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Risk Management

The Bottleneck is at the Top of the Bottle

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  • © 2004

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  1. Dimitris N. Chorafas
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Management’s Responsibility Towards the Shareholders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Senior Management Ethics and Personal Accountability

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      Pages 3-23

    3. Mismanagement and the Firing of a Bad CEO

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      Pages 24-39

    4. Creative Accounting, EBITDA, and Core Earnings

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      Pages 40-57

    5. The Misleading of Investors

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      Pages 58-77

    6. Top Management Pay and Options

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      Pages 78-94

    7. Responsibilities of Certified Public Accountants and of the Board

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      Pages 95-112

  3. A Highly Leveraged Company, its Trades, its Accounts, and its Banks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Enron: The End of an Empire

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      Pages 115-133

    3. Assigning the Blame for the Enron Débâcle

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      Pages 134-150

    4. The Bankers of Enron

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      Pages 151-170

    5. Trading and the Risks of Derivatives Exposure

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      Pages 171-191

    6. Investors, the Securitization of Bad Loans, and the Probability of Default

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      Pages 192-212

  4. Problems don’t Disappear because they are Ignored

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. Case Studies of Banks which are Finding the Going Tough

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      Pages 215-231

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 232-241
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About this book

The author outlines the reasons why management risk must be examined within the perspective of each company's business challenges. He suggests there is a synergy between shareholder value and business ethics. He also underlines the importance of honesty, the risks associated with short-sighted management and over-centralisation, the benefits of innovative strategies and senior management's accountability for reliable financial reporting. The text is based on an extensive research project done by the author between 2000 and 2002 in the US, the UK, France, Italy and Switzerland.

About the author

Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.

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