This introduction to investments provides a clear framework for understanding and analyzing securities, and covers the major institutional features and theories of investing. While the text is meant to present a thorough discussion of investments, the authors keep the material practical, relevant and make the text easy to comprehend.

This text offers accurate and intuitive coverage of investments, with an emphasis on portfolio theory. It includes extensive discussion of capital asset pricing, arbitrage pricing, pricing of derivative securities, interest rates, and bond management. Stock valuation, estimating future earnings and dividends, and fixed income markets are closely examined. Calculus is useful, but not required, since it is used only in the appendixes to the main discussions in the chapters.

This text, written directly to the student, is the only 4-color book that introduces students to the concepts, tools, and applications of personal finance and investments. In order to leave a lasting impression, Keown concentrates on the fundamentals and underlying principles of personal finance, rather than focusing on equations and specific tools which are more easily forgotten. Building on the 15 Axioms of Personal Finance, the text helps students develop an intuitive understanding of personal finance - not just of the process of financial planning, but also the logic that drives it.

This introduction to finance provides a conceptual understanding of the financial decision-making process - rather than just an introduction to the tools and techniques of finance - and focuses on the interrelationships among the topics covered. It explores the "big picture" and actual practice - i.e., financial decision making rooted in current financial theory and in the current state of world economic conditions. Throughout, it eliminates non-essential material and keeps mathematics to a minimum - presenting material at a level accessible to non-finance majors - but with a strong theoretical foundation necessary for more specialized students.

This text provides a conceptual basis about interest rates, how they behave with changing market conditions, and how risk can be managed. Financial Markets Rates and Flows, 6e, is an ideal text for a course in Financial Institutions, especially one which requires excellent technical and quantitative detail. Financial Markets Rates and Flows also is a great supplement in an investments course where greater detail on market rate determination is desired.

This text has a focus on recent theoretical and practical changes in financial management and motivates students toward self-discovery and application. Recent developments such as effects of electronic commerce, outsourcing, the role of strategic alliances have been integrated throughout the text. Award winning web site - located at www.prenhall.com/wachowicz updated daily by the author this web site includes numerous on-line quizzes, internet activities, and related articles by chapter, and much more.

The leading and most current text in this area. Written by one of the fathers of modern finance, this is a complete yet concise text that synthesizes the most recent literature on takeover, mergers, restructuring, and corporate governance within a logical, analytical structure. This text also provides important discussions of valuation, cost of capital, corporate valuation, and strategic financial planning.

This text focuses on corporate finance activities and how decisions and strategies relate to other functions of the firm; including sales, advertising, marketing, production, etc. Throughout the text, the story of financial analysis and reasoning are applied to problems faced by executives in marketing, operations, and personnel from both a domestic and international perspective. The text emphasizes value creation and the role of corporate finance in facilitating this process. With fifteen chapters and eight additional on the web this, text offers flexibility in teaching 6 - 8 week, quarters, or full semester courses.

The scope of the text is to give beginning undergraduate finance students a fundamental understanding of all concepts related to financial decision making in organizations. The purpose of the text is to present this material in a highly interesting way, using examples students can relate to. Now available in paperback!

This new text has a broader scope and greater emphasis on general principles than most introductory finance texts. These highly acclaimed authors offer an approach that emphasizes the three "pillars" of finance-optimization over time, asset valuation, and risk management. Their functional perspective on the financial system explains how financial institutions evolve over time and differ across national borders to fulfill a set of six basic economic functions which are the same everywhere and do not change. Read a recent Journal of Financial Education review on the textbook here.

This market-leading text represents how academia and real-world practice have come together with a common thread of theory and practice. It provides a unifying approach to the calculation of all derivatives - not just futures and options.

The goal of Black/Skipper: Life and Health Insurance is to provide a comprehensive, unbiased treatise on individual and group life, health, and retirement products. The authors thoroughly examine life and health insurance regarding their appropriate uses and taxation, how to evaluate them and their supplier insurers, along with a examination of life insurance company operations and regulation. In this new edition there is continued emphasis is on combining current information about the life and health insurance industry's products and their uses with careful consideration of the environment. The authors have been praised for their approach and presentation of life and health insurance simultaneously from the viewpoints of the buyer, the advisor, and the insurer.

Noted instructor, lecturer, and financial advisor with over 25 years of practical investment experience, George Trivoli guides students from basic investment concepts through more advanced topics in this concise, easy-to-read text. Its cohesive presentation encompasses all the information essential to begin or advance as a knowledgeable investor. A wealth of practical investment suggestions throughout are complemented by figures, illustrations, and examples to simplify the complexities of investing. Dr. Trivoli writes a weekly column ("Your Investing") that is distributed by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group.

Designed to help students plan for a successful financial future, this comprehensive, user-friendly treatment of financial planning guides students through the complexities of today's financial world. The authors use an applied approach to personal finance by walking through a decision making approach. The running case of the Steele Family has been retained to simplify the multidimensional application of personal finance concepts in a generational context. The textbook comes with a FREE Internet exercise book that directly relates to the prenhall.com/winger web site.

This comprehensive textbook on bonds takes a practical real-world approach to the subject. It contains detailed presentations of each type of bond and includes a wide range of products. Extensive discussions include not only the instruments, but also their investment characteristics, the state-of-the art technology for valuing them, and portfolio strategies for using them.