Essentials of Corporate Financial Management, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (November 15, 2012) © 2013
Glen Arnold

Title overview

Essentials of Corporate Financial Management supports courses designed to cover the core topics of finance in 15 to 30 hours of lectures. The step-by-step learning approach enables students to achieve a high level of financial knowledge without assuming a prior knowledge of finance. Selected core topics and key concepts are delivered with depth, allowing students to gain an understanding of the topical debates within this field, where disagreement or alternative perspectives lead to lively discussion.

Hallmark Approach

  • An accessible approach with all mathematical concepts introduced in an easy-to-follow style.
  • Comprehensive coverage of the key elements of practical financial decision making.
  • Financial Times articles used throughout to highlight the subject’s real-world relevance, illustrate the significance of the core material and equip students to understand the financial press.
  • Up-to-date case studies feature leading UK and European companies coping with financial issues.
  • Value-based management is explained and put in context.

Table of contents

  1. 1 The financial world
  2. 2 Project appraisal: Net present value and internal rate of return
  3. 3 Practical project appraisal
  4. 4 Risk and project appraisal
  5. 5 Portfolio theory and capital asset pricing model
  6. 6 Equity capital
  7. 7 Debt finance
  8. 8 The cost of capital
  9. 9 Value-based management
  10. 10 Valuing shares and companies
  11. 11 Capital structure
  12. 12 Dividend policy

Author bios

Glen Arnold is a businessman, investor and professor of investment at the University of Salford. He is the author of numerous finance and investing books including the best-sellers, Corporate Financial Management, The Great Investors and The Financial Times Guide to Investing, all published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall

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