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Eugene F. Brigham

Published: 2002

ISBN: 0324180462

Publisher:

Management, Business & Economics -> Management -> Principles of Management, EBK, PN, TB

Klaus Spremann

Published: 20121112

ISBN: 3486720260

Publisher: De Gruyter

Eric Wright

Published: 2010

ISBN: 1171146698

Publisher:

Finance, HG173 .B58 2001, 332

Bodie, Zvi

Published: 1999

ISBN: 0130291501

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Scott, David Logan, Ray, Marvin E.

Published:

ISBN: 0316735272

Publisher:

Pandey, I.M.

Published: 2006-03-15T00:00:01Z

ISBN: 8120309189

Publisher: Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.Ltd

Published:

ISBN: 231100123X

Publisher: VUIBERT

Reade, Charles

Published: 2016

ISBN: 112177654x

Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education

Express Publishing (obra colectiva)

Published: 2018

ISBN: 147156262X

Publisher: Express

Finance

Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton

Published: 1998

ISBN: 0137813457

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Finance, HG173 .B58 2000, 658.15

Bodie, Zvi

Published: 2000

ISBN: 013310897

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Joseph Chilver

Published: 1990

ISBN: 0748704159

Publisher: Nelson Thornes Ltd

Finance

Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton

Published: 2000

ISBN: 013310897x

Publisher: Prentice Hall

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Bergeron, Pierre

Published: March 2002

ISBN: 053872613X

Publisher: [Mason, OH] : Thomson, [2002]

Richard Dadamo

Published: 2008

ISBN: 059551121x

Publisher: Iuniverse

Published: 2012

ISBN: 0077627695

Publisher:

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Published:

ISBN: 0390641375

Publisher:

Business Enterprises, Finance, Corporations

Nikbakht, Ehsan., Groppelli, Angelico A.

Published: 1990

ISBN: 0812043731

Publisher: Barron's

Ross-Westerfield-Jaffe

Published: 2007

ISBN: 0390725897

Publisher:

Finance, HG173 .B58 2000, 658.15

Bodie, Zvi, Merton, Robert C.

Published: 1999

ISBN: 013310897X

Publisher: Prentice Hall

This Introduction To Finance Has A Broad Scope, Placing An Emphasis On General Principles Within The Field. It Builds Its Presentation Upon The Three 'pillars' Of Finance: Optimization Over Time, Asset Valuation And Risk Management. Part I Finance And The Financial System 1 -- Chapter 1 What Is Finance? 1 -- 1.1 Defining Finance 2 -- 1.2 Why Study Finance? 2 -- 1.3 Financial Decisions Of Households 5 -- 1.4 Financial Decisions Of Firms 6 -- 1.5 Forms Of Business Organization 7 -- 1.6 Separation Of Ownership And Management 9 -- 1.7 Goal Of Management 10 -- 1.8 Market Discipline: Takeovers 14 -- 1.9 Role Of The Finance Specialist In A Corporation 15 -- Chapter 2 Financial System 21 -- 2.1 What Is The Financial System? 22 -- 2.2 Flow Of Funds 22 -- 2.3 Functional Perspective 24 -- 2.4 Financial Innovation And The Invisible Hand 33 -- 2.5 Financial Markets 35 -- 2.6 Financial Market Rates 36 -- 2.7 Financial Intermediaries 50 -- 2.8 Financial Infrastructure And Regulation 52 -- 2.9 Governmental And Quasi-governmental Organizations 53 -- Chapter 3 Interpreting And Forecasting Financial Statements 63 -- 3.1 Functions Of Financial Statements 64 -- 3.2 Review Of Financial Statements 65 -- 3.3 Market Values Versus Book Values 73 -- 3.4 Accounting Versus Economic Measures Of Income 75 -- 3.5 Returns To Shareholders Versus Return On Book Equity 76 -- 3.6 Analysis Using Financial Ratios 77 -- 3.7 Financial Planning Process 82 -- 3.8 Constructing A Financial Planning Model 83 -- 3.9 Growth And The Need For External Financing 86 -- 3.10 Working Capital Management 89 -- 3.11 Liquidity And Cash Budgeting 90 -- Part Ii Time And Resource Allocation 101 -- Chapter 4 Time Value Of Money And Discounted Cash Flow Analysis 101 -- 4.1 Compounding 102 -- 4.2 Frequency Of Compounding 108 -- 4.3 Present Value And Discounting 109 -- 4.4 Alternative Discounted Cash Flow Decision Rules 112 -- 4.5 Multiple Cash Flows 116 -- 4.6 Annuities 118 -- 4.7 Perpetual Annuities 122 -- 4.8 Loan Amortization 124 -- 4.9 Exchange Rates And Time Value Of Money 125 -- 4.10 Inflation And Discounted Cash Flow Analysis 127 -- 4.11 Taxes And Investment Decisions 133 -- Chapter 5 Life-cycle Financial Planning 143 -- 5.1 A Life-cycle Model Of Saving 143 -- 5.2 Taking Account Of Social Security 151 -- 5.3 Deferring Taxes Through Voluntary Retirement Plans 152 -- 5.4 Should You Invest In A Professional Degree? 154 -- 5.5 Should You Buy Or Rent? 155 -- Chapter 6 How To Analyze Investment Projects 165 -- 6.1 Nature Of Project Analysis 166 -- 6.2 Where Do Investment Ideas Come From? 167 -- 6.3 Net Present Value Investment Rule 168 -- 6.4 Estimating A Project's Cash Flows 169 -- 6.5 Cost Of Capital 172 -- 6.6 Sensitivity Analysis Using Spreadsheets 173 -- 6.7 Analyzing Cost-reducing Projects 176 -- 6.8 Projects With Different Lives 179 -- 6.9 Ranking Mutually Exclusive Projects 179 -- 6.10 Inflation And Capital Budgeting 181 -- Part Iii Valuation Models 193 -- Chapter 7 Principles Of Asset Valuation 193 -- 7.1 Relation Between An Asset's Value And Its Price 194 -- 7.2 Value Maximization And Financial Decisions 194 -- 7.3 Law Of One Price And Arbitrage 196 -- 7.4 Arbitrage And The Prices Of Financial Assets 197 -- 7.5 Interest Rates And The Law Of One Price 198 -- 7.6 Exchange Rates And Triangular Arbitrage 199 -- 7.7 Valuation Using Comparables 202 -- 7.8 Valuation Models 202 -- 7.9 Accounting Measures Of Value 204 -- 7.10 How Information Is Reflected In Security Prices 206 -- 7.11 Efficient Markets Hypothesis 206 -- Chapter 8 Valuation Of Known Cash Flows: Bonds 215 -- 8.1 Using Present Value Formulas To Value Known Cash Flows 216 -- 8.2 Basic Building Blocks: Pure Discount Bonds 218 -- 8.3 Coupon Bonds, Current Yield, And Yield To Maturity 220 -- 8.4 Reading Bond Listings 224 -- 8.5 Why Yields For The Same Maturity May Differ 225 -- 8.6 Behavior Of Bond Prices Over Time 227 -- Chapter 9 Valuation Of Common Stocks 234 -- 9.1 Reading Stock Listings 234 --c 9.2 Discounted Dividend Model 235 -- 9.3 Earnings And Investment Opportunities 238 -- 9.4 A Reconsideration Of The Price/earnings Multiple Approach 242 -- 9.5 Does Dividend Policy Affect Shareholder Wealth? 242 -- Part Iv Risk Management And Portfolio Theory 255 -- Chapter 10 An Overview Of Risk Management 255 -- 10.1 What Is Risk? 256 -- 10.2 Risk And Economic Decisions 258 -- 10.3 Risk-management Process 261 -- 10.4 Three Dimensions Of Risk Transfer 264 -- 10.5 Risk Transfer And Economic Efficiency 268 -- 10.6 Institutions For Risk Management 269 -- 10.7 Portfolio Theory: Quantitative Analysis For Optimal Risk Management 272 -- 10.8 Probability Distributions Of Returns 273 -- 10.9 Standard Deviation As A Measure Of Risk 275 -- Chapter 11 Hedging, Insuring, And Diversifying 284 -- 11.1 Using Forward And Futures Contracts To Hedge Risk 285 -- 11.2 Hedging Foreign-exchange Risk With Swap Contracts 290 -- 11.3 Hedging Shortfall Risk By Matching Assets To Liabilities 291 -- 11.4 Minimizing The Cost Of Hedging 292 -- 11.5 Insuring Versus Hedging 293 -- 11.6 Basic Features Of Insurance Contracts 294 -- 11.7 Financial Guarantees 295 -- 11.8 Caps And Floors On Interest Rates 296 -- 11.9 Options As Insurance 296 -- 11.10 Diversification Principle 298 -- 11.11 Diversification And The Cost Of Insurance 303 -- Chapter 12 Choosing An Investment Portfolio 318 -- 12.1 Process Of Personal Portfolio Selection 319 -- 12.2 Trade-off Between Expected Return And Risk 323 -- 12.3 Efficient Diversification With Many Risky Assets 329 -- Part V Asset Pricing 343 -- Chapter 13 Capital Asset Pricing Model 343 -- 13.1 Capital Asset Pricing Model In Brief 344 -- 13.2 Determinants Of The Risk Premium On The Market Portfolio 347 -- 13.3 Beta And Risk Premiums On Individual Securities 348 -- 13.4 Using The Capm In Portfolio Selection 349 -- 13.5 Valuation And Regulating Rates Of Return 352 -- 13.6 Modifications And Alternatives To The Capm 354 -- Chapter 14 Forward And Futures Prices 360 -- 14.1 Distinctions Between Forward And Futures Contracts 361 -- 14.2 Economic Function Of Futures Markets 363 -- 14.3 Role Of Speculators 364 -- 14.4 Relation Between Commodity Spot And Futures Prices 365 -- 14.5 Extracting Information From Commodity Futures Prices 366 -- 14.6 Forward-spot Price Parity For Gold 366 -- 14.7 Financial Futures 369 -- 14.8 Implied Riskless Rate 372 -- 14.9 Forward Price Is Not A Forecast Of The Future Spot Price 373 -- 14.10 Forward-spot Price-parity Relation With Cash Payouts 373 -- 14.11 Implied Dividends 374 -- 14.12 Foreign-exchange Parity Relation 375 -- 14.13 Role Of Expectations In Determining Exchange Rates 376 -- Chapter 15 Options And Contingent Claims 383 -- 15.1 How Options Work 384 -- 15.2 Investing With Options 387 -- 15.3 Put-call Parity Relation 391 -- 15.4 Volatility And Option Prices 394 -- 15.5 Two-state (binomial) Option Pricing 395 -- 15.6 Dynamic Replication And The Binomial Model 398 -- 15.7 Black-scholes Model 399 -- 15.8 Implied Volatility 402 -- 15.9 Contingent Claims Analysis Of Corporate Debt And Equity 403 -- 15.10 Credit Guarantees 406 -- 15.11 Other Applications Of Option-pricing Methodology 408 -- Part Vi Corporate Finance 417 -- Chapter 16 Capital Structure 417 -- 16.1 Internal Versus External Financing 418 -- 16.2 Equity Financing 419 -- 16.3 Debt Financing 419 -- 16.4 Irrelevance Of Capital Structure In A Frictionless Environment 423 -- 16.5 Creating Value Through Financing Decisions 426 -- 16.6 Reducing Costs 427 -- 16.7 Dealing With Conflicts Of Interest 430 -- 16.8 Creating New Opportunities For Stakeholders 431 -- 16.9 Financing Decisions In Practice 432 -- 16.10 How To Evaluate Levered Investments 434 -- Chapter 17 Finance And Corporate Strategy 443 -- 17.1 Mergers And Acquisitions 443 -- 17.2 Spin-offs 447 -- 17.3 Investing In Real Options 448. Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 456-458) And Index. System Requirements: Windows 3.1 Or Windows 95; Adobe Acrobat Reader, Version 3:02.