TY - BOOK AU - Nikbakht,Ehsan AU - Groppelli,Angelico A. TI - Finance T2 - Business review books SN - 9780764147593 PY - 2012///] CY - Hauppauge, New York PB - Barron's Educational Series KW - Business enterprises KW - Finance KW - Investments KW - Decision making KW - Corporations KW - Accounting KW - Ratio analysis N1 - Includes index; What is finance all about? -- Business types and taxation methods -- The value of money over time -- Risk and return -- Valuation methods -- Capital budgeting: preliminary steps -- Fundamentals of capital budgeting: under the conditions of no risk and risk -- Cost of capital -- Capital structure -- Dividend policy -- Options, futures, and swaps -- Leases -- Warrants and convertibles -- Short- and long-term financing -- Financial planning -- Financing working capital -- Financial statements and ratios -- Mergers, investment banking and IPOs -- Basics of international finance -- Financial software and the internet ER -