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

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.

• Through theory and real-world examples this book provides a solid grounding in corporate finance
• Other titles by Stuart McCrary include: Mastering Financial Accounting Essentials, How to Create and Manage a Hedge Fund, and Hedge Fund Course
• Covers the essential elements of this field, from traditional capital budgeting concepts and methods of valuing investment projects under uncertainty to the importance of "real-options" in the decision-making process

This reliable resource offers a hands-on approach to corporate finance that will allow you to gain a solid understanding of this discipline.

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