Michael Taillard & Steven Collings 
Corporate Finance For Dummies – UK, UK Edition [EPUB ebook] 

The maths, the formulas, and the problems associated with
corporate finance can be daunting to the uninitiated, but help is
at hand.

Corporate Finance For Dummies, UK Edition covers all the
basics of corporate finance, including: accounting statements; cash
flow; raising and managing capital; choosing investments; managing
risk; determining dividends; mergers and acquisitions; and
valuation. It also serves as an excellent resource to supplement
corporate finance coursework and as a primer for
exams.

Inside you’ll discover:

* The tools and expert advice you need to understand corporate
finance principles and strategies

* Introductions to the practices of determining an operating
budget, calculating future cash flow, and scenario analysis – in
plain English

* Information on the risks and rewards associated with corporate
finance and lending

* Easy-to-understand explanations and examples

* Help to pass your corporate finance exam!

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor

Steve Collings is Audit and Technical Director for Leavitt
Walmsley Associates Ltd. Steve is a regular contributor to
Accounting WEB.co.uk and is the author of IFRS For Dummies
and the UK edition of Financial Accounting For Dummies. In
2011, Steve was named Accounting Technician of the Year at the
British Accountancy Awards. Michael Taillard, Ph D, MBA, owns and
operates OPII Schools, an award-winning national private school and
tutoring company designed as a philanthropic experiment in
macroeconomic cash flows as a form of urban renewal.