The Financial Times guide to understanding finance : a no-nonsense companion to financial tools and techniques /: a no-nonsense companion to financial tools and techniques. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Guide to understanding finance
• Further Information: Note: Javier Estrada.
• Other Names: Estrada, Javier, 1964-
• Contents: Risk and return -- Returns I: basic concepts -- Returns II: mean returns -- Risk I: total risk -- Risk and return I: portfolios -- Risk II: diversification -- Risk III: systematic risk -- Risk and return II: capm and the cost of capital -- Risk and return III: the three-factor model -- Risk IV: downside risk -- Risk and return IV: risk-adjusted returns -- Risk and return V: portfolio optimization -- Risk and return VI: the long term -- Valuation -- Stocks I: the dividend discount model -- Stocks II: the wacc model -- Stocks III: other dcf models -- Stocks IV: reverse valuation -- Stocks v: relative valuation -- Bonds I: prices and yields -- Bonds II: default risk and market risk -- Bonds III: duration and convexity -- Other important topic -- Npv and IRR -- Real options -- Corporate value creation -- Options -- Futures and forwards -- Currencies -- Statistical background -- Stats I: summary statistics -- Stats II: normality -- Stats III: non-normality -- Stats IV: regression analysis.
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Harlow : Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (432 pages)
• Subjects: 658.15; Business enterprises -- Finance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Corporations -- Finance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Commodities; Finance; Corporate finance; Business enterprises -- Finance; Corporations -- Finance; Handbooks and manuals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780273776406; 0273776401
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.