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This textbook offers an approachable guide to all key concepts within corporate finance. Emphasizing the use of common sense rather than number-crunching models, it provides a compact, easy to read experience for any reader, practitioners and students alike, whatever their background.A Practical Guide to Corporate Finance begins with the basics of how to read financial statements and how to estimate future cash flows. It also includes a guide to subjects such as capital budgeting decisions, the cost of financing for businesses, cash and working capital management, the process of business valuation, and how stock markets work.This textbook breaks the financial ice by offering real, practical advice, helping the reader to avoid common pitfalls, and translate the 'financialese', or business jargon that can cause confusion for those without a financial or banking background. Every chapter features real-life applications, and is punctuated with mini case studies in the form of a 'Slice of Life' and numerous dialogues that help shape the comprehension of the reader.

A Practical Guide to Corporate Finance: Breaking the Financial Ice

0. Introduction To Finance
1. Financial Analysis
2. The Time Value Of Money
3. Capital Budgeting
4. Risk And Profitability: Stock Portfolios
5. Cost Of Capital And Capital Structure Policy
6. Business Valuation
63. Revenge Of The Betas
7. The Stock Market
8. Cash Management & Risk Management
9. Conclusion