Includes indexes.

Contents: Introduction: The goals and functions of financial management -- Financial analysis and planning: Review of accounting -- Financial analysis -- Financial forecasting -- Operating and financial leverage -- Working capital management: Working capital and the financing decision -- Current asset management -- Sources of short-term financing -- The capital budgeting process: The time value of money -- Valuation and rates of return -- Cost of capital -- The capital budgeting decision -- Risk and capital budgeting -- Long-term financing: Capital markets -- Investment banking: public and private financing -- Common and preferred stock financing -- Dividend policy and retained earnings -- Convertibles, warrants and derivatives -- Expanding the perspective of corporate finance: External growth through mergers -- International financial management --