Corporate Finance and Investment: Decisions and Strategies, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (August 21, 2018) © 2019

  • Richard Pike Bradford Management Centre, Bradford University
  • Bill Neale School of Finance and Law, Bournemouth University
  • Saeed Akbar University of Hull
  • Philip Linsley University of York

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Title overview

Understand and develop the tools to apply the principles of Corporate Finance from an international perspective with this leading text.

Corporate Finance and Investment: Decisions and Strategies, 9th Edition studies the discipline from an international perspective, aiming to help you understand the fundamental principles of Corporate Finance and develop the tools you need to apply theory to practice.

Thoroughly updated and focusing on the strategic issues of Finance in a business setting, this must-read text uses the latest financial and accounting data, articles, and research papers, to effectively demonstrate the ways and extent you can apply theory to practical issues.

Table of contents

Part I A framework for financial decisions

  1. An overview of financial management
  2. The financial environment
  3. Present values, and bond and share valuation

Part II Investment decisions and strategies

  1. Investment appraisal methods
  2. Project appraisal – applications
  3. Investment strategy and process

Part III Value, risk and the required return

  1. Analysing investment risk
  2. Relationships between investments: portfolio theory
  3. Setting the risk premium: the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
  4. The required rate of return on investment
  5. Enterprise value and equity value
  6. Identifying and valuing options

Part IV Short-term financing and policies

  1. Risk and treasury management
  2. Working capital and short-term asset management
  3. Short- and medium-term finance

Part V Strategic financial decisions

  1. Long-term finance
  2. Returning value to shareholders: the dividend decision
  3. Capital structure and the required return
  4. Does capital structure really matter?
  5. Acquisitions and re-structuring

Part VI International financial management

  1. Managing currency risk
  2. Foreign investment decisions
  3. Key issues in modern finance: a review

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