Contents: Background : Financial management: an introduction -- The Mathematics of finance -- Risk and return : basic dimensions of financial decision-making -- Financial analysis and planning : Financial statements and analysis -- Statement of change in financial position -- Management of current assets : Working capital: planning and management -- Working capital: Estimation and calculation -- Management of cash and marketable securities -- Receivables management -- Inventory management -- Financing of working capital and banking policy -- Long-term investment decisions : capital budgeting : Capital budgeting - an introduction -- Capital budgeting: techniques of evaluation -- Financing decision: Cost of capital -- Financing decision : EBIT EPS analysis -- Leverage, costs of capital and value of the firm -- Capital structure : Planning and designing -- Long-term finance and lease financing : Long-term sources of finance : domestic and foreign -- Lease financing -- Appendices.