First published in 1992. This volume compiles the autobiographies of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates. Prior to this publication, the available management literature provided little insight into the personal and intellectual lives - the frustrations as well as the triumphs - of the individuals in the management discipline. Although such understanding could be conveyed in many forms, perhaps the most intimate and fascinating of these for gaining behind-the-scenes insights is the autobiography. Thus, the autobiographies in this volume, as in the five companion volumes, offer the reader not only a glimpse of the subjective determinants and personal experiences of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates, but also a deeper understanding of what management is and what it is becoming. The various accounts reflect a diversity of approaches, interests, and experiences.

Financial analysis is one of the most important and valuable skills for today's managers and executives. It is essential that you understand the impact on your organization's financial performance of every decision you make. Higgins gives you the essential tools, strategies, and tactics for improving the financial dimensions of your operating decisions. This completely revised Third Edition for Analysis for Financial Management covers recent developments in the finance field such as market signaling, market efficiency, and capital asset pricing and, for the first time, integrates international topics throughout the book. In addition to more traditional subjects, you'll find the facts on how to assess the performance of international subsidiaries, compare interest rates across different currencies, and manage foreign exchange exposure. Analysis for Financial Management gives you the vital facts you need to understand and apply the techniques of financial analysis to your everyday decision making. From assessing financial performance to evaluating investment opportunities and valuing companies, Higgins includes how you can use financial statements to assess a company's financial health, its strengths, weaknesses, recent performance, and future prospects; how to manage growth and decline; how financial leverage impacts an organization and its shareholders; and how to effectively incorporate risk into decision making.

`Business Administration in Financial Management involves planning, controlling, and optimizing financial resources to achieve organizational goals, ensuring sound financial decisions and sustainability.

The Second Edition of the book encompasses two new chapters—Strategic Cost Management and Business Ethics—A Strategic Financial Management Instrument. The book, being an augmented version of the previous edition, equips the young managers with the fundamentals and basics of strategic management and financial management in a cogent manner. The text now provides a better orientation to the students on the topics like corporate restructuring, divestitures, acquisitions, and mergers in the global context with the help of examples and caselets. The book has been revised keeping in view the requirements of postgraduate students of management and the students pursuing professional courses such as CA, MFC and CS. In addition, professionals working in the corporate sector may also find the book beneficial to integrate the financial management functions into business strategy and financial operations. Distinctive features • Model question papers have been appended at the end of the book. • Better justification of topics by merging the contents wherever required. • Theory supported with caselets inspired from global as well as Indian context.