Includes appendix, glossary and index.

Contents: Part I: Overview: Introduction to corporate finance -- Financial statements and cash flow --Financial statements analysis and financial models -- Part II: Valuation and capital budgeting: Discounted cash flow valuation -- Net present value and other investment rules -- Making capital investment decisions -- Risk analysis, real options, and capital budgeting -- Interest rates and bond valuation -- Stock valuation -- Part III: Risk: Risk and return: lessons from market history -- Return and Risk: the capital asset pricing model(CAPM) -- An alternative view of risk and return: the arbitrage pricing theory -- Risk, cost of capital, and valuation -- Part IV: Capital structure and dividend policy: Efficient capital markets and behavioral challenges -- Long-term financing: an introduction -- Capital structure: basic concepts -- Capital structure: limits to the use of debt -- Valuation and capital budgeting for the levered firm -- Dividends and other payouts -- Part V: Long-term financing: Raising capital -- Leasing -- Part VI: Options, futures and corporate finance: Options and corporate finance -- Options and corporate finance: extensions and applications -- Warrant and convertibles -- Derivatives and hedging risk -- Part VII: Short-term finance: Short-term finance and planning -- Cash management -- Credit and inventory management -- Part VIII: Special topics: Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures -- Financial distress -- International corporate finance.