Book description
An essential guide to corporate finance
Understanding corporate finance is a necessity for financial
practitioners who struggle every day to find the right balance between
maximizing corporate value and reducing a firm's financial risk.
Divided into two comprehensive parts, Mastering Corporate Finance
Essentials presents the material by example, using an extended
scenario involving a new business formation. In Part One, present and
future value mathematics are introduced followed by a number of
applications using the tools. In Part Two, statistics as applied to
finance are examined, with detailed discussions of standard
deviations, correlations, and how they impact diversification.
- Through theory and real-world examples this book provides a
solid grounding in corporate finance
- Other titles by Stuart McCrary include: Mastering Financial
Accounting Essentials, How to Create and Manage a Hedge
Fund, and Hedge Fund Course
- Covers the essential elements of this field, from traditional
capital budgeting concepts and methods of valuing investment
projects under uncertainty to the importance of
"real-options" in the decision-making process
This reliable resource offers a hands-on approach to corporate
finance that will allow you to gain a solid understanding of this
discipline.
Stuart A. Mccrary is a Principal at Chicago
Partners, a division of Navigant Consulting, Inc. He is a trader and
portfolio manager who specializes in traditional and alternative
investments, quantitative valuation, risk management, and financial
software. Prior to joining Chicago Partners, McCrary was president of
Frontier Asset Management, managing a market-neutral hedge fund. He
also held positions with Fenchurch Capital Management as a senior
options trader and CS First Boston as vice president and market maker
of over-the-counter options. Prior to that, McCrary was a vice
president with the Securities Groups and a portfolio manager with
Comerica Bank. McCrary has published three previous books with Wiley:
Mastering Financial Accounting Essentials, How to Create and
Manage a Hedge Fund, and Hedge Fund Course.
