Finance: Introduction to Institutions, Investments, and Management - Hardcover

Melicher, Ronald W.; Norton, Edgar A.

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9780471675792: Finance: Introduction to Institutions, Investments, and Management

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ISBN 10: 0471675792 ISBN 13: 9780471675792

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

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The Twelfth Edition of this successful book provides a survey of the foundations of the finance discipline. The authors covers the three major financial areas: Institutions & Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, helping you develop an integrated perspective of the different foundations of finance.

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Understand how financial markets, institutions, and management fit together

How do financial markets and institutions affect businesses and individuals? How do firms raise funds? How can you use markets and institutions to meet your own personal goals? To answer questions such as these, you need a broad understanding of financial markets, institutions, and management.

Ronald Melicher and Edgar Norton’s 12th Edition of Finance: Introduction to Institutions, Investments, and Management helps you understand and appreciate the interrelationships among the three different financial disciplines. The text not only equips you with a solid foundation of basic knowledge, concepts, and terms; it also offers insights into the practice of finance in large corporations, small businesses, and personal financial planning.

Now updated and revised, this 12th Edition features:

A stronger emphasis on the four pillars of finance: money has time value, risk affects the level of expected returns, financial markets are efficient in pricing securities, and reputation matters.
Additional material on business ethics, including corporate governance and investment practices.
A stronger global focus, including sections on how monetary systems differ worldwide, how foreign exchange rates work and what causes them to change.
Spreadsheet illustrations, which show how to set up spreadsheets to perform basic financial analysis and explain how to use various Excel functions.
Updated data and examples.
Additional end-of-chapter questions and problems.

About the Author:

Ronald Melicher is a Professor of Finance and Chair of the Finance Division in the College of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is also a President's Teaching Scholar and the W. H. Baughn Distinguished Scholar. Dr. Melicher is currently in his 31st year of teaching at the University of Colorado.

Edgar Norton's teaching and research interests include investments, corporate finance, and entrepreneurial finance. His research has been published in a variety of finance, economic, and small business journals, including Financial Review nad the Journal of Business Research. A recipient of an Award of Excellence for a research paper at a conference sponsored by the International Council for Small Business, he was recognized in an article in the Journal of Management as one of the most productive entrepreneurship researchers of the early 1990s. He has co-authored four books.

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