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Record Nr.

UNINA9910150238803321

Autore

Arnold Glen

Titolo

Handbook of corporate finance : a business companion to financial markets, decisions & techniques / / Glen Arnold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harlow, England : , : Financial Times/Prentice Hall, , 2010

©2005

ISBN

0-273-75996-5

1-282-98344-X

9786612983443

0-273-72657-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 784 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

658.15

Soggetti

Corporations - Finance

Industrial management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- What is the firm's objective ? -- State-of-the-art project appraisal techniques -- Traditional appraisal techniques -- Investment decision-making in companies -- Allowing for risk in project appraisal -- Value managed vs earnings managed companies -- Value through strategy -- Measures of value creation -- Entire firm value measurement -- What is the company s cost of capital? -- Mergers : impulse, regret and success -- The merger process -- Valuing companies -- What pay-outs should we make to shareholders? -- Debt finance available to firms of all sizes -- Debt finance from the financial markets.

Sommario/riassunto

Managers climbing the corporate ladder often find that they need to have a better understanding of the mechanics of finance, in which they have generally received little training. This text explains critical and fundamental concepts, illustrated with real-world examples.