Capital Investment and Valuation,9780071383776

Capital Investment and Valuation

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780071383776
ISBN10: 0071383778
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-10-25
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
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Summary

McGraw Hill's Brealey & Myers on Corporate Finance series presents the key corporate finance topics from the seminal college textbook, Principles of Corporate Finance. The new series builds on the success of the Brealey & Myers name. Each title will retain the key corporate finance themes and techniques that are so indispensable to today's busy professional, placing them in a shorter and more accessible package.

Author Biography

Richard A. Brealey, Ph.D. and Stewart C. Myers, Ph.D. are coauthors of the perpetually best-selling textbook Principles of Corporate Finance and two of the most respected and accomplished names in education and corporate finance. Dr. Brealey has taught at the London Business School for more than thirty years and is former president of the European Finance Association. Dr. Myers is the Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management and is past president of the American Finance Association.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
PART ONE VALUE 1(128)
Finance and the Financial Manager
3(12)
Present Value and the Opportunity Cost of Capital
15(16)
How to Calculate Present Values
31(20)
The Value of Common Stocks
51(30)
Why Net Present Value Leads to Better Investment Decisions than Other Criteria
81(22)
Making Investment Decisions with the Net Present Value Rule
103(26)
PART TWO RISK 129(92)
Introduction to Risk, Return, and the Opportunity Cost of Capital
131(28)
Risk and Return
159(26)
Capital Budgeting and Risk
185(36)
PART THREE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS IN CAPITAL BUDGETING 221(86)
A Project is not a Black Box
223(32)
Where Positive Net Present Values Come From
255(24)
Making Sure Managers Maximize NPV
279(28)
PART FOUR FINANCING DECISIONS AND PROJECT VALUE 307(88)
An Overview of Corporate Financing
309(16)
Does Debt Add Value?
325(38)
Financing and Valuation
363(32)
PART FIVE OPTIONS 395(56)
Spotting and Valuing Options
397(32)
Real Options
429(22)
PART SIX MERGERS, CORPORATE CONTROL, AND GOVERNANCE 451(60)
Mergers
453(32)
Control, Governance, and Financial Architecture
485(26)
PART SEVEN CONCLUSIONS 511(38)
Conclusion: What We Do and Do not Know about Capital Investment and Valuation
513(36)
Index 549

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