Description
Michael Taillard, PhD, MBA, is an economic consultant and professor of finance. His financial experience ranges from nonprofits to large corporations and even to small business owners. He is an often-published author, and he wrote the previous edition of Corporate Finance For Dummies. In his free time, Michael enjoys kayaking! Introduction 1 Part 1: What’s Unique about Corporate Finance 5 Chapter 1: The Tale of Corporate Finance 7 Chapter 2: Introducing Finance Land 15 Chapter 3: Pitching Your Story for Money 35 Part 2: Making a Statement 45 Chapter 4: Staying Balanced 47 Chapter 5: Incoming Income 59 Chapter 6: Going with the (Cash) Flow 67 Chapter 7: Mastering Metrics 75 Chapter 8: Calculating Capital 97 Part 3: Valuations on the Price Tags of Business 115 Chapter 9: Determining Present and Future Values: Time Is Money 117 Chapter 10: Calling in the Cavalry 125 Chapter 11: Bonding Over Business 143 Chapter 12: Savvy Stock Sales 159 Chapter 13: Pricing Probability from Derived Value 173 Part 4: A Wonderland of Risk Management 183 Chapter 14: Managing Uncertainty 185 Chapter 15: Through the Looking Glass of Modern Portfolio Theory 197 Chapter 16: Financially Engineering Yourself Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole 217 Chapter 17: Weighing Capital 233 Part 5: Financial Management 243 Chapter 18: Assessing Financial Performance 245 Chapter 19: Forecasting Finances 263 Chapter 20: Getting the Deets on M&A 277 Part 6: The Part of Tens 295 Chapter 21: Ten Things You Need to Know about International Finance 297 Chapter 22: Ten Things You Need to Understand about Behavioral Finance 313 Index 325
