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Corporate Finance and Investment: Decisions and Strategies

List of figures and tables

Preface

Authors’ acknowledgements

Publisher’s acknowledgements

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

4 Investment appraisal methods

5 Project appraisal – applications

6 Investment strategy and process

Part III Value, risk and the required return

7 Analysing investment risk

8 Relationships between investments: portfolio theory

9 Setting the risk premium: the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

10 The required rate of return on investment

11 Enterprise value and equity value

12 Identifying and valuing options

Part IV Short-term financing and policies

13 Risk and treasury management

14 Working capital and short-term asset management

15 Short- and medium-term finance

Part V Strategic financial decisions

16 Long-term finance

17 Returning value to shareholders: the dividend decision

18 Capital structure and the required return

19 Does capital structure really matter?

20 Acquisitions and re-structuring

Part VI International financial management

21 Managing currency risk

22 Foreign investment decisions

23 Key issues in modern finance: a review

Appendix A Solutions to self-assessment activities

Appendix B Solutions to selected questions

Appendix C Present value interest factor (PVIF)

Appendix D Present value interest factor for an annuity (PVIFA)

Glossary

References

Index