Download or read book Lender's Guide to the Knowledge-based Economy written by Richard Crawford and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lender's Guide to the Knowledge-Based Economy supplies practical, analytical tools to help lenders successfully deal with borrowers who have immense intellectual capital assets but little that is reflected in typical financial ratios. The centerpiece of the book is the risk grid analysis, a proprietary analytical system that enables lenders to obtain objective measurements of subjective, hard-to-quantify assets. Developed by the authors and used in leading bank training programs, this approach picks up where the quantitative side of credit analysis leaves off. It focuses attention on the risks introduced into the lending process by the changes in the American economy and on the massive changes required in traditional lending practices. The authors do not advocate a wholesale exchange of new ideas for old. The book reviews the normal steps followed in credit analysis, then uses the risk grid analysis to tie them together with all the tools prescribed here: new ways to evaluate financial statements...new ways to measure management quality...and new tools for valuing potential loan collateral when there is little in hard assets.