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Principles of Corporate Finance, Concise
Principles of Corporate Finance, Concise

Principles of Corporate Finance, Concise, 2nd Edition

ISBN10: 0073530743 | ISBN13: 9780073530741
By Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers and Franklin Allen
© 2011

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Throughout Principles of Corporate Finance, Concise the authors show how managers use financial theory to solve practical problems and as a way of learning how to respond to change by showing not just how but why companies and management act as they do. The first ten chapters mirror the Principles text, covering the time value of money, the valuation of bonds and stocks, and practical capital budgeting decisions. The remaining chapters discuss market efficiency, payout policy, and capital structure, option valuation, and financial planning and analysis.

The text is modular, so that Parts can be introduced in an alternative order.

Part One: Value

1: Goals and Governance of the Firm

2: How to Calculate Present Values

3: Valuing Bonds

4: The Value of Common Stocks

5: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria

6: Making Investment Decisions with the Net Present Value Rule

Part Two: Risk

7: Introduction to Risk and Return

8: Portfolio Theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model

9: Risk and the Cost of Capital

Part Three: Best Practices in Capital Budgeting

10: Project Analysis

Part Four: Financing Decisions and Market Efficiency

11: Efficient Markets and Behavioral Finance

Part Five: Payout Policy and Capital Structure

12: Payout Policy

13: Does Debt Policy Matter?

14: How Much Should a Corporation Borrow?

15: Financing and Valuation

Part Six: Options

16: Understanding Options

17: Valuing Options

Part Seven: Financial Planning and Working Capital Management

18: Financial Analysis

19: Financial Planning

Appendix

Glossary

Index

About the Author

Richard 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 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.

Franklin Allen

Franklin Allen - Professor of Finance and Economics, Imperial College London, and Emeritus Nippon Life Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is past president of the American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, Society for Financial Studies, Financial Intermediation Research Society, and Financial Management Association. His research has focused on financial innovation, asset price bubbles, comparing financial systems, and financial crises. He is Director of the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis at Imperial College Business School.

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