Brief contents Topics covered in the book xxi Introduction to the book xxiii Acknowledgements xxix Part 1 Introduction 11 The financial world 2Part 2 The investment decision 492 Project appraisal: net present value and internal rate of return 503 Project appraisal: cash flow and applications 894 The decision-making process for investment appraisal 1255 Project appraisal: capital rationing, taxation and inflation 151Part 3 Risk and return 1736 Risk and project appraisal 1747 Portfolio theory 2228 The Capital Asset Pricing Model and multi-factor models 268Part 4 Sources of finance 3279 Stock markets 32810 Raising equity capital 36511 Long-term debt finance 42212 Short- and medium-term finance, treasury and working capital management 47413 Stock market efficiency 542Part 5 Corporate value 61114 Value-based management 61215 Value-creation metrics 65816 The cost of capital 70417 Valuing shares 73818 Capital structure 78719 Dividend policy 84020 Mergers 868Part 6 Managing risk 92721 Derivatives 92822 Managing exchange-rate risk 974Appendices A:1I Future value of GBP1 at compound interest A:2II Present value of GBP1 at compound interest A:3III Present value of an annuity of GBP1 at compound interest A:4IV Future value of an annuity of GBP1 at compound interest A:5V Areas under the standardised normal distribution A:6VI Answers to the mathematical tools exercises in Chapter 2, Appendix 2.1 A:7Glossary G:1Bibliography B:1Index I:1
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