Includes Index and Glossary.

Contents:Part 1:Overview of finance:Analysis,planning,and control -- Scope and nature of managerial finance -- Ratio Analysis -- Profit planning -- Financial forecasting -- Financial planning and control-budgeting -- Part 2:Working capital policy -- Current asset management -- Major sources and forms of short-term financing -- Part 3:Decisions involving long-term assets -- The interest factor in financial decisions -- Capital budgeting techniques -- Investment decisions under uncertainty -- Part 4:Sources and forms of long-term financing -- The Market for long-term securities -- Common stock -- Warrants and convertibles -- Part 5: Financial structure and the cost of capital -- Valuation and cost of return -- Financial structure and the use of leverage -- Dividend policy and internal financing -- Part 6:Integrated topics in financial management -- Timing of financial policy -- External growth:Mergers and holding companies -- Failure,reorganization and liquidation -- Multinational business finance -- Financial management in the small firm.