Corporate Finance for Business

Description

This is a pedagogically innovative and interactive corporate finance textbook which, as well as offering an in-depth examination of the key areas of the corporate finance syllabus, incorporates interesting, topical examples and cases, bringing real life to bear on the concepts presented, and creating a lively, engaging learning tool.

• Written especially for business and management students, thereby catering to their needs with accessible coverage of both conceptual and technical material, and frequent considerations of practical management implications of the material presented.
• Extensively illustrated with interesting and topical real-life cases and examples that help the student engage with the material, better understand concepts, and appreciate the relevance of theoretical and technical material.
• A very fluid and lively writing style helps the student to understand new and unfamiliar concepts and technical material.
• Each chapter begins with a carefully developed, integrated running case study, which follows a fictional company from start-up to takeover, helping the student to begin their learning with an appreciation of the context within which the academic theory applies.
• Reflects the increasingly international nature of corporate finance, by using examples and case studies with a global dimension, ensuring students gain an appreciation of the real world context of corporate financial management.
• Implicitly and explicitly acknowledges the social and ethical dimensions of corporate finance throughout, helping students to understand the wider implications of theoretical and technical material.
• Employs an 'active learning' approach which will help to ensure students gain a thorough grounding in the subject, including case study related questions, embedded reflective questions and activities, end-of-chapter practice questions, and suggestions for presentations and group work.
• Accompanied by an extensive suite of interactive online resources for students, and supporting resources for lecturers, including answers to all questions in the book.

About the Author(s)

John-Paul Marney, Teaching Fellow, School of Management and Languages, Heriot-Watt University, and Heather Tarbert, Professor of Finance and Head of the Dundee Business School, University of Abertay Dundee

Table of Contents

1:The Nature of Finance
2:Investment Appraisal
3:Financial Markets
4:Valuation
5:Risk and the Financial Environment
6:Risk and the International Environment
7:Capital Budgeting
8:Capital Structure
9:Dividend Policy
10:Working Capital Management
11:Mergers and Acquisitions
12:Interest and Future Values

Additional Resources

Online Resource Centre

For students

Key learning points for each chapter
Additional case studies
Self test multiple choice questions and feedback
Audio summaries of chapters
Web links to relevant articles for each chapter, with commentary from the authors
Audio interviews with finance specialists

For lecturers

Customizable PowerPoint Slides
Solutions manual
Questions and answers to accompany online case studies
Suggestions for discursive questions
Testbank - a fully customizable resource containing ready-made questions with which to test your students