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Political Risk: Countering the Impact on Your Business

Expanding into emerging markets means understanding the political dynamics involved. Risks need to be grasped and mitigated and you need a good "plan B" if things go wrong.
Viewpoint: Aldo Mareuse

The role of the CFO had changed dramatically and become much more difficult. Financing is much more sophisticated and the window for decision making has narrowed drastically.
Understanding Reputation Risk and its Importance

A spate of high-profile corporate PR disasters have highlighted reputational risk and the need to prevent reputational damage. However, valuing reputation has its challenges.
Viewpoint: Jonathan M. Karpoff

The importance of companies retaining the trust of investors and the wider community can be seen from examples like Xerox, which has had a bad decade, not just a bad year.
Growing and Maximizing SME Profitability Without Compromising ROI

SMEs find it difficult to meet debt interest repayments, which gives rise to the "valley of death" curve. This can impact ROI badly and means that growth must be carefully managed.

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Key Concepts provide you with definitions of buzzwords appearing in the media to ensure that you are up to speed with the current finance conversation. Produced in snapshot, glossary form, Key Concepts direct you to additional material to increase your knowledge and satisfy your interest.

China
China, the most populous country in the world with 1.330 billion people (Source: CIA Factbook, July 2008), has weathered the global economic downturn relatively well. The country’s rapidly growing, vast domestic market has helped to offset the impact on exports from slumping overseas markets. The Chinese government has stimulated domestic demand with loose fiscal and monetary policies. These measures enabled China’s gross domestic product growth...
IPO
IPO is the abbreviated form of initial public offering. This is the process by which large private companies or unlisted public companies want to raise their profile and capital by issuing shares to the public for the first time. This is done by listing the shares on a stock exchange of their choice such as the New York Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange, or others.An IPO is a complicated and expensive process that requires professional...

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard Baruch (1870 – 1965)
US financier and economist
Source: Newsweek (May 28, 1956)

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