Corporate Finance: Principles & Practice, 4th Edition

Corporate Finance: Principles & Practice, 4th Edition now in full colour throughout is a concise introduction to the core concepts and key topic areas of corporate finance. It offers integrated coverage of the three key decision areas in finance investment, financing and dividends using a clear and logical framework for study and incorporates a wide range of topical real-world examples, allowing students to relate theory to practice. Corporate Finance: Principles & Practice is suitable for specialist and non-specialist corporate and business finance courses at undergraduate, DMS and MBA/management at Masters level.

Table of Contents

1 The finance function
2 Capital markets, market efficiency and ratio analysis
3 Short term finance: the management of working capital management
4 Long term finance: equity finance
5 Long term finance: debt finance, hybrid finance and leasing
6 An overview of investment appraisal methods
7 Investment appraisal: applications and risk
8 Portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model
9 The cost of capital and capital structure
10 Dividend policy
11 Mergers and takeovers
12 Risk management
13 International investment decisions