Steven Collings

Corporate Finance For Dummies - UK

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The maths, the formulas, and the problems associated with corporate finance can be daunting to the uninitiated, but help is at hand.

Corporate Finance For Dummies, UK Edition covers all the basics of corporate finance, including: accounting statements; cash flow; raising and managing capital; choosing investments; managing risk; determining dividends; mergers and acquisitions; and valuation. It also serves as an excellent resource to supplement corporate finance coursework and as a primer for exams.

Inside you'll discover:
The tools and expert advice you need to understand corporate finance principles and strategies
Introductions to the practices of determining an operating budget, calculating future cash flow, and scenario analysis - in plain English
Information on the risks and rewards associated with corporate finance and lending
Easy-to-understand explanations and examples
Help to pass your corporate finance exam!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2013
• Abmessung: 233mm x 187mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781118743508
• ISBN-10: 1118743504
• Artikelnr.: 38612425

Autorenporträt

Steve Collings is Audit and Technical Director for Leavitt Walmsley Associates Ltd. Steve is a regular contributor to AccountingWEB.co.uk and is the author of IFRS For Dummies and the UK edition of Financial Accounting For Dummies. In 2011, Steve was named Accounting Technician of the Year at the British Accountancy Awards. Michael Taillard, PhD, MBA, owns and operates OPII Schools, an award-winning national private school and tutoring company designed as a philanthropic experiment in macroeconomic cash flows as a form of urban renewal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Corporate Finance 5 Chapter 1:
Introducing Corporate Finance 7 Chapter 2: Navigating the World of
Corporate Finance 15 Chapter 3: Raising Money for Business Purposes 35 Part
II: Reading Financial Statements as a Second Language 45 Chapter 4: Seeing
What You're Worth with the Balance Sheet 47 Chapter 5: Getting Paid with
the Profi t and Loss Account 59 Chapter 6: Easy Come, Easy Go:
Understanding the Cash Flow Statement 69 Chapter 7: Making Financial
Statements Useful with Ratio Analysis 77 Chapter 8: Measuring Financial
Wellbeing with Special-Use Ratios 97 Part III: Placing Valuations on the
Price Tags of Business 115 Chapter 9: Determining Present and Future
Values: Time Is Money 117 Chapter 10: Looking to the Future with Capital
Budgeting 125 Chapter 11: Bringing on Your Best Bond Bets 143 Chapter 12:
Being Savvy When Shopping for Shares 159 Chapter 13: Measuring Valuations
of the May-Be: Derivatives 177 Part IV: Walking in a Risk Management
Wonderland 189 Chapter 14: Managing the Risky Business of Corporate
Finances 191 Chapter 15: Through the Looking Glass of Modern Portfolio
Theory 203 Chapter 16: Entering the Science Lab: Financial Engineering 223
Chapter 17: Assessing Capital Structure 239 Part V: Understanding Financial
Management 249 Chapter 18: Assessing Financial Performance 251 Chapter 19:
Forecasting Finances Is Easier than Predicting the Weather 273 Chapter 20:
Spelling out the ABC of M&A 289 Part VI: The Part of Tens 309 Chapter 21:
Ten Things You Need to Know about International Finance 311 Chapter 22: Ten
Things You Need to Understand about Behavioural Finance 325 Index 337