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For courses in financial management. Financial Management: Core Concepts is the ideal source material for non-finance majors seeking to learn the key elements of financial operations. The text focuses on the students’ ability to understand complex financial concepts by centering its material around three major learning skills: using tools, making connections, and studying for success. Students are encouraged to start by mastering the major concepts of finance, and then to test their knowledge by forging connections between ideas and applying them to real world situations.   The 3rd Edition contains the most up-to-date information in financial concepts, as well as enhanced and expanded versions of existing subject matter. Financial Management makes the topic of finance interesting and accessible to non-finance majors by relating it to their own personal expenditures and exploring the importance of this field across all disciplines.   The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Financial Management: Core Concepts, Global Edition

• Title Page


• Copyright Page


• ABOUT THE AUTHOR


• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


• Contents


• PART 1 Fundamental Concepts and Basic Tools of Finance


• 1 Financial Management


• 1.1 The Cycle of Money


• 1.2 Overview of Finance Areas


• 1.3 Financial Markets


• 1.4 The Finance Manager and Financial Management


• 1.5 Objective of the Finance Manager


• Profit Maximization


• Maximizing Current Stock Price


• Maximizing Equity Value


• 1.6 Internal and External Players


• 1.7 The Legal Forms of Business


• Proprietorship


• Partnership


• Corporations


• Hybrid Corporations


• Not-for-Profit Corporations


• 1.8 The Financial Management Setting: The Agency Model


• 1.9 Corporate Governance and Business Ethics


• FINANCE FOLLIES The Financial Meltdown of 2008


• 1.10 Why Study Finance?


• PUTTING FINANCE TO WORK Now Hiring


• Key Terms


• Questions


• Prepping for Exams


• MINI-CASE Richardses? Tree Farm Grows Up


• Summary Card at end of text


• 2 Financial Statements


• 2.1 Financial Statements


• The Balance Sheet


• The Income Statement


• Statement of Retained Earnings


• 2.2 Cash Flow Identity and the Statement of Cash Flows


• The First Component: Cash Flow from Assets


• The Second Component: Cash Flow to Creditors


• The Third Component: Cash Flow to Owners


• Putting It All Together: The Cash Flow Identity


• The Statement of Cash Flows


• Free Cash Flow


• 2.3 Financial Performance Reporting


• Regulation Fair Disclosure


• Notes to the Financial Statements


• 2.4 Financial Statements on the Internet


• PU