The Audience the Message the Speaker or The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China

The Audience, the Message, the Speaker

Author: John Hasling

This brief, core introduction to public speaking combines a concern with classic rhetoric with a strong focus on ethics, diversity, and the latest technology. The Audience, The Message, The Speaker emphasizes the speaker's responsibility to convey succinct, meaningful information that is well organized, reliable, and clearly expressed for the relevant audience. The new edition features new sections entitled "Analyzing the Audience in a Post 9/11 World," "Making PowerPoint Presentations," and "Researching on the Internet."

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The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China

Author: Yuko Arayama

Bankers in Japan and China are masters of accounting, not risk management, and American-style rescue packages won't solve their banking crises. Cleaning up balance sheets and purging non-performing loans won't work either, say Arayama and Mourdoukoutas. The problem goes deeper. It stems from high growth environments and tight government regulation. The result has been to limit competition in Japan and eliminate it in China. And that led to the control of management behavior, which weakened incentives for Japanese and Chinese bank decision makers to manage, hands-on, their traditional and nontraditional banking risks. They may be experts with the abacus but they have little experience with or understanding of the other more important aspects of banking. A challenging, provocative, readable study and analysis it is, an essential resource for academicians and policymakers in business, government, and international finance and investment.

Table of Contents:

Beyond Nonperforming Assets: Abacus Banking
The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking and the Banking Crisis in Japan
The Rise of Abacus Banking in Japan
The Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan
The Banking Crisis
The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking and the Looming Banking Crisis in China
The Rise of Abacus Banking in China
The Fall of Abacus Banking in China
The Looming Banking Crisis in China
Conclusions