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Format: 223 S. , überw. Ill., Kt.

Edition: Dt. Ausg.

ISBN: 3800132214

Uniform Title: The modern garden

Language: German

Subjects: Engineering

Keywords: Gartengestaltung ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Gartenkunst ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Bildband

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Format: 1 online resource (317 pages)

Edition: 2nd ed.

ISBN: 9780750648998 , 9780080490816

Content: Corporate Financial Strategy is a practical guide to understanding the elements of financial strategy, and how directors and advisors can add value by tailoring financial strategy to complement corporate strategy. The book sets out appropriate financial strategies over the key milestones in a company's life. It discusses the practicalities behind transactions such as: * Raising venture capital * Flotation on a stock exchange * Making acquisitions * Management buyouts * Financial restructuring In explaining financing structures, the book sets out the basic building blocks of any financial instrument to enable the reader to appreciate innovations in the field. It also illustrates how and why different types of security might be used. The second edition of this very popular textbook brings to bear the considerable commercial and academic experience of its co-authors. Throughout, the book offers a range of up-to-date case studies, abundant diagrams and figures, and frequent 'Working Insight' sections to provide practical illumination of the theory. This book will enable you to understand the potential value added by the best financial strategy, while fully demonstrating the working role of financial strategy within an overall corporate strategy. An excellent practical guide for senior financial managers, strategic-decision makers and qualified accountants, the text is also invaluable as a clear-sighted and thorough companion for students and senior executives on finance courses (including MBA, MSc and DMS)

Note: Cover -- Corporate Financial Strategy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to second edition -- Preface to first edition -- PART 1: PUTTING FINANCIAL STRATEGY IN CONTEXT -- 1. Corporate financial strategy: setting the context -- 2. What does the share price tell us? -- 3. Linking corporate and financial strategies -- PART 2: FINANCIAL STRATEGY AND THE CORPORATE LIFECYCLE -- 4. Start up businesses and venture capital -- 5. Growth companies: marketing focused -- 6. Mature companies - to divi or not? -- 7. Declining businesses - a case for euthanasia? -- PART 3: FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS -- 8. Financial instruments: the building blocks -- 9. Types of financial instrument -- 10. Dividends and buybacks -- PART 4: TRANSACTIONS AND OPERATING ISSUES -- 11. Floating a company -- 12. Acquisitions, mergers and selling a business -- 13. Restructuring a company -- 14. Management buyouts and other leveraged transactions -- 15. Strategic working capital management -- 16. Executive compensation -- 17. International corporate finance -- APPENDICES -- Appendix 1: Review of theories of finance -- Appendix 2: Valuing options and convertibles -- Glossary of selected financial terms -- Discount table: present value of £1 -- Discount table: present value of £1 received annually for N years -- Black-Scholes value of a call option -- Index

Additional Edition: Print version Bender, Ruth Corporate Financial Strategy Saint Louis : Taylor & Francis Group,c2002 ISBN 9780750648998

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

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Format: 1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition: 2nd ed.

ISBN: 9780080497693

Note: Intro -- Picture Composition for Film and Television -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Invisible technique -- Learning the ropes -- A moving photograph -- Continuity cinema -- The shot -- The creation of 'invisible' technique -- Standard camerwork conventions -- Realistic representation -- Mechanical reproduction -- Framing a shot -- Composition -- Does the shot work? -- Intuition -- 'I see what you mean!' -- Why composition is important -- Control of composition -- Visual design techniques -- Cultural influences -- Changing fashions -- Summary -- 2 Alternative technique -- Jump cuts -- Alternatives -- It's magic -- Realism and imagination -- The film moment is always now -- Why people dislike the rejection of standard conventions -- Storytelling -- Don't wake me up -- Definition of alternative conventions -- Conventions -- Summary -- 3 The lens, the eye and perception -- Introduction -- The imprint of the lens -- The eye and a lens -- Size constancy -- How do we understand what we are looking at? -- Characteristics of perception -- Summary -- 4 The lens and perspective -- Perception and depth -- Depth indicators and their relationship to the lens -- Focal length -- Angle of view -- Depth-of-field -- fno -- Zoom -- Focus -- The structural skeleton of a shot -- Horizon line and camera height as a compositional device -- Controlling space with choice of lens angle/camera distance -- The internal space of a shot -- Production style and lens angle -- Estimating distance -- Accentuating depth -- Summary -- 5 Visual design -- Introduction -- Movement -- Sound -- Controlling composition -- Design techniques -- Grouping and organization -- Balance -- Figure and ground -- Shape -- Line -- Rhythm and visual beat -- Pattern -- Interest -- Direction -- Colour -- Scale -- Abstraction -- Understanding an image -- Summary -- 6 Frame , Composition and the frame -- Frame - an invisible focus of power -- Static viewpoint -- A hard cut-off -- Limited depth and perspective indicators -- Monochrome -- The edge of frame as a reference -- Frames within frames -- A second frame -- Frame and divided interest -- Summary -- 7 The shape of the screen -- Aspect ratio -- The shape of the screen and composition -- Viewfinder as an editing tool -- Could it have been different? -- The invention of a world format standard -- Widescreen returns -- Design of the TV aspect ratio -- HDTV -- The need for a universal video format -- 16:9 television widescreen -- A reasonable compromise between competing aspect ratios -- The divine proportion -- Widescreen - the shape of a banknote -- Summary of film and television formats mentioned -- 8 Widescreen composition and film -- Finding ways to compose for the new shape -- Widescreen advantages -- Selling off the redundant format -- Pan and scan -- Cinematographers alarmed -- Boom in shot -- The growth of multiplexes -- Common topline and super 35 -- Summary -- 9 Widescreen composition and TV -- Introduction -- Letterboxing -- Aspect ratio conversion -- Protect and save -- Shooting for two formats -- Composing for 16:9 -- Fidgety zooms -- Transitional period -- The viewer takes control -- Inserting 4:3 material into a 16:9 production -- Compilation programmes -- Distortion and definition -- Widescreen equals spectacle -- Screen size -- Endnote, or in a different aspect ratio, NDNOT -- Summary -- 10 Past influences -- Intuition -- Early influences -- The Rule of Thirds -- More recent influences -- Summary -- 11 News and documentary -- Fact and fiction -- Realism and fantasy -- Film as illusion -- Objectivity -- Record versus comment -- Operational awareness -- Realistic camerawork -- Technology as an aid to 'realism' -- Documentary programmes -- Professionalism , Engaging the attention of the audience -- Summary -- 12 Composition styles -- Visual styles -- Style and technique -- Technological development -- Staging the artistes -- Studio or location shooting -- Shot structure and editing -- Stylistic flourishes -- Multi-camera live television conventions -- The introduction of the zoom and television picture composition -- Portable cameras -- Customary technique -- Genre -- Summary of the history of style -- 13 Lighting and composition -- The key pictorial force -- Gradations of brightness -- Contrast range -- Exposure -- Characteristics of light -- Lighting technique -- Past influences -- Controlled lighting and composition -- Naturalism and found light -- Television lighting -- Any two from cheap, good or fast - but not all three -- Expressing an idea through an image -- Decorative lighting -- Summary -- 14 Colour -- How the eye sees colour -- White balance -- Colour correction -- Colour as subject -- Monochrome -- Colour and composition -- Colour symbolism -- Summary -- 15 Staging -- Introduction to staging -- Where shall I stand? -- What is staging? -- Staging people and staging action -- Figure composition -- Working at speed -- Summary -- 16 Movement -- Camera movement -- Invisible movement -- The development shot -- Accentuating the effect of camera movement -- Summary -- 17 Shooting for editing -- Invisible stitching -- Selection and structure -- Basic editing conventions -- Selection and editing -- Telling a story - fact and fiction -- News - unscripted shot structure -- Variety of shot -- Recap on basic advice for shooting for editing -- Interviews -- How long should a shot be held? -- Basic editing principles -- Types of edit -- Emphasis, tempo and syntax -- Multi-camera camerawork -- Dance and composition -- Summary -- Endnote -- Bibliography -- Index

Additional Edition: Print version Ward, Peter Picture Composition Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2002 ISBN 9780240516813

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books

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