Description
The fifteenth edition of Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management builds upon the successes of its earlier editions while maintaining a fresh and up-to-date coverage of the field of finance.
Distinguished authors Ron Melicher and Edgar Norton continue to cover the three major financial areas: institutions and markets, investments, and financial management. Their effective structure equips instructors with maximum flexibility for how the course is taught, and students with an integrated perspective of the different foundations of finance.
This survey of the basic knowledge, concepts, and terms of the discipline is appropriate for all students. For those who do not plan to take additional courses in finance, it provides a valuable overview. For those who want to take additional coursework in finance, it provides a solid foundation for their future studies and careers.
Features
Continued business ethics coverage. Covers a wide range of situations from clearly illegal, unethical behavior (insider trading) to less clear situations.
Global Focus. Covers how monetary systems differ worldwide, how foreign exchange rates work, and what causes them to change.
Spreadsheet Illustrations show how to set up spreadsheets to perform basic financial analysis and explains how to use various Excel functions.
Boxed Features include Small Business Practice, Personal Financial Planning, and Career Opportunities in Finance to illustrate practices in finance.
New To This Edition
New extensive coverage of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis, and subsequent recession and recovery.
Featuring a real firm – Walgreens, the retail drugstore chain – in many of the chapters on investments and financial management.
International Finance and Trade updated information on the European Union membership and the Eurozone countries that have adopted the Euro.
Table of Contents Preface PART 1: INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS Chapter 1: The Financial Environment Chapter 2: Money and the Monetary System Chapter 3: Banks and Other Financial Institutions Chapter 4: Federal Reserve System Chapter 5: Policy Makers and the Money Supply Chapter 6: International Finance and Trade PART 2: INVESTMENTS Chapter 7: Savings and Investment Process Chapter 8: Interest Rates Chapter 9: Time Value of Money Chapter 10: Bonds and Stocks: Characteristics and Valuations Chapter 11: Securities Markets Chapter 12: Financial Return and Risk Concepts PART 3: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Chapter 13: Business Organization and Financial Data Chapter 14: Financial Analysis and Long-Term Financial Planning Chapter 15: Managing Working Capital Chapter 16: Short-Term Business Financing Chapter 17: Capital Budgeting Analysis Chapter 18: Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital Appendix Glossary Index