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Brealey’s Fundamentals of Corporate Finance introduces students to the core principles of financial management through a clear, consistent framework. The text explores how companies invest in assets, raise capital, and create value, while providing a broad view of today’s financial landscape. Organized around the key concepts of modern finance, it simplifies complex ideas and demonstrates their practical
use in real-world decision-making. Students learn not just the theory, but how to apply financial tools to the critical choices faced by managers and individuals alike.

Part One: Introduction
Chapter 1: Goals and Governance of the Corporation
Chapter 2: Financial Markets and Institutions
Chapter 3: Accounting and Finance
Chapter 4: Measuring Corporate Performance


Part Two: Value
Chapter 5: The Time Value of Money
Chapter 6: Valuing Bonds
Chapter 7: Valuing Stocks
Chapter 8: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
Chapter 9: Using Discounted Cash-Flow Analysis to Make Investment Decisions
Chapter 10: Project Analysis
Chapter 11: Introduction to Risk, Return, and the Opportunity Cost of Capital


Part Three: Risk
Chapter 12: Risk, Return, and Capital Budgeting
Chapter 13: The Weighted-Average Cost of Capital and Company Valuation


Part Four: Financing
Chapter 14: Introduction to Corporate Financing
Chapter 15: How Corporations Raise Venture Capital and Issue Securities


Part Five: Debt and Payout Policy
Chapter 16: Debt Policy
Chapter 17: Payout Policy


Part Six: Financial Analysis and Planning
Chapter 18: Long-Term Financial Planning
Chapter 19: Short-Term Financial Planning
Chapter 20: Working Capital Management


Part Seven: Special Topics
Chapter 21: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Control
Chapter 22: International Financial Management
Chapter 23: Options
Chapter 24: Risk Management


Part Eight: Conclusion
Chapter 25: What We Do and Do Not Know about Finance


Appendix
Appendix A: Present Value and Future Value Tables

About the Author

Richard A. Brealey

Richard A. Brealey - Emeritus Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is the former president of the European Finance Association and a former director of the American Finance Association. He is a fellow of the British Academy and has served as a special adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England and director of a number of financial institutions. Other books written by Professor Brealey include Introduction to Risk and Return from Common Stocks.

Stewart C. Myers

Stewart C. Myers - Emeritus Professor of Financial Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is past president of the American Finance Association, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a principal of the Brattle Group Inc., and a retired director of Entergy Corporation. His research is primarily concerned with the valuation of real and financial assets, corporate financial policy, and financial aspects of government regulation of business. He is the author of influential research papers on many topics, including adjusted present value, rate of return regulation, pricing and capital allocation in insurance, real options, and moral hazard and information issues in capital structure decisions.

Alan J. Marcus

Alan Marcus is the Mario J. Gabelli Professor of Finance in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He received his PhD in economics from MIT. Professor Marcus has been a visiting professor at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration and at MIT's Sloan School of Management and has served as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Marcus has published widely in the fields of capital markets and portfolio management. He also spent two years at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), where he developed models of mortgage pricing and credit risk.
He currently serves on the Research Foundation Advisory Board of the CFA Institute.

Nicholas Racculia

Professor Racculia holds a PhD from Princeton University and is a professor of Finance at Saint Vincent College. He teaches a wide range of classes in Corporate Finance, Investments, and Alternative Assets. He has published in the field of private equity and will focus on the development of online content for the text. Prior to academia, Professor Racculia worked for the Princeton University Investment Company and is a CAIA charter holder.

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