Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1: What’s Unique about Corporate Finance 5
Chapter 1: The Tale of Corporate Finance 7
Chapter 2: Introducing Finance Land 15
Chapter 3: Pitching Your Story for Money 35
Part 2: Making a Statement 45
Chapter 4: Staying Balanced 47
Chapter 5: Incoming Income 59
Chapter 6: Going with the (Cash) Flow 67
Chapter 7: Mastering Metrics 75
Chapter 8: Calculating Capital 97
Part 3: Valuations on the Price Tags of Business 115
Chapter 9: Determining Present and Future Values: Time Is Money 117
Chapter 10: Calling in the Cavalry 125
Chapter 11: Bonding Over Business 143
Chapter 12: Savvy Stock Sales 159
Chapter 13: Pricing Probability from Derived Value 173
Part 4: A Wonderland of Risk Management 183
Chapter 14: Managing Uncertainty 185
Chapter 15: Through the Looking Glass of Modern Portfolio Theory 197
Chapter 16: Financially Engineering Yourself Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole 217
Chapter 17: Weighing Capital 233
Part 5: Financial Management 243
Chapter 18: Assessing Financial Performance 245
Chapter 19: Forecasting Finances 263
Chapter 20: Getting the Deets on M&A 277
Part 6: The Part of Tens 295
Chapter 21: Ten Things You Need to Know about International Finance 297
Chapter 22: Ten Things You Need to Understand about Behavioral Finance 313
Index 325