Principles of Finance

Part I: GENERAL FINANCE CONCEPTS.
1 An Overview of Finance.
2 Financial Assets (Instruments).
3 Financial Markets and the Investment Banking Process.
4 Financial Intermediaries and the Banking System.
5 The Cost of Money (Interest Rates).
Part II: GENERAL BUSINESS CONCEPTS.
6 Business Organizations and the Tax Environment.
Appendix 6A: 2011 Tax Rate Schedule.
7 Analysis of Financial Statements.
8 Financial Planning and Control.
Appendix 8A: Projected Financial Statements--Including Financing Feedbacks.
Part III: FUNDAMENTALS OF VALUation.
9 The Time Value of Money.
Appendix 9A: Generating an Amortization Schedule--Financial Calculator Solution and Spreadsheet Solution.
10 Valuation Concepts.
11 Risk and Rates of Return.
Part IV:CORPORATE DECISION MAKING.
12 The Cost of Capital.
13 Capital Budgeting.
Appendix 13A: Depreciation.
Appendix 13B: Using a Spreadsheet to Compute NPV and IRR.
14 Capital Structure and Dividend Policy Decisions.
15 Working Capital Management.
Part V: INVESTOR DECISION MAKING.
16 Investment Concepts.
17 Security Valuation and Selection.Appendix A Using Spreadsheets to Solve Financial Problems.
Appendix B Solutions to Self-Test Problems.
Appendix C Answers to End-of-Chapter Problems.
Appendix D Selected Equations.