Corporate Finance for Dummies

Welcome to Finance Land
Corporate Finance For Dummies helps you get straight on key concepts so you can succeed in your college course and your career. Understand and analyze big-picture finances-statements, valuations, risk management-and you'll be able to follow the dollars like a pro. This updated edition includes info on jobs in the field, anti-money laundering, electronic transactions like cryptocurrency and NFTs, and more on corporate behavior. You're on the road to a career in the shimmering tower of finance-Dummies can help you get there. Inside. . .

• Balance and income statements
• International finance
• Behavioral finance
• Crypto and other new trends
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Capital and shareholders
• Stocks, bonds, and pricing
• Financial engineering

Introduction   1
Part 1: What's Unique about Corporate Finance   5
Chapter 1: The Tale of Corporate Finance   7
Chapter 2: Introducing Finance Land   15
Chapter 3: Pitching Your Story for Money   35
Part 2: Making a Statement   45
Chapter 4: Staying Balanced   47
Chapter 5: Incoming Income 59
Chapter 6: Going with the (Cash) Flow   67
Chapter 7: Mastering Metrics   75
Chapter 8: Calculating Capital 97
Part 3: Valuations on the Price Tags of Business   115
Chapter 9: Determining Present and Future Values: Time Is Money 117
Chapter 10: Calling in the Cavalry 125
Chapter 11: Bonding Over Business   143
Chapter 12: Savvy Stock Sales 159
Chapter 13: Pricing Probability from Derived Value   173
Part 4: A Wonderland of Risk Management   183
Chapter 14: Managing Uncertainty   185
Chapter 15: Through the Looking Glass of Modern Portfolio Theory   197
Chapter 16: Financially Engineering Yourself Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole   217
Chapter 17: Weighing Capital   233
Part 5: Financial Management 243
Chapter 18: Assessing Financial Performance   245
Chapter 19: Forecasting Finances 263
Chapter 20: Getting the Deets on M&A 277
Part 6: The Part of Tens   295
Chapter 21: Ten Things You Need to Know about International Finance   297
Chapter 22: Ten Things You Need to Understand about Behavioral Finance   313
Index   325