Corporate finance and strategy : An active learning approach / Cheng F. Lee, John C. Lee & Michael Lee

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Financial Management
Chapter 2. Information and Environment for Financial Management
Chapter 3. Developing a Long-term Financial Plan
Chapter 4. Present Values: Concepts and Methods
Chapter 5. Valuation of Bonds and Stocks
Chapter 6. Capital Budgeting Under Certainty
Chapter 7. Risk Estimation and Diversification
Chapter 8. Risk and Return Trade-off Analysis
Chapter 9. Capital Budgeting Under Uncertainty
Chapter 10. The Cost of Capital
Chapter 11. Capital Structure and Valuation
Chapter 12. The Dividend Puzzle
Chapter 13. Interaction of Financing, Investment, and Dividend Policies
Chapter 14. Long-term Debt Financing
Chapter 15. Common Stock, Preferred Stock, and Financing Decisions
Chapter 16. Warrants and Convertible Securities
Chapter 17. Leasing: Theory and Practice
Chapter 18. Short-term Financial Analysis and Planning
Chapter 19. Credit Management
Chapter 20. Cash, Marketable Securities, and Inventory Management
Chapter 21. Financial Planning and Strategy
Chapter 22. Options, Futures, Swaps, and Risk Management
Chapter 23. Option Pricing Theory and Firm Valuation
Chapter 24. Portfolio Insurance and Synthetic Options
Chapter 25. Mergers and Divestitures: Theory and Evidence
Chapter 26. Bankruptcy, Workouts, and Corporate Reorganization
Chapter 27. International Financial Management

Corporate finance is concerned with how to make capital investment decisions (capital budgeting); how to finance company activities, including new investments; and how to make dividend payment decisions. This book will lecture on important topics for corporate finance, which will cover methods, theory, and policy decisions. The topics which will be addressed in this book include how streams of cash flows are valued, how financial managers evaluate investment opportunities, how financial statements are used to evaluate a company's financial condition and its market value, how a manager chooses between mutually exclusive opportunities, and how they evaluate different types of investment. This book will also discuss the treatment of risk when evaluating a project and the required returns on a project. Alternative sources of funds used to finance new projects, which include internal and external sources of funds, will be theoretically and empirically demonstrated. Lastly, long-term financial planning will be discussed