Authors: Francisco Carrada-Bravo
ISBN-13: 9781567205275, ISBN-10: 1567205275
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: June 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
FRANCISCO CARRADA-BRAVO is Professor of World Business at Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management, in Glendale, Arizona. He has taught at Brandeis University, Harvard Business School, and the University of California at Berkeley, and he is the author of several books on global finance.
Delineates the influence of globalization and digital technology on global financial management.
Illustrations | ix | |
Preface | xiii | |
Introduction | xv | |
1. | The Fundamentals of Value Creation in the Digital Economy | 1 |
2. | Interpreting and Forecasting Financial Statements | 25 |
3. | The Foreign Exchange Market | 41 |
4. | The Fundamentals of Investing Globally | 55 |
5. | Inflation, Interest Rates, and the Exchange Rate | 67 |
6. | Global Arbitrage | 81 |
Case: SFK in Poland | 90 | |
7. | Globalization and the Balance of Payments | 95 |
Case: The U.S. Balance of Payments | 110 | |
8. | Financing Global Trade and Foreign Direct Investment | 113 |
Case: Wendy's in Saudi Arabia | 130 | |
9. | Exchange Rate Risk Management | 147 |
Case: Grey Goose in the United States | 161 | |
10. | Transaction Risk Management with Futures and Options | 163 |
Case A | American Thermoplastics in Japan | 178 |
Case B | Digisolve, Risk Management in South Africa | 181 |
11. | Managing Economic Risk | 187 |
Case: Giant Manufacturing and Economic Risk | 204 | |
12. | Interest and Currency International Swaps | 211 |
Case: Sumitomo Bank, Swapping in Asia | 224 | |
13. | Valuing a Foreign Business | 229 |
14. | Value Creation in the Digital Economy | 249 |
Case: Dell Computers in Europe | 265 | |
Index | 271 |