innovation. New products, services and techniques abound. The risks of inflation, the volatility of interest rates, the deregulation of financial intermediaries and the unbundling of financial services have combined to present investment managers with challenges and opportunities far greater than in the past. For trustees and managers of pension, trust, endowment, and similar funds, the task of meeting the challenges and exploiting the opportunities is much more difficult. These fiduciaries must measure their investment decisions against constrained interpretations of a legal standard--the prudent man rule--that have caused it to lag far behind changes in investment theory and the marketplace. Drawing on financial history, a major opinion survey of institutional investors, and comprehensive reviews of the law and of the lessons of modern portfolio theory for prudence, this book presents a powerful case that the prudent man rule as elaborated in legal treatises and much of the case law would virtually compel a fiduciary to act imprudently in terms of financial theory and marketplace reality. In proposing a modern paradigm of investment prudence, the book uses illustrations drawn from such traditionally suspect categories of investment fiduciaries as securities lending, real estate, venture capital, options and futures and repurchaser agreements. An unusual examination of the interaction of the worlds of law and finance, this work will be of interest to fiduciaries who are subject to some from of prudent man rule and all others, including judges, lawyers and investment managers, who are called upon to interpret and apply that legal standard.
The Capital-expenditure Decision-making Process in Forty-eight Large Corporations
Author: Donald F. Istvan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital investments
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital investments
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Adapting the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's global estate to the modern world
Author: Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780102963496
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office lacks a clear strategy and comprehensive data to manage its overseas estate effectively. It is taking positive steps to adapt its properties to new global challenges but has not achieved value for money in the management of its estate as a whole. Without a clear framework to assess the estate's performance, it is difficult to evaluate the Department's progress. The Department has recently appointed an estates specialist as Director of Estates and Security who is developing a new strategy which should help secure improved value for money in the future. There are several factors, such as changing political issues, security restrictions and exchange rate pressures, which add to the complexity of managing the global estate. But lack of adequate financial and management information about the estate hampers good decision making on efficient use of space and the identification of surplus assets for potential sale. The management of projects to improve the estate could be better: a third of the projects that the NAO analysed exceeded their initial approved budget by over 10 per cent and two-thirds were delivered late. The total cost overrun since 2002 is approximately £57 million, against a total spent on capital projects of £250 million. The FCO does not always use space in its posts efficiently. Over half of the posts that responded to the NAO's survey have unused office space or staff accommodation. The FCO could do more to promote the use of its overseas estate by other UK government organisations where feasible.
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780102963496
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office lacks a clear strategy and comprehensive data to manage its overseas estate effectively. It is taking positive steps to adapt its properties to new global challenges but has not achieved value for money in the management of its estate as a whole. Without a clear framework to assess the estate's performance, it is difficult to evaluate the Department's progress. The Department has recently appointed an estates specialist as Director of Estates and Security who is developing a new strategy which should help secure improved value for money in the future. There are several factors, such as changing political issues, security restrictions and exchange rate pressures, which add to the complexity of managing the global estate. But lack of adequate financial and management information about the estate hampers good decision making on efficient use of space and the identification of surplus assets for potential sale. The management of projects to improve the estate could be better: a third of the projects that the NAO analysed exceeded their initial approved budget by over 10 per cent and two-thirds were delivered late. The total cost overrun since 2002 is approximately £57 million, against a total spent on capital projects of £250 million. The FCO does not always use space in its posts efficiently. Over half of the posts that responded to the NAO's survey have unused office space or staff accommodation. The FCO could do more to promote the use of its overseas estate by other UK government organisations where feasible.
Modern Budgeting
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926416216X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
This publication examines how five Member countries -- Australia, France, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom -- have implemented budgeting reforms and offers an early assessment of the progress of those reforms.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926416216X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
This publication examines how five Member countries -- Australia, France, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom -- have implemented budgeting reforms and offers an early assessment of the progress of those reforms.
A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing
Author: Thomas P. Au
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471652377
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An updated approach to classic security analysis The principles of value investing outlined by Graham and Dodd in the 1940s continues to be used today by individuals and companies who face challenging investment decisions. A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing examines the classic Graham and Dodd approach to valuation and updates it for the twenty-first century. Thomas Au, a credentialed analyst with a leading insurance company and an ex-Value Line analyst, reworks the basics of value investing from net present value, financial statement analysis, and return on capital to return and leverage, asset allocation, and diversification. Through case studies and real-time analysis, A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing presents readers with examples that will make analysis and portfolio theory more relevant and powerful. Thomas P. Au (Hartford, CT) is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager for the investment arm of a large insurance and healthcare provider. His specialty is emerging and international markets. He received his BA, cum laude, with a double major in economics and history, from Yale University, and an MBA in finance from New York University.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471652377
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An updated approach to classic security analysis The principles of value investing outlined by Graham and Dodd in the 1940s continues to be used today by individuals and companies who face challenging investment decisions. A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing examines the classic Graham and Dodd approach to valuation and updates it for the twenty-first century. Thomas Au, a credentialed analyst with a leading insurance company and an ex-Value Line analyst, reworks the basics of value investing from net present value, financial statement analysis, and return on capital to return and leverage, asset allocation, and diversification. Through case studies and real-time analysis, A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing presents readers with examples that will make analysis and portfolio theory more relevant and powerful. Thomas P. Au (Hartford, CT) is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager for the investment arm of a large insurance and healthcare provider. His specialty is emerging and international markets. He received his BA, cum laude, with a double major in economics and history, from Yale University, and an MBA in finance from New York University.
Modern Investment Management
Author: Bob Litterman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471480657
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Dieser Band füllt eine echte Marktlücke. "Goldman Sach's Modern Investment" gibt eine Einführung in moderne Investment Management Verfahren, wie sie von Goldman Sachs Asset Management verwendet werden, um erstklassige Investitionsrenditen zu erzielen. Erläutert werden u.a. die moderne Portfoliotheorie (Portfoliodiversifikation zur Risikostreuung), Capital Asset Pricing (Verfahren zur Ermittlung des Risiko-Rendite-Austauschverhältnisses von Finanzanlagen, bei dem der unterschiedliche Risikogehalt von Finanztiteln berücksichtigt wird) sowie eine Reihe aktueller Themen wie z.B. strategische Portfoliostrukturierung, Risikobudgetierung und aktives Portfolio Management. Hier erhalten Sie die Mittel an die Hand, um die Goldman Sachs Asset Management Methode für sich selbst umzusetzen. Das von Fischer Black und Bob Litterman gemeinsam entwickelte Black-Litterman Asset Allocation Model gehört zu den angesehensten und meist verwendeten Modellen zur Portfoliostrukturierung. Litterman und seine Asset Management Group sind oft die treibende Kraft, wenn es um Portfoliostrukturierung und Investmententscheidungen der 100 international größten Pensionsfonds geht.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471480657
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Dieser Band füllt eine echte Marktlücke. "Goldman Sach's Modern Investment" gibt eine Einführung in moderne Investment Management Verfahren, wie sie von Goldman Sachs Asset Management verwendet werden, um erstklassige Investitionsrenditen zu erzielen. Erläutert werden u.a. die moderne Portfoliotheorie (Portfoliodiversifikation zur Risikostreuung), Capital Asset Pricing (Verfahren zur Ermittlung des Risiko-Rendite-Austauschverhältnisses von Finanzanlagen, bei dem der unterschiedliche Risikogehalt von Finanztiteln berücksichtigt wird) sowie eine Reihe aktueller Themen wie z.B. strategische Portfoliostrukturierung, Risikobudgetierung und aktives Portfolio Management. Hier erhalten Sie die Mittel an die Hand, um die Goldman Sachs Asset Management Methode für sich selbst umzusetzen. Das von Fischer Black und Bob Litterman gemeinsam entwickelte Black-Litterman Asset Allocation Model gehört zu den angesehensten und meist verwendeten Modellen zur Portfoliostrukturierung. Litterman und seine Asset Management Group sind oft die treibende Kraft, wenn es um Portfoliostrukturierung und Investmententscheidungen der 100 international größten Pensionsfonds geht.
Modern Logistics Management
Author: John F. Magee
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471812616
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This comprehensive overview of logistics provides a conceptual framework for understanding the logistics system, the integration of its basic elements, and its relationship to the overall firm. Discusses both manufacturing and physical distribution, new technologies in each of these areas, and how they related to each other and to the company. New topics covered range from approaches to strategic logistics planning and multi-location inventory planning, to international logistics issues and future directions. Includes case studies.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471812616
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This comprehensive overview of logistics provides a conceptual framework for understanding the logistics system, the integration of its basic elements, and its relationship to the overall firm. Discusses both manufacturing and physical distribution, new technologies in each of these areas, and how they related to each other and to the company. New topics covered range from approaches to strategic logistics planning and multi-location inventory planning, to international logistics issues and future directions. Includes case studies.