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catalog abstract "This introduction to finance has a broad scope, placing an emphasis on general principles within the field. It builds its presentation upon the three 'pillars' of finance: optimization over time, asset valuation and risk management.".
catalog contributor b11390414.
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catalog created "2000.".
catalog date "2000".
catalog date "2000.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
catalog description "10.7 Portfolio Theory: Quantitative Analysis for Optimal Risk Management 272 -- 10.8 Probability Distributions of Returns 273 -- 10.9 Standard Deviation as a Measure of Risk 275 -- Chapter 11 Hedging, Insuring, and Diversifying 284 -- 11.1 Using Forward and Futures Contracts to Hedge Risk 285 -- 11.2 Hedging Foreign-Exchange Risk with Swap Contracts 290 -- 11.3 Hedging Shortfall Risk by Matching Assets to Liabilities 291 -- 11.4 Minimizing the Cost of Hedging 292 -- 11.5 Insuring versus Hedging 293 -- 11.6 Basic Features of Insurance Contracts 294 -- 11.7 Financial Guarantees 295 -- 11.8 Caps and Floors on Interest Rates 296 -- 11.9 Options as Insurance 296 -- 11.10 Diversification Principle 298 -- 11.11 Diversification and the Cost of Insurance 303 -- Chapter 12 Choosing an Investment Portfolio 318 -- 12.1 Process of Personal Portfolio Selection 319 -- 12.2".
catalog description "118 -- 4.7 Perpetual Annuities 122 -- 4.8 Loan Amortization 124 -- 4.9 Exchange Rates and Time Value of Money 125 -- 4.10 Inflation and Discounted Cash Flow Analysis 127 -- 4.11 Taxes and Investment Decisions 133 -- Chapter 5 Life-Cycle Financial Planning 143 -- 5.1 A Life-Cycle Model of Saving 143 -- 5.2 Taking Account of Social Security 151 -- 5.3 Deferring Taxes through Voluntary Retirement Plans 152 -- 5.4 Should You Invest in a Professional Degree? 154 -- 5.5 Should You Buy or Rent? 155 -- Chapter 6 How to Analyze Investment Projects 165 -- 6.1 Nature of Project Analysis 166 -- 6.2 Where Do Investment Ideas Come From? 167 -- 6.3 Net Present Value Investment Rule 168 -- 6.4 Estimating a Project's Cash Flows 169 -- 6.5 Cost of Capital 172 -- 6.6 Sensitivity Analysis Using Spreadsheets 173 -- 6.7 Analyzing Cost-Reducing Projects 176 -- 6.8".
catalog description "417 -- Chapter 16 Capital Structure 417 -- 16.1 Internal versus External Financing 418 -- 16.2 Equity Financing 419 -- 16.3 Debt Financing 419 -- 16.4 Irrelevance of Capital Structure in a Frictionless Environment 423 -- 16.5 Creating Value through Financing Decisions 426 -- 16.6 Reducing Costs 427 -- 16.7 Dealing with Conflicts of Interest 430 -- 16.8 Creating New Opportunities for Stakeholders 431 -- 16.9 Financing Decisions in Practice 432 -- 16.10 How to Evaluate Levered Investments 434 -- Chapter 17 Finance and Corporate Strategy 443 -- 17.1 Mergers and Acquisitions 443 -- 17.2 Spin-offs 447 -- 17.3 Investing in Real Options 448.".
catalog description "Basic Building Blocks: Pure Discount Bonds 218 -- 8.3 Coupon Bonds, Current Yield, and Yield to Maturity 220 -- 8.4 Reading Bond Listings 224 -- 8.5 Why Yields for the Same Maturity May Differ 225 -- 8.6 Behavior of Bond Prices over Time 227 -- Chapter 9 Valuation of Common Stocks 234 -- 9.1 Reading Stock Listings 234 --c 9.2 Discounted Dividend Model 235 -- 9.3 Earnings and Investment Opportunities 238 -- 9.4 A Reconsideration of the Price/Earnings Multiple Approach 242 -- 9.5 Does Dividend Policy Affect Shareholder Wealth? 242 -- Part IV Risk Management and Portfolio Theory 255 -- Chapter 10 An Overview of Risk Management 255 -- 10.1 What Is Risk? 256 -- 10.2 Risk and Economic Decisions 258 -- 10.3 Risk-Management Process 261 -- 10.4 Three Dimensions of Risk Transfer 264 -- 10.5 Risk Transfer and Economic Efficiency 268 -- 10.6 Institutions for Risk Management 269 --".
catalog description "Financial Futures 369 -- 14.8 "Implied" Riskless Rate 372 -- 14.9 Forward Price Is Not a Forecast of the Future Spot Price 373 -- 14.10 Forward-Spot Price-Parity Relation with Cash Payouts 373 -- 14.11 "Implied" Dividends 374 -- 14.12 Foreign-Exchange Parity Relation 375 -- 14.13 Role of Expectations in Determining Exchange Rates 376 -- Chapter 15 Options and Contingent Claims 383 -- 15.1 How Options Work 384 -- 15.2 Investing with Options 387 -- 15.3 Put-Call Parity Relation 391 -- 15.4 Volatility and Option Prices 394 -- 15.5 Two-State (Binomial) Option Pricing 395 -- 15.6 Dynamic Replication and the Binomial Model 398 -- 15.7 Black-Scholes Model 399 -- 15.8 Implied Volatility 402 -- 15.9 Contingent Claims Analysis of Corporate Debt and Equity 403 -- 15.10 Credit Guarantees 406 -- 15.11 Other Applications of Option-Pricing Methodology 408 -- Part VI Corporate Finance".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 456-458) and index.".
catalog description "Interpreting and Forecasting Financial Statements 63 -- 3.1 Functions of Financial Statements 64 -- 3.2 Review of Financial Statements 65 -- 3.3 Market Values versus Book Values 73 -- 3.4 Accounting versus Economic Measures of Income 75 -- 3.5 Returns to Shareholders versus Return on Book Equity 76 -- 3.6 Analysis Using Financial Ratios 77 -- 3.7 Financial Planning Process 82 -- 3.8 Constructing a Financial Planning Model 83 -- 3.9 Growth and the Need for External Financing 86 -- 3.10 Working Capital Management 89 -- 3.11 Liquidity and Cash Budgeting 90 -- Part II Time and Resource Allocation 101 -- Chapter 4 Time Value of Money and Discounted Cash Flow Analysis 101 -- 4.1 Compounding 102 -- 4.2 Frequency of Compounding 108 -- 4.3 Present Value and Discounting 109 -- 4.4 Alternative Discounted Cash Flow Decision Rules 112 -- 4.5 Multiple Cash Flows 116 -- 4.6 Annuities".
catalog description "Part I Finance and the Financial System 1 -- Chapter 1 What Is Finance? 1 -- 1.1 Defining Finance 2 -- 1.2 Why Study Finance? 2 -- 1.3 Financial Decisions of Households 5 -- 1.4 Financial Decisions of Firms 6 -- 1.5 Forms of Business Organization 7 -- 1.6 Separation of Ownership and Management 9 -- 1.7 Goal of Management 10 -- 1.8 Market Discipline: Takeovers 14 -- 1.9 Role of the Finance Specialist in a Corporation 15 -- Chapter 2 Financial System 21 -- 2.1 What Is the Financial System? 22 -- 2.2 Flow of Funds 22 -- 2.3 Functional Perspective 24 -- 2.4 Financial Innovation and the "Invisible Hand" 33 -- 2.5 Financial Markets 35 -- 2.6 Financial Market Rates 36 -- 2.7 Financial Intermediaries 50 -- 2.8 Financial Infrastructure and Regulation 52 -- 2.9 Governmental and Quasi-Governmental Organizations 53 -- Chapter 3".
catalog description "Projects with Different Lives 179 -- 6.9 Ranking Mutually Exclusive Projects 179 -- 6.10 Inflation and Capital Budgeting 181 -- Part III Valuation Models 193 -- Chapter 7 Principles of Asset Valuation 193 -- 7.1 Relation between an Asset's Value and Its Price 194 -- 7.2 Value Maximization and Financial Decisions 194 -- 7.3 Law of One Price and Arbitrage 196 -- 7.4 Arbitrage and the Prices of Financial Assets 197 -- 7.5 Interest Rates and the Law of One Price 198 -- 7.6 Exchange Rates and Triangular Arbitrage 199 -- 7.7 Valuation Using Comparables 202 -- 7.8 Valuation Models 202 -- 7.9 Accounting Measures of Value 204 -- 7.10 How Information Is Reflected in Security Prices 206 -- 7.11 Efficient Markets Hypothesis 206 -- Chapter 8 Valuation of Known Cash Flows: Bonds 215 -- 8.1 Using Present Value Formulas to Value Known Cash Flows 216 -- 8.2".
catalog description "System requirements: Windows 3.1 or Windows 95; Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 3:02.".
catalog description "This introduction to finance has a broad scope, placing an emphasis on general principles within the field. It builds its presentation upon the three 'pillars' of finance: optimization over time, asset valuation and risk management.".
catalog description "Trade-Off between Expected Return and Risk 323 -- 12.3 Efficient Diversification with Many Risky Assets 329 -- Part V Asset Pricing 343 -- Chapter 13 Capital Asset Pricing Model 343 -- 13.1 Capital Asset Pricing Model in Brief 344 -- 13.2 Determinants of the Risk Premium on the Market Portfolio 347 -- 13.3 Beta and Risk Premiums on Individual Securities 348 -- 13.4 Using the CAPM in Portfolio Selection 349 -- 13.5 Valuation and Regulating Rates of Return 352 -- 13.6 Modifications and Alternatives to the CAPM 354 -- Chapter 14 Forward and Futures Prices 360 -- 14.1 Distinctions between Forward and Futures Contracts 361 -- 14.2 Economic Function of Futures Markets 363 -- 14.3 Role of Speculators 364 -- 14.4 Relation between Commodity Spot and Futures Prices 365 -- 14.5 Extracting Information from Commodity Futures Prices 366 -- 14.6 Forward-Spot Price Parity for Gold 366 -- 14.7".
catalog extent "xxxi, 479 p. ;".
catalog hasFormat "Finance.".
catalog identifier "013310897X".
catalog isFormatOf "Finance.".
catalog issued "2000".
catalog issued "2000.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall,".
catalog relation "Finance.".
catalog requires "System requirements: Windows 3.1 or Windows 95; Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 3:02.".
catalog subject "658.15 21".
catalog subject "Finance.".
catalog subject "HG173 .B58 2000".
catalog tableOfContents "10.7 Portfolio Theory: Quantitative Analysis for Optimal Risk Management 272 -- 10.8 Probability Distributions of Returns 273 -- 10.9 Standard Deviation as a Measure of Risk 275 -- Chapter 11 Hedging, Insuring, and Diversifying 284 -- 11.1 Using Forward and Futures Contracts to Hedge Risk 285 -- 11.2 Hedging Foreign-Exchange Risk with Swap Contracts 290 -- 11.3 Hedging Shortfall Risk by Matching Assets to Liabilities 291 -- 11.4 Minimizing the Cost of Hedging 292 -- 11.5 Insuring versus Hedging 293 -- 11.6 Basic Features of Insurance Contracts 294 -- 11.7 Financial Guarantees 295 -- 11.8 Caps and Floors on Interest Rates 296 -- 11.9 Options as Insurance 296 -- 11.10 Diversification Principle 298 -- 11.11 Diversification and the Cost of Insurance 303 -- Chapter 12 Choosing an Investment Portfolio 318 -- 12.1 Process of Personal Portfolio Selection 319 -- 12.2".
catalog tableOfContents "118 -- 4.7 Perpetual Annuities 122 -- 4.8 Loan Amortization 124 -- 4.9 Exchange Rates and Time Value of Money 125 -- 4.10 Inflation and Discounted Cash Flow Analysis 127 -- 4.11 Taxes and Investment Decisions 133 -- Chapter 5 Life-Cycle Financial Planning 143 -- 5.1 A Life-Cycle Model of Saving 143 -- 5.2 Taking Account of Social Security 151 -- 5.3 Deferring Taxes through Voluntary Retirement Plans 152 -- 5.4 Should You Invest in a Professional Degree? 154 -- 5.5 Should You Buy or Rent? 155 -- Chapter 6 How to Analyze Investment Projects 165 -- 6.1 Nature of Project Analysis 166 -- 6.2 Where Do Investment Ideas Come From? 167 -- 6.3 Net Present Value Investment Rule 168 -- 6.4 Estimating a Project's Cash Flows 169 -- 6.5 Cost of Capital 172 -- 6.6 Sensitivity Analysis Using Spreadsheets 173 -- 6.7 Analyzing Cost-Reducing Projects 176 -- 6.8".
catalog tableOfContents "417 -- Chapter 16 Capital Structure 417 -- 16.1 Internal versus External Financing 418 -- 16.2 Equity Financing 419 -- 16.3 Debt Financing 419 -- 16.4 Irrelevance of Capital Structure in a Frictionless Environment 423 -- 16.5 Creating Value through Financing Decisions 426 -- 16.6 Reducing Costs 427 -- 16.7 Dealing with Conflicts of Interest 430 -- 16.8 Creating New Opportunities for Stakeholders 431 -- 16.9 Financing Decisions in Practice 432 -- 16.10 How to Evaluate Levered Investments 434 -- Chapter 17 Finance and Corporate Strategy 443 -- 17.1 Mergers and Acquisitions 443 -- 17.2 Spin-offs 447 -- 17.3 Investing in Real Options 448.".
catalog tableOfContents "Basic Building Blocks: Pure Discount Bonds 218 -- 8.3 Coupon Bonds, Current Yield, and Yield to Maturity 220 -- 8.4 Reading Bond Listings 224 -- 8.5 Why Yields for the Same Maturity May Differ 225 -- 8.6 Behavior of Bond Prices over Time 227 -- Chapter 9 Valuation of Common Stocks 234 -- 9.1 Reading Stock Listings 234 --c 9.2 Discounted Dividend Model 235 -- 9.3 Earnings and Investment Opportunities 238 -- 9.4 A Reconsideration of the Price/Earnings Multiple Approach 242 -- 9.5 Does Dividend Policy Affect Shareholder Wealth? 242 -- Part IV Risk Management and Portfolio Theory 255 -- Chapter 10 An Overview of Risk Management 255 -- 10.1 What Is Risk? 256 -- 10.2 Risk and Economic Decisions 258 -- 10.3 Risk-Management Process 261 -- 10.4 Three Dimensions of Risk Transfer 264 -- 10.5 Risk Transfer and Economic Efficiency 268 -- 10.6 Institutions for Risk Management 269 --".
catalog tableOfContents "Financial Futures 369 -- 14.8 "Implied" Riskless Rate 372 -- 14.9 Forward Price Is Not a Forecast of the Future Spot Price 373 -- 14.10 Forward-Spot Price-Parity Relation with Cash Payouts 373 -- 14.11 "Implied" Dividends 374 -- 14.12 Foreign-Exchange Parity Relation 375 -- 14.13 Role of Expectations in Determining Exchange Rates 376 -- Chapter 15 Options and Contingent Claims 383 -- 15.1 How Options Work 384 -- 15.2 Investing with Options 387 -- 15.3 Put-Call Parity Relation 391 -- 15.4 Volatility and Option Prices 394 -- 15.5 Two-State (Binomial) Option Pricing 395 -- 15.6 Dynamic Replication and the Binomial Model 398 -- 15.7 Black-Scholes Model 399 -- 15.8 Implied Volatility 402 -- 15.9 Contingent Claims Analysis of Corporate Debt and Equity 403 -- 15.10 Credit Guarantees 406 -- 15.11 Other Applications of Option-Pricing Methodology 408 -- Part VI Corporate Finance".
catalog tableOfContents "Interpreting and Forecasting Financial Statements 63 -- 3.1 Functions of Financial Statements 64 -- 3.2 Review of Financial Statements 65 -- 3.3 Market Values versus Book Values 73 -- 3.4 Accounting versus Economic Measures of Income 75 -- 3.5 Returns to Shareholders versus Return on Book Equity 76 -- 3.6 Analysis Using Financial Ratios 77 -- 3.7 Financial Planning Process 82 -- 3.8 Constructing a Financial Planning Model 83 -- 3.9 Growth and the Need for External Financing 86 -- 3.10 Working Capital Management 89 -- 3.11 Liquidity and Cash Budgeting 90 -- Part II Time and Resource Allocation 101 -- Chapter 4 Time Value of Money and Discounted Cash Flow Analysis 101 -- 4.1 Compounding 102 -- 4.2 Frequency of Compounding 108 -- 4.3 Present Value and Discounting 109 -- 4.4 Alternative Discounted Cash Flow Decision Rules 112 -- 4.5 Multiple Cash Flows 116 -- 4.6 Annuities".
catalog tableOfContents "Part I Finance and the Financial System 1 -- Chapter 1 What Is Finance? 1 -- 1.1 Defining Finance 2 -- 1.2 Why Study Finance? 2 -- 1.3 Financial Decisions of Households 5 -- 1.4 Financial Decisions of Firms 6 -- 1.5 Forms of Business Organization 7 -- 1.6 Separation of Ownership and Management 9 -- 1.7 Goal of Management 10 -- 1.8 Market Discipline: Takeovers 14 -- 1.9 Role of the Finance Specialist in a Corporation 15 -- Chapter 2 Financial System 21 -- 2.1 What Is the Financial System? 22 -- 2.2 Flow of Funds 22 -- 2.3 Functional Perspective 24 -- 2.4 Financial Innovation and the "Invisible Hand" 33 -- 2.5 Financial Markets 35 -- 2.6 Financial Market Rates 36 -- 2.7 Financial Intermediaries 50 -- 2.8 Financial Infrastructure and Regulation 52 -- 2.9 Governmental and Quasi-Governmental Organizations 53 -- Chapter 3".
catalog tableOfContents "Projects with Different Lives 179 -- 6.9 Ranking Mutually Exclusive Projects 179 -- 6.10 Inflation and Capital Budgeting 181 -- Part III Valuation Models 193 -- Chapter 7 Principles of Asset Valuation 193 -- 7.1 Relation between an Asset's Value and Its Price 194 -- 7.2 Value Maximization and Financial Decisions 194 -- 7.3 Law of One Price and Arbitrage 196 -- 7.4 Arbitrage and the Prices of Financial Assets 197 -- 7.5 Interest Rates and the Law of One Price 198 -- 7.6 Exchange Rates and Triangular Arbitrage 199 -- 7.7 Valuation Using Comparables 202 -- 7.8 Valuation Models 202 -- 7.9 Accounting Measures of Value 204 -- 7.10 How Information Is Reflected in Security Prices 206 -- 7.11 Efficient Markets Hypothesis 206 -- Chapter 8 Valuation of Known Cash Flows: Bonds 215 -- 8.1 Using Present Value Formulas to Value Known Cash Flows 216 -- 8.2".
catalog tableOfContents "Trade-Off between Expected Return and Risk 323 -- 12.3 Efficient Diversification with Many Risky Assets 329 -- Part V Asset Pricing 343 -- Chapter 13 Capital Asset Pricing Model 343 -- 13.1 Capital Asset Pricing Model in Brief 344 -- 13.2 Determinants of the Risk Premium on the Market Portfolio 347 -- 13.3 Beta and Risk Premiums on Individual Securities 348 -- 13.4 Using the CAPM in Portfolio Selection 349 -- 13.5 Valuation and Regulating Rates of Return 352 -- 13.6 Modifications and Alternatives to the CAPM 354 -- Chapter 14 Forward and Futures Prices 360 -- 14.1 Distinctions between Forward and Futures Contracts 361 -- 14.2 Economic Function of Futures Markets 363 -- 14.3 Role of Speculators 364 -- 14.4 Relation between Commodity Spot and Futures Prices 365 -- 14.5 Extracting Information from Commodity Futures Prices 366 -- 14.6 Forward-Spot Price Parity for Gold 366 -- 14.7".
catalog title "Finance / Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton.".
catalog type "text".