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Corporate Financial Policy and R&D Management 2nd Edition
Author(s): John B. Guerard (Author)
- Publisher: WILEY
- Publication Date: January 1, 2005
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 0471458236
- ISBN-13: 9780471458234
Book Description
Completely updated and expanded, this edition examines the relationship between managing research development (R&D) and sustaining sound financial policy. Through extensive fieldwork and consulting, the author demonstrates how to balance and manage R&D efforts, capital investment, and new debt financing decisions. He also offers a framework for understanding the interdependence between these elements and tools that include financial modeling techniques for determining resource allocation.
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Corporate Financial Policy and R&D Management, Second Edition analyzes the factors affecting research and development (R&D) expenditures for U.S. corporations between 1971 and 2003, and the impact these expenditures have had on stockholder wealth creation. This comprehensive book also offers a framework for understanding the interdependence between key elements, along with financial modeling techniques and other valuable tools for making vital resource allocation decisions.
Drawing from updated and more complete databases than the landmark first edition, and now offering a companion website with case studies and analysis, this new edition explores:
Ratio analysis
Profits and financial risk
Statistical analysis, modeling, and simultaneous equations
Modern Portfolio Theory and multi-factor risk models
The optimization of efficient portfolios
Potential added risks and returns of socially responsible investing
Corporate Financial Policy and R&D Management, Second Edition provides financial professionals with the updated tools and knowledge necessary to simultaneously manage dividends, capital expenditures, and R&D activitiesall while generating profits and keeping external funding under control.
