UK edition of the jargon-free guide which helps readers to get to grips with corporate finance principles and strategies. Gets readers up and running with the basic practices and processes involved in setting budgets, calculating future cash flows and scenario analysis in a friendly and accessible way The maths, the formulas, and the problems associated with corporate finance can be daunting to the uninitiated, but help is at hand. Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Corporate Finance 5 Chapter 1: Introducing Corporate Finance 7 Chapter 2: Navigating the World of Corporate Finance 15 Chapter 3: Raising Money for Business Purposes 35 Part II: Reading Financial Statements as a Second Language 45 Chapter 4: Seeing What You’re Worth with the Balance Sheet 47 Chapter 5: Getting Paid with the Profi t and Loss Account 59 Chapter 6: Easy Come, Easy Go: Understanding the Cash Flow Statement 69 Chapter 7: Making Financial Statements Useful with Ratio Analysis 77 Chapter 8: Measuring Financial Wellbeing with Special-Use Ratios 97 Part III: Placing Valuations on the Price Tags of Business 115 Chapter 9: Determining Present and Future Values: Time Is Money 117 Chapter 10: Looking to the Future with Capital Budgeting 125 Chapter 11: Bringing on Your Best Bond Bets 143 Chapter 12: Being Savvy When Shopping for Shares 159 Chapter 13: Measuring Valuations of the May-Be: Derivatives 177 Part IV: Walking in a Risk Management Wonderland 189 Chapter 14: Managing the Risky Business of Corporate Finances 191 Chapter 15: Through the Looking Glass of Modern Portfolio Theory 203 Chapter 16: Entering the Science Lab: Financial Engineering 223 Chapter 17: Assessing Capital Structure 239 Part V: Understanding Financial Management 249 Chapter 18: Assessing Financial Performance 251 Chapter 19: Forecasting Finances Is Easier than Predicting the Weather 273 Chapter 20: Spelling out the ABC of M&A 289 Part VI: The Part of Tens 309 Chapter 21: Ten Things You Need to Know about International Finance 311 Chapter 22: Ten Things You Need to Understand about Behavioural Finance 325 Index 337