Essential Financial Management - Softcover

Kolb, Robert W.; Rodriguez, Ricardo J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878975358 ISBN 13: 9781878975355

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1995

Synopsis

Essential Financial Management is intended for a first course in finance. It stresses a finance function orientation over the more traditional accounting orientation. Consistent with this approach, the text focuses on two main ideas: * The goal of financial management is to maximize shareholder wealth.
* Persistent trade-offs confront financial managers as they attempt to maximize shareholder wealth.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Essential Financial Management is intended for a first course in finance. It stresses a finance function orientation over the more traditional accounting orientation. Consistent with this approach, the text focuses on two main ideas:

* The goal of financial management is to maximize shareholder wealth.
* Persistent trade-offs confront financial managers as they attempt to maximize shareholder wealth.

Throughout the text, the accent is placed on developing a solid conceptual framework.

About the Author:

Robert W. Kolb is Professor of Finance at the University of Miami. A prolific author, he has written numerous articles for finance magazines and journals and more than twenty books and monographs on futures markets, bond portfolio management, and other topics in finance and economics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1878975358
• ISBN 13: 9781878975355
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 386