Efnisyfirlit

• Contents at a Glance
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Beyond the Book
  • Where to Go from Here
• Part I: Getting Started with Corporate Finance
  • Chapter 1: Introducing Corporate Finance
    • Considering Corporate Finance and the Role of Money in the World
    • Identifying What Makes Corporate Finance Unique
    • Recognising 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 Inhabitants of Finance Land
    • Visiting the Finance Land Information Resources
  • Chapter 3: Raising Money for Business Purposes
    • Raising Capital
    • Acquiring Debt to Raise Funds
    • Selling Equity to Raise Cash
• Part II: Reading Financial Statements as a Second Language
  • Chapter 4: Seeing What You’re Worth with the Balance Sheet
    • Introducing the Balance Sheet
    • Knowing the Weights on the Balance Scale
    • Assessing Your Assets
    • Looking at Liabilities
    • Valuing the Company: Shareholders’ Funds
    • Making Use of the Balance Sheet
  • Chapter 5: Getting Paid with the Profit and Loss Account
    • Adding Income and Subtracting Costs: What’s on the Profit and Loss Account
    • Putting the Profit and Loss Account to Good Use
  • Chapter 6: Easy Come, Easy Go: Understanding the Cash Flow Statement
    • Piecing Together a Puzzle of Cash Flows
    • Using the Cash Flow Statement
  • Chapter 7: Making Financial Statements Useful with Ratio Analysis
    • Being Able to Pay the Bills: Liquidity Ratios
    • Analysing Efficiency with Activity Ratios
    • Measuring Profit Generation and Management with Profitability Ratios
    • Evaluating a Company’s Debt Management with Debt Ratios
  • Chapter 8: Measuring Financial Wellbeing with Special-Use Ratios
    • Focusing on Earnings and Dividends with Investor Ratios
    • Generating Earnings from Interest: Ratios for Banks
    • Using Ratios to Measure Operating Asset Management
• Part III: Placing 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: Looking to the Future with Capital Budgeting
    • Understanding 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 Shares
    • Exchanging Shares: Where to Buy and Sell
    • Looking at the Different Types of Orders
    • Comparing Long and Short Stocks
    • Classifying Shares: Chips, Caps and Sectors
    • Knowing Where the Market Stands: Bulls versus Bears
    • Watching Stocks and Shares Indices
    • Calculating the Value of Stocks and Shares
  • Chapter 13: Measuring Valuations of the May-Be: Derivatives
    • Introducing the Derivatives Market
    • Buying or Selling — Then Again, Maybe Not: Options
    • Customising the Contract with Forwards
    • Adding Some Standardisation to the Contract with Futures
    • Exchanging This for That and Maybe This Again: Swaps
• Part IV: Walking in a Risk Management Wonderland
  • Chapter 14: Managing the Risky Business of Corporate Finances
    • Understanding that Risk Is Unavoidable
    • Investigating Interest Rate Risk and Inflation Risk
    • Minimising 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 Practicalities
    • Hypothesising an Efficient Market
    • Risking Returns
    • Optimising Portfolio Risk
  • Chapter 16: Entering the Science Lab: Financial Engineering
    • Creating New Tools through Financial Engineering
    • Making Securities from Just about Anything
    • Looking at Hybrid Finances
    • Bundling Assets
    • Appealing to a Large Market with Exotic Finances
    • Engineering Your Portfolio to the Max
    • Moving into Computational Finance
  • Chapter 17: Assessing Capital Structure
    • Making More Money than You Borrow
    • Calculating the Cost of Capital
    • Choosing the Proper Capital Structure
• Part V: Understanding Financial Management
  • Chapter 18: Assessing Financial Performance
    • Understanding the Importance of Analysing Financial Success
    • Using Common-Size Comparisons
    • Providing Context by Performing Comparatives
    • Determining the Quality of Profits
    • Assessing Investment Performance
  • Chapter 19: Forecasting Finances Is Easier than Predicting the Weather
    • Seeing with Eyes Analytical
    • Viewing the Past as New
    • Seeing the Future Unclouded: Forecasting
  • Chapter 20: Spelling out the ABC of M&A
    • Getting the Lowdown on M&A
    • Differentiating Between the M and the A
    • Clearing up the Mess: Divestitures
    • 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
    • Understanding that Trade Imbalances Don’t Exist
    • Revealing that Purchasing Power Is Different to Exchange Rate
    • Examining Eurobonds (which Aren’t Necessarily from Europe)
    • Sorting the Muddled Relationship of Interest and Exchange Rates
    • Spotting the Spot Rate and Other Currency Transactions
    • Diversifying Can’t Completely Eliminate Risk Exposure
    • Cross-Listing Allows Companies to Tap the World’s Resources
    • Outsourcing as a Taxing Issue
    • Complicating Your Life with Politics
    • Knowing Your Neighbours: Cultural Understanding Is Vital
  • Chapter 22: Ten Things You Need to Understand about Behavioural Finance
    • Making Financial Decisions Is Rarely Entirely Rational
    • Executing Sound Financial Decisions Involves Identifying Logical Fallacies
    • Getting Emotional about Financial Decisions Can Leave You Crying
    • Stampeding in Finance Can Get You Trampled
    • Letting Relationships Influence Finances Can Be Dangerous
    • Satisficing Can Optimise Your Time and Energy
    • Explaining Life in the Improbable: Prospect Theory
    • Accepting that People Are Subject to Behavioural Biases
    • Analysing and Presenting Information Is Fraught with Problems
    • Measuring Irrationality in Finance Is Rational Behavioural Finance
• Index
• About the Authors

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