Corporate Financial Management

The objective of Corporate Financial Management (Third Edition) is to introduce those principles essential to the understanding of financial problems, as well as policies that financial managers use to contend with those problems. To achieve this, the text stresses practical application in a user-friendly format. Corporate Financial Management is suitable for both undergraduate- and graduate-level core courses in finance, financial management and corporate finance. The text is written in a clear, concise and practical manner.

Readers will be exposed to all of the key tools and techniques of financial management and corporate finance without a complex treatment of theoretical financial concepts. The book includes twelve short cases designed to illustrate a series of real-life, current, and decision-oriented financial problems. The cases should enable students to strengthen their practical understanding of financial concepts and techniques. Without the added expense of a separate casebook, students can apply what that have learned in practical settings.

Contents:

Part 1 Introduction

Chapter 1 Goals and Functions of Finance
Chapter 2 Operating Environment of Financial Management

Part 2 Financial Planning and Control

Chapter 3 Financial Statement Analysis
Chapter 4 Leverage and Risk Analysis
Chapter 5 Financial Planning and Forecasting

Part 3 Working Capital Management

Chapter 6 An Overview of Working Capital Management
Chapter 7 Current Asset Management
Chapter 8 Sources of Short-Term Financing

Part 4 Capital Expenditure Analysis

Chapter 9 Time Value of Money
Chapter 10 Valuation
Chapter 11 Cost of Capital
Chapter 12 Capital Budgeting under Certainty
Chapter 13 Other Issues in Capital Budgeting
Chapter 14 Capital Budgeting under Uncertainty

Part 5 Long Term Financing

Chapter 15 Investment Bankers and Capital Markets
Chapter 16 Fixed Income Securities: Bonds and Preferred Stocks
Chapter 17 Common Stock
Chapter 18 Dividend Policy and Retained Earnings
Chapter 19 Term Loans and leases

Part 6 Special Topics in Finance

Chapter 20 Corporate Growth through Mergers
Chapter 21 Corporate Growth Through Globalization

Part 7 Case Study Problems in Finance

Glossary of Financial Terms
Answers to end-of-chapter problems
Index