Includes index.

Contents: 1. Overview: -- Introduction to corporate finance -- Corporate governance -- 2. Valuation of future cash flows: Financial statement analysis -- Discounted cash flow valuation -- Bond, equity and firm valuation -- Net present value and other investment rules -- Making capital investment decisions -- Risk analysis, real options and capital budgeting -- 3. Risk: Risk and return: lessons from market history -- Risk and return: The capital asset pricing model -- Factor models and the arbitrage pricing theory -- Risk, cost of capital and behavioural finance -- Long-term financing -- 4. Capital structure and dividend policy: Capital structure- basic concepts -- Capital structure- Limits to the use of debt -- Valuation and capital budgeting for the levered firm -- Dividends and other payouts -- 5. Long-term financing: Equity financing -- Debt financing -- Leasing -- 6. Options, futures and corporate finance: Options and corporate finance -- Options and corporate finance-extensions and applications -- Warrants and convertibles -- Financial risk management with derivatives --
7. Financial planning and short-term finance: Short-term finance and planning -- Short-term capital management -- 8. Special topics: Mergers and acquisitions -- Financial distress -- International corporate finance --