Principles of Information Systems 8th Edition or The Theory of Corporate Finance

Principles of Information Systems, 8th Edition

Author: Ralph Stair

Built on the successful framework of previous editions, the eagerly anticipated eighth edition of Principles of Information Systems has been heavily revised and reorganized and now offers a streamlined text that covers the most up-to-date and relevant topics of information technology. The overall vision, framework, and pedagogy that made the previous editions so popular has been retained, making this a highly comprehensive IS text. Accomplished authors Ralph Stair and George Reynolds continue to expose their readers to clear learning objectives that are reinforced by timely, real-world business examples and hands-on activities. Regardless of their major, students can use this book to understand and practice fundamental IS principles so that they can function more efficiently and effectively as workers, managers, decision makers, and organizational leaders.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: An Overview 1. An Introduction to Information Systems 2. Information Systems in Organizations Part 2: Information Technology Concepts 3. Hardware: Input, Processing, and Output Devices 4. Software: Systems and Application Software 5. Organizing Data and Information 6. Telecommunications and Networks 7. The Internet, Intranets, and Extranets Part 3: Business Information Systems 8. Electronic and Mobile Commerce 9. Enterprise Systems 10. Information and Decision Support Systems 11. Knowledge Management and Specialized Information Systems Part 4: Systems Development 12. Systems Development: Investigation and Analysis 13. Systems Design, Implementation, Maintenance, and Review Part 5: Information Systems in Business and Society 14. The Personal and Social Impact of Computers

Interesting textbook: One World or Technical Analysis

The Theory of Corporate Finance

Author: Jean Tirol

The past twenty years have seen great theoretical and empirical advances in the field of corporate finance. Whereas once the subject addressed mainly the financing of corporations--equity, debt, and valuation--today it also embraces crucial issues of governance, liquidity, risk management, relationships between banks and corporations, and the macroeconomic impact of corporations. However, this progress has left in its wake a jumbled array of concepts and models that students are often hard put to make sense of.

Here, one of the world's leading economists offers a lucid, unified, and comprehensive introduction to modern corporate finance theory. Jean Tirole builds his landmark book around a single model, using an incentive or contract theory approach. Filling a major gap in the field, The Theory of Corporate Finance is an indispensable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as researchers of corporate finance, industrial organizati on, political economy, development, and macroeconomics.

Tirole conveys the organizing principles that structure the analysis of today's key management and public policy issues, such as the reform of corporate governance and auditing; the role of private equity, financial markets, and takeovers; the efficient determination of leverage, dividends, liquidity, and risk management; and the design of managerial incentive packages. He weaves empirical studies into the book's theoretical analysis. And he places the corporation in its broader environment, both microeconomic and macroeconomic, and examines the two-way interaction between the corporate environment and institutions.

Setting a new milestone in the field, TheTheory of Corporate Finance will be the authoritative text for years to come.

Table of Contents:

1	Corporate governance	15
2	Corporate financing : some stylized facts	75
3	Corporate financing and agency costs	111
4	Some determinants of borrowing capacity	157
5	Liquidity and risk management, free cash flow, and long-term finance	199
6	Corporate financing under asymmetric information	237
7	Topics : product markets and earnings manipulations	283
8	Investors and v oice : passive and active monitoring	331
9	Leading relationships and investor activism	355
10	Control rights and corporate governance	387
11	Takeovers	425
12	Consumer liquidity demand	447
13	Credit rationing and economic activity	471
14	Mergers and acquisitions, and the equilibrium determination of asset values	497
15	Aggregate liquidity shortages and liquidity asset pricing	517
16< /TD>	Institutions, public policy, and the political economy of finance	535