Contemporary Corporate Finance

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Give your students a comprehensive, contemporary introduction to financial management as the latest edition of McGuigan/Kretlow/Moyer’s successful Contemporary Corporate Finance, International Edition focuses on maximizing shareholder wealth and effectively managing cash flow. Students learn the international aspects of financial management, examine the ethical behavior of managers, and study the increased impact of the Internet in business practice. The expanded coverage of Contemporary Corporate Finance, 11e International Edition, focuses on topics of growing importance, such as financial forecasting, risk management, and terminal cash flow. Financial Challenges, icons, integrative cases, and numerous other learning features highlight critical concepts and provide important practice. Excel® templates at this edition’s companion Website offer additional practice in using technology to achieve financial management objectives. Thomson One Business School Edition places the same financial analysis tool used daily by Wall Street professionals into the hands of students to further their financial management skills and success. Key Feature Foundation Concepts Highlight Vital Content: Unique “Foundation Concepts” icons clearly identify the finance concepts within each chapter that are most vital for students to know. Expanded Integrative Cases Work With Excel®: At the end of appropriate chapters, an expanded set of comprehensive Integrative Cases provides important hands-on applications. Many of them can be used with the Excel® templates on the Website as students learn the power of computers in performing sensitivity analysis. Ethics, International, and Entrepreneurial Issues are Addressed: Unique “Ethical Issues” boxes raise sensitivity to ethical challenges facing managers and often prompt class discussion. “International Issues” illustrate global considerations necessary to making financial decisions. “Entrepreneurial Issues” emphasize unique finance-related problems and concerns of today’s entrepreneur. End-of-Chapter Strengths Aid in Practice: A wealth of class-tested, proven problems and exercises at the conclusion of each chapter give students opportunities to self-test their knowledge or practice critical mathematical skills. Others prompt class discussion with intriguing questions and topics. Table of Contents Part 1: Introduction. 1. The Role and Objective of Financial Management. 2. The Domestic and International Financial Marketplace. 3. Evaluation of Financial Performance. 4. Financial Planning and Forecasting. Part 2: Determinants of Valuation. 5. The Time Value of Money. 6. Analysis of Risk and Return. 7. Fixed-Income Securities: Characteristics and Valuation. 8. Common Stock Characteristics, Valuation & Issuance. Part 3: The Capital Investment Decision. 9. Capital Budgeting and Cash Flow Analysis. 10. Capital Budgeting Decision Criteria and Real Options Considerations. 11. Capital Budgeting and Risk. Part 4: The Cost of Capital, Capital Structure, and Dividend Policy. 12. The Cost of Capital. 13. Capital Structure Concepts. 14. Capital Structure Management in Practice. 15. Dividend Policy. Part 5: Working Capital Management. 16. Working Capital Policy and Short-Term Financing. 17. The Management of Cash and Marketable Securities. 18. The Management of Accounts Receivable and Inventories. Part 6: Additional Topics in Contemporary Financial Management. 19. Lease and Intermediate-Term Financing. 20. Financing with Derivatives. 21. Risk Management. 22. International Financial Management. 23. Corporate Restructuring.