Includes index.

The corporation -- Introduction to financial statement analysis -- Tools -- Arbitrage and financial decision making -- The time value of money -- Interest rates -- Basic valuation -- Investment decision rules -- Fundamentals of capital budgeting -- Valuing bonds -- Valuing stocks -- Risk and return -- Capital markets and the pricing of risk -- Optimal portfolio choice and the capital asset pricing model -- Estimating the cost of capital -- Investor behavior and capital market efficiency -- Capital structure -- Capital structure in a perfect market -- Debt and taxes -- Financial distress, managerial incentives, and information -- Payout policy -- Valuation -- Capital budgeting and valuation with leverage -- Valuation and financial modeling : a case study.