This book examines behavioural accounting and bridges the gap where existing textbooks in behavioural finance take only the perspective of users of financial information, but ignore the implications of judgments during its preparation.
Contextualising the effective and ineffective approaches to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) implementation across the globe from a behavioural finance perspective, this book covers a range of considerations that must be made when firms choose the sustainable path.
This book explores the connection between ownership, on one hand, and immunity from legal responsibility, on the other. It presents a definition of the concept of beneficial ownership, the reasons for its concealment, and failures in international legal structures and arrangements.
This book examines China's fiscal decentralization and its economic impact through local government incentives. It focuses on three key areas: expenditure decentralization, revenue decentralization and intergovernmental transfers. The analysis weighs the benefits and costs of these fiscal practices in terms of China's economic development.
A well established text providing step-by-step guidance to the sale and purchase process of private companies and the key commercial, tax and legal issues arising from it.
This is a book about payments, and how they are evolving, from centralised to decentralised, and the new opportunities that they present. It provides practical applications, offers insights into the key disciplines, and equips anyone in the payments industry with an understanding of the key issues and opportunities.
The vast majority of startups digital transformation programmes fail despite having both time and money, energy and resources. Why to answer this question the book amasses interviews and case studies from within big corporates and successful startups as well as industry observers, regulators, commentators and practitioners.
From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, this title tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a killing.
Explores the concept of transforming the current macroeconomic system from a system based on continuous growth that doesn’t recognize the fundamental importance of Earth's natural support structures, to a system consistent with the basic views of biophysical economics that recognizes that real wealth derives from finite planetary resources.
Explores the concept of transforming the current macroeconomic system from a system based on continuous growth that doesn’t recognize the fundamental importance of Earth's natural support structures, to a system consistent with the basic views of biophysical economics that recognizes that real wealth derives from finite planetary resources.
Explores why crytocurrencies and risky digital financial investments have become so intertwined with perceptions of masculinity and gender identity amongst young men.