Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Setting some themes: Warren E. Buffett, 2005 -- Bill Miller and Value Trust --Ben & Jerry's Homemade --The battle for value : Fedex Corp. vs. United Parcel Service, Inc. -- Financial analysis and forecasting: The financial detective, 2005 -- Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. -- The Body Shop International PLC 2001 : An introduction to financial modeling -- Padgett Paper Products Company -- Kota Fibres, Ltd. --Deutsche Brauerei -- Servervault : "reliable, secure, and wicked fast" -- Estimating the cost of capital: "Best practices" in estimating the cost of capital : survey and synthesis -- Nike Inc. : the cost of capital -- Coke versus Pepsi, 2001 -- Teletech Corporation, 2005 -- The Boeing 7E7 -- Capital budgeting and resource allocation: The investment detective -- Fonderia di Torino S.p.A. --Compass Records -- Diamond Chemicals plc (A) : the Merseyside project -- Diamond Chemicals plc (B) : Merseyside and Rotterdam projects --Genzyme/Geltex Pharmaceuticals joint venture -- Euroland Foods S.A. -- Star River Electronics Ltd. -- Management of the firm's equity, dividends, repurchases, initial offerings: Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation --JetBlue Airways IPO valuation -- Purinex, Inc. -- Management of the corporate capital structure: An introduction to debt policy and value -- Structuring corporate financial policy : diagnosis of problems and evaluation of strategies -- The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company : capital structure, valuation, and cost of capital -- Deluxe Corporation -- Rosario Acero S.A. -- Deutsche Bank Securities : financing the acquisition of Consolidated Supply S.A. -- Threshold Sports, LLC -- Analysis of finanicing tactics: leases, options and foreign currency: Merton Electronics Corporation -- Carrefour S.A. -- National Railroad Passenger Corporation ("Amtrak") : Acela Financing -- Primus Automation Division, 2002 -- Corning Inc. : zero coupon convertible debentures due November 8, 2015 (A) -- Enron Corporation's weather derivatives (A) -- Valuing the enterprise: acquisitions and buyouts: Arcadian Microarray Technologies, Inc. -- Yeats Valves and Controls, Inc. -- Chrysler Corporation : negotiations between Daimler and Chrysler -- Palamon Capital Partners/Team System S.p.A. -- General Mills' acquisition of Pillsbury from Diageo PLC --Printicomm's proposed acquisition of Digitech : negotiating price and form of payment -- Structuring Repsol's acquisition of YPF S.A. (A) -- Hostile takeovers : a primer for the decision maker -- General Electric's proposed acquisition of Honeywell -- The Hilton-ITT Wars.