Table of Contents: Essentials of Financial Management.

Essentials of Financial Management.

A compact text delivering the key concepts of finance and financial markets expected on an introductory course in corporate finance. Including numerous real world exercises with spreadsheet solutions, this is a paperback edition of an Open Access e-textbook.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Laws, Jason.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Electronic books.
Online Access:	Click to View

Table of Contents:

Intro
Contents
Introduction
1 An introduction to equity markets
1.1 The benefits of a smooth-running stock exchange
1.2 The efficient market hypothesis
1.3 Ordinary shares
1.4 Preference shares
Examples of preference dividends
1.5 Authorised, issued and par values
Example
1.6 An initial public offering
1.7 Stock market indices
1.8 Stock market linkages
1.9 Rights issues
Example
1.10 Stock splits
1.11 Share repurchase
Example
2 Risk versus return
2.1 A primer on the variance of an asset and covariance of a pair of assets
2.2 The mean and variance of a portfolio
Example
2.3 Finding the risk of a three- or more asset portfolio
2.4 Choosing the optimal portfolio
2.5 The risk of large portfolios
2.6 Market risk
Example
2.7 The capital asset pricing model
Example
2.8 The beta of a portfolio
3 The time value of money, the dividend discount model and dividend policy
3.1 The time value of money
3.2 Present values
Example
3.3 Perpetuities and annuities
3.4 Dividend discount model
3.5 The Gordon growth model
Example
Solution
3.6 Two-period dividend growth model
3.7 Example with earnings growth
3.8 Real-life dividend policy
4 The valuation of bonds
4.1 Introduction to bonds
4.2 Bond pricing
Example
4.3 The price yield curve
4.4 The risk of default
4.5. Does the yield to maturity change?
4.6 Bond duration
Example
4.7 Characteristics of duration
4.8 Relationship between bond prices and duration
Example
4.9 Bond convexity
5 Investment appraisal
5.1 Introduction to investment appraisal
5.2 The net present value decision rule
Example
Example
5.3 The relationship between NPV and discount rate
5.4 The internal rate of return
Example.
5.5 Pitfalls with using the internal rate of return
Example
5.6 The crossover rate
Example
5.7 Payback
6 The weighted average cost of capital
6.1 Determining the appropriate cost of capital
Example
6.2 The cost of debt capital
Example
6.3 The weighted average cost of capital
Example
6.4 Bringing this all together
Cost of debt
Cost of equity
WACC
7 Foreign exchange risk
7.1 Exchange-rate risk and exchange-rate regimes
China
Czech Republic
France
United Kingdom
United Arab Emirates
7.2 How big is the foreign exchange market?
7.3 Spot and forward markets and currency quotations
Example
Example
7.4 Calculating the forward rate
Example
8 An introduction to futures trading and hedging using futures
8.1 Introduction to futures
8.2 Futures positions
8.3 Delivery
Example
8.4 Minimum performance bond requirements
Example
8.5 Hedging with futures contracts
Example
Example
8.6 Basis
Example
Example
8.7 Hedge efficiency
Example
8.8 Airlines hedging price risk
9 Introduction to options
9.1 Option terminology
9.2 Option strategies
9.3 Long call purchase
9.4 Naked call write
9.5 Long put purchase
9.6 Naked put write
9.7 Long and short straddle strategies
9.8 The Black-Scholes option pricing model
9.9 FX options as foreign currency insurance
Example
Example
Solution to activities
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