Study Guide to Accompany Fund of Corp Fin or Scenario Driven Planning

Study Guide to Accompany Fund of Corp Fin

Author: Richard A Brealey

For introductory courses in Corporate Finance,this text balances core coverage of the fundamental topics in the course with an emphasis on modern business decision-making. The authors envision the typical student using the text to have little or no business background. Therefore,the key principles and mechanics of the time value of money,a central concept,are carefully detailed and richly illustrated; a full complement of pedagogical tools are included throughout every chapter to help students focus on and organize information; and the writing style is relaxed and informal.

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A text for a first course in corporate finance, concentrating on how companies invest in real assets and how they raise the money to pay for these investments, for students with little or no background in business or finance. After background material, Parts II-V cover valuation, cost of capital, financing, and capital structure and dividend policy. Parts VI and VII look at financial planning and short-term financial decisions, and Part VIII covers special topics such as mergers and risk management. Pedagogical features include self-test questions and worked answers, chapter problems, mini-cases, calculator exercises, and readings on finance in practice. Contains color photos and color design elements. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The Firm and the Financial Manager	3
Ch. 2	Accounting and Finance	29
Pt. 2	Value	51
Ch. 3	The Time Value of Money	53
Ch. 4	Valuing Bonds and Stocks	103
Ch. 5	Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria	147
Ch. 6	Using Discounted Cash-Flow Analysis to Make Investment Decisions	183
Ch. 7	Project Analysis	207
Pt. 3	Risk	235
Ch. 8	Introduction to Risk, Return, and the Opportunity Cost of Capital	237
Ch. 9	Risk, Return, and Capital Budgeting	267
Ch. 10	The Cost of Capital	293
Pt. 4	Financing	319
Ch. 11	Corporate Financing and the Lessons of Market Efficiency	321
Ch. 12	An Overview of Corporate Financing	341
Ch. 13	How Corporations Issue Securities	367
Pt. 5	Capital Structure and Dividend Policy	393
Ch. 14	Debt Policy	395
Ch. 15	Dividend Policy	427
Pt. 6	Financial Planning	451
Ch. 16	Financial Statement Analysis	453
Ch. 17	Financial Planning	483
Ch. 18	Working Capital Management and Short-Term Planning	509
Pt. 7	Short-Term Financial Decisions	541
Ch. 19	Cash and Inventory Management	543
Ch. 20	Credit Management and Bankruptcy	567
Pt. 8	Special Topics	593
Ch. 21	Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Control	595
Ch. 22	International Financial Management	623
Ch. 23	Options	651
Ch. 24	Risk Management	677
Pt. 9	Conclusion	697
Ch. 25	What We Do and Do Not Know about Finance	699
App. A	Present Value Tables	713
	App. B: Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems	723
	Glossary	737
	Index	742

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Scenario-Driven Planning: Learning to Manage Strategic Uncertainty

Author: Nicholas C Georgantzas

Scenario-driven planning is a new management technology for strategy design that employs computed or "strategic" scenarios to improve the quality of managerial thinking. Strategic scenarios--the outcomes of modeling strategic situations--produce insight much richer than that expected from environmental scenarios alone. They bring to the consulting and upper-level management audiences a better way of handling strategic uncertainty, providing the tools managers and strategy students need for thinking and dialoguing about complex strategic issues.