Introduction to Animal Science or Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy

Introduction to Animal Science: Global, Biological, Social and Industry Perspectives

Author: W Stephen Damron

Introduction to Animal Science: Global, Biological, Social and Industry Perspectives, 4e features the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the traditional disciplines that are so essential to a solid foundation in Animal Science: nutrition, digestion, feeds, genetics, reproduction, disease, and animal behavior. Species-focused chapters include the major species (horse, dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, goat, poultry, and swine) and the minor species (aquaculture, pets/companion animals, the lamoids, and rabbits).

Anyone involved in Animal Science and World Agriculture

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Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy

Author: Mark Grinblatt

The authors began writing the First Edition of this textbook in early 1988. It took almost 10 years to complete this effort, because they did not want to write an ordinary textbook. Their goal was to write a book that would break new ground in both the understanding and explanation of finance and its practice. They wanted to write a book that would influence the way people think about, teach, and practice finance. A book that would elevate the level of discussion and analysis in the classroom, in the corporate boardroom, and in the conference rooms of Wall Street firms. They wanted a book that would sit on the shelves of financial executives as a useful reference manual, long after the executives had studied and received a degree. They were successful in their endeavor.The success of the first edition of Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy was very heartening. The market for this text has expanded every year, and it is well-known as the cutting edge textbook in corporate finance around the world. The book is used in a variety of courses, both for introductory courses and advanced electives. Some schools have even changed their curriculum to design it around this text.The authors have developed this Second Edition based on the comments of many reviewers and colleagues; producing what is a more reader-friendly book. The most consistent comment from users of the first edition was a request for a chapter on the key ingredients of valuation: accounting, cash flows, and basic discounting. This ultimately led to a new chapter in the text, Chapter 9, which is currently available in the "Sample Chapter" section of the book's website.In almost every chapter, examples are updated,vignettes changed, numbers modified, statements checked for currency and historical accuracy, and exercises and examples are either modified or added to. The goal of the Second Edition is to make the book ever more practical, pedagogically effective, and current.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	Financial Markets and Financial Instruments
1	Raising Capital: The Process and the Players	2
2	Debt Financing	29
3	Equity Financing	68
Pt. II	Valuing Financial Assets
4	Portfolio Tools	97
5	Mean-Variance Analysis and the Capital Asset Pricing Model	130
6	Factor Models and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory	175
7	Pricing Derivatives	214
8	Options	257
Pt. III	Valuing Real Assets
9	Discounting and Valuation	301
10	Investing in Risk-Free Projects	329
11	Investing in Risky Projects	370
12	Allocating Capital and Corporate Strategy	422
13	Corporate Taxes and the Impact of Financing on Real Asset Valuation	460
Pt. IV	Capital Structure
14	How Taxes Affect Financing Choices	500
15	How Taxes Affect Dividends and Share Repurchases	531
16	Bankruptcy Costs and Debt Holder-Equity Holder Conflicts	557
17	Capital Structure and Corporate Strategy	595
Pt. V	Incentives, Information, and Corporate Control
18	How Managerial Incentives Affect Financial Decisions	627
19	The Information Conveyed by Financial Decisions	656
20	Mergers and Acquisitions	691
Pt. VI	Risk Management
21	Risk Management and Corporate Strategy	739
22	The Practice of Hedging	773
23	Interest Rate Risk Management	818
	App. A: Mathematical Tables	856
	Index	865