Includes bibliographical references and index.

The role of financial management; the time value of money; financial analysis; capital budgeting under conditions of certainty; advanced capital budgeting topics; incorporation of risk into capital budgeting decisions; portfolio analysis; capital assent pricing models; the management of working capital; the caluation of debentures and preference shares; the determination of redemption yields; valuation of shares; the cost of capital; gearing and capital structure; dividend policy; corporate failure; mergers; options; option valuation models. Appendices: a history of spreadsheets and comparisons; UK and USA equivalent terms; glossary; statistical tables.

A financial management text which integrates the use of computer software. It offers coverage of financial management theory in conjunction with modelling techniques using Lotus 1-2-3, and provides grounding in the more common statistical techniques which are used in financial management.