1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008520830403321

Autore

Heitman, Richard

Titolo

Taking her seriously : Penelope & the plot of Homer's Odyssey / Richard Heitman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2005

ISBN

0-472-11489-1

Descrizione fisica

136 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

883.0109

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

P2B-610-HOM.-8H.R.-2005

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000862290203316

Autore

ROE, Mark J.

Titolo

Manager forti, azionisti deboli : economia, finanza e scelte politiche alle radici della corporate governance / Mark J. Roe ; introduzione all'ed. italiana di Gianfranco Imperatori ; [traduzione di Bernardo Bortolotti]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Il Sole 24 ore libri, 1997

ISBN

88-7187-639-3

Descrizione fisica

XLVII, 415 p ; 23 cm

Collana

L'impresa

Disciplina

658.045

Soggetti

Società per azioni - Gestione

Collocazione

XXX.B. Coll. 94/ 17 (COLL. PIY 9)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451565103321

Autore

Greuning Hennie van

Titolo

Risk analysis for Islamic banks [[electronic resource] /] / Hennie van Greuning and Zamil Iqbal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2008

ISBN

0-8213-7142-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

IqbalZamir

Disciplina

332.10917/67

Soggetti

Banks and banking - Islamic countries

Financial institutions - Islamic countries

Risk management

Bank management - Islamic countries

Finance - Islamic countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Foreword-Kenneth G. Lay; Foreword-Dr. Shamshad Akhtar; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Part One: Principles and Key Stakeholders; Box 1.1 Principles of an Islamic Financial System; Table 1.1 Development of Islamic Economics and Finance in Modern History; Table 2.1 Theoretical Balance Sheet of an Islamic Bank Based on Maturity Profile and Functionality; Table 2.2 Sources and Application of Funds; Figure 2.1 Contracts and Instruments; Table 2.3 Size of Islamic Financial Institutions in 1999; Figure 3.1 Partnership in Corporate Governance of Banks

Box 3.1 Accountability of Bank Management Box 3.2 Fit and Proper Standards for Bank Management; Box 3.3 The Responsibilities of Management; Box 3.4 The Responsibilities of Audit Committees and Internal Auditors; Box 3.5 The Responsibilities of External Auditors; Table 4.1 Importance of Key Stakeholders in the Islamic Finance Industry; Part Two: Risk Management; Table 5.1 Banking Risk Exposures; Table 5.2 Contractual Role and Risk in Islamic Banking; Table 5.3 Stages of the Analytical Review Process; Figure 5.1 Composition of an Islamic Bank's Assets, by Periods



Figure 5.2 Trends in Asset Growth, by PeriodTable 5.4 Balance-Sheet Composition of Assets; Table 5.5 Balance-Sheet Growth, Year on Year; Figure 6.1 Composition of an Islamic Bank's Balance Sheet; Table 6.1 Composition of an Islamic Bank's Balance Sheet; Figure 6.2 Structure of an Islamic Bank's Assets; Figure 6.3 Structural Change and Asset Growth, 2001-06; Figure 6.4 Growth of Assets, Year on Year; Table 6.2 Islamic Financing and Investing Assets Grass; Table 6.3 Percentage Composition of the Balance Sheet, 2001-06; Figure 6.5 Hypothetical Growth of Assets

Table 7.1 Composition of the Income Statement, 2005-06Table 7.2 Percentage Composition of Islamic Products' Revenues over Time; Figure 7.1 Asset Structure versus Income Structure; Figure 7.2 Relationship of Income to Expenses, 2001-06; Table 7.3 Profitability Ratios, 2001-06; Figure 7.3 Select Profitability Ratios 2001-06; Figure 7.4 Additional Profitability Ratios, 2001-06; Figure 7.5 Example: Return on Assets (ROA) and on Equity (ROE), Adjusted for the Cost of Capital; Box 8.1 IFSB Principles of Credit Risk; Figure 8.1 Exposure to 20 Largest Exposures (Hypothetical Example)

Table 8.1 Related-Party Lending Figure 8.2 Customer Profile:Who Are We Investing In?; Figure 8.3 Composition of Islamic Products:What Are We Investing In? (2006 Compared to 2001); Table 8.2 Customer Profile:Who Are We Investing In?; Table 8.3 Composition of Products:What Are We Investing In?; Table 8.4 Maturity Profile of Total Assets: For How Long Are We Investing?; Box 8.2 Content of an Investment and Financing Asset Review File; Box 8.3 Signs of a Distorted Credit Culture; Box 8.4 Asset Classification Rules; Table 8.5 Recommended Provisions

Table 8.6 Year-on-Year Fluctuations in Growth of Portfolio Components

Sommario/riassunto

Islamic finance is emerging as a rapidly growing part of the financial sector in the Islamic world and is not restricted to Islamic countries, but is spreading wherever there is a sizable Muslim community. According to some estimates, more than 250 financial institutions in over 45 countries practice some form of Islamic finance, and the industry has been growing at a rate of more than 15 percent annually for the past several years. The market's current annual turnover is estimated to be 70 billion, compared with a mere 5 billion in 1985, and is projected to hit the 100 billion mark by the



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782075403321

Autore

Barz Gregory F. <1960->

Titolo

Shadows in the Field [[electronic resource] ] : New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996

ISBN

0-19-772906-1

1-280-45311-7

0-19-802689-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CooleyTimothy J. <1962->

Disciplina

780.89

780/.89

Soggetti

Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology - Field work

Ethnomusicology - Fieldwork

Music

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; 1. Casting Shadows in the Field: An Introduction; 2. (Un)doing Fieldwork: Sharing Songs, Sharing Lives; 3. Confronting the Field(Note) In and Out of the Field: Music, Voices, Text, and Experiences in Dialogue; 4. The Challenges of Human Relations in Ethnographic Inquiry: Examples from Arctic and Subarctic Fieldwork; 5. Knowing Fieldwork; 6. Toward a Mediation of Field Methods and Field Experience in Ethnomusicology; 7. What's the Difference? Reflections on Gender and Research in Village India; 8. Fieldwork in the Ethnomusicological Past

9. Selecting Partners: Questions of Personal Choice and Problems of History in Fieldwork and Its Interpretation10. The Ethnomusicologist, Ethnographic Method, and the Transmission of Tradition; 11. Chasing Shadows in the Field: An Epilogue; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What are the new directions in ethnomusicological fieldwork? What do we see when we acknowledge the shadows we cast in the field? Will fieldwork continue as an integral part of ethnomusicological theory and



method? Glancing forward and backward, the authors in this collection explore a range of issues that can help ethnomusicologists and those who study human experience and creativity to conceptualize the nature of fieldwork. This is the first book by ethnomusicologists to consider fieldwork as an issue-laden practice, rather than as a methodology requiring a prescriptive manual. The contribut