Javier Estrada, IESE Business School, Madrid

Publisher: Financial Times Press
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 408 pp

ISBN-10:	0273675400
ISBN-13:	9780273675402

Our Price: £29.99
Status: Instock
Published: 25 Aug 2005

No other book is a comprehensive toolkit of financial issues, instructive, and so easy to read, all at the same time ? this book is all that and more.

PART 1. RISK AND RETURN

1        Returns I: Basic concepts

2        Returns II: Mean returns

3        Risk I: Total risk

4        Risk and return I: Portfolios

5        Risk II: Diversification

6        Risk III: Systematic Risk

7        Risk and return II: The CAPM, and the cost of capital

8        Risk and return III: Alternatives to the CAPM

9        Risk IV: Downside risk

10    Risk and return IV: Risk-adjusted returns

11    Risk and return V: Optimal portfolios

12    Risk and return: VI: The long run

PART 2. VALUATION

13    Stocks I: The dividend discount model

14    Stocks II: The WACC model

15    Stocks III: Other DCF models

16    Stocks IV: Reverse valuation

17    Stocks V: Relative valuation

18    Bonds I: Prices and yields

19    Bonds II: Default risk and market risk

20    Bonds III: Duration and convexity

PART 3. OTHER IMPORTANT TOPICS

21    NPV and IRR

22    Real options

23    Corporate value creation

24    Options

25    Futures and forwards

26    Currencies

PART 4. STATISTICAL BACKGROUND

27    Stats I: Summary statistics

28    Stats II: Normality

29    Stats III: Non-normality

30    Stats IV: Regression analysis

Index

Part V: Learning Scripts for Programs

      Appendices

Notes

 Bibliography

  Index

• Self-contained: Other than some elementary algebra, no other previous knowledge will be necessary to understand the concepts discussed.
• Comprehensive: It contains most or all topics, concepts, and tools that executives can easily forget, find hard to understand, and/or would like to know more about.
• Simple and easy to read written in a simple and conversational style.
• Concise with short chapters throughout
• Essential elementary theory and many real-world examples. All concepts and tools are illustrated with catchy and factual examples.
• Excel: Spreadsheets have become an inseparable part of working in Finance and this book will show readers how to use Excel to simplify their work.
• Test Yourself: problems with worked numerical solutions throughout.