Fundamentals of Financial Management (Concise 6th Edition)

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I N T R O D U C T I O N T O F I N A N C I A L MA N A G E ME N T 1 An Overview of Financial Management PART 1 C H A P T E R ...

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This chapter will give you an idea of what! nancial management is all about. We begin the chapter by describing how! nance is re ...

PART 1 Introduction to Financial Management Preface iii 1-1 WHAT IS FINANCE? It’s hard to de! ne! nance—the term has many facets ...

An Overview of Financial Management accounting,! nancing, credit policy, decisions regarding asset acquisitions, and investor re ...

6 Part 1 Introduction to Financial Management 1-2 JOBS IN FINANCE Next to health care, jobs in! nance have been growing faster t ...

Chapter 1 An Overview of Financial Management 7 company. You might invest $10,000 to start a business but be sued for $1 million ...

8 Part 1 Introduction to Financial Management 1-4 STOCK PRICES AND SHAREHOLDER VALUE The primary goal of a corporation should be ...

Chapter 1 An Overview of Financial Management 9 elected a board of directors, which then selected Smith to run the company. Smit ...

10 Part 1 Introduction to Financial Management 1-5 INTRINSIC VALUES, STOCK PRICES, AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION As noted in the pr ...

Chapter 1 An Overview of Financial Management 11 Many other legal but questionable accounting procedures have been used, all in ...

12 Part 1 Introduction to Financial Management marginal investor.^4 Not all investors agree, so it is the “marginal” investor wh ...

Chapter 1 An Overview of Financial Management 13 raised. Management should provide information that helps investors make better ...

14 Part 1 Introduction to Financial Management 1-6 IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRENDS Four important business trends should be noted. Fir ...

Chapter 1 An Overview of Financial Management 15 1-7 BUSINESS ETHICS As a result of the Enron scandal and other recent scandals, ...

16 Part 1 Introduction to Financial Management of pollution is within legal limits, and further reduction would be costly. Are t ...

Chapter 1 An Overview of Financial Management 17 and the! rm itself, were innocent. The U.S. Justice Department disagreed, concl ...

18 Part 1 Introduction to Financial Management 1-8 CONFLICTS BETWEEN MANAGERS, STOCKHOLDERS, AND BONDHOLDERS 9 1-8a Managers ver ...

Chapter 1 An Overview of Financial Management 19 Neither the Disney executives’ pay nor Kozlowski’s birthday party seem con- sis ...