0: Financial Strategies and Topics in Finance (ePub)

-->Financial Strategies and Topics in Finance is a collection of Professor Emeritus Harold Bierman, Jr.'s public lectures on corporate finance, given on behalf of the Johnson School of Business, Cornell University, from 1960 to 2015.By explaining complex financial strategies in a simplified manner, Professor Bierman makes corporate finance accessible to the non-expert reader as well. This collection of lectures covers highly relevant topics with financial insights and implications, that are very important to business managers and individual investors. Complex business decisions are simplified, allowing the logic of the decision process to become readily apparent.As Professor Bierman writes, "A good business education will build on the basic financial tool of the time value of money and the net present value calculation. The lectures presented in this book are consistent with good present value calculations." --> -->Contents: Ten Money MakersTen Financial PositionsFamous StrategiesThe Sustainable Growth RateWhat does a School of Management Teach?Economic Income versus Economic Value AddedDistribution PolicyStock Price is Too HighDrivers of Common Stock PricesCosts of Capital: An Overview of FinanceDebt Limits for CorporationsWorld Prosperity or Economic Chaos?How to InvestDividend PolicyAn Investment and Financial Restructuring StrategyLong-Term Financial Planning GoalsHigh Priority Corporate Finance Issues Circa 1990Investing in an Uncertain WorldFinancial Strategies in Uncertain TimesA Financial Restructuring StrategyTen Suggestions (1995)Financial Strategies for Value EnhancementCorporate Finance: A Brief HistoryGraduation 1980Financial Strategies in Uncertain TimesA Visit with AlumniEconomic ForecastingManagement of Risk and Capital BudgetingReflections on Management Education and ManagementTen Financial Money Makers for a CorporationA Strategy for Management Education at the Johnson SchoolManagement of Risk and Capital Budgeting (1992)Three Corporate Finance IssuesCorporate Finance (1998)Investing in an Uncertain WorldMy Best MBA LectureTen WaysInvestment Strategies in an Uncertain WorldChicago Talk to AlumniIncreasing Shareholder Value: A Financial Strategies Presentation (2005)Financial Strategies --> -->Readership: Graduates of business schools and participants in the financial markets. -->Keywords:Corporate Finance;Capital Structure;Dividend Policy;Maximizing Investor WealthReview:Key Features:Covers highly relevant topics that are very important to business managers and individual investorsSimplifies complex business decisions so that the logic of the decision process becomes readily apparentGives financial insights for the individual investor