QFINANCE New 4th Edition, 29th October 2013 Hardback $150 ISBN: 9781849300629 ‘This is going to be incredibly useful to me. A really great reference guide.’ The Times ‘The wealth of knowledge in this is surprising.’ The Banker ‘QFINANCE: Impressive.’ Thomson Reuters ‘Essential reading for finance professionals,’ CNBC ‘QFINANCE is truly the most indispensable resource for both the budding finance professional and for those who consider themselves experts.’ William D Cohan, winner of the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book Award Fully revised to include over 70 new articles covering reputation management, developments in ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) asset-liability management and corporate auditing.
NEW EDITION CONTRIBUTOR: MONA PEARL Also known as “The Task Force” Mona is accomplished at building and growing companies with entrepreneurial mindsets that face complex challenges that extend across borders. She plans and coordinates programs and actions that help them become competitive and sustainable internationally. She has served as COO/CMO for three companies and has helped build and scale ventures in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, and has established an international network of contacts which helps ease her path in many overseas operations. Mona has worked with Navistar, GM, Marriott, UA, T-Mobile and Michelin as well as start-ups and growth companies around the world. She has acted as advisor to many of the world’s leading companies and governments on items from global strategy to transformations and innovations to help companies: lay out step-by-step business and marketing plans, lead and measured innovative solutions for product and service launches, craft and execute post cross-border M & A cultural and management integration plans. She has orchestrated and helped to transform and future-proof dysfunctional organizations and/or divisions, remedy cross-cultural setbacks and respond to differences that occur between international corporate culture and the target culture. She has assessed risk and vetted opportunities to determine markets to get into/stay in, divest from, or grow. Mona is the author of the new article ‘Grow Globally: The New Altitude of Cross-Border M&A,’ in QFINANCE: The Ultimate Resource, 4th edition, publishing in October 2013. For press interviews and speaking
arrangements, contact her by email: Mona@MonaPearl.com, or on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/monapearl
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QFINANCE THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE FOURTH EDITION NEW CONTRIBUTORS AND TOPICS Created by the world’s leading finance professionals under the guidance of a highly experienced, world-class strategic panel, QFINANCE: The Ultimate Resource is the one-stop reference for the finance professional or academic. This new edition focuses on ESG (environmental, social and governance factors) global growth and sustainability. For more information and to order your copy, please visit www.qfinance.com. • • • • •
Checklists: More than 250 practical guides to daily financial challenges Finance Information Sources: Over 200 pages spanning 65 finance areas International Financial Information: Up-to-date country and industry data Management Library: over 130 summaries of the most popular finance titles Finance Thinkers: 50 biographies covering their work and life.
Created by the world’s leading finance professionals under the guidance of a world-class strategic panel, QFINANCE: The Ultimate Resource is the one-stop reference for the finance professional or academic. This new edition focuses on ESG (environmental, social and governance factors) global growth and sustainability. NEW CONTRIBUTORS AND TOPICS: Grow Globally: The New Altitude of Cross-Border M&A: by Mona Pearl The Role of Insurance in Bringing Resilience to Societies Challenged by Global Warming: by David Bresch Bias-Free Investing Offers the Best Hope for Pension Funds: by Yves Choueifaty Challenges in Management Skills Development: by Simon Earp and Eddie Cochrane Embedding CSR and Sustainability in Corporate Culture: The Boots Experience: by Richard Ellis Why Turning Growth into Profit Is Challenging for Asian Economies: by Peter Elston Principles for Responsible Investment—Looking Beyond the Financial Metrics: by James Gifford Capturing the Equity Premium: by Erik Gosule Corporate Responsibility in a Community of Companies: by Michelle Greene Derivatives Regulation Threatens to Damage Pension Funds and Pensioners across Europe: by Ben Gunnee Understanding the Risks and Opportunities in Recession-Hit Markets: by Keith Guthrie Outperformance through Ethical Lending: by Dan Hird Pension Funds—The Dangers of Taking Off-Benchmark FX Risk: by Mark Hogg Why Accounting Needs to Be More Business-Centric: by Andrew Howie Human Resources and the Crisis: by Christopher Johnson Leveraging Influence to Impact Climate Change Policy: by Mark Kenber Sustainability Reporting and Assurance—A Market-Driven Transformation: by Brendan LeBlanc and Barruch Ben-Zekry Investing in Corporate Debt in Difficult Market Conditions: by Robert Marquardt Toward a Deeper Understanding of Risk in Markets: by Alex McNeil The Corporate Bond Markets in 2012 and Beyond: by Shahzada Omar Saeed Understanding the Implications of Japan’s “Two Lost Decades”: Lessons for Europe and the US: by John Vail Green Investing—Looking Beyond the Financial Metrics: by Stephane Voisin The Audit Committee and Corporate Governance: by Richard Wilson To order QFINANCE, visit www.qfinance.com or email direct@macmillan.co.uk