num_pages: 558
description: Fundamentals Of Financial Management covers all aspects of the subject from the basics to financial analysis budgeting planning management of working capital and long term financing. The book begins with an Overview section. This provides an introduction to Financial Management and to the Financial Environment. The next part covers Financial Planning and Analysis. This section explains concepts like taxes cash flow financial statements and analysis of funds flow and statements. It also discusses financial planning and forecasting.The third part covers the Fundamental Valuation Concepts. This section looks at risk and return and Securities valuation. The next two parts focus on capital structure budgeting and dividends. These sections discuss cost of capital capital structure planning the capital structure share valuation and dividend policy. The chapter on Capital budgeting also includes techniques of capital budgeting and analyzing risks in capital budgeting. Part seven goes into Long Term Financing. It covers securities market and sources of long term finance.The next part discusses Working Capital Management. It covers topics like working capital policy and financing inventory management and cash and credit management. The last part looks at some special topics like acquisitions restructuring and mergers. It also discusses international finance management and project finance leasing and hire purchase.Fundamentals Of Financial Management provides a good coverage of the basic concepts relating to the financial environment. The topics explained include tax systems financial institutions banking arrangements and the regulatory framework. All the concepts are explained using numerous examples and illustrations. Besides the illustrations given within the chapter additional concepts tools and techniques with illustrations are provided at the end of chapter sections. The book takes an analytical approach and explains the various analytical methods in context.
language: English
title: Fundamentals of Financial Management
publisher: Tata McGraw Hill