The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting, 3rd Edition

648 About the Authors Charles Mulford has a doctorate in accounting from Florida State Univer- sity and is professionally qualif ...

649 Index Accounting: changes in, 51–53 cross-border deals, 586 for goodwill, 399– 400 government, 217–218 hedge, 389–393 inform ...

650 Index Asset(s): current, 17–18 turnover, 30, 31 valuation approach, 594 AT&T/NCR merger attempt, 567–568, 588 Audit, 12– ...

Index 651 story model, 263–265 types of, 261–262 Buy-sell agreements, 345–347 Cabot, Louis B, 513 California First Bank, 360, 36 ...

652 Index Cross-hedge, 440 Crugnale, Joey, 273 Cryomedical Sciences, 45 Currency, 67– 69, 92–93, 356 –375, 386 –389, 438 financi ...

Index 653 Estimates, changes in, 53–54 Executive compensation, and taxes, 325–335 Exotics, 434 Extraordinary items, 47–51 Fairch ...

654 Index Gross profit, 5 Guideline companies approach, 618 Handy and Harman Inc., 58–59 Hardware, 150–155, 537–539 Hartmarx Cor ...

Index 655 search engines, 171 Web browsers, 169 vs. World Wide Web, 167–168 Internet service providers (ISPs), 166 Inventory: ad ...

656 Index Net present value (NPV) (Continued) decision rules other than, 307–311 discounting cash f lows, 300–301 discount rate, ...

Index 657 Portuguese firm example (Electricidade de Portugal SA), 396 –399 Praxair Inc., 385–386, 403 Predatory pricing, 121–122 ...

658 Index Sher win-Williams Company, 62–63, 64 Silgan Holdings Inc., 408 Sirena Apparel Group, 525 SmithKline Beecham PLC, 576 S ...

Index 659 Timeline, 281, 282 Time/motion studies, 214 Time value of money (TVOM) analysis, 299–301 Time Warner/AOL, 561, 563, 58 ...