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The vast majority of international trade is supported by some form of trade financing: a specialized, sometimes complex form of financing that is poorly understood even by bankers and seasoned finance and treasury experts. Financing Trade and International Supply Chains takes the mystery out of trade and supply chain finance, providing a practical, straightforward overview of a discipline that is fundamental to the successful conduct of trade: trade that contributes to the creation of economic value, poverty reduction and international development, while increasing prosperity across the globe. The book suggests that every trade or supply chain finance solution, no matter how elaborate, addresses some combination of four elements: facilitation of secure and timely payment, effective mitigation of risk, provision of financing and liquidity, and facilitation of transactional and financial information flow. The book includes observations on the effective use of traditional mechanisms such as Documentary Letters of Credit, as well as an overview of emerging supply chain finance solutions and programs, critical to the financing of strategic suppliers and other members of complex supply chain ecosystems. The important role of export credit agencies and international financial institutions is explored, and innovations such as the Bank Payment Obligation are addressed in detail. Financing Trade and International Supply Chains is a valuable resource for practitioners, business executives, entrepreneurs and others involved in international commerce and trade. This book balances concept with practical insight, and can help protect the financial interests of companies pursuing opportunity in international markets.

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Excerpt from Modern Business: The Principles and Practice of Commerce, Accounts and Finance Twenty years ago a knowledge of corporation finance was not essential to the average business man. Only the larger concerns, roughly speaking, were organized in the corporate form. We have only to look around us to see that the situation to-day in this respect is entirely different. The corporate form, though not yet universal, is far ahead of partnerships and of individual proprietorships in popularity and in influence on business methods. As its advantages become better known we may expect to see it adopted even by small and backward concerns. This tendency is bringing to the front numerous problems of corporation law and management with which every man in business should be familiar. From this point of view the present volume is written. It is intended primarily for the information and guidance of business men of all stations and degrees, Most of what is said here will be found applicable both to large and to small corporations. The facts and illustrations, however, are largely' drawn from the experience of the big industrial and railroad combinations. The chief reason for directing attention to the big corporations is that their methods are well developed and are worthy' of study' and imitation by the managers of smaller corporations. Most of us have a great deal to learn from the men who control the financial affairs of such companies as the United States Steel Corporation, the Union Pacific Railroad Company', and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company', to mention three of our greatest and best managed corporations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.