1. Contemporary Issues in Managing Business Enterprises
2. Corporate Finance and Financial Management – Corporate Finance; Financial Management; Objectives and Goals of Financial Management; Corporate Finance Function; Corporate Finance Decision and Capital Investment Decision; Investment Decision; Dividend Decision; Financial Planning and Finance Functions; Financial Structure and Capital Structure; Impact of Risk, Control, Cost and Return in Corporate Financing Decision...
3. Corporate Governance and E-management – Corporate Governance - the Concept; Scope of Corporate Governance; Good Corporate Governance Theory; Business and its Social Responsibility; Responsible Business Enterprise (RBE); Concept of Corporate Accountability; Accountability to Other Stakeholders; Cadbury Committee and Corporate Governance...
4. Corporate Disclosure and Transparency – Corporate Disclosure; Transparency in Disclosure; Financial Reporting and Disclosure; Voluntary Disclosure; Transparency Boundary; Code and Matters of Financial Disclosure; International Accounting Standards on Disclosure Guidelines; Disclosure Practice in UK; Disclosure Practice in USA; Disclosure Practice in India...
5. Corporate Value Addition and Value Analysis – Concept of Value Addition; Value Addition: A Social Consideration; Value Added Statement; Rationale of Value Added Statement; Economic Value Addition (EVA); Methodology of EVA Computation; Uses of EVA; EVA vs. Other Measures of Financial Performance; Value Analysis; Concept of Value...
6. Quality Control Management – Concept of Quality; Quality Control vis-à-vis Customers’ Satisfaction; Quality of Design and Quality of Conformance; Quality of Design; Quality of Conformance; Cost of Quality; Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance; Quality Management; Genesis of Quality Management; Total Quality Management (TQM)...
7. Corporate Social Responsibility – Corporate Social Responsibility- Meaning; Development and Analysis of CSR; Rationale of Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility - A Critical Issue; Dimensions of Social Responsibility; Building the Case for Social Responsibility Performance; Social Responsibility Audit; Utilisation of Social Resources...
8. Corporate Risk Management – Concept of Corporate Risk Management; Risk and its Nature; Other Approaches; Risk, Uncertainty and Opportunity; Risk Management Philosophy; Identification and Assessment of Risk; Formulation of the Strategies and Plans of Action; Risk Avoidance; Risk Retention; Risk Transfer; Risk Hedging; Derivatives and Derivative Trading; Forwards; Futures/Futures Contract; Options; Swaps; Players of Derivatives; Hedgers; Speculators; Arbitrageurs; Portfolio and Portfolio Risk; Risks and Returns of a Portfolio...
9. Corporate Business Reorganisations – Merger and Acquisition; Amalgamation/Merger; Ordinary Amalgamation; Simplified Amalgamation; Merger of Business; Reverse Merger and its Basic Mechanism; Reasons of Reverse Merger; Causes and Motives of Merger; Issues Concerning Merger; Financing Merger and Acquisition; Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financing M&A; Equity Mode of Financing Merger...
10. Corporate Disinvestment Strategy – Disinvestment; Rationale of Disinvestment; Private Ownership vs. Public Ownership; History of Global Divestiture; Background and Genesis of Public Ownership in India; Need for Privatisation; Disinvestment Strategy of India...
Appendix, Bibliography, Index
