Corporate Finance For Dummies, UK edition

<p>Introduction 1</p>
<p>Part I: Getting Started with Corporate Finance 5</p>
<p>Chapter 1: Introducing Corporate Finance 7</p>
<p>Chapter 2: Navigating the World of Corporate Finance 15</p>
<p>Chapter 3: Raising Money for Business Purposes 35</p>
<p>Part II: Reading Financial Statements as a Second Language 45</p>
<p>Chapter 4: Seeing What You re Worth with the Balance Sheet 47</p>
<p>Chapter 5: Getting Paid with the Profi t and Loss Account 59</p>
<p>Chapter 6: Easy Come, Easy Go: Understanding the Cash Flow Statement 69</p>
<p>Chapter 7: Making Financial Statements Useful with Ratio Analysis 77</p>
<p>Chapter 8: Measuring Financial Wellbeing with Special–Use Ratios 97</p>
<p>Part III: Placing Valuations on the Price Tags of Business 115</p>
<p>Chapter 9: Determining Present and Future Values: Time Is Money 117</p>
<p>Chapter 10: Looking to the Future with Capital Budgeting 125</p>
<p>Chapter 11: Bringing on Your Best Bond Bets 143</p>
<p>Chapter 12: Being Savvy When Shopping for Shares 159</p>
<p>Chapter 13: Measuring Valuations of the May–Be: Derivatives 177</p>
<p>Part IV: Walking in a Risk Management Wonderland 189</p>
<p>Chapter 14: Managing the Risky Business of Corporate Finances 191</p>
<p>Chapter 15: Through the Looking Glass of Modern Portfolio Theory 203</p>
<p>Chapter 16: Entering the Science Lab: Financial Engineering 223</p>
<p>Chapter 17: Assessing Capital Structure 239</p>
<p>Part V: Understanding Financial Management 249</p>
<p>Chapter 18: Assessing Financial Performance 251</p>
<p>Chapter 19: Forecasting Finances Is Easier than Predicting the Weather 273</p>
<p>Chapter 20: Spelling out the ABC of M&amp;A 289</p>
<p>Part VI: The Part of Tens 309</p>
<p>Chapter 21: Ten Things You Need to Know about International Finance 311</p>
<p>Chapter 22: Ten Things You Need to Understand about Behavioural Finance 325</p>
<p>Index 337</p>