Thursday 8 March 2012

Book: BANK MANAGEMENT

Book: 
BANK MANAGEMENT
TIMOTHY W. KOCH
S. SCOTT MACDONALD
FIFTH EDITION


The book focuses on decision making and offers a unique approach to understanding bank management. Key chapters address the specific aspects of an issue or problem, how a financial model or decision framework applies, and then demonstrate the application of the model or framework using sample data. The reader not only observes how certain factors influence credit, investment, funding, and pricing decisions, but also develops an appreciation of the trade-offs between return and risk. Several Microsoft Excel templates, which include various models and applications using sample data, are available to users. A wide range of cases related to bank performance evaluation, making new loans, managing the investment portfolio, asset and liability management, and liquidity management are available via the Internet. These cases, end-of-chapter questions, and problems provide an opportunity to test the reader’s understanding of important issues and data analysis.
Upon completion of reading Bank Management, the reader should have a solid foundation in the key issues confronting managers today, a familiarization with the basic financial models that are used to formulate decisions, and an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of data analysis. The text and numerous applications help the reader to recognize the trade-offs involved in making financial decisions and to develop the logical thought processes needed to reach reasonable conclusions.

AUDIENCE
Bank Management is designed for use in upper division undergraduate or master’s level banking and financial institutions courses at universities as well as professional banking programs. As prerequisites, students should be familiar with elementary accounting, basic interest rate and bond pricing concepts, and basic macroeconomics. The book is also well suited for broad-based instructional purposes in bank training programs. For someone new to banking, the book describes the range of banking activities and demonstrates how bank managers make financial decisions. For practitioners, it explains how decisions in one area affect performance and opportunities in other areas. As such, it provides a comprehensive view of managing the entire bank with an emphasis on the trade-offs between profitability and risk.


Section 1: Overview of the Banking Industry and Regulation
Section 2: Evaluating Bank Performance 
Section 3: Managing Interest Rate Risk 
Section 4: Managing the Cost of Funds, Bank Capital, and Liquidity
Section 5: Extending Credit to Business and Individuals
Section 6: Managing the Investment Portfolio and Special Topics


About the Authors 

Timothy W. Koch S. Scott MacDonald

Timothy W. Koch is professor of Finance and holds the South Carolina Bankers Association chair of Banking at the University of South Carolina. He received a B.A. degree in mathematics from Wartburg College and a Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University. He has taught at Baylor University and Texas Tech University and served as director of the Texas Tech School of Banking. In addition to college teaching, Dr. Koch currently serves as President of the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado and teaches at several graduate schools for professional bankers throughout the United States. He also serves as faculty advisor to the Graduate School of Bank Investments and Financial Management offered at the University of South Carolina. He has also taught seminars on risk management to bankers in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Ukraine as part of a U.S. Treasury program to assist private banking in Eastern Europe.
Dr. Koch’s research and writing focuses on bank risk management, performance analysis and improvement, the pricing of financial futures and fixed-income securities, and public finance. He has published in a wide range of academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Futures Markets, National Tax Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Fixed Income, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Portfolio Management, Municipal Finance Journal, and the

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He has served as Treasurer of the Financial Management Association and President of the Eastern Finance Association. He also authored the General Banking curriculum materials used at many state-sponsored banking schools and is a frequent seminar leader for the banking industry.

S. Scott MacDonald is President and CEO, SW Graduate School of Banking (SWGSB) Foundation, Director of the Assemblies for Bank Directors, and Adjunct Professor of Finance, Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University. He received his B.A. degree in economics from the University of Alabama and his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Dr. MacDonald joined the Southern Methodist University faculty as a visiting professor of Finance in 1997. He took over as director of the SWGSB Foundation in 1998. Prior to joining SMU, he was an associate professor of Finance and director of the School of Applied Banking at Texas Tech University. He also served as assistant director of Business and Financial Analysis at RRC Inc., a research consulting firm, before joining the Texas Tech faculty. He is a frequent speaker and seminar leader for the banking industry, professional programs and banking schools. Dr. MacDonald has also served as an expert resource witness before the Texas state Senate.
Dr. MacDonald is the author of many articles in journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Business, The Journal of Futures Markets, The Review of Futures Markets, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He is also the author of curriculum materials for the Independent Bankers Association, The Assemblies for Bank Directors, and other professional banking programs. Dr. MacDonald is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards and is past chairman of the board of directors, Texas Tech Federal Credit Union, and an advisory board member of the Independent Bankers Association of the Texas Education Council.

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