This book available both in PDF and online covers the following topics
related to Principles of Finance : Introduction to Finance, Corporate Structure
and Governance, Economic Foundations: Money and Rates, Accrual Accounting
Process, Financial Statements, Measures of Financial Health, Time Value of Money
I: Single Payment Value, Time Value of Money II: Equal Multiple Payments, Time
Value of Money III: Unequal Multiple Payments Values, Bonds and Bond Valuation,
Stocks and Stock Valuation, Historical Performance of US Markets, Statistical
Analysis in Finance, Regression Analysis in Finance, How to Think about
Investing, How Companies Think about Investing, How Firms Raise Capital,The
Importance of Trade Credit and Working Capital in Planning, Risk management and
the Financial Manager.
Author(s): Julie Dahlquist, Texas Christian
University, Rainford Knight, Florida Atlantic University, Alan S. Adams, Dean
College
This note covers the following topics: Accounting Statements and Cash Flow, Financial Markets and
NPV First Principles of Finance, Net Present Value, How to Value Bonds and
Stocks, Some Alternative Investment Rules, NPV and Capital Budgeting, Strategy
and Analysis in Using NPV, Capital Market Theory, Return and Risk CAPM, An
Alternative View of Risk and Return APT, Risk, cost of Capital, and Capital
Budget, Corporate financing Decisions and Efficient Capital Market, Long Term
Financing An Introduction, Capital Structure Basic Concepts, Capital Structure:
Limits to the Use of Debt, Valuation and Capital Budgeting for the Levered Firm,
Dividend policy, Issuing Securities to the Public, Long Term Debt, Leasing,
Options and Corporate Finance Basic Concepts, Options and Corporate Finance:
Extensions and Applications, Warrants and Convertibles, Derivatives and Hedging
Risk, Mergers and acquisitions and Financial Distress.
This note covers the following
topics: The First Option Trade, The Black-Scholes Equation, The Risk Neutral
World, Monte Carlo Methods, The Binomial Model, Derivative Contracts on
non-traded Assets and Real Options, Discrete Hedging, Derivative Contracts on
non-traded Assets and Real Options, Discrete Hedging, Jump Diffusion, Regime
Switching, Mean Variance Portfolio Optimization.
This note covers the following topics: The Foreign Exchange Market,
Currency Derivatives and Options Markets, The Balance of Payments Accounts, The
Theory of Exchange Rates.
Goal of this note is to teach an
introduction relevant for computer scientists, which may be both broader and
shallower than traditional Computational Finance. Topics coverted includes: Derivatives, Time
Series Analysis, Trading, Investment Strategies, Fundamentals of Investing,
Stocks vs. Bonds, Financial Markets, Common Stocks, Stock Prices.
This note introduces key
concepts and issues in finance. Topics covered includes: From claims to value,
Value for Issuers, Exchange mechanisms, Modern Finance, Asymmetric Information,
Pricing riskless Bonds, Risk, The Portfolio approach to risk, Market efficiency,
Intermediaries and assets, Options and Hedging, Government and financial
structure.
International Financial Management is a well-known
term in today’s world and it is also known as international finance. It means
financial management in an international business environment. This book covers
the following topics: Multinational Financial Management, Evolution Of
International Monetary and Financial System, Management Of Short-term Assets and
Liabilities, International Capital Budgeting Decision, Foreign Investment
Decision, Political and Country Risk Management, Cost Of Capital Of
Multinational Firm, Capital Structure of Multinational Firm, Dividend Policy of
a Multinational Firm, Taxation Of Multinational Firm and Long-term Sources of
Funds for A Multinational Company.
Author(s): Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and
Technology, Hisar - Haryana
This
book covers the following topics related to International Finance:
Capital and its Reward, Banking Machinery, Investments and Securities,
Finance and Trade, The Benefits Of International Finance, The Evils Of
International Finance, Remedies and Regulations.
This course note introduces the core theory of modern financial
economics and financial management, with a focus on capital markets and
investments. Topics include functions of capital markets and financial
intermediaries, asset valuation, fixed-income securities, common stocks,
capital budgeting, diversification and portfolio selection, equilibrium
pricing of risky assets, the theory of efficient markets, and an introduction
to derivatives and options.
This course note attempts to provide a fairly
deep understanding of topical issues in asset pricing and deliver econometric
methods in which to develop research agenda in financial economics.
Author(s): Professor Doron E. Avramov,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem