The Financial Times guide to understanding finance
Subtitle: a no-nonsense companion to financial tools and techniques
By: Javier Estrada
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Pearson/Prentice Hall
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780273738022
Subjects: Corporations; Business enterprises; Finance; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Guide to understanding finance
Notes: Previously published under title: Finance in a nutshell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Risk and return; title: Returns I: basic concepts; title: Returns II: mean returns; title: Risk I: total risk; title: Risk and return I: portfolios; title: Risk II: diversification; title: Risk III: systematic risk; title: Risk and return II: capm and the cost of capital; title: Risk and return III: the three-factor model; title: Risk IV: downside risk; title: Risk and return IV: risk-adjusted returns; title: Risk and return V: portfolio optimization; title: Risk and return VI: the long term; title: Valuation; title: Stocks I: the dividend discount model; title: Stocks II: the wacc model; title: Stocks III: other dcf models; title: Stocks IV: reverse valuation; title: Stocks v: relative valuation; title: Bonds I: prices and yields; title: Bonds II: default risk and market risk; title: Bonds III: duration and convexity; title: Other important topic; title: Npv and IRR; title: Real options; title: Corporate value creation; title: Options; title: Futures and forwards; title: Currencies; title: Statistical background; title: Stats I: summary statistics; title: Stats II: normality; title: Stats III: non-normality; title: Stats IV: regression analysis.