Multinational Finance or Statistical Methods in Engineering and Quality Assurance

Multinational Finance

Author: Kirt C Butler

MULTINATIONAL FINANCE provides a concise treatment of the investment and financial decisions facing the multinational corporation. The text provides a framework for evaluating the opportunities, costs and risks of multinational operations so readers can see beyond the algebra and terminology to general principles. It is distinguished by its logical organization, superior pedagogy, and clear, non-technical writing style. It includes the traditional international finance topics of foreign exchange, currency and derivatives markets, currency risk (transaction, operating and translation) management, country risk, taxation, capital structure, cost of capital, and international portfolio diversification. It also has unique chapters on multinational treasury management, options on real assets, corporate governance, asset pricing, and international portfolio management.

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Intended for MBA and advanced undergraduate classes, this text requires only an introductory course in finance. The author, a professor of finance at Michigan State U., addresses basic issues of multinational finance including foreign exchange and exchange rate determination, the multinational corporation's investment and financial decisions, derivative securities for currency risk management, and international capital markets and portfolio investment. This edition emphasizes corporate finance and includes new chapters on risk measurement and management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. 1	Overview and Background	1
Ch. 1	An Introduction to Multinational Finance	2
Ch. 2	World Trade and the International Monetary System	29
Pt. 2	The International Financial Environment	55
Ch. 3	International Financial Markets	56
Ch. 4	Foreign Exchange, Eurocurrencies, and Currency Risk Management	87
Ch. 5	The International Parity Conditions	121
Ch. 3	Derivative Securities for Currency Risk Management	155
Ch. 6	Currency Futures and Futures Markets	156
Ch. 7	Currency Options and Options Markets	181
Ch. 8	Currency Swaps and Swaps Markets	217
Pt. 4	Managing the Risks of Multinational Operations	241
Ch. 9	The Rationale for Hedging Currency Risks	242
Ch. 10	Multinational Treasury Management	265
Ch. 11	Managing Transaction Exposure to Currency Risk	287
Ch. 12	Managing Operating Exposure to Currency Risk	313
Ch. 13	Managing Translation Exposure to Currency Risk	333
Ch. 14	Country Risk Management	357
Pt. 5	Valuation and the Structural of Multinational Operations	379
Ch. 15	Cross-Border Capital Budgeting	380
Ch. 16	Multinational Capital Structure and Cost of Capital	407
Ch. 17	Taxes and Multinational Corporate Strategy	439
Ch. 18	Real Options and Cross-Border Investment	461
Ch. 19	Corporate Governance and the International Market for Corporate Control	489
Pt. 6	International Portfolio Investment and Asset Pricing	523
Ch. 20	International Portfolio Diversification	524
Ch. 21	International Asset Pricing	561
Ch. 22	Managing an International Investment Portfolio	591
	Glossary	625
	Name Index	641
	Subject Index	647

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Statistical Methods in Engineering and Quality Assurance

Author: Peter John

Reflecting more than 30 years of teaching experience in the field, this guide provides engineers with an introduction to statistics and its applicability to engineering. Examples cover a wide range of engineering applications, including both chemical engineering and semiconductors. Among the topics featured are: quality assurance and statistics, continuous variables, hypothesis testing, comparative experiments, acceptance sampling, the analysis of variance, Taguchi and Orthogonal arrays. Tables, references and an index round out this work.