Principles of Finance

Finance

ISBN:

978-0-9898001-1-2

Principles of Finance

Jim Brau, PhD, CFA, CFP Andrew Holmes, PhD, CFA Ben Blau, PhD

Not every student walks into a finance class excited, and this resource is written for both finance majors and non-majors, with a focus on applying concepts to everyday life. It lays the foundation for all of finance, introducing the subfields and careers and how finance fits into business management. Students build core skills in financial statement and ratio analysis, forecasting, and the time value of money, then learn to value bonds, stocks, and whole firms. They examine risk and return, cost of capital, leverage, and capital budgeting, and they apply what they learn to entrepreneurial finance, personal finance, and microfinance. Students finish with the financial analysis skills to make better decisions in the business environment and in their own lives.

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Topic 1: An Introduction to Finance: Finance Fields, Careers, and the Big Picture Topic 2: Accounting and Financial Statement Review: A Finance Perspective Topic 3: Ratio Analysis: Financial Statement Analysis and Free Cash Flows Topic 4: Financial Forecasting: Pro Forma Statements and the Percent of Sales Method Topic 5: The Time Value of Money: Compounding and Discounting Topic 6: Bond Valuation: Fixed-Income Analysis Topic 7: Stock Valuation: Understanding Equity Topic 8: Risk and Return: The Key Trade-Off Topic 9: The Cost of Capital: WACC Attack Topic 10: Leverage: The Two-Edged Sword Topic 11: Capital Budgeting Evaluation Methods: Payback Period, NPV, and IRR Topic 12: Capital Budgeting: Cash Flows and Other Topics Topic 13: Firm Valuation: Valuing the Whole Enchilada Topic 14: Entrepreneurial Finance: A New Perspective Topic 15: Personal Finance: Applications for Everyday Life Topic 16: Microfinance: Using Capitalism to Alleviate Poverty Appendix A: Financial Functions Using a TI-83 or TI-83/84 Plus Calculator Appendix B: Microsoft Excel

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