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Commercial Bank Financial Management, 5/e

Personal Portfolio Management: Fundamentals and Strategies, 1/e
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Joseph F. Sinkey, University of Georgia

Established as the market leader for more than 12 years, this thoroughly revised text describes both the theory and practice of commercial banking from a financial-management perspective. Focusing on the dynamic and rapidly changing financial-services industry, it explores modern financial management decisionmaking and highlights the importance of adapting to change and creating value as the way for firms to succeed.




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Features

  • Describes both the theory and practice of commercial banking from a financial-management perspective.
  • Focuses on how banks should make financial management decisions and the environment in which they make them.
  • Features in-depth coverage of the important banking issues and controversies of the 1990s, e.g.:
    • an overview of money, banking, markets, and regulation with an international perspective.
    • market-value accounting versus book-value accounting.
    • managing value, strategic planning, and product expansion.
    • traditional lending versus securitized lending.
    • credit cards.
    • the role of the federal safety net and too-big-to-fail (TBTF).
    • risk-based capital requirements.
    • bank failures (including the credit crises in energy, farm, LDC, and commercial-real-estate lending), corporate restructuring, and the S&L crisis.
    • financial innovation.
    • bank mergers and interstate banking.
  • Includes review questions and problems that focus on measuring, analyzing, and interpreting the risk management of financial-services firms or their clients.
  • Offers a regular glossary and an acronym glossary.
  • Lists comprehensive and up-to-date references drawn from both the business and academic literature, focusing on the leading theories, practices, and regulations faced by banks and their competitors.



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    Table of Contents

    I. INTRODUCTION TO BANK FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN THE FINANCIAL-SERVICES INDUSTRY.
    1. Overview of Banking and the Financial-Services Industry.
    2. Sources and Uses of Funds and the Risks of Banking.
    II. THE BIG PICTURE: STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND THE MEASUREMENT OF BANK PERFORMANCE.
    3. Accounting and Economic Models of Bank Value and Performance.
    4. Managing Value and Risk: Bank Corporate Strategy and Strategic Planning in the Financial-Services Industry.
    5. Asset-Liability Management (ALM) and Techniques for Managing Interest-Rate Risk. III. THE PORTFOLIO RISKS OF BANKING AND THEIR MANAGEMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE.
    6. Credit Risk and the Lending Function: Theory and Practice.
    7. Liquidity Risk and Liability Management.
    8. Bank Investment Management and Investment Banking.
    9. Noninterest Income, Securitization, and Derivatives Activities.
    IV. MANAGING THE BANK LENDING FUNCTION.
    10. Management of Credit Risk: Business Lending.
    11. Consumer Lending.
    12. Commercial Real Estate Lending.
    V. BANK CAPITAL: THEORY, MANAGEMENT, AND REGULATION.
    13. Bank Capital Structure: Theory and Regulation.
    14. Capital and Dividend Management.
    VI. THE ROLES OF REGULATION, DEPOSIT INSURANCE, AND ETHICS IN SHAPING BANKING AND THE FINANCIAL-SERVICES INDUSTRY.
    15. The Theory, Objectives, and Agencies of Bank Regulation.
    16. Deposit Insurance, Bank Failures, and the Savings-and-Loan Mess.
    17. Ethics in Banking and the Financial-Services Industry.
    VII. FINANCIAL INNOVATION, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING IN THE FINANCIAL-SERVICES INDUSTRY.
    18. Innovation as a Diffusion Process, Information Technology, and Electronic Banking.
    19. Consolidation in the Financial-Services Industry: Bank Mergers, Corporate Restructuring, and the Future Structure of Banking.
    20. International Banking and Globalization of the Financial-Services Industry



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    Supplements

    Instructor's Manual with Test Bank and Solutions (0-13-775727-1); (77572-6)

      - Chapter Outlines/Contents; Learning Objectives; Chapter Theme; Summary; List of Key Words, Concepts, and Acronyms; detailed answers to review questions; detailed answers to problems.
    Surfing for Success in Finance (0-13-648460-3); (64846-9)



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