Financial Management, Global Edition

Cover -- Title Page -- The Pearson Series in Finance -- Dedication -- Copyright -- About The Author -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- Solving Teaching And Learning Challenges -- Mylab Finance -- Developing Employability Skills -- Table Of Contents Overview -- Instructor Teaching Resources -- Reviewers -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Fundamental Concepts and Basic Tools of Finance -- Chapter 1. Financial Management -- 1.1 The Cycle of Money -- 1.2 Overview of Finance Areas -- 1.3 Financial Markets -- 1.4 The Finance Manager and Financial Management -- 1.5 Objective of the Finance Manager -- Profit Maximization -- 1.6 Internal and External Players -- 1.7 The Legal Forms of Business -- Sole Proprietorship -- Partnership -- Corporations -- Hybrid Corporations -- Not-for-Profit Corporations -- 1.8 The Financial Management Setting: The Agency Model -- 1.9 Corporate Governance and Business Ethics -- Finance Follies The Financial Meltdown of 2008 -- 1.10 Why Study Finance? -- Employability -- Putting Finance To Work Now Hiring -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Prepping for Exams -- Mini-Case Richardses' Tree Farm Grows Up -- Chapter 2. Financial Statements -- 2.1 Financial Statements -- The Balance Sheet -- The Income Statement -- Statement of Retained Earnings -- 2.2 Cash Flow Identity and the Statement of Cash Flows -- The First Component: Cash Flow from Assets -- The Second Component: Cash Flow to Creditors -- The Third Component: Cash Flow to Owners -- Putting It All Together: The Cash Flow Identity -- The Statement of Cash Flows -- Free Cash Flow -- 2.3 Financial Performance Reporting -- Regulation Fair Disclosure -- Notes to the Financial Statements -- 2.4 Financial Statements on the Internet -- Putting Finance To Work Look Before You Leap -- Key Terms -- Questions -- Prepping for Exams -- Problems.