Includes index.

Contents: 1. Overview of corporate finance: Introduction to corporate finance -- Financial statements, taxes and cash flow -- 2. Financial statements and long-term financial planning: Working with financial statements -- Long-term financial planning and growth -- 3. Valuation of future cash flows: First principles of valuation: the time value of money -- Valuing stocks and bonds -- 4. Capital budgeting: Net present value and other investment criteria -- Making capital investment decisions -- Project analysis and evaluation -- 5. Risk and return: Some lessons from capital market history -- Return, risk and the security market line -- 6. Long-term financing: Long-term financing: an introduction -- Issuing securities to the public -- 7. Cost of capital and long-term financial policy: Cost of capital -- Financial leverage and capital structure policy -- dividends and dividend policy -- 8. Short-term financial planning and management: Short-term finance and planning -- Cash and liquidity management -- Credit and inventory management -- 9. Topics in corporate finance: Mergers and acquisitions -- International corporate finance -- Risk management: an introduction to financial engineering --