Corporate Asset Management: A Guide for Financial and Accounting Professionals

by Clark E. Chastain

Overview

While covering many traditional areas of finance and accounting, this innovative, comprehensive treatment of asset management brings together for the first time in one volume vital information on profitability, risk, working capital and cash management, portfolio management, accounts receivable and inventory management, and capital budgeting. In addition, comprehensive treatment of mergers and acquisitions is provided, including an examination of the strategies underlying mergers and acquisitions, financial implications, federal taxation, and accounting standards.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780899302379
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/22/1987
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

CLARK E. CHASTAIN is Professor of Accounting at the University of Michigan-Flint.

Table of Contents

Preface
Asset Management: Profitability and Risk
Risk Analysis in Portfolio and Real Asset Management
Working Capital Management and Policy
Cash Management
Managing Marketable Securities
Administration of Accounts Receivable and Credit Policies
Inventory Management
Capital Budgeting Analysis
Further Aspects of Investment Decisions
Cost of Capital
Mergers and Acquisitions: Management and Finance
Mergers and Acquisitions: Federal Income Taxation
Mergers and Acquisitions: Accounting
Purchase Accounting: Accounting and Tax Planning
Divestitures and Corporate Joint Ventures
Corporate Asset Management: Today's Flourishing Discipline
Index