Corporate Finance for Dummies (Paperback)

Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Corporate Finance 5 Chapter 1: Introducing Corporate Finance 7 Chapter 2: Navigating the World of Corporate Finance 15 Chapter 3: Raising Money for Business Purposes 35 Part II: Reading Financial Statements as a Second Language 45 Chapter 4: Seeing What You're Worth with the Balance Sheet 47 Chapter 5: Getting Paid with the Profi t and Loss Account 59 Chapter 6: Easy Come, Easy Go: Understanding the Cash Flow Statement 69 Chapter 7: Making Financial Statements Useful with Ratio Analysis 77 Chapter 8: Measuring Financial Wellbeing with Special-Use Ratios 97 Part III: Placing Valuations on the Price Tags of Business 115 Chapter 9: Determining Present and Future Values: Time Is Money 117 Chapter 10: Looking to the Future with Capital Budgeting 125 Chapter 11: Bringing on Your Best Bond Bets 143 Chapter 12: Being Savvy When Shopping for Shares 159 Chapter 13: Measuring Valuations of the May-Be: Derivatives 177 Part IV: Walking in a Risk Management Wonderland 189 Chapter 14: Managing the Risky Business of Corporate Finances 191 Chapter 15: Through the Looking Glass of Modern Portfolio Theory 203 Chapter 16: Entering the Science Lab: Financial Engineering 223 Chapter 17: Assessing Capital Structure 239 Part V: Understanding Financial Management 249 Chapter 18: Assessing Financial Performance 251 Chapter 19: Forecasting Finances Is Easier than Predicting the Weather 273 Chapter 20: Spelling out the ABC of M&A 289 Part VI: The Part of Tens 309 Chapter 21: Ten Things You Need to Know about International Finance 311 Chapter 22: Ten Things You Need to Understand about Behavioural Finance 325 Index 337