Synopses & Reviews
This text remains the only text in the market that presents a balance of financial theory and applications. The authors maintain the same four goals as with the first edition: helping learners to make good financial decisions, providing a solid text for the introductory MBA course, motivating learners by demonstrating finance is relevant and interesting, and presenting the material clearly.
About the Author
Dr. Eugene F. Brigham is Graduate Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, where he has taught since 1971. Dr. Brigham received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley and his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina. Prior to coming to the University of Florida, Dr. Brigham held teaching positions at the University of Connecticut, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California-Los Angeles. Dr. Brigham served as president of the Financial Management Association and wrote more than the 40 journal articles on the cost of capital, capital structure, and other aspects of financial management. The ten textbooks on managerial finance and managerial economics that he authored or co-authored are used at more than 1,000 universities in the United States, and have been translated into 11 languages worldwide. He has testified as an expert witness in numerous electric, gas, and telephone rate cases at both federal and state levels. He has served as a consultant to many corporations and government agencies, including the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the U.S. Office of Telecommunications Policy, and the RAND Corporation. Dr. Brigham continues to teach, consult, and do research, as well as work on textbooks. He spends his spare time on the golf course, enjoying time with his family and dogs, and tackling outdoor adventure activities, such as biking through Alaska.Mike Ehrhardt is a Professor in the Finance Department and is the Paul and Beverly Castagna Professor of Investments. He did his undergraduate work in Civil Engineering at Swarthmore College. After working several years as an engineer, he returned to graduate school and received an M.S. in Operations Research and a Ph.D. in Finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Ehrhardt taught extensively at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of investments, corporate finance, and capital markets. He has directed and served on numerous dissertation committees. He is a member of the team that developed and delivered the integrative first year of the MBA program. He was the winner of the Allen G. Keally Outstanding Teacher Award in the College of Business in 1989, the Tennessee Organization of MBA Students Outstanding Faculty member in 1998, the College of Business Administration ResearchandTeaching Award in 1998, and the John B. Ross Outstanding Teaching Award in the College of Business in 2003. Much of Mike's research is in the areas of corporate valuation and asset pricing models, including pricing models for interest-rate sensitive instruments. His work has been published in numerous journals, including The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, The Financial Review, The Journal of Financial Research, and The Journal of Banking and Finance. He is the author of The Search for Value: Measuring the Company's Cost of Capital, published by the Harvard Business School Press. He is a co-author of Financial Management: Theory and Practice, the market-leading MBA finance textbook, and Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach, a more focused textbook that can be covered in a single semester. Mike teaches in Executive Education Programs and consults in the areas of corporate valuation, value-based compensation plans, financial aspects of supply-chain management, and the cost of capital.
Table of Contents
Preface Part I Introduction to Financial Management 1. An Overview of Financial Management 2. Financial Statements, Cash Flows, and Taxes 3. Analysis of Financial Statements 4. Financial Planning and Forecasting Financial Statements 5. The Financial Environment: Markets, Institutions, and Interest Rates Part II Fundamental Concepts in Financial Management 6. Risk and Return: The Basics 7. Risk and Return: Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models 8. Time Value of Money Part III Securities and Their Valuation 9. Bonds and Their Valuation 10. Stocks and Their Valuation Part IV Corporate Valuation 11. The Cost of Capital 12. Putting the Pieces Together: Corporate Valuation and Value-Based Management Part V Strategic Investment Decisions 13. The Basics of Capital Budgeting: Evaluating Cash Flows 14. Cash Flow Estimation and Risk Analysis 15. Option Pricing with Applications to Real Options Part VI Strategic Financing Decisions 16. Capital Structure Decisions: The Basics. 17. Capital Structure Decisions: Extensions 18. Distributions to Shareholders: Dividends and Repurchases Part VII Tactical Financing Decisions 19. Initial Public Offerings, Investment Banking, and Financial Restructuring 20. Lease Financing 21. Hybrid Financing: Preferred Stock, Warrants, and Convertibles Part VII Working Capital Management 22. Current Asset Management 23. Short-Term Financing Part IX Special Topics 24. Derivatives and Risk Management 25. Bankruptcy, Reorganization, and Liquidation 26. Mergers, LBOs, Divestitures, and Holding Companies 27. Multinational Financial Management Appendixes. A - Solutions to Self-Test Problems B - Answers to End-of-Chapter Problems C - Selected Equations and Data D - Mathematical Table Index. Web/CD Chapters 28. Working Capital Management Extensions 29. Pension Plan Management 30. Financial Management in Not-for-Profit Businesses Web/CD Extensions 6. Continuous Probability Distributions 8. The Tabular Approach and Continuous Compounding and Discounting 13. The Marginal Cost of Capital and the Optimal Capital Budget 14. Replacement Project Analysis 15. Illustration of Valuation for Various Real Options 16. Degree of Leverage 20. Percentage Cost Analysis, Feedback Effect on Capital Budgeting, and Leveraged Leases 21. Calling Convertible Issues 23. Secured Short-Term Financing 24. Risk Management with Insurance and Bond Portfolio Immunization 25. Case Histories and Multiple Discriminant Analysis