Corporate Finance

Principles & Practice
4th Edition


By Denzil Watson & Anthony Head
June 2007
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications
Pearson / Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780273706441
506 Pages, Illustrated
$117.50 paper original


The fourth edition of Corporate Finance: Principles & Practice – now in full colour throughout – is a concise introduction to the core concepts and key topic areas of corporate finance. It offers integrated coverage of the three key decision areas in finance – investment, financing and dividends – using a clear and logical framework for study and incorporates a wide range of topical real-world examples, allowing students to relate theory to practice.
Corporate Finance: Principles & Practice is suitable for specialist and non-specialist corporate and business finance courses at undergraduate, DMS and MBA/management at Masters level.

The fourth edition of Corporate Finance: Principles & Practice – now in full colour throughout – is a concise introduction to the core concepts and key topic areas of corporate finance. It offers integrated coverage of the three key decision areas in finance – investment, financing and dividends – using a clear and logical framework for study and incorporates a wide range of topical real-world examples, allowing students to relate theory to practice.
Corporate Finance: Principles & Practice is suitable for specialist and non-specialist corporate and business finance courses at undergraduate, DMS and MBA/management at Masters level.

Contents
Preface and guided tour of the book
1 The finance function
2 Capital markets, market efficiency and ratio analysis
3 Short term finance: the management of working capital management
4 Long term finance: equity finance
5 Long term finance: debt finance, hybrid finance and leasing
6 An overview of investment appraisal methods
7 Investment appraisal: applications and risk
8 Portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model
9 The cost of capital and capital structure
10 Dividend policy
11 Mergers and takeovers
12 Risk management
13 International investment decisions
Glossary
Appendix: Answers to end-of-chapter questions
Index
Preface and guided tour of the book
1 The finance function
2 Capital markets, market efficiency and ratio analysis
3 Short term finance: the management of working capital management
4 Long term finance: equity finance
5 Long term finance: debt finance, hybrid finance and leasing
6 An overview of investment appraisal methods
7 Investment appraisal: applications and risk
8 Portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model
9 The cost of capital and capital structure
10 Dividend policy
11 Mergers and takeovers
12 Risk management
13 International investment decisions
Glossary
Appendix: Answers to end-of-chapter questions
Index

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