Description

 

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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Features

• An accessible approach with all mathematical concepts introduced in an easy-to-follow style.
• Comprehensive coverage of the key elements of practical financial decision making.
• Financial Times articles used throughout to highlight the subject’s real-world relevance, illustrate the significance of the core material and equip students to understand the financial press.
• Up-to-date case studies feature leading UK and European companies coping with financial issues.
• Value-based management is explained and put in context.
• Each chapter contains leaning objectives, chapter outlines, case studies, self-review questions, quick mathematical questions and more detailed Q&As.
• An extensive and comprehensive glossary of key financial terms.
• Available with MyFinanceLab which provides extra support for educators and students. Learn more at www.myfinancelab.com

Table of Contents

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

Back Cover

 

If you’re studying finance as a non-specialist, Essentials of Corporate Financial Management will take you through core topics step by step, whilst showing you how the theory applies in practice, enabling you to make effective financial decisions in your own business career.

 

·    Financial Times articles are used throughout to highlight the subject’s real-world relevance, illustrating the significance of the core material and helping you to understand the financial press.

·    Up-to-date case studies feature leading UK and European companies coping with financial issues.

·    Mathematical concepts are introduced in a simple, and easy-to-follow style.

 

MyFinanceLab is ‘like a personal tutor laying the path toward your learning finance’ (student studying finance, Stockholm School of Economics).

 

MyFinanceLab is an online tutorial and assessment solution that maps directly to Essentials of Corporate Financial Management. With questions designed to test and build your understanding, MyFinanceLab provides instant feedback and a personalised approach to mastering key finance concepts, as well as:

·    A study plan designed just for you.

·    Worked solutions showing how to solve difficult problems.

·    Limitless opportunities to practise.

·    An eText for quick reference.

 

Essentials of Corporate Financial Management covers the core topics of finance for undergraduate students studying finance as part of a business related degree, MBA students and others studying finance at business schools. It also provides the foundation elements needed by students going on to study more advanced finance.

 

Glen Arnold runs an investment fund and has previously held positions as professor of finance and professor of investing. In addition to the textbook Modern Financial Markets and Institutions he has authored bestselling investment books for financial professionals including The Financial Times Guide to Investing, The Great Investors and The Financial Times Guide to Value Investing.

 

Need extra support?
This title can be supported by MyFinanceLab, an online homework and tutorial system which can be used by students for self-directed study or fully integrated into an instructor's course.

 

This product is the book alone, and does NOT come with access to MyFinanceLab.

 

You can benefit from MyFinanceLab by speaking to your local Pearson Account Manager about setting up a version that is customised to suit your course.

For educator access, contact your Pearson Account Manager. To find out who your account manager is, visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/replocator

Author

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