Anthony F. Herbst

Capital Asset Investment

Strategy, Tactics and Tools

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A balanced and practical approach to capital management and budgeting
Capital Management and Strategic Financial Decision-Making offers a detailed discussion of the theory, quantitative methods, and applications of capital budgeting. Comprehensive in scope, all the major topics in the field of capital investment are covered, including the various approaches to capital project evaluation. Financial managers and business leaders planning future strategies will look to this book for a helping hand in making long-term financial decisions.
Anthony F. Herbst, PhD (El Paso, TX), teaches at the University of Texas, El Paso. He was a founding editor of the Journal of Financial Engineering and is the author of Analyzing and Forecasting Futures Prices (Wiley: 0471533122).
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Produktdetails

• Wiley Finance Series
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 720g
• ISBN-13: 9780470845110
• ISBN-10: 0470845112
• Artikelnr.: 10531538

Autorenporträt

Anthony F. Herbst is Professor of Finance and holds the Charles R. and Dorothy S. Carter Chair at the University of Texas, El Paso. Prior to earning a Ph.D. in Economics at Purdue University, he was manager of operations research for the National Bank of Detroit, and previously had held positions as an industrial engineer for Koppers Corporation and Ford Motor Company. From 1982 through 1998 he served as founding editor of the Journal of Financial Engineering (now merged with the Journal of Derivatives), where he is now an associate editor. He is also a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Financial Research and The Global Finance Journal, and advisor on the editorial board of the Journal of Taxation of Financial Institutions. He is the author of several books including Analyzing and Forecasting Futures Prices (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction: the big picture, environment, terminology, and
preview. The objective of capital budgeting. Estimating basic project
characteristics. Cost of capital. Traditional methods that ignore
time-value of money. Traditional methods that recognize time-value of
money: the net present value. Traditional methods that recognize time-value
of money: the internal rate of return. Reinvestment rate assumptions for
NPV and IRR and conflicting rankings. The MAPI method. The problem of mixed
cash flows:I. The problem of mixed cash flows:II. Leasing. Leveraged
leases. Alternative investment measures. Project abandonment analysis.
Multiple project capital budgeting. Utility and risk aversion. Single
project analysis under risk. Multiple project selection under risk:
computer simulation and other approaches. Multiple project selection under
risk: portfolio approaches. The capital asset pricing model. Multiple
project selection under risk. Real options. Appendix: Financial mathematics
tables and formulas. Bibliography. Index.