This book presents a new approach to the valuation of capital asset investments and investment decision-making. Starting from simple premises and working logically through three basic elements (capital, income, and cash flow), it guides readers on an interdisciplinary journey through the subtleties of accounting and finance, explaining how to correctly measure a project’s economic profitability and efficiency, how to assess the impact of investment policy and financing policy on shareholder value creation, and how to design reliable, transparent, and logically consistent financial models. The book adopts an innovative pedagogical approach, based on a newly developed accounting-and-finance-engineering system, to help readers gain a deeper understanding of the accounting and financial magnitudes, learn about new analytical tools, and develop the necessary skills to practically implement them. This diverse approach to capital budgeting allows a sophisticated economic analysis in both absolute terms (values) and relative terms (rates of return), and is applicable to a wide range of economic entities, including real assets and financial assets, engineering designs and manufacturing schemes, corporate-financed and project-financed transactions, privately-owned projects and public investments, individual projects and firms. As such, this book is a valuable resource for a broad audience, including scholars and researchers, industry practitioners, executives, and managers, as well as students of corporate finance, managerial finance, engineering economics, financial management, management accounting, operations research, and financial mathematics. It features more than 180 guided examples, 50 charts and figures and over 160 explanatory tables that help readers grasp the new concepts and tools. Each chapter starts with an abstract and a list of the skills readers can expect to gain, and concludes with a list of key points summarizing the content.
“Hitler, the man who shouldn’t have been born” Un’opera inedita sulla personalità di Adolf Hitler, dall’infanzia fino alla morte, per non dimenticare come sia facile superare la linea di confine tra bene e male. Oltre all’analisi del dittatore nazista sono analizzate firme e scritture di alcuni suoi collaboratori (Goering, Himmler, Mengele, Bormann, Rommel, ...), oltre alla sua compagna Eva Braun. Un’opera curiosa, originale e intrigante, ma di facile lettura. *** “Hitler, the man who shouldn’t have been born” The book presents an ‘unpublished’ profile of Adolf Hitler personality, from infancy to death. The ‘take home message’ is not to forget how easy it is to overcome the line between good and evil. In addition to the analysis of the Nazi dictator, the book collects and analyses some writings and signatures of a pool of Hitler’ collaborators such as Goering, Himmler, Mengele, Bormann, Rommel, as well as of his partner, Mrs Eva Braun. “Hitler, the man who shouldn’t have been born” is a curious, original and intriguing work, easy to read.
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