Corporate Finance Principles & Practice

The third edition of this highly successful textbook provides an accessible and concise introduction to the core concepts and key topic areas of corporate finance. It incorporates a wide range of topical real-world examples, allowing students to relate theory to practice. Corporate Finance: Principles & Practice provides the ideal structure for any corporate finance course, particularly where there are time constraints due to modular delivery. It offers integrated coverage of the three key decision areas in finance - investment, financing and dividends, providing a clear and logical framework for study. Key features Provides a student-friendly approach to the key topics in corporate finance Introduces appropriate tools and techniques for the financial manager Wide range of question material, both for practice and group discussion New features Expanded treatment of areas of complexity, e.g. portfolio theory, financial analysis, time value of money Updated topical vignettes from a range of sources, including the Financial Times Coverage of recent developments, e.g. corporate governance and the Higgs report 'the text is well structured with the opening chapters giving an excellent introduction to the financial world and the context for the subsequent topics areas studied. Providing students with a framework for their study of corporate finance and some understanding of the financial environment at the outset of their course is deemed of the utmost importance and has proved to be an advantage over other texts.' Catherine Matthews, Brighton Business School, University of Brighton The text is accompanied by a Companion Website featuring a range of useful material for both students and lecturers, including self-assessment exercises and questions, FT articles of interest and links to other relevant websites and institutions. 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. Denzil Watson BA (Economics), MA (Money, Banking and Finance), ILT and Antony Head BSc (Chemical Engineering), MBE, PGCFHE, ILT are both Senior Lecturers in the School of Business and Finance at Sheffield Hallam University. They have extensive experience of teaching corporate finance, managerial finance and strategic financial management in a wide range of courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional level.Watson, Denzil is the author of 'Corporate Finance Principles & Practice', published 2003 under ISBN 9780273683568 and ISBN 027368356X.