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The Financial Times guide to understanding finance : a no-nonsense companion to financial tools and techniques / Javier Estrada.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Estrada, Javier, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Financial times guides.
- Financial times guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business enterprises--Finance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Business enterprises.
- Corporations--Finance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Corporations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 410 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- Guide to understanding finance
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York State : Pearson/Prentice Hall, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Whether you are an executive or a student, beginner or expert, this book is designed to explain and illustrate the working essentials of finance with clarity and speed. This desktop companion deliberately combines essential theory with real-world application, using short, focused chapters to help you find what you need and implement it right away. www.pearsoned.co.uk/estrada
- Contents:
- Risk and return
- Returns I: basic concepts
- Returns II: mean returns
- Risk I: total risk
- Risk and return I: portfolios
- Risk II: diversification
- Risk III: systematic risk
- Risk and return II: capm and the cost of capital
- Risk and return III: the three-factor model
- Risk IV: downside risk
- Risk and return IV: risk-adjusted returns
- Risk and return V: portfolio optimization
- Risk and return VI: the long term
- Valuation
- Stocks I: the dividend discount model
- Stocks II: the wacc model
- Stocks III: other dcf models
- Stocks IV: reverse valuation
- Stocks v: relative valuation
- Bonds I: prices and yields
- Bonds II: default risk and market risk
- Bonds III: duration and convexity
- Other important topic
- Npv and IRR
- Real options
- Corporate value creation
- Options
- Futures and forwards
- Currencies
- Statistical background
- Stats I: summary statistics
- Stats II: normality
- Stats III: non-normality
- Stats IV: regression analysis.
- Notes:
- Previously published under title: Finance in a nutshell.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613275424
- 9781283275422
- 1283275422
- 9780273738039
- 0273738038
- OCLC:
- 1015883997
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