Financial Management - Hardcover

Gallagher, Timothy; Andrew, Joseph

 
9780130674883: Financial Management

Synopsis

For undergraduate-level courses in Principles of Finance, Principles of Financial Management, or Principles of Corporate Finance.
This unique author team - one academic, one a full-time financial practitioner - presents the latest in financial theory while maintaining a strong real-world connection. Engaging students with humor and an attractive layout, the text is student-focused yet does not water down content. This substantive and concise presentation demonstrates that finance is important, dynamic, interesting, and fun, with a direct benefit to students personally. Its consistent approach focuses on value- what creates value, what destroys it, how value is measured, and how value and risk are related.
Features and Benefits

NEW - Web-based Interactive Modules - Provide extensions of the material presented in the text, such as Excel spreadsheets, as well as links.
NEW - Prentice Halls Mastering Finance CD integrated with the text in 12 chapters - Includes video clips and other material; CD is bundled with text. - Shows students how concepts described in the book would relate to decisions being made by the "CanGo" corporation on the CD.
NEW - Earlier presentation of the cost of capital (to Chapter 9 from Chapter 12) - Precedes capital budgeting and cash flow estimation chapters.
NEW - All-new material on business valuation techniques in Chapter 12.
NEW - Over 20% of problem material new or revised.
NEW - Updated, attractive layout and design - Includes pedagogical use of color, along with cartoons designed to educate and amuse.
Incorporation of real options into capital budgeting material - One of the only texts in the market to include a numeric application of this topic.
Techniques for valuing a complete "real-world" business in the valuation concepts coverage.
NPV approach applied to short-term financial management decisions - Departs from competitors ratio approach.

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