Leadership or Applied Corporate Finance

Leadership: A Communication Perspective

Author: Michael Z Hackman

The comprehensive third edition offers an up-to-date look at leadership theories. Skill-building exercises and self-awareness inventories provide a hands-on feel for theory. Essential topics include: leader-follower relationships, charisma, empowerment, compliance-gaining, collaboration tactics, team leadership, diversity and gender issues, and ethics. This trend-setting textbook continues the tradition of providing students with a solid foundation for understanding and using the practical skill of leadership in all communication settings. Each chapter includes summaries and application exercises.

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Applied Corporate Finance: A User's Manual

Author: Aswath Damodaran

Convert theory into solutions

Applied Corporate Finance, Second Edition converts the theory and models in corporate finance into tools that can be used to analyze, understand, and help any business. With this hands-on guide, you can find real solutions to real corporate finance problems, using real-time data.


Offering a user perspective to corporate finance, this text poses three major questions that every business has to answer, and provides the tools and the analytical techniques needed to answer these questions.


1. Where do we invest our resources? (The Investment Decision)

The first part of the book shows how to assess risk and develop a risk profile for a firm, and convert this risk profile into a hurdle rate. You'll also learn basic rules for estimating the returns on any investment.


2. How should we fund these investments? (The Financing Decision)

Firms generally can use debt, equity, or some combination of the two to fund projects. This part of the book examines the relationship between this choice and the hurdle rate for analyzing projects, and shows how to use the financing decision to maximize firm value. You'll also find a framework for picking the right kind of security for any firm.


3. How much cash can and should we return to the owners? (The Dividend Decision)

The third part of the book establishes a process for deciding how much cash should be taken out of the business and in what form (dividends or stock buybacks).


The final chapter in the book ties the value of the firm to these three decisions, and provides insight into how firms can enhance value.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	The foundations	1
Ch. 2	The objective in decision making	9
Ch. 3	The basics of risk	50
Ch. 4	Risk measurement and hurdle rates in practice	91
Ch. 5	Measuring return on investments	161
Ch. 6	Project interactions, side costs, and side benefits	229
Ch. 7	Capital structure : overview of the financing decision	275
Ch. 8	Capital structure : the optimal financial mix	339
Ch. 9	Capital structure : the financing details	396
Ch. 10	Dividend policy	445
Ch. 11	Analyzing cash returned to stockholders	482
Ch. 12	Valuation : principles and practice	531
App. 1	Basic statistics	596
App. 2	Financial statements	603
App. 3	Time value of money	615
App. 4	Option pricing	628