Description
David Hillier is Professor of Finance at the University of Strathclyde, teaches regularly in development programs for executives and has taught courses for a wide variety of professional clients, including the World Bank and the National Health Service in the UK. It is part of the editorial board of several international journals of finance. Part I. Financial Markets and Financial Instruments 1. Raising Capital 2. Debt Financing 3. Equity Financing Part II. Valuing Financial Assets 4. Portfolio Tools 5. Mean-Variance Analysis and the Capital Asset Pricing Model 6. Factor Models and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory 7. Pricing Derivatives 8. Options Part III. Valuing Real Assets 9. Discounting and Valuation 10. Investing in Risk-Free Projects 11. Investing in Risky Projects 12. Allocating Capital and Corporate Strategy 13. Corporate Taxes and the Impact of Financing On Real Asset Valuation Part IV. Capital Financial Structure 14. How Taxes Affect Financing Choices 15. How Taxes Affect Dividends and Share Repurchases 16. Bankruptcy Costs and Debt Holder-Equity Holder Conflicts 17. Capital Structure and Corporate Strategy Part V. Incentives, Information, and Corporate Control 18. How Managerial Incentives Affects Financial Decisions 19. The Information Conveyed by Financial Decisions 20. Mergers and Acquisitions Part VI. Risk Management 21. Risk Management and Corporate Strategy 22. The Practice of Hedging 23. Interest Rate Risk Management
