Contemporary financial management

[This book] is a text designed primarily for an introductory course in financial management. The book is also suitable for management development programs and as a reference aid to practicing finance professionals ... students enter this course with a wide variety of backgrounds in mathematics, economics, accounting, and statistics. The only presumption we make regarding prior preparation is that all students will have had one course in financial accounting.-Pref.

Originally published: Mason, OH : Thomson/South-Western, ©2006. 10th ed.

Introduction: Role and objective of financial management; Domestic and international financial marketplace; Evaluation of financial performance; Financial planning an d forecasting -- Determinants of valuation: Time value of money; Analysis of risk and return; Fixed-income securities, characteristics and valuation; Common stock, characteristics, valuation, and issuance -- Capital investment decision: Capital budgeting and cash flow analysis; Capital budgeting, decision criteria and real option consideration; Capital budgeting and risk -- Cost of capital, capital structure, and dividend policy: Cost of capital; Capital structure concepts; Capital structure management in practice; Dividend policy -- Working capital management: Working capital policy and short-term financing; Financial forecasting and working capital policy; Management of cash and marketable securities; Management of account receivable and inventories -- Additional topics in contemporary financial management: Lease financing; Financing with derivatives; Risk management;International financial management; Corporate restructuring -- Appendices: Taxes; Continuous compounding and discounting; Bond refunding analysis; Dep…