Business and Investment Books Library

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Expand your business knowledge with practical guidelines on investments, cooperation, market access and corporate governance.

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We offer practical tools for professionals, investors, and business leaders

Business knowledge should be practical, relevant, and applicable to real-world decisions. Our library brings together insights on investment, business cooperation, market access, corporate governance, and strategic decision-making to help readers understand complex economic environments and navigate today’s business challenges.

Rather than focusing solely on theory, these books combine research, economic analysis, practical guidelines, and real-world perspectives. They are designed to help you deepen your understanding, assess opportunities and risks, develop effective strategies, and make more informed business and investment decisions in an increasingly interconnected global economy.

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Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance Handbook for Shareholders explains how companies are governed, how boards make decisions, and how shareholder interests are protected. Covering board structures, executive remuneration, shareholder rights, and corporate reporting, the book provides a practical understanding of the mechanisms that improve corporate responsibility and accountability. Drawing on international governance models, it helps readers engage more effectively with the companies they own or invest in.

Key topics: Corporate governance fundamentals · Legal and regulatory frameworks · International governance models · Board structures and effectiveness · Directors’ duties and accountability · Executive remuneration · Board committees · Governance administration · Shareholder rights and stewardship · Stakeholder engagement · Corporate responsibility · Sustainability and non-financial reporting

Investment Analyses

Mastering Investment Analysis explains how to analyze financial statements, estimate discount rates, assess investment risks, structure financing, manage investment resources, evaluate companies and investment projects. The book helps readers apply discounting and compounding techniques, determine the cost of capital, optimize the use of internal and borrowed funds, value tangible and intangible assets, and evaluate project feasibility.

Key topics: Investment analysis fundamentals · Investment theory · Corporate investment strategy · Investment infrastructure and markets · Financial statement analysis · Investment decision-making · Capital structure and WACC · Equity and debt financing · Asset management and valuation · Investment project budgeting · Project lifecycle management · International project investments

Financial Intelligence for Managers explains how to analyze financial statements, calculate key financial ratios, assess liquidity and profitability, estimate the cost of capital, and evaluate financing alternatives. The book helps readers manage internal and borrowed financing sources, optimize capital structure, value tangible and intangible assets, support mergers and acquisitions valuation, and evaluate the financial impact of alternative financing and investment strategies.

Key topics: Financial analysis · Corporate financial health · Financial statements · Financial ratio analysis · Investment decision-making · Time value of money · Financial planning · WACC and CAPM · Capital structure optimization · Equity financing · Debt financing · Financial leverage · Asset management and valuation · M&A valuation

Business Plan for Real Investment Projects explains how to develop, finance, evaluate, and implement investment projects. The book helps readers determine how much investment capital a project requires, identify financing sources, prepare cash flow forecasts, value assets, assess risks, evaluate project feasibility, and create investor-ready business plans.

Key topics: Investment analysis · Project financing · Cost of capital · Business valuation · Capital budgeting · Cash flow planning · NPV, IRR, and ROI · Investment risk analysis · Project lifecycle management · Business plan development · Market and demand analysis · Financial forecasting · Profitability analysis · Project feasibility assessment

Investment Management provides a practical framework for understanding investment decision-making, portfolio management, corporate finance, capital structure, and long-term investment strategy in modern business environments. Combining financial theory with practical analytical tools, the book explains how investors and companies evaluate investment opportunities, manage financial risks, structure financing sources, optimize investment portfolios, and develop sustainable growth strategies in changing market conditions.

Key topics: Investment decision-making · Portfolio theory · Investment markets · Investment management systems · Time value of money · Investment financing · Cost of capital and WACC · Capital structure optimization · Equity financing · Debt management · Asset management and valuation · Corporate investment strategy

Joint Ventures

Understanding Joint Ventures explains how companies choose cooperation models, select foreign partners and markets, structure partnership agreements, establish governance systems, allocate risks and responsibilities, and manage international collaborations throughout their lifecycle. Combining strategic, financial, and operational perspectives, it offers practical insights into managing international business partnerships.

Key topics: International business partnerships · Strategic alliances · Joint ventures · International consortia · Contract cooperation · Joint production · Partner selection and negotiation · Foreign market expansion · JV legal and financial structures · JV governance · Risk and conflict management · Exit strategies

Joint Venture Agreements and Business Partnerships explains how companies structure, negotiate, and manage collaborative business arrangements. The book examines the agreements that form the economic and legal foundation of collaborative business ventures, including partnership structures, governance systems, financing arrangements, risk-sharing mechanisms, dispute resolution procedures, and exit strategies. It helps readers select appropriate cooperation models, design effective partner relationships, allocate responsibilities and risks, and develop agreements that support long-term business cooperation.

Key topics: Joint venture fundamentals · JV structures · Economic frameworks · Memorandum of Intent · JV formation documents · Supplementary agreements · Financing and capital contributions · Risk allocation · Dispute resolution · Exit and termination planning · ESG and compliance · Future JV trends

Transfer Pricing

Transfer Pricing for Corporate Tax Planning provides a structured and practical analysis of transfer pricing in the context of international tax planning. It explains how multinational enterprises design pricing systems for intercompany transactions, allocate profits across jurisdictions, manage tax risks, and comply with global regulatory standards. The book combines strategic concepts, legal frameworks, pricing methodologies, and country-specific practices to help readers understand both the technical and practical dimensions of modern transfer pricing regulation.

Key topics: Transfer pricing strategy · Internal corporate pricing · Arm’s length principle · Transfer pricing regulation · Comparability and benchmarking · Transaction-based pricing methods · TNMM and Profit Split · Cost contribution arrangements · Advance pricing agreements · Dispute resolution · International tax cooperation · Transfer pricing compliance and enforcement

Transfer Pricing Agreements: A Practical Guide explains how multinational enterprises structure, document, and manage transfer pricing agreements (TPAs) to comply with OECD Guidelines and BEPS requirements. Covering intercompany supply, licensing, service, financing, cost-sharing, and joint venture agreements, the book provides practical guidance on allocating risks, pricing transactions, negotiating APAs, applying safe harbor rules, and managing transfer pricing disputes. It helps readers strengthen transfer pricing governance across international operations.

Key topics: Transfer pricing agreements · Intercompany supply agreements · Intangible property and licensing · Cost contribution arrangements · Intra-group services · Intercompany financing · Advance Pricing Agreements · Safe harbor rules · Mutual Agreement Procedure · Joint ventures and strategic partnerships · Digital business models · TPA drafting and negotiation

Trade Compliance

Trade Compliance Guide for Non-Tariff Measures explains how non-tariff measures affect international trade and how businesses can comply with import, export, customs, and market access requirements. The book helps readers understand the key features of different non-tariff measures, illustrates their application through practical examples, and provides guidance on navigating compliance requirements and regulatory procedures.

Key topics: Global trade regulation · Tariffs and subsidies · Non-tariff measures · WTO framework · Trade facilitation · Sanitary and phytosanitary measures · Technical barriers to trade · Customs procedures · Anti-dumping and safeguards · Import/export quotas and licensing · Customs valuation · Export controls · Market access · Government procurement and rules of origin

Investment Funds Cases

Failed Funds: Practical Insights from 50 Venture Capital and Private Equity Fund Case Studies examines why investment funds fail and what investors, fund managers, and financial professionals can learn from those failures. Combining an overview of VC and PE investing with 50 real-world case studies, the book analyzes the governance failures, strategic mistakes, risk management weaknesses, frauds, and market shocks that contributed to fund collapse. From the dot-com crash and the global financial crisis to high-profile fund scandals and investment misjudgments, it provides practical lessons for evaluating risks, strengthening fund governance, improving investment decision-making, and avoiding costly mistakes in private capital markets.

Key topics: Venture capital and private equity · Fund failures and bankruptcies · Fund strategy · Governance failures · Risk management · LP/GP alignment · Investment decision-making · Portfolio oversight · Market bubbles and financial crises · Operational failures · Root-cause analysis · Fund misconduct and regulatory risks · Failure patterns · Global case studies

Why My Venture Funds Fail: Practical Insights from 50 Venture Capital and Private Equity Fund Case Studies continues the investigation started in Failed Funds, taking a deeper look at why venture capital and private equity funds fail to create value for investors. Combining an examination of value-creation models in VC and PE with 50 real-world case studies, the book analyzes how governance failures, conflicts of interest, compliance breaches, and poor execution undermine fund performance and, in some cases, lead to collapse or liquidation. With a stronger focus on PE alongside VC, it provides practical lessons on fund governance, fiduciary responsibility, and long-term investment performance.

Key topics: Private equity and venture capital · Fund value creation · Fund underperformance and failure · Governance failures · Deal selection · Conflicts of interest · Key-person risk · Fund strategy · LP/GP alignment · Portfolio oversight · Fundraising pressures · Succession and organizational risk · Risk management · Strategic lessons from real-world cases

Closed Funds: Understanding Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds Investment Strategy Failures continues the investigation begun in Failed Funds, shifting the focus from venture capital and private equity to hedge and mutual funds. Combining an overview of fund structures, investment strategies, and fund lifecycles with 50 real-world case studies, the book examines how leverage, liquidity mismatches, governance failures, valuation distortions, and strategic misjudgments can undermine fund performance and lead to closure or collapse. It provides practical lessons for investors and financial professionals seeking to better understand the risks that threaten investment funds and the warning signs that often emerge long before failure becomes visible.

Key topics: Hedge funds and mutual funds · Fund failures and underperformance · Leverage and concentration risk · Liquidity risk · Governance failures · Regulatory breaches · Investment strategy failures · Portfolio construction · Risk management · Operational breakdowns · Fund liquidation and closure · Market shocks · Strategic lessons from real-world cases

Public Administration

Public Administration and State Governance provides a practical understanding of how modern governments and public institutions operate in market-based economies. It explains how administrative systems manage budgeting, procurement, digital transformation, anti-corruption mechanisms, and public sector personnel. Grounded in real country experience—including lessons drawn from Finland (widely recognized for strong public governance), Germany, France, and the U.S.—the book integrates recommendations from international organizations such as the UN and the OECD.

Key topics: Public administration theory · Government institutions · Ethics and public policy · Public finance and budgeting · E-government and digital transformation · State planning and regulatory impact assessment · Public procurement · Anti-corruption and accountability · Public sector personnel management · State-owned enterprises · Corporate governance in SOEs

Public Administration and State Government: Assessment Methodology provides a practical guide to evaluating the performance of governments, public institutions, and governance systems. While Public Administration and State Governance explains how public institutions operate and are managed, this companion volume focuses on the methodologies used to assess governance quality, institutional performance, regulatory quality, and democratic resilience. Drawing on internationally recognized frameworks developed by organizations such as the OECD, World Bank, United Nations, Transparency International, Freedom House, IDEA, and EuroPAM, it helps readers understand governance indicators and rankings, compare assessment approaches, and apply evaluation results to support evidence-based reforms and institutional improvement.

Key topics: Public governance effectiveness · Political accountability and integrity · Government openness and trust · Institutional performance · Democracy and human rights · Anti-corruption frameworks · Budget transparency · Governance indicators and benchmarking · Digital governance · Data governance · AI in public administration · Evidence-based institutional reform