Table of Contents

• 1 The finance function
• 2 Capital markets, market efficiency and ratio analysis
• 3 Short-term finance and working capital management
• 4 Long-term finance: equity finance
• 5 Long-term finance: debt finance, hybrid finance and leasing
• 6 An overview of investment appraisal methods
• 7 Investment appraisal: applications and risk
• 8 Portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model
• 9 The cost of capital and capital structure
• 10 Dividend policy
• 11 Mergers and takeovers
• 12 Risk management

About the Author

Denzil Watson is a Principal Lecturer, and Antony Head is an Associate Lecturer in the Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University. They both have extensive experience teaching Corporate Finance, managerial finance, and strategic financial management in a wide range of courses, at undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional levels.