Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Introduction; Chapter 1. What Is Corporate Finance?; Chapter 2. Setting the Stage; Chapter 3. Accounting Statements and Cash Flows; Chapter 4. Common-Size, Common-Base Year, and Ratio Analysis; Part Two: "I Will Gladly Pay You $2 Tomorrow for $1 Today": The Time Value of Money; Chapter 5. Present and Future Value; Chapter 6. Compounding and Interest Rate Conversion: When What You've Got Isn't What You Need; Chapter 7. Payment Composition and Amortization Schedules; Part Three: Valuation; Chapter 8. Valuing Bonds; Chapter 9. Valuing Stocks; Chapter 10. Valuing Projects: The Capital-Budgeting Decision Rules; Part Four: Where Do Interest Rates Come From? Risk, Return, and the Cost of Capital; Chapter 11. Measuring Risk and Return; Chapter 12. Calculating Beta; Chapter 13. Analyzing the Security Market Line; Chapter 14. The Weighted Average Cost of Capital; Part Five: Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance; Chapter 15. Estimating Future Cash Flows; Chapter 16. Scenario Analysis and Sensitivity Analysis; Chapter 17. Option Valuation; Appendix A. Depreciation Charts; Appendix B. Values for the Standard Normal Cumulative Distribution Function; Final Exam; Answers to Quiz and Exam Questions; Index