Glen Arnold is a businessman, investor and professor of investment at the University of Salford. He is the author of numerous finance and investing books including the best-sellers, Corporate Financial Management, The Great Investors and The Financial Times Guide to Investing, all published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall which are Pearson imprints.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. The Financial World
PART TWO: THE INVESTMENT DECISION
2. Project Appraisal: Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return
3. Project Appraisal: Cash Flow and Applications
4. The Decision-making Process for Investment Appraisal
5. Project Appraisal: Capital Rationing, Taxation and Inflation
PART THREE: RISK AND RETURN
6. Risk and Project Appraisal
7. Portfolio Theory
8. The Capital Asset Pricing Model and Multi-Factor Models
PART FOUR: SOURCES OF FINANCE
9. Stock Markets
10. Raising Equity Capital
11. Long-term Debt Finance
12. Short-term and Medium-term Finance
13. Treasury and Working Capital Management
14. Stock Market Efficiency
PART FIVE: CORPORATE VALUE
15. Value Management
16. The Pervasiveness of Value Principles
17. Value Creation Metrics
18. Entire Firm Value Measurement
19. The Cost of Capital
20. Valuing Shares
21. Capital Structure
22. Dividend Policy
23. Mergers
PART SIX: MANAGING RISK
24. Derivatives
25. Managing Exchange-Rate Risk