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Date	N°	Topic	Statistics	Research	Q&A	PDF
April 2008	31	Finance in Africa	Working capital around the world	Actual share repurchases timing and liquidity	The MIFID directive
February 2008	30	Towards a worldwide accounting standard?	ROCE versus WACC in Europe	Why do firms issue equity?	Solvency opinion
December 2007	29	Are Chinese shares overvalued?	Share ownership structure in Europe	Business collateral in SME lendings	What is a debt push down?
November 2007	28	Behavioural finance	D / EBITDA ratios for LBOs	How are firms sold ?	What is a subprime loan?
September/October 2007	27	Kyoto and carbon trading	One share = one vote?	The impact of pension plans on betas	Should change in working capital be calculated as a gross or net figure on the cash flow statement?
July 2007	26	The equity risk premium	Corporate income tax rates in the world	Is comprehensive income useful?	What are Economic and regulatory capital?
June 2007	25	Managing a company under LBO	Free cash flow generation in Europe	Corporate financial policy and the value of cash	A few insurance terms
May 2007	24	Managing climate-related risks	M&A statistics	Concentration and return	Computation of multiples of entreprise value
March 2007	23	Financial analysis of China Inc	Volatility and credit spread	CEO turnover after acquisitions	The Hart Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act
January 2007	22	Microfinance	The 150 largest non-listed groups	Customers as shareholders of their suppliers	A small quizz (Part II)
December 2006	21	Dow Jones versus Eurostoxx	P/E ratios	Corporate elite’s small world	A small quizz (Part I)
November 2006	20	Islamic finance	Yield curves	IPO theory and practice	What is staple financing?
October 2006	19	IFRS one year after	Recovery rates for defaulted debts	Family ownership and performance	What are mix and match offers?
September 2006	18	Football clubs and the stock exchange	Delisting from the Stock Exchange	Debt maturity and marketability	What are Vendor due diligences?
July/August 2006	17	10 mistakes to avoid in corporate finance (part two)	The M&A balance	Value and corporate governance in emerging markets	What is venture lending?
June 2006	16	10 mistakes to avoid in corporate finance (part one)	Working capital around the world	Local versus global or the home biais	What are earn out clauses?
April 2006	15	Hybrid securities	Corporate income tax rates worldwide	Are poison pills harmful?	Definition of some equity capital market terms
March 2006	14	Challenge ahead for LBOs (part two)	Large caps since 1975 in the USA and in Europe	The choice of payment methods in European M&A	Reverse factoring
February 2006	13	Challenge ahead for LBOs (part one)	IPO discount in 2005	Entrepreneurial spawning	Why delist?
January 2006	12	Are telecom groups enough into debt?	Key financial indicators	Hedging or market timing?	What are Second liens?
December 2005	11	Deferred taxation	Equity risk premiums accross the world	Stock options for all?	In a merger, how do you decide which company should be taken over and which should be doing the taking over?
October 2005	10	The changing loans market, or have the banks gone quite mad?	Some statistics about the debt market	Shareholder investment horizon	How does one go about choosing between dividends, share buybacks and capital reductions?
September 2005	9	Should companies set a target rating?	Corporate income tax rates worldwide	Will Basel II induce a reduction in loans to small and medium companies?	The financial structure used by Procter & Gamble to acquire Gillette
July/August 2005	8	Is factoring out of the ghetto?	Shareholder structures in Europe	Cross country determinants of mergers and acquisitions	50 years of research in finance
June 2005	7	When valuing shareholders' equity, should debt be taken at fair value?	$ 119,000,000,000,000	Corporate Finance in Europe: confronting theory with practice	How does one go about selling a block of shares in a listed company?
May 2005	6	What dividend to pay in 2005?	EGM across Europe	What do entrepreneurs pay for VC affiliation?	What are EV / FCF Multiples?
April 2005	5	Communication regarding the switch to IFRS	Asset betas in Europe	Culture, openness and finance	What are credit derivatives?
March 2005	4	European directives on take-overs	Board of directors across Europe	Reaction to goodwill write-offs	What are PIPEs?
February 2005	3	Is there a limit to the growth of hedge funds?	Market outperformance in Europe over the last 20 years	Why are dividends back in fashion?	How to account for stock options?
January 2005	2	Purchase accounting or when financial common sense overcomes dogmatism	Criteria relied on by rating agencies	Private equity performance	Can managers have leverage on WACC?
December 2004	1	The European company: a new tool to simplify cross-border mergers	Corporate income tax rate worldwide	How does joining or leaving an index affect a stock's price performance?	How to exit US stock exchanges?

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