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Contents: Introduction to financial management -- An Overview of financial management -- Financial statements, cash flow, and taxes -- Analysis finacial statements -- Financial planning and forecasting -- The Financial environment: markets, institutions, and interest rates -- Fundamental concepts in financial management -- Risk and rates of return -- Time value of money -- Financial assets -- Bonds and their valuation -- Stocks and their valuation -- Investing in long-term assets: capital budgeting -- The Cost of capital -- The Basics of capital budgeting -- Cash flow estimation and risk analysis -- Capital structure and dividend policy -- Capital structure and leverage -- Distributions to shareholders: dividends and share repurchases -- Working capital management and multinational financial management -- Working capital management -- Multinational financial management -- Appendix A: Mathematical tables -- Appendix B: Solutions to self-test problems -- Appendix C: Answers to end-of-chapter problems -- Appendix D: Selected equations and data.