Higher Education
Author(s): N. R. Parasuraman
ISBN: 9789353500146
2nd Edition
Copyright: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 832
Trim Size : 254 x 203 mm
Financial Management seeks to teach complex concepts in Finance through a simple step-by-step approach. To make it easy for the reader to comprehend, the concepts are explained with the help of Excel spreadsheets. The book ensures exposure to Excel formulae and their use in financial applications. In order to add the real-life flavour, the book contains a number of quotes and musings by eminent corporate leaders and personalities on various aspects of management. Each chapter starts with a real-life case of a company and its key figures.
Chapter 1 The Big Picture of Finance
Chapter 2 Financial Statements
Chapter 3 Analysis of Financial Statements
Chapter 4 Time Value of Money
Chapter 5 Risk and Return
Chapter 6 Financial System—Markets, Institutions and Products
Chapter 7 Basics of Capital Budgeting
Chapter 8 Cash flows in Capital Budgeting
Chapter 9 Bonds and Shares
Chapter 10 Cost of Capital
Chapter 11 Higher Aspects of Capital Budgeting
Chapter 12 Capital Structure
Chapter 13 Dividend Policy and Shareholder Value Creation
Chapter 14 Long-Term Sources of Finance
Chapter 15 Working Capital Management—The Basics
Chapter 16 Working Capital Management—Extensions
Chapter 17 Risk Analysis in Capital Budgeting
Chapter 18 Project Financial Report—Preparation and Analysis
Chapter 19 Capital Asset Pricing Model
Chapter 20 Introduction to Multinational Finance
Chapter 21 Introduction to Options and Futures
Chapter 22 Introduction to Securities Analysis and Portfolio Management
Chapter 23 Introduction to Strategic Cost Management
Chapter 24 Introduction to Lease Financing
Chapter 25 Introduction to Real Options in Capital Budgeting
Chapter 26 Corporate Valuation, Mergers and Acquisitions
Case Studies
Glossary
Annexure
Bibliography
Index
N. R. Parasuraman
Dr. N. R. Parasuraman is Director and Senior Professor at SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore. He is a Commerce and law graduate and did his Ph.D. on Capital Structure of Indian Companies. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants. He has 31 years of experience in diverse areas of Finance. Dr. Parasuraman was the Company Secretary of FEDERAL BANK for five years. He has worked as Finance Manager for KEK Group of Companies, Trivandrum and as a Securities Analyst for Joindre Capital Services, Mumbai. His areas of teaching and research are strategy, financial derivatives, multinational finance and corporate valuation. Dr. Parasuraman is a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur and the Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong. He has published over 30 papers and concept articles in various journals. Apart from this book, he has authored another book titled Fundamentals of Financial Derivatives. He has co-authored with Eugene Brigham and Scott Besley the South-Asian edition of Corporate Finance (CFIN) brought out by Cengage.
