INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING AND MANAGERIAL FINANCE, AN: A MERGER OF EQUALS

by Harold Bierman Jr.

This book introduces corporate financial management, based on the basic capital budgeting framework and the time value of money. It focuses on theoretical formulations and correct application of financial techniques that will help improve managerial and financial decisions. Based on fundamental principles of accounting and finance like time value of money and after-tax cash flows, it introduces readers to real-world constraints and complexities in the two fields.Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book can be read by students of finance and accounting courses, business professionals and general public alike.

393 pages, Hardcover

First published January 13, 2010

About the author

Harold Bierman Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management, Professor of Finance at Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.

rofessor Bierman's interests are in investment and corporate financial-policy decisions. He has consulted for many public organizations and industrial firms and is the author of more than 150 books and articles in the fields of accounting, finance, investment, taxation, and quantitative analysis. In 1985 he was named the winner of the prestigious Dow Jones Award of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business for his outstanding contributions to collegiate management education.