Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to corporate finance -- Corporate governance -- Financial statement analysis and long-term planning -- Discounted cash flow valuation -- How to value bonds and shares -- Net present value and other investment rules -- Making capital investment decisions -- Risk analysis, real options, and capital budgeting -- Risk and return : lessons from market history -- Risk and return : the capital asset pricing model -- Factor models and the arbitrage pricing theory -- Risk, cost of capital, and capital budgeting -- Corporate financing decisions and efficient capital markets -- Long-term financing : an introduction -- Capital structure : basic concepts -- Capital structure : limits to use of debt -- Valuation and capital budgeting for the levered firm -- Dividends and other payouts -- Equity financing -- Debt financing -- Leasing and off-balance sheet financing -- Options and corporate finance : concepts -- Options and corporate finance : extensions and applications -- Warrants and convertibles -- Financial risk management with derivatives -- Short-term finance and planning -- Cash management -- Credit management -- Mergers and acquisitions -- Financial distress -- International corporate finance -- Appendix A : mathematical tables