IABFM Articles

The Oil Crisis and the Role of Financial Managers (June 2008) | Financial Management
by Dr. E. Ted Prince

Crises the size and extent of the current oil crisis do not occur often. When they do they disrupt existing business models of many if not most companies, as is happening now. These changes will result in many companies failing. Many will founder. Some will figure out how to address the crisis because they have seen it as an opportunity.  ...[ Read More ]

Why the US dollar has fallen: Part 1 (June 2008) | Economics
by Martin Davies

If you want to boil a frog as the saying goes you put it into cold water and raise the temperature slowly for if you throw a cold frog into hot water it will leap out. The US dollar is such an animal and over the last few years there has been some speculation on the deprecating value of the dollar but such talk until lately seems to have been background noise.   Like our boiled frog, until the temperature raises too high no one notices, but in the last five years the US dollar has depreciated against the Euro by 35%. ...[ Read More ]

The SMB CEO Challenges in a Globalised World (May 2008) | Corporate Governance
by Lincoln Rosa, Fábio Pires, Fatima Porcaro, Fatima Torres

The search for new skills is difficult because of the space and time offered in the SMB model of work. In this case, the manager plays several roles simultaneously and thus does not have a substitute for that spent time, fundamental, which would be available searching for new solutions. Only the technology can help break this factor and then the second barrier appears: resources. 

Financial Market Turmoil and the Federal Reserve: The Plot Thickens (May 2008) | Markets
by Governor Kevin Warsh

Governor Kevin Warsh

At the New York University School of Law Global Economic Policy Forum, New York, New York

April 14, 2008

Disclosure Makes Dollars and Sense (April 2008) | General
by Dr. Richard Petty

In the case of many companies determining the intrinsic value of a business is difficult for experienced professionals, let along the average investor. This is largely the result of what are termed information asymmetries - when one party in a transaction knows more than the other. These endure in spite of the progress that has been made in revisiting old accounting orthodoxies or the efforts made to control more vigorously certain types of interaction between actors in the capital markets. ...[ Read More ]