Financial management: theory and practice

Table of content

PART I: Introduction
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1. Financial Management: An Overview
2. The Financial System
PART II: Financial Analysis and Planning
3. Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flow
4. Analysis of Financial Statements
5. Financial Planning and Forecasting
PART III: Fundamental Valuation Concepts
6. The Time Value of Money
7. Valuation of Bonds and Stocks
8. Risk and Return
9. Risk and Return: Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models
10. Options and Their Valuation
PART IV: Capital Budgeting
11. Techniques of Capital Budgeting
12. Estimation of Project Cash Flows
13. Risk Analysis in Capital Budgeting
14. The Cost of Capital
15. Capital Budgeting: Extensions
PART V: Long Term Financing
16. Market Efficiency and Financing Decisions
17. Sources of Long Term Finance
18. Raising Long Term Finance
PART VI: Capital Structure and Dividend Decisions
19. Capital Structure and Firm Value
20. Capital Structure Decision
21. Dividend Policy and Firm Value
22. Dividend Decision
PART VII: Working Capital Management
23. Working Capital Policy
24. Cash and Liquidity Management
25. Credit Management
26. Inventory Management
27. Working Capital Financing
28. Working Capital Management: Extensions
PART VIII: Debt and Hybrid Financing
29. Debt Analysis and Management
30. Leasing, Hire-Purchase, and Project Finance
31. Hybrid Financing
PART IX: Corporate Valuation, Restructuring and Value Creation
32. Corporate Valuation
33. Value Based Management
34. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring
35. Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation
26. Performance Measurement and Balanced Scorecard
PART X: Special Topics
37. International Financial Management
38. Financial Management in Sick Units
39. Financial Management in Companies with Special Characteristics
40. Corporate Risk Management
41. Behavioural Finance
42. The State of Our Knowledge

OVERVIEW


The tenth edition of Financial Management is a comprehensive and up-to-date text that presents the central themes and concerns of corporate financial management. It presents an analytical approach to corporate finance decision-making. It is the most contemporary Indian book available. It helps readers develop a thorough understanding of the theories and concepts in a systematic way.
This new edition is specially designed to keep pace with the dramatic transformation of India's business and financial scenario. The book captures a well-rounded description of tax and regulatory framework, various issues in financial management, and a discussion of financial management practices with adequate treatment of analytical tools.