Multinational Financial Management or Special Events

Multinational Financial Management

Author: Alan C Shapiro

* Integrates economic and political factors underlying exchange rate determination.
* Uses the balance-of-payments framework to assess economic links among nations.
* Presents a comprehensive discussion of the foreign exchange market.
* Discusses the key parity conditions in international finance that relate interest rates, exchange rates, and inflation rates, and the underlying arbitrage considerations that determine them-along with numerous real-world applications.
* Presents distinctions between real and nominal exchange rates and between accounting and economic exposure and their significance for exchange risk management.
* Provides a comprehensive discussion of the mechanisms multinational firms use to manage interaffiliate fund flows on a global basis.
* Presents the underpinnings of financial markets and the implications for international capital flows.
* Presents specialized financing and risk management techniques.
* Discusses the assessment of the cost of capital for foreign investments.
* Discusses the nature and consequences of international portfolio investment, including emerging market investments.
* Presents the development of global strategies of multinational corporations.
* Provides the means for analyzing foreign investments.
* Covers political risk measurement and management.
* Includes a number of distinctive pedagogical features including real-world examples, vignettes, illustrations, and hundreds of realistic end-of-chapter questions and problems.

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As the multinational corporation becomes the norm rather than the exception, there is an apparent need to internationalize the tools of financial analysis. This revised textbook provides a conceptual framework within which the key financial decisions of the multinational firm can be analyzed. All the traditional areas of corporate finance are explored from the perspective of a multinational corporation, concentrating on decision elements rarely encountered by domestic firms. The revisions are mainly of a pedagogical nature, enhancing the text as a teaching/learning vehicle. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction : multinational enterprise and multinational financial management	2
2	The determination of exchange rates	44
3	The international monetary system	87
4	Parity conditions in international finance and currency forecasting	129
5	The balance of payments and international economic linkages	179
6	Country risk analysis	211
7	The foreign exchange market	246
8	Currency futures and options markets	274
9	Swaps and interest rate derivatives	311
10	Measuring and managing translation and transaction exposure	336
11	Measuring and managing economic exposure	385
12	International financing and national capital markets	432
13	The Euromarkets	462
14	The cost of capital for foreign investments	487
15	International portfolio investment	524
16	Corporate strategy and foreign direct investment	553
17	Capital budgeting for the multinational corporation	578
18	Financing foreign trade	616
19	Current asset management and short-term financing	646
20	Managing the multinational financial system	681

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Special Events: Proven Strategies for Nonprofit Fundraising

Author: Alan L Wendroff

As the philosopher Martin Buber wrote, "All real living is meeting." People like to get together. Thats why special events can often work so much better for nonprofit organizations than other, less social types of fundraising programs. From red-carpet galas to Saturday afternoon street fairs, special events offer nonprofits an unparalleled opportunity to both raise money and make friends. Yet for all the benefits—and they are great—inexperience and bad planning can make these events more trouble—and a greater financial drain—than they are worth.

Special Events: Proven Strategies for Nonprofit Fundraising, Second Edition is the complete guide to making your next nonprofit event the rousing success it can be. Packed with author and development professional Alan Wendroffs realistic insights and pointers, this text provides a logical and comprehensive outline of event planning, with a special emphasis on fitting these events into the larger framework of the nonprofits organizational goals. Inside youll find such helpful tools as:

• Seven goals for a successful event

• The Master Event Timetable (METT), a proven organizational tool that provides step-by-step guidance through the entire event process

• A case study explaining in understandable detail how to implement the advice and methods outlined

• An accompanying CD that includes sample timelines, worksheets, checklists, budgets, writing examples, decision tables, and contracts

From choosing the right event to the best way of expressing thanks afterwards, Special Events covers all aspects of producing a winning fundraiser foryour organization. In addition to the brass tacks of managing logistics, the coverage includes thoughtful discussions on how to take full advantage of the networking, volunteer recruitment, public relations, and motivational opportunities your special event can provide. This updated Second Edition features new information in these areas, plus an entirely new chapter on using the Internet for event planning.

With the needs of nonprofit organizations only growing as donations shrink, special events become more and more vital in sustaining the life of these organizations. Nonprofit lay leaders, professionals, and staff, as well as marketing professionals and event planners who work with nonprofits, will all find in Special Events, Second Edition a clearly drawn road map leading to fundraising success.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Special Event Fundraising - A Beginning	1
Ch. 1	The Master Event Timetable (METT)	23
Ch. 2	Choosing the Event	33
Ch. 3	Monetary Goals and Budgets	55
Ch. 4	Recruiting Volunteer Leadership for Your Event	83
Ch. 5	Networking in the Community	101
Ch. 6	On the Internet: Plan an Event Online Real Quick!	119
Ch. 7	Marketing	141
Ch. 8	Special Event Administration	155
Ch. 9	The Final Weeks to Event Day	179
Ch. 10	The Big Day: Why Success is in the Details	195
Ch. 11	Thank You and Goodbye!	203
	Special Resources	217
	Index	231
	About the CD-ROM	239