Includes index.

Contents: A Framework for financial decisions -- An Overview of financial management -- The Financial environment -- Present values and financial arithmetic -- Valuation of assets, shares and companies -- Investment decisions and strategies: Investment appraisal methods -- Project appraisal - applications -- Investment strategy and process -- Investment risk and return -- Analysing investment risk -- Relationships between investments: portfolio theory -- Setting the risk premium: the capital asset pricing model -- The Required rate of return on investment and shareholder value analysis -- Identifying and valuing options -- Short-term financing and policies: Treasury management and working capital policy -- Short-term asset management -- Short- and medium-term finance -- Strategic financial decisions -- Long-term finance -- Returning value to shareholders: the dividend decision -- Capital structure and the required return -- Does capital structure really matter -- Acquisitions and restructuring -- International finance: Managing currency risk -- Foreign investment decisions -- Review and behavioural finance -- Appendices: a solution to self-assessment activities.