This textbook helps students truly understand how to apply the principles behind corporate finance in a real world context from both a firm and investor perspective. In its second edition, this text focuses on traditional theory applied to a holistic and realistic business case study, written as a novel set in current times so that all readers can relate. As such, this textbook offers readers both a quantitative and qualitative perspective on topics such as capital budgeting, time value of money, corporate risk, and capital structure. The sections are laid out to mirror the financial decision process, making it easier for readers to grasp the idea of the corporate financial life cycle. New topics such as socially responsible investing and private capital markets are also incorporated into this edition. Finally, PowerPoint slides, answer keys and data sets are available online for instructors.

Chapter 1: In the Beginning.- Chapter 2: Financial Statement Analysis: What's Right, What's Wrong, and Why.- Chapter 3: Cash Flow: Easy Come, Easy Go.- Chapter 4: The Right Frame of Time.- Chapter 5: Capital Structure: Borrow it.- Chapter 6: Capital Structure: Sell it Off.- Chapter 7: The Rocky Marriage of Risk and Return.- Chapter 8: This is So WACC.- Chapter 9: Capital Budgeting Decisions: The End of the Roads Meets the Beginning of Another.- Appendix.- Index.