In the wake of fast changing economic landscape—characterized by global financial crisis, volatile equity and bond markets, rising dominance of emerging markets and increasing investor activism—the role of financial managers in an organization has assumed significant importance. This text aims at educating the students the fundamentals of Corporate Finance and explains how various theories can be applied for efficient decision making for the financial managers. The book is conceptualized on practical approach and explores various topics in an easy and step-by-step approach, backed by numerous examples, self-test exercises and India-centric cases. The complex financial concepts related to capital structure, risk and return analysis, valuation of financial securities, market efficiency and portfolio management have been explained in a reader-friendly manner to provide a unique learning experience. The book is intended for the postgraduate students of Management, and practising financial managers. Key features • The chapters are backed by strong practical experience of in-depth financial analysis of Companies. • Supplemented with real-life examples and scenarios in a concise and comprehensive presentation. • India-centric cases to create an interactive classroom environment. • Topics for further research have been included on each major topic as ‘Researchable Issues’. • Each chapter contains side-boxes to highlight the important points for quick revision. • Each chapter is incorporated with Review Questions, Practice Exercises and Self-Test Questions to add analytical approach to the subject. • Revision set and PPT slides provided as web support. • Solutions Manual for instructors, available on request.
This book presents accounting concepts and practices in a simple, reader-friendly manner. It gives an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals carefully woven with years of corporate experience. In other words, this book helps the readers learn and understand the tenets encompassing: • Preparation • Use and Analysis of Financial Statements • Supplemented by Real Life Examples and Scenarios • Presented in a Concise, Simple and Comprehensive Manner This book will be helpful for students and practitioners as it covers the course of PGDM/MBA taught in leading business schools in the country. Also, the level of discussion, illustrations, and exercises covered in each chapter are well attuned to professional courses such as Chartered Accountancy in India (ICAI) and the UK's Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Furthermore, this book's chapters have been aligned with the course content as prescribed by the majority of Indian universities for their Commerce/Accountancy courses. The Present Publication is the Reprint July 2023 Edition, authored by Dr Narender L. Ahuja and Dr Varun Dawar. The structure of the book is as follows: • [Introduction to Accounting] Chapter 1 introduces the need for accounting and briefly explains the difference between financial accounting and management accounting. It further focuses on the purpose of preparing profit and loss account and balance sheet and discusses the need to audit financial accounts. • [Accounting Concepts, Conventions and Policies] Chapter 2 introduces the main accounting concepts and conventions. The chapter further focuses on the distinction between accrual and cash accounting systems and identifies the qualitative characteristics of financial statements. • [Recording Transactions in the Journal and the Ledger] Chapter 3 discusses the accounting equation and double-entry accounting principles for recording transactions involving assets, liabilities, capital, expenses and revenues. It further identifies the steps in the accounting cycle and explains how to analyse transactions for journalising and ledger posting. • [Trial Balance to Financial Statements] Chapter 4 introduces the readers to trial balance and its preparation, including the adjustment entries required for various items. • [Inventory, Depreciation and Accounting Errors] Chapter 5 discusses the main cost formulae for inventory valuation. It further focuses on the primary methods for calculating depreciation, including its accounting treatment. • [The Annual Report – Qualitative and Quantitative Disclosures] Chapter 6 discusses the general disclosures in an annual report in terms of the requirements of various bodies and highlights the structure and format of an annual report. This chapter helps readers understand the objectives of the Management Discussion and Analysis section and the significance of the Director's and Auditor's reports. This chapter aims to enable readers to understand the progress or health of the state of affairs of a company through its yearly document, the 'Annual Report'. • [Analysing Financial Statements – I | Financial Ratios Analysis] Chapter 7 discusses the need for financial ratios analysis and covers various types of ratios such as liquidity ratios, profitability ratios and capital structure ratios and their use in carrying out inter-firm and inter-period comparison of performance. • [Analysing Financial Statements – II | Horizontal, Common-size and Trend Analysis] Chapter 8 discusses the important yet simple techniques of horizontal, common-size and trend analysis, which are integral to financial ratios analysis. • [Statement of Cash Flows] Chapter 9 introduces the readers to the cash flow statement, its importance and uses. The chapter further explains the methods of computing activity-wise cash flows and their analysis and interpretation. • [Consolidated Financial Statements | Introduction, Balance Sheet Consolidation, Consolidated Profit & Loss Statement and Further Aspects] Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 discuss the meaning of parent-subsidiary relationship and objectives of consolidated financial statements. These chapters would help readers understand the basic principles of preparing the consolidated statements and enumerate differences between the treatment of pre-acquisition and post-acquisition profits for consolidation. • [Consolidated Financial Statements – III | Vertical & Mixed Groups, Piecemeal Acquisitions and Associates] Chapter 12 introduces the readers to the consolidation of vertical and mixed groups and the consolidation of piecemeal acquisitions and associates. • [Convergence of Indian Accounting Standards with IFRS] Chapter 13 discusses the need for uniformity and transparency in reporting standards and the roadmap for implementation of Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) to achieve convergence with IFRS (International Accounting Standards). The chapter further lists the major differences between the Indian GAAP (current Indian accounting standards), converged Indian accounting standards (Ind AS) and IFRS.
Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries. However, from time to time those boundaries get shifted or blurred to evolve new fields. For instance, the original goal of computer vision was to understand a single image of a scene, by identifying objects, their structure, and spatial arrangements. This has been referred to as image understanding. Recently, computer vision has gradually been making the transition away from understanding single images to analyzing image sequences, or video understanding. Video understanding deals with understanding of video sequences, e. g. , recognition of gestures, activities, facial expressions, etc. The main shift in the classic paradigm has been from the recognition of static objects in the scene to motion-based recognition of actions and events. Video understanding has overlapping research problems with other fields, therefore blurring the fixed boundaries. Computer graphics, image processing, and video databases have obvious overlap with computer vision. The main goal of computer graphics is to gener ate and animate realistic looking images, and videos. Researchers in computer graphics are increasingly employing techniques from computer vision to gen erate the synthetic imagery. A good example of this is image-based rendering and modeling techniques, in which geometry, appearance, and lighting is de rived from real images using computer vision techniques. Here the shift is from synthesis to analysis followed by synthesis.
Motion and Structure from Image Sequences is invaluable reading for researchers, graduate students, and practicing engineers dealing with computer vision. It presents a balanced treatment of the theoretical and practical issues, including very recent results - some of which are published here for the first time. The topics covered in detail are: - image matching and optical flow computation - structure from stereo - structure from motion - motion estimation - integration of multiple views - motion modeling and prediction Aspects such as uniqueness of the solution, degeneracy conditions, error analysis, stability, optimality, and robustness are also investigated. These details together with the fact that the algorithms are accessible without necessarily studying the rest of the material, make this book particularly attractive to practitioners.
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In the wake of fast changing economic landscape—characterized by global financial crisis, volatile equity and bond markets, rising dominance of emerging markets and increasing investor activism—the role of financial managers in an organization has assumed significant importance. This text aims at educating the students the fundamentals of Corporate Finance and explains how various theories can be applied for efficient decision making for the financial managers. The book is conceptualized on practical approach and explores various topics in an easy and step-by-step approach, backed by numerous examples, self-test exercises and India-centric cases. The complex financial concepts related to capital structure, risk and return analysis, valuation of financial securities, market efficiency and portfolio management have been explained in a reader-friendly manner to provide a unique learning experience. The book is intended for the postgraduate students of Management, and practising financial managers. Key features • The chapters are backed by strong practical experience of in-depth financial analysis of Companies. • Supplemented with real-life examples and scenarios in a concise and comprehensive presentation. • India-centric cases to create an interactive classroom environment. • Topics for further research have been included on each major topic as ‘Researchable Issues’. • Each chapter contains side-boxes to highlight the important points for quick revision. • Each chapter is incorporated with Review Questions, Practice Exercises and Self-Test Questions to add analytical approach to the subject. • Revision set and PPT slides provided as web support. • Solutions Manual for instructors, available on request.
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