Corporate Financial Analysis in a Global Environment or Introduction to Economics 2e

Corporate Financial Analysis in a Global Environment

Author: Diana R Harrington

This paperback text emphasizes the financial concepts and tools essential for understanding the financial impacts of business decisions. The author uses current examples of actual business situations to demonstrate how financial tools, concepts, and theories can be used by managers to improve decision-making and enhance business performance. The text has a global emphasis with an equal number of domestic and international examples. The author includes a discussion of international financial statements and the financial impacts of changes in foreign exchange rates. The book's major appeal is its direct, concise, and no-nonsense approach to understanding both the basics of finance and current financial concepts, which allows even non-financial managers to understand financial analysis.

Table of Contents:

1	Analyzing Corporate Performance
I	Who Needs to Analyze an Enterprise's Performance?	2
II	Financial Statements	3
III	Analysis of Financial Statements	12
IV	Comparative Ratio Analysis	55
V	Summary	59
2	Forecasting Future Needs
I	Cash Budgets	102
II	Projected Financial Statements	111
III	Projecting Financial Statements in Highly Uncertain Conditions	115
IV	Analyzing Assumptions	119
V	Multi-Currency Financial Statements	127
VI	Summary	134
3	Managing Working Capital
I	The Working Capital Cycle	143
II	Cash Management	150
III	Managing Other Working Capital Requirements	153
IV	Financing Working Capital	156
V	Summary	159
4	Valuation 1: Capital Budgeting
I	Cost-Benefit Analysis of Proposed Investments	166
II	Evaluating Incremental Costs and Benefits	172
III	Choosing Among Investments: Net Present Value and IRR	177
IV	Choosing Among Investments: Simple Valuation Methods	187
V	Assessing and Incorporating Risk	192
VI	Other Considerations in Creating Value	202
VII	Summary	211
5	Valuation 2: Company Valuation, Acquisitions, Divestitures, and Mergers
I	Reasons for Acquisition and Merger	235
II	Valuing Cash Flows	238
III	Valuation Using Market Multiples	251
IV	Other Valuation Techniques	257
V	Mergers Waves and Troughs	264
VI	Summary	267
6	The Required Rate of Return on Equity
I	What Is a Shareholders' Required Return?	272
II	Capital Market Basics	272
III	Cash Flow Valuation Models	278
IV	Capital Market Estimations - Risk Premium Models	288
V	Other Concerns in Determining Required Return on Equity	301
VI	Required Return on Equity for Private, Non-U.S., or Companies Experiencing Change	303
VII	Summary	304
7	Financial Leverage and Shareholder Value
I	The Value of Financial Leverage	328
II	What Do Subcontractors Want?	337
III	The Impact of Leverage on Shareholders' Required Return	345
IV	Conclusion	346
8	Practical Aspects of Financing a Company
I	Basics for Companies Financing with Equity	352
II	Basics for Companies Financing with Debt	355
III	RICHS Analysis	358
IV	Leasing	380
V	Leverage in Valuing Acquisitions	381
VI	Summary	381
9	Valuation in a World of Financial Leverage
I	Residual Cash Flow Valuation	402
II	Adjusted Present Value	403
III	Free Cash Flow Valuation - The Cash Flows	409
IV	Free Cash Flow Valuation - The Weighted Average Cost of Capital	410
V	Summary	417
	App.: Solutions to Study Questions	423
	Index	487

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Introduction to Economics 2e

Author: Marc Lieberman

This text is the first book explicitly designed for the one-term, principles-level course covering both micro and macroeconomics, and can also be used for two-term or full-year courses where a very concise, focused treatment is desired. This is NOT a cursory "survey" text; rather, it carefully selects and fully explains all of the core topics essential to the principles course with a rigorous and analytical treatment of all introductory economic concepts. It presents economics as a unified subject in which the macroeconomics chapters build on, and flow from, the key microeconomic principles established in the first half of the book.