Essentials of financial management / Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. Houston
Imprint
Singapore : Cengage Learning, 2010
Edition
2nd ed
Descript
xxi, 736 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
CONTENT
An overview of financial management -- Financial statements, cash flow, and taxes -- Analysis of financial statements -- financial planning and forecasting -- Financial markets and institutions -- Interest rates -- Risk and rates of return -- Time value of Money -- Bonds and their valuation -- Stocks and their valuation -- The cost of capital -- The basics of capital budgeting -- cash flow estimation and risk analysis -- Real options and other topics in capital budgeting -- capital structure and leverage -- distributions to shareholders: dividends and share repurchases -- Working capital management -- Derivatives and risk management -- Multinational financial management -- Hybrid financing: preferred stock, Leasing, warrants, and convertibles -- Mergers and acquisitions -- Solutions to self-test questions and problems -- Answers to selected end-of-chapter problems -- Selected equations and tables -- Frequently used symbols/appreciations