Includes index.

Contents: 1. Introduction -- The Financial world -- 2. The Investment decision -- Project appraisal: net present value and internal rate of return -- Project appraisal: cash flow and applications -- The Decision-making process for investment appraisal -- Project appraisal: capital rationing, taxation and inflation -- 3. Risk and return -- Risk and project appraisal -- Portfolio theory -- The Capital asset pricing model and multi-factor models -- 4. Sources of finance -- Stock markets -- Raising equity capital -- Long-term debt finance -- Short-term and medium-term finance -- Treasury and working capital management -- Stock market efficiency -- 5. Corporate value -- Value management -- Strategy and value -- Value-creation metrics -- Entire firm value measurement -- The Cost of capital -- Valuing shares -- Capital structure -- Dividend policy -- Mergers -- Managing risk -- Derivatives -- Managing exchange-rate risk -- Appendices.