Includes glossary and index.

Contents: Introduction -- Corporate finance and the financial manager -- Introduction to financial statement analysis -- Interest rate and valuing cash flows: Time value of money: an introduction -- Time value of money: valuing cash flow streams -- Interest rates -- Bonds -- Stock valuation -- Valuation and the firm: Investment decision rules -- Fundamentals of capital budgeting -- Stock valuation: a second book -- Risk and return: risk and return in capital markets -- Systematic risk and the equity risk premium -- The cost of capital -- Long term financing: raising equity capital -- Debt financing -- Capital structure and payout policy: capital structure -- Payout policy -- Financial planning and forecasting: financial modelling and pro forma analysis -- Working capital management -- Short-term financial planning -- Special topics: option applications and corporate finance -- Mergers in acquisitions -- International corporate finance.