This text re-works business models for a financialized world and presents a distinctive insight into the way in which national, corporate and focal firm business models have adapted and evolved. It also shows how, in the current financial crisis, financial disturbances can be amplified, transmitted and made porous, by accounting systems, threatening economic stability.

This is a valuable resource for practitioners, academics and policy makers with an interest in management, accounting and economic policy.

1. Introduction 2. Accounting for the Firm as a Business Model 3. Strategy: Arbitrage for Financial Leverage 4. Business Models: Reworked for a Financialized World 5. Business Models: Global Context 6. Accounting for National Business Models 7. Business Models: Adaptation and Restructuring 8. US Banking: A Viable Business Model? 9. The Private Equity Business Model: Leveraged and Fragile 10. Bio-Pharma: A Maturing Business Model? 11. Business Models for a Digital Lifestyle 12. Accounting for the UK Hospice Business Model

Colin Haslam is Director of the Finance Accounting Research Unit (FARU) at the University of Hertfordshire, UK

Tord Andersson is a business broker and financial analyst with Swedbank and is also a visiting research fellow at the University of Hertfordshire, UK

Nick Tsitsianis is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK and an active researcher in the FARU

Ya Ping Yin is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Hertfordshire Business School, UK