Finance+cd-Rom 2nd Ed.

Description:
For undergraduate Corporate Finance, MBA Finance course, and Financial Economics. This significant new finance text has a broader scope and greater emphasis on general principles than most other introductory finance texts, which typically focus exclusively on corporate finance. This text incorporates Corporate Finance, investments, and institutions. Acclaimed authors Bodie and Merton offer an approach balanced among the three 'pillars' of finance-optimization over time, asset valuation, and risk management. The book encompasses all subfields of finance within a single unifying conceptual framework, and offers the 'big picture' of resource allocation over time under conditions of uncertainty.

Table of Contents:
I. FINANCE AND THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM. 1. What Is Finance? 2. The Financial System. 3. How to Interpret and Forecast Financial Statements. II. TIME AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION. 4. The Time Value of Money and Discounted Cash Flow Analysis. 5. Life-Cycle Financial Planning. 6. How to Analyze Investment Projects. III. VALUATION MODELS. 7. Principles of Asset Valuation. 8. Valuation of Known Cash Flows: Bonds. 9. Valuation of Unknown Cash Flows: Stocks. IV. RISK MANAGEMENT AND PORTFOLIO THEORY. 10. An Overview of Risk Management and Portfolio Selection. 11. Hedging, Insuring, and Diversifying. 12. Choosing an Investment Portfolio. V. ASSET PRICING. 13. The Capital Asset Pricing Model. 14. Forward and Futures Prices. 15. Options and Contingent Claims. IV. CORPORATE FINANCE. 16. Capital Structure. 17. Finance and Corporate Strategy.