TY - BOOK AU - Block,Stanley B. AU - Hirt,Geoffrey A. TI - Foundations of financial management. SN - 9780073293523 AV - HG4026.B58 U1 - 658.15 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin KW - Corporations KW - Finance N1 - Includes indexes; Contents: Introduction: The goals and functions of financial management -- Financial analysis and planning: Review of accounting -- Financial analysis -- Financial forecasting -- Operating and financial leverage -- Working capital management: Working capital and the financing decision -- Current asset management -- Sources of short-term financing -- The capital budgeting process: The time value of money -- Valuation and rates of return -- Cost of capital -- The capital budgeting decision -- Risk and capital budgeting -- Long-term financing: Capital markets -- Investment banking: public and private financing -- Common and preferred stock financing -- Dividend policy and retained earnings -- Convertibles, warrants and derivatives -- Expanding the perspective of corporate finance: External growth through mergers -- International financial management -- ER -