Corporate Finance Demystified 2/E

Troy Alton Adair Jr. - Professor of Practice at Lehigh University and Founder and CEO of dataDicts, Inc. He received his BS degree in computers/information science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, his MBA from the University of North Dakota, and his PhD in finance from Indiana University. Dr. Adair serves Lehigh as the Co-Director of the Computer Science and Business (CSB) Program, the FinTech Minor, and the Business Analytics Certificate Program. He also manages a data science consulting business specializing in providing customized data analytics assessments and training. He previously managed research computing infrastructure and support services for Harvard Business School and has written articles on bank regulator self-interest, analyst earnings per share forecasting, and capital budgeting in continuous time. He is the author of Corporate Finance Demystified, Excel Applications in Corporate Finance, and Excel Applications in Investments (all McGraw Hill Education). He has also served as a consultant on financial data information systems and business intelligence to a number of international banks and insurance companies and as the faculty representative to the board of trustees investments committee at Alma College. Dr. Adair has also taught at the University of Michigan, Alma College. Hofstra University, Indiana University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member of the Financial Management Association, the American Finance Association, and the Southern Finance Association.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Introduction; Chapter 1. What Is Corporate Finance?; Chapter 2. Setting the Stage; Chapter 3. Accounting Statements and Cash Flows; Chapter 4. Common-Size, Common-Base Year, and Ratio Analysis; Part Two: "I Will Gladly Pay You $2 Tomorrow for $1 Today": The Time Value of Money; Chapter 5. Present and Future Value; Chapter 6. Compounding and Interest Rate Conversion: When What You've Got Isn't What You Need; Chapter 7. Payment Composition and Amortization Schedules; Part Three: Valuation; Chapter 8. Valuing Bonds; Chapter 9. Valuing Stocks; Chapter 10. Valuing Projects: The Capital-Budgeting Decision Rules; Part Four: Where Do Interest Rates Come From? Risk, Return, and the Cost of Capital; Chapter 11. Measuring Risk and Return; Chapter 12. Calculating Beta; Chapter 13. Analyzing the Security Market Line; Chapter 14. The Weighted Average Cost of Capital; Part Five: Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance; Chapter 15. Estimating Future Cash Flows; Chapter 16. Scenario Analysis and Sensitivity Analysis; Chapter 17. Option Valuation; Appendix A. Depreciation Charts; Appendix B. Values for the Standard Normal Cumulative Distribution Function; Final Exam; Answers to Quiz and Exam Questions; Index