Foundations of Finance ActiveBook

Keown's "Finance ActiveBook" is an interactive, online, digital book that uses multimedia resources to greatly enhance the learning experience. "FM" 9e builds the presentation around the " 10 Principles of Finance" as an insightful framework for showing " the big picture" of finance. This book provides a solid, enduring foundation of the tools of modern theory while at the same time developing the logic behind their use. Chapter topics include an introduction to the foundations of financial management; the financial markets and interest rates; understanding financial statements and cash flows; evaluating a firm's financial performance; financial forecasting, planning, and budgeting; the time value of money; valuation and characteristics of bonds; valuation and characteristics of stock; the meaning and measurement of risk and return; capital-budgeting techniques and practice; cash flows and other topics in capital budgeting; cost of capital; determining the financing mix; dividend policy and internal financing; introduction to working-capital management; liquid asset management; and international business finance. For anyone looking for a lasting understanding of the fundamentals of finance.