Includes index.

Contents: Fundamental concepts of financial management: An Overview of financial management and the financial environment -- Time value of money -- Financial statements, cash flow and taxes -- Risk and return: the basics -- Risk and return: portfolio theory and asset pricing models -- Securities and their valuation: Bonds and their valuation -- Stocks and their valuation -- Financial options and their valuation -- Projects and their valuation: The Cost of capital -- The Basics of capital budgeting: evaluation cash flows -- Cash flow estimation and risk analysis -- Real options -- Corporate valuation: Analysis of financial statements -- Financial planning and forecasting pro forma financial statements -- Corporate valuation, value-based management and corporate governance -- Strategic financing decisions: Capital structure decisions: the basics -- Capital structure decisions: extensions -- Distributions to shareholders: dividends and repurchases -- Tactical financing decisions: Initial public offerings, investment banking and financial restructuring -- Lease financing -- Hybrid financing: preferred stock, warrants and convertibles -- Special topics -- Appendixes -- Web chapters.