Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is as an enterprise-wide, integrated (holistic) approach to corporate management. The aim is to increase corporate value by systematic risks responding and securing the company's goals against disruptive events. The essential distinction compared to traditional risk management approaches is the overcoming of the silo mentality in which individual risk categories are handled today. The book not only details the different requirements of ERM but also provides numerous checklists and best practice examples.
How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof, Peter Schiff teams up with his brother Andrew to apply their signature "take no prisoners" logic to expose the glaring fallacies that have become so ingrained in our country’s economic conversation.
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Even if You're Not Too Smart: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
The stock-market profits that investment pro Greenblatt is chasing are found in some areas not usually considered by the average investor: spin-offs, mergers, risk arbitrage, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, and asset sales. Greenblatt acknowledges that pursuing them will require some time, effort, patience, and experience. But he argues that because these areas are not overstudied by the analysts, possible market inefficiencies can be exploited.
National Intellectual Capital: A Comparison of 40 Countries
Over the past decade, knowledge assets and intellectual capital have been attracting an increasing amount of attention, not only from academics and CEOs, but also from national policy makers. To date, most studies of intellectual capital have focused at the organizational level, with an emphasis on explaining the role of “intangible assets” as a differentiator between accounting value and market value as a possible source of corporate competitive advantage.
The dictionary is made with the intent of providing the readers with a handy referral for the terminology used in the subject. The dictionary covers almost all the terms that form a part and parcel of economics in simple and easily comprehensible language. In order to enhance the readers knowledge and bring about more relevance, many examples and pictures have been used along with the definitions of the terms.
