Synopses & Reviews
MULTINATIONAL FINANCE provides a concise treatment of the investment and financial decisions facing the multinational corporation. The text provides a framework for evaluating the opportunities, costs and risks of multinational operations so readers can see beyond the algebra and terminology to general principles. It is distinguished by its logical organization, superior pedagogy, and clear, non-technical writing style. It includes the traditional international finance topics of foreign exchange, currency and derivatives markets, currency risk (transaction, operating and translation) management, country risk, taxation, capital structure, cost of capital, and international portfolio diversification. It also has unique chapters on multinational treasury management, options on real assets, corporate governance, asset pricing, and international portfolio management.
Review
Butler is certainly a strong candidate for future adoption. On the whole it's easy to read and follow and covers most of the important topics in an integrated fashion.
Review
Chapters 1-17 of the Butler text make it very straight-forward to extend the concepts/results from principles to the multinational setting.
Synopsis
MULTINATIONAL FINANCE provides a concise treatment of the investment and financial decisions facing the multinational corporation. The text provides a framework for evaluating the opportunities, costs and risks of multinational operations so readers can see beyond the algebra and terminology to general principles. It is distinguished by its logical organization, superior pedagogy, and clear, non-technical writing style. It includes the traditional international finance topics of foreign exchange, currency and derivatives markets, currency risk (transaction, operating and translation) management, country risk, taxation, capital structure, cost of capital, and international portfolio diversification. It also has unique chapters on multinational treasury management, options on real assets, corporate governance, asset pricing, and international portfolio management.
About the Author
Kirt C. Butler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at Michigan State University where he teaches multinational finance and global strategy in MSU?s Eli Broad College of Business. He joined the faculty in 1985 after completing his doctorate in finance at Michigan State University. He also holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the College of Engineering and a B.A. in Psychology from the Honors College at Michigan State University.
Professor Butler?s research has appeared in a variety of academic and practitioner journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Accounting Research, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of International Money and Finance, and the Journal of International Business Studies, among others.
Professor Butler is also a Sensei of Okinawan Shido-kan (Shorin Ryu) Karate, with more than 25 years of experience and a rank of sixth degree black belt.
Table of Contents
Butler is certainly a strong candidate for future adoption. On the whole it?s easy to read and follow and covers most of the important topics in an integrated fashion.Teaching international parity conditions (IPCs) is tricky. The average textbook presents them in a drab, unconnected manner, leaving the student confused and unaware of their importance in explaining realized currency returns and forming foreign exchange forecasts. Butler does an excellent job in covering this topic and avoids these pitfallsChapters 1-17 of the Butler text make it very straight-forward to extend the concepts/results from principles to the multinational setting.