Corporate Finance For Dummies (eBook)

Michael Taillard, PhD, MBA, is an economic consultant and professor of finance. His financial experience ranges from nonprofits to large corporations and even to small business owners. He is an often-published author, and he wrote the previous edition of Corporate Finance For Dummies. In his free time, Michael enjoys kayaking!

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