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Lumby, Steve

Investment appraisal and financial decisions / Steve Lumby and Chris Jones. - 6th ed. - London : International Thompson Business, c1999. - xv, 647 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface --
Introduction --
1. Corporate objectives, management objectives and corporate governance --
2. Strategic planning and the finance function --
3. Traditional methods of investment appraisal --
4. The single-period investment consumption decision model --
5. The discounted cash flow approach --
6. Net present value and internal rate of return developed --
7. Project appraisal cash flows --
8. Capital market imperfections --
9. Traditional and technological approaches to risk --
10. Risk and expected return --
11. Portfolio theory --
12. The capital asset pricing model --
13. The valuation of options --
14. Interest rate risk management --
15. Market efficiency and the term structure of interest rates --
16. The cost of company capital --
17. The weighted average cost of capital --
18. The capital structure decision in a no-tax world --
19. Capital structure in a world with tax --
20. The capital structure decision in practice --
21. Investment and financing decision interactions --
22. The dividend decision --
23. Foreign exchange markets and rates --
24. Foreign exchange risk management --
25. Overseas capital investments --
Tables --
Answers to quickie questions --
Index.



ISBN: 9781861522573 1861522576

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Corporations--Finance--Decision making.
Corporations--Finance--Decision making--Problems, exercises, etc.
Capital investments--Decision making.
Business enterprises--Finance.

LC Class. No.: HG4011 / .L86 1999