Bond's Top 100 Franchises features detailed analyses of the best franchises picked from the more than 2,300 available and consolidates and updates the individual profiles originally printed in Robert Bond's acclaimed Top 50 Franchises series. The final selection is based on a number of factors, including historical performance, competitive advantage, franchisee satisfaction, and financial stability. Drawing on the author's 15 years' experience in this field, Bond's Top 100 Franchises offers detailed analyses of those franchise opportunities that have proven to be the best investments available to the general investor.

Considered by many to be the bible of the franchising industry, this complete, up-to-date reference gives definitive and current information on more than 2,200 franchise opportunities in North America, listing companies in 54 different categories. 375 logos. 20 tables. Charts.

The most exhaustive and comprehensive directory on franchise opportunities available, Bond's Franchise Guide is now in its 18th annual edition. Completely updated, the guide offers prospective franchisees a detailed profile of some 1,000 franchises, as well as supplemental profiles on franchise attorneys and consultants. The companies are divided into 45 distinct business categories for easy comparison. All profile data is new in this edition and represents the most current, complete information about the myriad of options available to potential investors.

The most important task for a prospective franchisee is to prepare a realistic cash flow statement that accurately reflects the business s economic potential. This insider s guide provides hard-to-find historical sales, expense, and/or profit data from 116 franchise concepts in 45 categories. The book also features in-depth profiles of each franchisor, detailed worksheets, and the author s own insights into making meaningful financial projections. Armed with the information in this book, entrepreneurs can make smart decisions about potential investments."

The book provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation ofdifferent housing finance systems, presenting a collection ofstudies that describe various aspects of selected mortgage marketsaround the world. The uniqueness of the chosen markets lies in thefact that they represent not only different regions around theglobe (Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe), but alsounderstudied markets in different stages of economic and financialdevelopment. This book examines questions relating to housingfinance efficiency and contract heterogeneity. In addition, itanalyses the securitization experiences in these countries toprovide lessons on how mortgage markets are integrated with capitalmarkets and how particular institutional framework interacts withmortgage markets. Short reviews are provided for each of the selected mortgagemarkets. The review will include institutional aspects of themarkets such as: the size and structure of the market (includingflows and accumulation of funds); a description of the competitionand a presentation of the major competitors (including marketshare, major financial measures, etc.); profitability in themarket, trends, structural changes, the major mortgage instrumentsand their market share, special tax issues, the role of thegovernment in the market, defaults, prepayments, mortgageinsurance, and major regulatory issues. The analysis explores the major existing problems in the mortgagemarket of each country, the current steps adopted to solve theseproblems, possible propositions for dealing with the major issuesin the future, and the implied future developments anticipated inthe market.