Includes glossary and index.

Contents: Introduction: The Corporation -- Introduction to financial statement analysis -- Arbitrage and financial decision making -- Tools: The Time value of money -- Interest rates -- Investment decision rules -- Basic valuation: Fundamentals of capital budgeting -- Valuing bonds -- Valuing stocks -- Risk and return: Capital markets and the pricing of risk -- Optimal portfolio choice -- The Capital asset pricing model -- Alternative models of systematic risk -- Capital structure: Capital structure in a perfect market -- Debt and taxes -- Financial distress, Managerial incentives,and information -- Payout policy -- Valuation: Capital budgeting and valuation with leverage -- Valuation and financial modeling: a case study -- Options: Financial options -- Real options -- Long-term financing: The Mechanics of raising equity capital -- Debt financing -- Leasing -- Short-term financing: Working capital management -- Short-term financial planning -- Special topics: Mergers and acquisitions -- Corporate governance -- Risk management -- International corporate finance.