Books about Corporate Finance

Readable and usable in style and valuable in approach, this text provides the practical and succinct advice that students and practitioners need, rather than a sole concentration on debate theory, assumptions, or models. Like no other text of its kind, the author applies corporate finance to real companies. The new

The fourth edition of Corporate Finance: Principles & Practice - now in full colour throughout - is a concise introduction to the core concepts and key topic areas of corporate finance. It offers integrated coverage of the three key decision areas in finance - investment, financing and dividends - using

The authors examine the role of the law in developing large financial markets necessary for national economic success. They discuss the basic foundational law of contracts, property and tort, corporate law, and securities law, providing both a broad theoretical and empirical case for its value in financial markets.

Includes topics like: project finance; corporate financial reliability; financial instruments; acquisitions and control; performance measurement; and incentive compensation. This edition bears in mind the needs of syllabi requirements for the core paper on Corporate Finance for MBA students. It includes 10 cases for MBA students.

The book addresses several problems in contemporary corporate finance: optimal capital structure, both in the US and in the G7 economies; the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Arbitrage Pricing Model (APT) and the implications for the cost of capital; dividend policy; sales forecasting and pro forma statement analysis;

The past decade was remarkable: it is characterized by an unprecedented number of corporate restructurings in terms of mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, public-to-private transactions, spin-offs and divestitures, bank sector consolidation and leveraged recapitalizations. There have also been many changes in corporate governance regulation, triggered by a host of

This two-volume set summarizes recent research on corporate decision-making. The first volume covers measurement and theoretical subjects as well as sources of capital, including banks, public offerings, and private investors. In the second volume, contributors focus on the ways corporations are structured and the practices through which they can be

1. 1 Investments, Generic Contracts, Payments According to Volume I, contracts are one of the five generic legal tools used to manage cash flow, risk, agency relationships, and information. Many investments are therefore based on one or more contracts. Obviously, the firm should draft good contracts. Good drafting can ensure

Within a simple logical framework, axioms are first highlighted and the implications of these important concepts are studied. These implications are used to answer questions about corporate finance, including issues related to derivatives pricing, state price probabilities, dynamic hedging, dividends, capital structure decisions, and risk and incentive management. Numerical examples