Corporate Finance A Focused Approach

by Ehrhardt, Michael C.; Brigham, Eugene F.

• ISBN13: 9780324180350
• ISBN10: 0324180357
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-24
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

Drawing from their experience with comprehensive textbooks Ehrhardt & Brigham focus on the critical financial concepts, skills, and technological applications required by every MBA in the 21st century workplace. The result is a lean textbook that (1) provides an in-depth treatment of all essential topics in corporate finance yet (2) can be covered in its entirely in a single semester.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Part One Building Blocks of Corporate Finance	1	(146)
An Overview of Corporate Finance and the Financial Environment	3	(52)
Time Value of Money	55	(46)
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Risk and Return	101	(46)
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Part Two Valuing Securities and Projects	147	(188)
Bonds and Their Valuation	149	(38)
Stocks and Their Valuation	187	(37)
The Cost of Capital	224	(35)
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The Basics of Capital Budgeting: Evaluating Cash Flows	259	(37)
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Cash Flow Estimation and Risk Analysis	296	(39)
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Part Three Corporate Valuation	335	(140)
Financial Statements, Cash Flow, and Taxes	337	(38)
Analysis of Financial Statements	375	(33)
Financial Planning and Forecasting Financial Statements	408	(30)
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Corporate Valuation, Value-Based Management, and Corporate Governance	438	(37)
Part Four Corporate Financing	475	(68)
Capital Structure Decisions	477	(34)
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Distributions to Shareholders: Dividends and Repurchases	511	(32)
Part Five Special Topics	543	(2)
Multinational Financial Management	545	(35)
Working Capital Management	580	(42)
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Option Pricing with Applications to Real Options	622
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Appendixes
A Solutions to Self Test Problems	1	(22)
B Answers to End-of Chapter Problems	23	(6)
C Selected Equations and Data	29	(6)
D Mathematical Table	35
Glossary	1	(1)
Name Index	1	(4)
Subject Index	5