Corporate Finance For Dummies

Score your highest in corporate finance? Easy.

The math, formulas, and problems associated with corporate finance can be daunting to the uninitiated. With easy-to-understand explanations and examples, Corporate Finance For Dummies introduces you to the practices of determining an operating budget, calculating future cash flow, and analyzing scenarios in a friendly, unintimidating way.

• Corporate Finance 101 — get a plain-English intro to corporate finance, the role it plays, and the people and organizations that utilize it
• That pile of numbers — make sense of reading financial statements with easy-to-understand explanations of what simple metrics are and why they're used
• The price tags of business — find out how to evaluate capital assets, stocks, bonds, and derivatives — all the major assets you want to know how to value
• Risky business — discover the 4-1-1 of risk and more cutting-edge topics in corporate finance, like futures and options
• Manage assets and capital — learn how to evaluate corporate financial performance, forecast future financial performance, and assess the performance of other corporations for potential mergers and acquisitions

Open the book and find:

• The difference between finance and accounting
• How to raise money selling equity or debt
• Plain-English explanations of corporate finance jargon
• Metrics analysis to make financial statements useful
• The scoop on debt analytics
• Your best bond bets
• How to measure values of derivatives
• Ways to identify costs of capital
• Things you need to know to understand international finance

Learn to:

• Make sense of difficult concepts
• Supplement your course work and boost your confidence
• Score your highest in a corporate finance course