Focus On Finance: Everything You Need To Know About Financial Management

An up-to-date introductory textbook, Focus on Finance offers a concise, enthusiastic and highly focused approach to introducing finance to the uninitiated student. It integrates theory with practice in an easy-to-read and concise style and covers a variety of topics ranging from financial forecasting to new technologies such as fintech and cryptocurrencies and their implications for the future of finance. Designed to be used by students of all backgrounds, this book requires no preliminary knowledge of finance. It is a must-read for readers eager to get a better understanding of the financial realm.

Ivan K Cohen is Emeritus Professor in Finance and Economics at Richmond American University in London. He previously held positions in the UK at Imperial College, University of Sheffield, and University of Essex; in the USA at University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA) and Trinity College, Hartford CT; and spent the Summer of 2014 at Jinan University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, People's Republic of China.

Prof Cohen's research interests include finance and health economics. He has published widely, with past publications including Economics for Business (2015, Kogan Page) and 30 peer-reviewed articles. He is currently a reviewer for several journals, including Cogent Business and Management, Cogent Economics and Finance, and International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics.