Essentials of Corporate Financial Management

Essentials of Corporate Financial Management supports courses designed to cover the core topics of finance in 15 to 30 hours of lectures. The step-by-step learning approach enables students to achieve a high level of financial knowledge without assuming a prior knowledge of finance. Selected core topics and key concepts are delivered with depth, allowing students to gain an understanding of the topical debates within this field, where disagreement or alternative perspectives lead to lively discussion.

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Auteur

Glen Arnold is a businessman, investor and professor of investment at the University of Salford. He is the author of numerous finance and investing books including the best-sellers, Corporate Financial Management, The Great Investors and The Financial Times Guide to Investing, all published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall

Résumé
Essentials of Corporate Financial Management supports courses designed to cover the core topics of finance in 15 to 30 hours of lectures. The step-by-step learning approach enables students to achieve a high level of financial knowledge without assuming a prior knowledge of finance.

Contenu

Chapter 1, The financial world

Chapter 2, Project appraisal: Net present value and internal rate of return

Chapter 3, Practical project appraisal

Chapter 4, Risk and project appraisal

Chapter 5, Portfolio theory and capital asset pricing model

Chapter 6, Equity capital

Chapter 7, Debt finance

Chapter 8, The cost of capital

Chapter 9, Value-based management

Chapter 10, Valuing shares and companies

Chapter 11, Capital structure

Chapter 12, Dividend policy

Appendices:

I Future value of £1 at compound interest

II Present value of £1 at compound interest

III Present value of an annuity of £1 at compound interest

IV Future value of an annuity of £1 at compound interest

V Areas under the standardised normal distribution

VI Answers to the mathematical tools exercises in Chapter 2, Appendix 2.1

VII Solutions to selected questions and problems

Glossary

Bibliography

Index