Chapter 1, The financial world

Chapter 2, Project appraisal: Net present value and internal rate of return

Chapter 3, Practical project appraisal

Chapter 4, Risk and project appraisal

Chapter 5, Portfolio theory and capital asset pricing model

Chapter 6, Equity capital

Chapter 7, Debt finance

Chapter 8, The cost of capital

Chapter 9, Value-based management

Chapter 10, Valuing shares and companies

Chapter 11, Capital structure

Chapter 12, Dividend policy

Appendices:

I  Future value of £1 at compound interest

II  Present value of £1 at compound interest

III  Present value of an annuity of £1 at compound interest

IV  Future value of an annuity of £1 at compound interest

V  Areas under the standardised normal distribution

VI  Answers to the mathematical tools exercises in Chapter 2, Appendix 2.1

VII  Solutions to selected questions and problems

Glossary

Bibliography

Index