Market_Desc: · Economists· Business Professionals· Students of Business Special Features: · Presents a comprehensive discussion of the foreign exchange and derivatives markets· Details the key parity conditions in international finance that relate interest rates, exchange rates, and inflation rates, and the underlying arbitrage considerations that determine them, along with numerous real-world applications · Describes the distinctions between real and nominal exchange rates and between accounting and economic exposure and their significance for exchange risk management· Examines how to finance the multinational corporation and the cost of capital for foreign investments About The Book: Multinational Financial Management provides a conceptual framework within which key financial decisions of the multinational firm can be analyzed. The approach is to treat international financial management as a natural extension of financial management principles. Because of this, the book builds on the valuation framework provided by domestic corporate finance to account for dimensions unique to international finance.

* Integrates economic and political factors underlying exchange rate determination. * Uses the balance-of-payments framework to assess economic links among nations. * Presents a comprehensive discussion of the foreign exchange market. * Discusses the key parity conditions in international finance that relate interest rates, exchange rates, and inflation rates, and the underlying arbitrage considerations that determine them-along with numerous real-world applications. * Presents distinctions between real and nominal exchange rates and between accounting and economic exposure and their significance for exchange risk management. * Provides a comprehensive discussion of the mechanisms multinational firms use to manage interaffiliate fund flows on a global basis. * Presents the underpinnings of financial markets and the implications for international capital flows. * Presents specialized financing and risk management techniques. * Discusses the assessment of the cost of capital for foreign investments. * Discusses the nature and consequences of international portfolio investment, including emerging market investments. * Presents the development of global strategies of multinational corporations. * Provides the means for analyzing foreign investments. * Covers political risk measurement and management. * Includes a number of distinctive pedagogical features including real-world examples, vignettes, illustrations, and hundreds of realistic end-of-chapter questions and problems.

Focused on real--life decision making in an international context, this text demystifies and simplifies multinational financial management in a clear, conceptual framework. The approach is to treat international financial management as a natural and logical extension of the principles and valuation framework provided by domestic corporate financial management to account for dimensions unique to international finance.

Equip your students for success in international finance with the unrivalled depth of theory and practical applications presented in Madura, Hoque and Krishnamurti's INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, Asia-Pacific 1st edition. This APAC edition builds on the fundamental principles of corporate finance to provide the timely information and contemporary insights your students need to prosper in today's global business environment. With the original US edition being well known for its inviting reader-friendly style and clear explanations, this APAC 1st edition introduces international finance with a focus on the important role of modern multinational corporations in global commerce within a strong APAC context. Using a strong corporate perspective, it discusses a wide range of managerial topics and emphasises the most recent changes in the international environment. Relevant examples, instructive diagrams, self-tests, and other learning features provide hands-on experience to help your students develop the skills they need to effectively manage in contemporary practice.

Provides a conceptual framework for analyzing key financial decisions of multinational firms Now in its twelfth edition, Multinational Financial Management provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of all essential areas of the international financial market environment, including the determination of the cost of capital for international projects, capital budgeting, financial structure, transfer pricing, risk management, and portfolio investment. Written with the large multinational corporation in mind, this leading textbook offers a wealth of numerical and institutional examples that demonstrate the use of financial analysis and reasoning to solve complex international financial problems. Multinational Financial Management is a self-encompassing treatment of multinational financial management that simplifies complex concepts, provides the theoretical knowledge required to examine decision problems, and supplies the practical analytical techniques needed to clarify the ambiguous guidelines commonly used by international financial executives. Throughout the text, the authors show how the international dimension of finance creates difficulties that are not encountered in domestic finance, such as multiple currencies, segmented capital markets, political risks, and international taxation issues. Multinational Financial Management, Twelfth Edition, remains the ideal textbook for upper-level undergraduate and master's degree courses in International Finance and International Financial Management, as well as bank management, financial management, and other executive development programs.

Designed for students taking courses in international finance, international financial management, multinational finance and multinational financial management, International Financial Management offers a variety of real-life examples, both numerical and institutional, that demonstrate the use of financial analysis and reasoning in solving international financial problems. * Includes coverage of the emergence of the new international financial system, the rise of the BRICS and the credit crunch. * Complete use of IFRS throughout the chapter on measuring and managing transactions. * Contains numerous Asian, Latin American, African and European cases, applications and examples. * Provides a truly global context for the study of international financial management. * Focuses on decision making in an international context. * Contains coverage of all of the traditional areas of corporate finance including: working capital management, capital budgeting, cost of capital and financial structure.