Pike, R: Corporate Finance and Investment/w.MyFinanceLab

List of figures and tables Preface Guided tour Using MyFinanceLab Acknowledgements Publisher's acknowledgements Part I A Framework for Financial Decisions 1 An overview of financial management 2 The financial environment 3 Present values, and bond and share valuation Part II Investment Decisions and Strategies 4 Investment appraisal methods 5 Project appraisal - applications 6 Investment strategy and process Part III Value, Risk and the Required Return 7 Analysing investment risk 8 Relationships between investments: portfolio theory 9 Setting the risk premium: the Capital Asset Pricing Model 10 The required rate of return on investment 11 Enterprise value and equity value 12 Identifying and rating options Part IV Short-Term Financing and Policies 13 Risk and treasury management 14 Short-term asset management 15 Short- and medium-term finance Part V Strategic Financial Decisions 16 Long-term finance 17 Returning value to shareholders: the divident decision 18 Capital structure and the required return 19 Does capital structure really matter? 20 Acquisitions and restructuring Part VI International Financial Management 21 Managing currency risk 22 Foreign investment decision 23 Key issues in modern finance: a review Appendix A Solutions to self-assessment activities Appendix B Solutions to selected questions Appendix C Present value interest factor (PVIF) Appendix D Present value interest factor for an annuity (PVIFA) Glossary References Index

Richard Pike is a Chartered Accountant and Professor of Finance at the Bradford University School of Management Bill Neale is Associate Reader in Financial Management at the University of Bournemouth Institute of Business & Law. He is an experienced teacher, consultant and writer, and is the co-author, with Trefor McElroy, of the Pearson Education text Business Finance: A Value-Based Approach. Philip Linsley trained as a Chartered Accountant and is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the University of York. His research interests include Risk Disclosure, Risk and Accounting, and Risk Management Systems.