Table of Contents

Part 1: INTRODUCTION 1. The Financial World Part 2: THE INVESTMENT DECISION 2. Project Appraisal: Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return 3. Project Appraisal: Cash Flow and Applications 4. The Decision-making Process for Investment Appraisal 5. Project Appraisal: Capital Rationing, Taxation and Inflation Part 3: RISK AND RETURN 6. Risk and Project Appraisal 7. Portfolio Theory 8. The Capital Asset Pricing Model and Multi-factor Models Part 4: SOURCES OF FINANCE 9. Stock Markets 10. Raising Equity Capital 11. Long-term Debt Finance 12. Short-term and Medium-term Finance 13. Treasury and Working Capital Management 14. Stock Market Efficiency Part 5: CORPORATE VALUE 15. Value-based Management 16. Managing a Value-based Company and the cost of capital 17. Valuing Shares 18. Capital Structure 19. Dividend Policy 20. Mergers Part 6: MANAGING RISK 21. Derivatives 22. Managing Exchange-Rate Risk