Cost of Capital and Corporate Policy (with special reference to the influence of changes in accounting variables on stock prices) is a useful guide to estimating the cost of capital with the help of accounting information. Particularly helpful in the case of companies whose shares are not quoted on the stock exchange, the book also tests the validity of the capital Asset Pricing Model in the Indian context. Students, researchers and practitioners in the finance area will find the volume a practical guide to the modern techniques and tools of risk assessment for thorough and thoughtful decision making.

This dictionary includes terms which have been carefully selected from both economics and commerce. This book is used as a reliable source for definitions, statements, economic laws, commercial laws and description of economic and financial institutions. An effort has been made to edit the entries in a clear and lucid style for providing both straight forward definitions and invaluable back ground information. The terms included in this dictionary have been presented in brief analytical phrases thereby avoiding the more comprehensive type of treatment appropriate to large reference work. This dictionary will prove to be useful for under-graduate and post-graduate students and those who appearing for competitive examinations, research scholars, teachers and authors, economic administrators, planners, journalists, business managers, taxpayers, investors, insurance agents and the general reader.

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