Corporate Financial Distress: A Complete Guide to Predicting, Avoiding and Dealing with Bankruptcy - Couverture rigide

Altman, Edward I.

 
9780471552536: Corporate Financial Distress: A Complete Guide to Predicting, Avoiding and Dealing with Bankruptcy

Synopsis

Predict, Avoid, Manage - and Even Profit From - Bankruptcy With this new Second Edition of the first definitive guide This new edition of the premier business failure, insolvency, default, and bankruptcy guide provides financial professionals of every stripe with a master reference to the latest banking, credit, investment, legal, financial, and management thought and practice. To help readers combat corporate distress in the '90s and beyond, distinguished author Edward I. Altman includes coverage of Unique statistical tools - author-developed techniques for assessing firms' distress potential, measuring debt price movements, benchmarking debt investor and market performance, establishing the present value of loans, and so much more.Junk bonds - Altman revisits this market to provide an in-depth analysis of the role and risk-return trade-offs of this controversial source of financeEmerging trends - complete explorations of debtor-in-possession lending, prepackaged bankruptcy, and the epidemic of fraudulent conveyance suits resulting from ill-conceived restructuringsAn evaluation of the Chapter 11 process, now under public scrutiny and criticismBankruptcy reorganization case histories - real-world data to help readers carry out debtor valuation analyses and restructurings, featuring Duplan Corporation and Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel CorporationWith this wealth of authoritative information and practical guidelines, bankruptcy creditors, debtors, investors, and third party professionals will have everything they need to predict, avoid, manage, and profit from corporate distress. "Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy is an excellent analysis of an increasingly important topic. Professor Altman is the premier scholar in this area, and this book is a fitting reflection of that scholarship." - Ben Branch, Trustee Bank of New England Corporation Professor of Finance, University of Massachusetts "Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy is an indispensable resource for all who are interested in bankruptcy. Ed Altman has collected, in a single volume, the history, legislative facts, statistics and analytic methods that I search for time and time again. This book is outstandingly comprehensive and up-to-date." - Martin S. Fridson, Managing Director Securities Research and Economics, High Yield Research Group Merrill Lynch

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À propos de l?auteur

About the author EDWARD I. ALTMAN is a world-recognized expert on corporate bankruptcy and credit analysis. He served as an advisor to the U.S. Commission on Revision of the Bankruptcy Act and his books Corporate Bankruptcy in America and Corporate Financial Distress are considered landmarks in the field. Dr. Altman is Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He has edited John Wiley & Sons' Professional Banking and Finance Series, Handbook of Corporate Finance, Financial Handbook, and Handbook of Financial Markets and Institutions, and is the coauthor of Investing in Junk Bonds (with Scott A. Nammacher).

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