Introduction 1
Part I: What’s Unique about Corporate Finance 7
Chapter 1: Introducing Corporate Finance 9
Chapter 2: Navigating the World of Corporate Finance 17
Chapter 3: Raising Money for Business Purposes 35
Part II: Reading Financial Statements as a Second Language 43
Chapter 4: Proving Worth Using the Balance Sheet 45
Chapter 5: Getting Paid with the Income Statement 57
Chapter 6: Easy Come, Easy Go: Statement of Cash Flows 65
Chapter 7: Making Financial Statements Useful with Metrics Analysis 73
Chapter 8: Measuring Financial Well-Being with Special Use Metrics 95
Part III: Valuations on the Price Tags of Business 111
Chapter 9: Determining Present and Future Values: Time Is Money 113
Chapter 10: Bringing in the CAValry for Capital Asset Valuations 121
Chapter 11: Bringing on Your Best Bond Bets 137
Chapter 12: Being Savvy When Shopping for Stock 153
Chapter 13: Measuring Valuations of the Might-Be: Derivatives 169
Part IV: A Wonderland of Risk Management 181
Chapter 14: Managing the Risky Business of Corporate Finances 183
Chapter 15: Through the Looking Glass of Modern Portfolio Theory 193
Chapter 16: Financially Engineering Yourself Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole 211
Chapter 17: Assessing Capital Structure Is WACC 227
Part V: Financial Management 235
Chapter 18: Assessing Financial Performance 237
Chapter 19: Forecasting Finances Is Way Easier than the Weather 257
Chapter 20: The 411 on M&A 271
Part VI: The Part of Tens 289
Chapter 21: Ten Things You Need to Know about International Finance 291
Chapter 22: Ten Things You Need to Understand about Behavioral Finance 305
Index 317
