Finance Volume 1 RossWesterfieldJaffe Corporate Finance, Sixth Edition Front Matter 1 Preface 1 I. Overview 8 Introduction 8 1. Introduction to Corporate Finance 9 2. Accounting Statements and Cash Flow 29 II. Value and Capital Budgeting 5...

Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix PREFACE xi PART I GETTING READY TO RAISE CAPITAL 1 CHAPTER 1 Capital-Formation Strategies and Trends 3 CHAPTER 2 Understanding Legal and Governance Structures 25 CHAPTER 3 The Role Your Business Plan Plays 47 PA...

Contents CHAPTER 1 The Revolution in CreditCapital Is the Key 1 The Credit Function Is Changing 1 Capital Is the Key 6 Economic Capital 8 Regulatory Capital 11 APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 1: A Credit Portfolio Model Inside the IRB Risk Weights 21...

Ruey S. Tsay contents 1. Financial Time Series and Their Characteristics 1 1.1 Asset Returns, 2 1.2 Distributional Properties of Returns, 6 1.3 Processes Considered, 17 2. Linear Time Series Analysis and Its Applications 22 2.1 Stationarit...

Contents Preface 5 Chapter 1 The Worlds Greatest Investor 11 Chapter 2 I Am God 25 Chapter 3 The Cellars of Budapest 34 Chapter 4 Like Freud or Einstein 41 Chapter 5 The Blind Leading the Blind 47 Chapter 6 Fascinated by Chaos 52 Chapter 7...

Contents I Equilibrium and Arbitrage 1 1 Equilibrium in Security Markets 3 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Security Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Contents Preface iv 1 Understanding Financial Statements and Annual Reports 1 2 Analyzing Profitability 33 3 Analyzing Liquidity and Solvency 71 4 Analyzing Activity with Financial and Nonfinancial Measures 121 5 Quality of Earnings and Ca...

C O N T E N T S Preface xvii Introduction xxi Chapter 1 The Challenge of Financial/Economic Decision-making 1 Lessons for the Millennium 2 The New Economy 2 Some Key Questions 3 The Basics Never Change 6 The Economic Manager 7 Understandin...

Contents Acknowledgments 2 Preface 8 Part I. Asset pricing theory 12 1 Consumption-based model and overview 13 1.1 Basic pricing equation 14 1.2 Marginal rate of substitution/stochastic discount factor 16 1.3 Prices, payoffs and notation 1...

CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Joseph T. Salerno PART 1 The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45...