Twenty-seven of the 30 cases involve events occurring in the 1990s, with ten cases in the period of time between 1997 and 2000 alone. To our knowledge, this is also the first major financial case collection in which the majority of the case events occur outside of the United States. This geographic diversity includes Pakistan, Italy, Honduras, China, Denmark, Brazil, Germany, Malaysia, and Ecuador to name but a few. As the leaders in international business and finance have reiterated time and time again over the past 30 years, global business and financial practices reflect much of the culture and history of the geographic environments. It is hoped that this case collection provides an opportunity for students of international finance to understand the differences and complexity of international financial management on a truly global landscape.
Topical coverage is wide.
In addition to the traditional international financial issues of currency exposure and global funding, topics of contemporary managerial concern such as international performance evaluation, valuation and recapitalization, mergers and acquisitions, global tax management, remittance and repatriation, pricing, project financing, ratio analysis, and multinational capital budgeting are also covered. It is intended that the casebook be used as a supplement to MBF, as a supplement to a traditional financial management text, or independently on a stand-alone basis. Although the title of the collection is International Finance, each case could be viewed as focusing on a variety of financial dimensions of global business in general. The selection of cases for the volume was intended to expand the scope of international finance, not narrow it. These cases have been extensively field-tested in both undergraduate and graduate level degree programs at a variety of educational institutions around the globe, as well as within a variety of executive education programs, including here at Thunderbird.