PAMELA PETERSON DRAKE, PhD, CFA, is the J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance and Department Head of Finance and Business Law at James Madison University. She received her PhD in finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her BS in accountancy from Miami University. Professor Drake previously taught at Florida State University and Florida Atlantic University.
Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA, CPA, is Professor in the Practice of Finance and Becton Fellow at the Yale School of Management and Editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management. Fabozzi earned a doctorate in economics from the City University of New York. He is an Affiliated Professor at the University of Karlsruhe's Institute of Statistics, Econometrics, and Mathematical Finance and is on the Advisory Council for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.
Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
What is Finance? | |
Capital Markets & Capital Market Theory | |
Financial Management | |
Investment management | |
Organization of this book | |
The Bottom Line | |
Questions | |
The Financial System | |
Financial Instruments, Markets, and Intermediaries | |
The financial system | |
The Role of Financial Markets | |
The role of financial intermediaries | |
Types of financial markets | |
The Bottom Line | |
Questions | |
The Financial System's Cast of Characters | |
Domestic nonfinancial sectors | |
Nonfinancial businesses | |
Domestic financial sectors | |
The foreign sector | |
The Bottom Line | |
Questions | |
Financial Management | |
Financial Statements | |
Accounting principles: What are they? | |
The basic financial statements | |
How are the statements related? | |
Why bother about the footnotes? | |
Accounting flexibility | |
U.S. accounting v. outside of the U.S | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Business Finance | |
Forms of business enterprise | |
The objective of financial management | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Financial Strategy and Financial Planning | |
Strategy and value | |
The budgeting process | |
Budgeting | |
Performance evaluation | |
Strategy and value creation | |
The Bottom Line | |
Questions | |
Dividend and Dividend Policies | |
Dividends | |
Stock distributions | |
Dividend policy | |
Stock repurchases | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
The Corporate Financing Decision | |
Debt v. equity | |
Financial leverage and risk | |
Financial distress | |
The cost of capital | |
Optimal capital structure: Theory and practice | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try It! Problems | |
Questions | |
Investment Management | |
Setting investment objectives | |
Establishing an investment policy | |
Constructing and monitoring a portfolio | |
Measuring and evaluating performance | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Valuation and Analysis Tools | |
Time Value of Money | |
Why the time value of money? | |
Calculating the future value | |
Calculating a present value | |
Determining the unknown interest rate | |
The time value of a series of cash flows | |
Annuities | |
Loan amortization | |
Interest rates and yields | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Financial Ratio Analysis | |
Classifying financial ratios | |
Liquidity | |
Profitability ratios | |
Activity ratios | |
Financial leverage | |
Return on investment | |
The Du Pont system | |
Common-size analysis | |
Using financial ratio analysis | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Cash Flow Analysis | |
Difficulties with measuring Cash Flow | |
Free cash flow | |
Usefulness of cash flows analysis | |
Ratio analysis | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Capital Budgeting | |
Investment decisions and owners' wealth | |
The capital budgeting process | |
Determining cash flows from investments | |
Capital budgeting techniques | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Investments | |
The World of Derivatives | |
Futures and forward contracts | |
Options | |
Swaps | |
The Bottom Line | |
Appendix: Black-Scholes option pricing model | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Financial Risk Management | |
The definition of risk | |
Enterprise risk management | |
Managing risks | |
The Bottom Line | |
Questions | |
The Theory of Portfolio Selection | |
Some basic concepts | |
Estimating a portfolio's expected return | |
Measuring portfolio risk | |
Portfolio diversification | |
Choosing a portfolio of risky assets | |
Behavioral finance and portfolio theory | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Asset Pricing Theory: The Capital Asset Pricing Model | |
Characteristics of an asset pricing model | |
Overview of the capital asset pricing model | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
The Structure of Interest Rates | |
The base interest rate | |
The term structure of interest rates | |
Term structure of interest rates theories | |
Swap rate yield curve | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Valuing Common Stock | |
Discounted cash flow models | |
Relative valuation methods | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Valuing Bonds | |
Valuing a bond | |
Conventional yield measures | |
Valuing bonds that have embedded options | |
The Bottom Line | |
Solutions to Try it! Problems | |
Questions | |
Appendix: Solutions to End of Chapter Questions and Problems | |
Glossary | |
About the Authors | |
Index | |
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