Foundations of Multinational Financial Management [Hardcover]

Alan C. Shapiro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 27, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0471563374 | ISBN-13: 978-0471563372 | Edition: 5

All too often, companies focus on the threats and risks inherent in venturing abroad. But multinational firms actually have unique opportunities that are not available to purely domestic firms. Now updated, revised, and reorganized, Alan Shapiro’s Foundations of Multinational Financial Management, 5/e will help you take advantage of these valuable opportunities. Foundations emphasizes broad concepts and practices and provides a clear conceptual framework for analyzing key financial decisions in multinational firms. The text treats international financial management as a natural and logical extension of the principles learned in the foundations course in financial management.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

The approach of this text treats international financial management as a natural and logical extension of the principles learned in the foundations course in financial management. Thus, the book focuses on decision making in an international context. Numerous examples, both numerical and institutional, illustrate the application of these concepts and techniques. The emphasis throughout is on taking advantage of being multinational. This book is distinctly different from Shapiro's other texts, Multinational Financial Management, 4/e, in that the chapters are shorter and simpler, have more examples, and are less technical because of its reduction and/or elimination of the mathematics used. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

From the Back Cover

Take advantage of opportunities in multinational finance!

All too often, companies focus on the threats and risks inherent in venturing abroad. But multinational firms actually have unique opportunities that are not available to purely domestic firms.

Now updated, revised, and reorganized, Alan Shapiro’s Foundations of Multinational Financial Management, 5/e will help you take advantage of these valuable opportunities. Foundations emphasizes broad concepts and practices and provides a clear conceptual framework for analyzing key financial decisions in multinational firms. The text treats international financial management as a natural and logical extension of the principles learned in the foundations course in financial management.

New Features

• Expanded discussion of China, its new role in the world economy, and its various economic policies, such as its weak yuan exchange rate policy.
• Mini-cases (at least one per chapter) and two new extended cases.
• Many new solved numerical problems, which illustrate the application of the various concepts and techniques presented in the text, as well as new end-of-chapter problems.
• Many new charts and illustrations of corporate practice that are designed to highlight specific techniques or teaching points.
• Numerous questions and problems at the end of each chapter, most of which are based on up-to-date information and real-life situations.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 640 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 5 edition (September 27, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471563374
• ISBN-13: 978-0471563372
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #267,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #59 in Books > Business & Investing > International > Exports & Imports

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, September 22, 2009

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Baldomero "Baldo" (Madison, WI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Foundations of Multinational Financial Management (Hardcover)

Although this book is used in grad courses, an undergrad student who wants to see how financial markets work with an economic analysis, this will be the right option.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Can be confusing, major focus on economics, June 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Foundations of Multinational Financial Management (Hardcover)

This textbook may not be a good choice for undergraduate students or for someone who does not have an intermediate or higher knowledge of finance. Wording in the chapters and in the end of chapter problems can be confusing. Statements are made and then not backed up with supporting information. The book spends a large amount of time on a macroeconomic view.

2.0 out of 5 stars Look Elsewhere, February 3, 2012

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This review is from: Foundations of Multinational Financial Management (Hardcover)

This book takes a macroeconomic view of international financial management as other reviews have stated. If you know little or nothing about macro, this book is not for you. Some of the questions at the end of the chapters can be little challenging as there is not enough supporting information contained within the book itself to answer them. Also, there are quite a few historical perspectives in the book along with excessive text that does not add much. I feel that illustrative examples is something that this book is sorely missing. If written in this way, I believe that the book would be an easier read.