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Unified Financial Analysis The Missing Links of Finance

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ISBN-10: 0470745304

ISBN-13: 9780470745304

Edition: 2009

Authors: Willi Brammertz, Ioannis Akkizidis, Wolfgang Breymann, Rami Entin, Marco Rustmann

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'Unified Financial Analysis' arrives at the right time, in the midst of the current financial crisis where the call for better and more efficient financial control cannot be overstated. The book argues that from a technical perspective, there is no need for more, but for better and more efficiently organized information.The title demonstrates that it is possible with a single but well organized set of information and algorithms to derive all types of financial analysis. This reaches far beyond classical risk and return or profitability management, spanning all risk categories, all valuation techniques (local GAAP, IFRS, full mark-to-market and so on) and static, historic and dynamic…    
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Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/16/2009
Pages: 460
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.61" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 2.068

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Evolution of Financial Analysis
Bookkeeping
Modern finance
Departments, silos and analysis
The IT system landscape
New approach
Hazards of a single solution
Finding the Elements
The notion of elements
Elements of financial analysis
Input elements
Financial events and expected cash flows
Risk factors and risk categories
The time dimension
Classification of analysis
Nonfinancial cash flows
The methodology as a reflection
Input Elements
Financial Contracts
Modeling of financial contracts
Standard contract types
Rules and mechanisms of standard contracts
Examples
Nonstandard contract types
A.1 Mapping process
A.2 Data quality
Market Risk Factors
Expectations
Static modelling
Stochastic market models: the arbitrage-free world
Stochastic market models: the real world
Alternative valuation techniques
Further reading
Counterparty
Exposure, rating and probabilities of default
Data determining gross exposure
Credit enhancements
Credit line and limits
Credit ratings
Further reading 134
Behavior
Risk sources and behavior
Market-related behavior
Insurance-related behavior
Credit risk-related behavior
Sequence of behavioral effects
Further reading
Costs
Introduction to cost accounting
Allocating costs to financial contracts
Integration of costs into the general framework
Summary and conclusions
Further reading
Analysis - Liquidation View
Financial Events and Liquidity
Financial event processing
Examples
Behavioral events
Liquidity reports
Further reading
Value, Income and FTP
Valuation principles
The big four
Other valuation principles
Special cases
IFRS 32, 39
Funds transfer pricing
Further reading 220
Sensitivity
Challenges of sensitivity calculation
Interest rate sensitivities from events
Other market sensitivities
Behavioral sensitivities
Sensitivity reports
Risk
Risk and VaR
Analytical VaR methods
Numerical VaR methods
Expected shortfall
Stress and shock scenarios
Regulatory risk measures
Backtesting
Further reading
Operational Risk
Basic indicator and standardized approach
Statistical basis of the advanced measurement approach
Operational value at risk
Further reading 290
Analysis - Going-Concern View
General Mechanisms
Market conditions and general risk factors
New financial production
Behavior and counterparty
Cost
Balancing
Appendix: aggregation
Single contract level and performance
Contract aggregation
Banks
Chart of accounts and portfolio structures
Forecasting volume and characteristics
Adding market forecast, counterparty information and behavior
Analysis elements
Life Insurance
Chart of account
The life contract
Forecasting new production
Analysis elements
Non-life Insurance
Chart of account
The non-life contract
The reinsurance contract
Forecasting new volume and characteristics
Analysis elements
Nonfinancials
Financial and nonfinancial corporates
The nonfinancial model
Analysis elements
Corporate valuation
Outlook And Conclusions
The Financial Laboratory
Risk and performance measurements
Example of an economic risk report
Optimization
Consistency
Further reading
Towards a Unified Financial Language
The need for a unified financial language
Structure of a unified financial language
New finance, new regulation
Index