Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 11e

Brealey, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 11e, is an introduction to corporate finance focusing on how companies invest in real assets, how they raise the money to pay for the investments, and how those assets ultimately affect the firm's value. It also provides a broad overview of the financial landscape. The book offers a framework for systematically thinking about most of the important financial problems that both firms and individuals are likely to confront: financial management is important, interesting, and challenging.

Fundamentals focuses on setting out the basic principles of financial management and applying them to the main decisions faced by the financial manager. The text is also organized around the key concepts of modern finance. These concepts, properly explained, simplify the subject. They are also practical. Financial management tools are easier to grasp and use effectively when presented in a consistent conceptual framework.

Part 1 Introduction

1 Goals and Governance of the Corporation

2 Financial Markets and Institutions

3 Accounting and Finance

4 Measuring Corporate Performance

Part 2 Value

5 The Time Value of Money

6 Valuing Bonds

7 Valuing Stocks

8 Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria

9 Using Discounted Cash-Flow Analysis to Make Investment Decisions

10 Project Analysis

Part 3 Risk

11 Introduction to Risk, Return, and the Opportunity Cost of Capital

12 Risk, Return, and Capital Budgeting

13 The Weighted-Average Cost of Capital and Company Valuation

Part 4 Financing

14 Introduction to Corporate Financing

15 How Corporations Raise Venture Capital and Issue Securities

Part 5 Debt and Payout Policy

16 Debt Policy

17 Payout Policy

Part 6 Financial Analysis and Planning

18 Long-Term Financial Planning

19 Short-Term Financial Planning

20 Working Capital Management

Part 7 Special Topics

21 Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Control

22 International Financial Management

23 Options

24 Risk Management

Part 8 Conclusion

25 What We Do and Do Not Know about Finance

Richard Brealey

Richard A. Brealey - Emeritus Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is the former president of the European Finance Association and a former director of the American Finance Association. He is a fellow of the British Academy and has served as a special adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England and director of a number of financial institutions. Other books written by Professor Brealey include Introduction to Risk and Return from Common Stocks.

Stewart Myers

Stewart C. Myers - Emeritus Professor of Financial Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is past president of the American Finance Association, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a principal of the Brattle Group Inc., and a retired director of Entergy Corporation. His research is primarily concerned with the valuation of real and financial assets, corporate financial policy, and financial aspects of government regulation of business. He is the author of influential research papers on many topics, including adjusted present value, rate of return regulation, pricing and capital allocation in insurance, real options, and moral hazard and information issues in capital structure decisions.

Alan Marcus

Alan J. Marcus is a Professor of Finance in the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College. His main research interests are in derivatives and securities markets. He is co-author (with Zvi Bodie and Alex Kane) of the texts Investments and Essentials of Investments. Professor Marcus has served as a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Marcus also spent two years at Freddie Mac, where he helped to develop mortgage pricing and credit risk models. He currently serves on the Research Foundation Advisory Board of the CFA Institute.