| Foundations of Finance: The Logic and Practice of Financial Management: International Edition, 6/E | ||||||||
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Art Keown Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
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Description <>For the introductory Finance course required at all undergraduate business schools.
Keown enables students to see the big picture by letting them understand the logic that drives finance rather than having them memorize formulas. |
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Table Of Contents 1. An Introduction to the Foundations of Financial Management – The Ties That Bind 2. The Financial Markets and Interest Rates 3. Understanding Financial Statements and Cash Flows
4. Evaluating a Firm's Financial Performance
5. The Time Value of Money
6. Risk and Return
7. Bond Valuation
8. Stock Valuation
9. Capital-Budgeting Techniques and Practice
10. Cash Flows and Other Topics in Capital Budgeting
11. Cost of Capital
12. Determining the Financing Mix
13. Dividend Policy and Internal Financing
14. Short-term financial planning
17. International Business Finance |
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Features For the introductory Finance course required at all undergraduate business schools.
Keown enables students to see the big picture by letting them understand the logic that drives finance rather than having them memorize formulas.
Do your students lose sight of the big picture and get caught up in memorizing and applying formulas? How do you reach your math-phobic students? -In some texts the student is influenced to memorize formulas, most will memorize them the night before the exam, forget the formulas two days later and receive nothing from the course but a grade. Foundations of Finance presents principles that serve as a foundation for the rest of the course. The principles are insightful, easy-to-understand core principles that are referred to for the rest of the text. This text uses a tool called “Back to the Foundations”, an insert that enables students to stay focused on the big ideas that tie topics together in the head of the student. -A focus on concepts before math is a guiding philosophy of this text. A large number of calculator solution examples that enable students to avoid getting caught up in difficult notation and calculation, a simplified presentation of cash flows, and verbal discussions of new topics before the presentation of formulas.
Do your non-finance majors disengage from certain parts of your lecture? Are many of your students wondering how they’ll use the information once the course is over? Does too much information make the course dry? -An Entrepreneur’s perspective has been systematically added to the book through a series of boxes that highlight issues faced by emerging small and medium sized firms. These boxes look at finance from the point of view of someone who would like to start his or her own successful business. -Across the Hall boxes upon professionals’ experiences from marketing, management, and accounting, to illustrate how the specific material being taught in the book and course pertains to what they will do. -The text points an eye at providing the student with need to know information that is used as building blocks to understand and introduce material in subsequent chapters.
Points of Distinction
Are you always looking for new problems and better problems to get the students to think?
Foundations of Finance is much more than a textbook, today learning has expanded from the textbook and is found on the web, in expanded booklets or on the iPod!
Web Works- Internet problems have been introduced at the end of each chapter. These problems direct the student to internet sites that allow them to explore financial issues and solve financial problems using the web. Students will always appreciate the ability to pursue the course outside the classroom.
Enhanced Problem Sets-the end of the chapter study problem sets have been improve and expanded to allow for a wider range of student problems, extending beyond previous editions.
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New To This Edition NEW! • The text provides examples for the students to work at the conclusion of each major section of a chapter, which we call, “Can You Do It?” followed by “How Did You Do?” several pages later in the text. This tool provides the essential ingredient to the building-block approach to the material that we use. • Chapter Summaries carefully linked to chapter objectives. • “Did you get it?” tool substituted for review questions at the end of each major segment. • Learning-objectives are now located in the margins at the appropriate location. • Key terms-bold key terms are located in the margins where the term first appears with the full definitions provided in alpha order at the end of the chapter with page number references. • All new examples provided in most chapters; simplified and made more intuitive to nature. |