Corporate financial distress and bankruptcy : a complete guide to predicting & avoiding distress and profiting from bankruptcy
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Corporate financial distress and bankruptcy : a complete guide to predicting & avoiding distress and profiting from bankruptcy
(Wiley frontiers in finance)
Wiley, c1993
2nd ed
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Published simultaneously in Canada
Includes index
Bibliography: p. 339-350
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Predict, Avoid, Manage - and Even Profit From - Bankruptcy With this new Second Edition of the first definitive guide This new edition of the premier business failure, insolvency, default, and bankruptcy guide provides financial professionals of every stripe with a master reference to the latest banking, credit, investment, legal, financial, and management thought and practice. To help readers combat corporate distress in the '90s and beyond, distinguished author Edward I. Altman includes coverage of Unique statistical tools - author-developed techniques for assessing firms' distress potential, measuring debt price movements, benchmarking debt investor and market performance, establishing the present value of loans, and so much more.Junk bonds - Altman revisits this market to provide an in-depth analysis of the role and risk-return trade-offs of this controversial source of financeEmerging trends - complete explorations of debtor-in-possession lending, prepackaged bankruptcy, and the epidemic of fraudulent conveyance suits resulting from ill-conceived restructuringsAn evaluation of the Chapter 11 process, now under public scrutiny and criticismBankruptcy reorganization case histories - real-world data to help readers carry out debtor valuation analyses and restructurings, featuring Duplan Corporation and Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel CorporationWith this wealth of authoritative information and practical guidelines, bankruptcy creditors, debtors, investors, and third party professionals will have everything they need to predict, avoid, manage, and profit from corporate distress.
"Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy is an excellent analysis of an increasingly important topic. Professor Altman is the premier scholar in this area, and this book is a fitting reflection of that scholarship." - Ben Branch, Trustee Bank of New England Corporation Professor of Finance, University of Massachusetts "Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy is an indispensable resource for all who are interested in bankruptcy. Ed Altman has collected, in a single volume, the history, legislative facts, statistics and analytic methods that I search for time and time again. This book is outstandingly comprehensive and up-to-date." - Martin S. Fridson, Managing Director Securities Research and Economics, High Yield Research Group Merrill Lynch
Table of Contents
THE LEGAL, ECONOMIC, AND INVESTMENT DIMENSIONS OF CORPORATE BANKRUPTCY AND DISTRESSED RESTRUCTURINGS. Corporate Distress: Introduction and Statistical Background. Evolution of the Bankruptcy Process. Evaluating the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy-Reorganization Process. Emerging Trends in Bankruptcy Reorganization. Risks and Returns in the High-Yield ''Junk'' Bond Market. Firm Valuation and Corporate Leveraged Restructuring. Investing in Distressed Securities. TECHNIQUES FOR THE CLASSIFICATION AND PREDICTION OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS. Classifying and Predicting Corporate Distress: The Z -Score Models. ZETA Analysis and Other Attempts to Classify and Predict Business Failures. Application of Distress Prediction Models and Mortality Concepts in Banking. Distress Prediction Models: Catalysts for Constructive Change--Managing a Financial Turnaround. Distress Classification Models for Non-U.S. Countries (A Bibliography). UNDERSTANDING THE BANKRUPTCY REORGANIZATION PROCESS (CASE STUDIES). The Duplan Corporation Case. Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation. References. Index.
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