Guided tour of the book -- Guided tour of my financelab -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The finance function -- Capital markets, market efficiency and ratio analysis -- Short-term finance and the management of working capital -- Long-term finance: equity finance -- Long-term finance: debt finance, hybrid finance and leasing -- An overview of investment appraisal methods -- Investment appraisal : applications and risk -- Portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model -- The cost of capital and capital structure -- Dividend policy -- Mergers and takeovers -- Risk management -- Recommended reading -- Answers to self-test questions -- Glossary -- Present value tables -- Index