Efnisyfirlit

• About the Author
• Contents at a Glance
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • How This Book Is Organized
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Where to Go from Here
• Part I: What’s Unique about Corporate Finance
  • Chapter 1: Introducing Corporate Finance
    • Corporate Finance and the Role of Money in the World
    • Identifying What Makes Corporate Finance Unique
    • Recognizing How Corporate Finance Rules Your Life
    • Becoming Proactive About Corporate Finance
  • Chapter 2: Navigating the World of Corporate Finance
    • Visiting the Main Attractions in Finance Land
    • Meeting the People of Finance Land
    • Visiting the Finance Land Information Booth
  • Chapter 3: Raising Money for Business Purposes
    • Raising Capital
    • Raising Money by Acquiring Debt
    • Raising Cash by Selling Equity
• Part II: Reading Financial Statements as a Second Language
  • Chapter 4: Proving Worth Using the Balance Sheet
    • Introducing the Balance Sheet
    • Evaluating the Weights on the Balance Scale
    • Assets
    • Liabilities
    • Owners’ Equity
    • Making Use of the Balance Sheet
  • Chapter 5: Getting Paid with the Income Statement
    • Adding Income and Subtracting Costs: What’s on the Income Statement
    • Putting the Income Statement to Good Use
  • Chapter 6: Easy Come, Easy Go: Statement of Cash Flows
    • Piecing Together a Puzzle of Cash Flows
    • Using the Statement of Cash Flows
  • Chapter 7: Making Financial Statements Useful with Metrics Analysis
    • Being Able to Pay the Bills: Using Liquidity Metrics
    • Measuring Profit Generation and Management with Profitability Metrics
    • Evaluating a Company’s Debt Management with Debt Analytics
  • Chapter 8: Measuring Financial Well-Being with Special Use Metrics
    • Focusing on Earnings and Dividends with Analytics for Investors
    • Generating Earnings from Interest: Analytics for Banks
    • Using Analytics to Measure Operating Asset Management
• Part III: Valuations on the Price Tags of Business
  • Chapter 9: Determining Present and Future Values: Time Is Money
    • Losing Value over Time
    • Predicting Future Value
    • Calculating the Present Value
  • Chapter 10: Bringing in the CAValry for Capital Asset Valuations
    • Just What Is Capital Budgeting?
    • Rating Your Returns
    • Netting Present Values
    • Determining the Payback Period
    • Managing Capital Allocations
    • Looking at a Piece of Project Management
  • Chapter 11: Bringing on Your Best Bond Bets
    • Exploring the Different Types of Bonds
    • Looking at Bond Rates
    • Reading Bond Information
    • Understanding Bond Valuation
  • Chapter 12: Being Savvy When Shopping for Stock
    • Exchanging Stocks
    • Looking at the Different Types of Orders
    • Comparing Long and Short Stocks
    • Defining Chips, Caps, and Sectors
    • Knowing Where the Market Stands: The Bulls versus the Bears
    • Watching Stock Indices
    • Calculating the Value of Stocks
  • Chapter 13: Measuring Valuations of the Might-Be: Derivatives
    • Introducing the Derivatives Market
    • Buying or Selling — Then Again, Maybe Not: Options
    • Customizing the Contract with Forwards
    • Adding Some Standardization to the Contract with Futures
    • Exchanging This for That and Maybe This Again: Swaps
• Part IV: A Wonderland of Risk Management
  • Chapter 14: Managing the Risky Business of Corporate Finances
    • Understanding that Risk Is Unavoidable
    • Considering Interest Rate Risk and Inflation Risk
    • Minimizing Market Risk
    • Evaluating the Risk of Extending Credit
    • Understanding Off-Balance-Sheet Risk
    • Factoring in Foreign Exchange Risk
    • Identifying Operating Risk
    • Looking at Liquidity Risk
  • Chapter 15: Through the Looking Glass of Modern Portfolio Theory
    • Delving into Portfolio Basics
    • Hypothesizing an Efficient Market
    • Risking Returns
    • Optimizing Portfolio Risk
  • Chapter 16: Financially Engineering Yourself Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole
    • Creating New Tools through Financial Engineering
    • Making Securities Out of Just about Anything
    • Looking at Hybrid Finances
    • Bundling Assets
    • Appealing to a Large Market with Exotic Finances
    • Engineering Finances
    • Moving into Computational Finance
  • Chapter 17: Assessing Capital Structure Is WACC
    • Making More Money than You Borrow
    • Calculating the Cost of Capital
    • Choosing the Proper Capital Structure
• Part V: Financial Management
  • Chapter 18: Assessing Financial Performance
    • Analyzing Financial Success
    • Using Common-Size Comparisons
    • Performing Comparatives
    • Determining the Quality of Earnings
    • Assessing Investment Performance
  • Chapter 19: Forecasting Finances Is Way Easier than the Weather
    • Seeing with Eyes Analytical
    • Viewing the Past as New
    • Seeing the Future Unclouded: Forecasting
  • Chapter 20: The 411 on M&A
    • Getting the Real Scoop on M&A
    • Differentiating Between the M and the A
    • Recognizing a Divestiture
    • Identifying Motives for M&A
    • Measuring What a Business is Worth to You
    • Financing M&A
• Part VI: The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 21: Ten Things You Need to Know about International Finance
    • There’s No Such Thing as a Trade Imbalance
    • Purchasing Power Isn’t the Same Thing as Exchange Rate
    • Eurobonds Aren’t Necessarily from Europe
    • Interest Rates and Exchange Rates Have a Muddled Relationship
    • Spot Rate Isn’t the Only Type of Currency Transaction
    • Diversification Can’t Completely Eliminate Risk Exposure
    • Cross-Listing Allows Companies to Tap the World’s Resources
    • Outsourcing Is a Taxing Issue
    • Politics Complicate Your Life
    • Cultural Understanding Is Vital
  • Chapter 22: Ten Things You Need to Understand about Behavioral Finance
    • Making Financial Decisions Is Rarely Entirely Rational
    • Making Sound Financial Decisions Involves Identifying Logical Fallacies
    • Getting Emotional about Financial Decisions Can Leave You Crying
    • Financial Stampeding Can Get You Trampled
    • Letting Relationships Influence Finances Can Be Ruinous
    • Satisficing Can Optimize Your Time and Energy
    • Prospect Theory Explains Life in the Improbable
    • People Are Subject to Behavioral Biases
    • Analyzing and Presenting Information Can Be an Erroneous Process
    • Measuring Irrationality in Finance Is Rational Behavioral Finance
• Index

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