Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials: The Critical Quantitative Methods and Tools in Finance

by Stuart A. McCrary

An essential guide to corporate finance Understanding corporate finance is a necessity for financial practitioners who struggle every day to find the right balance between maximizing corporate value and reducing a firm's financial risk. Divided into two comprehensive parts, Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials presents the material by example, using an extended scenario involving a new business formation. In Part One, present and future value mathematics are introduced followed by a number of applications using the tools. In Part Two, statistics as applied to finance are examined, with detailed discussions of standard deviations, correlations, and how they impact diversification. This reliable resource offers a hands-on approach to corporate finance that will allow you to gain a solid understanding of this discipline.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 6, 2010