A practical and accessible overview of the fundamentals of business finance -- now in its third edition. Managers are constantly expected to make decisions that reflect a full understanding of the financial consequences. In the absence of formal training, few people are prepared for the responsibilities of dealing with management reports, budgets, and capital proposals, and find themselves embarrassed by their lack of understanding. This book is a practical guide to understanding and managing financial responsibilities. Each chapter examines actual tasks managers have to do, from "how to assemble a budget," "how to read variances on a report," to "how to construct a proposal to invest in new equipment," exploring the principles that can be applied to each task, illustrating practical ways these principles are used, and providing guidance for implementation. Guide to Financial Management will help readers understand financial jargon, financial statements, management accounts, performance measures, budgeting, costing, pricing, decision-making, and investment appraisal. This third edition has been fully revised and expanded with detailed examples from 100 leading businesses around the world.

The Second Edition of this best-selling introduction for practitioners uses new material and updates to describe the changing environment for project finance. Integrating recent developments in credit markets with revised insights into making project finance deals, the second edition offers a balanced view of project financing by combining legal, contractual, scheduling, and other subjects. Its emphasis on concepts and techniques makes it critical for those who want to succeed in financing large projects. With extensive cross-references and a comprehensive glossary, the Second Edition presents anew a guide to the principles and practical issues that can commonly cause difficulties in commercial and financial negotiations. - Provides a basic introduction to project finance and its relationship with other financing techniques - Describes and explains: sources of project finance; typical commercial contracts (e.g., for construction of the project and sale of its product or services) and their effects on project-finance structures; project-finance risk assessment from the points of view of lenders, investors, and other project parties; how lenders and investors evaluate the risks and returns on a project; the rôle of the public sector in public-private partnerships and other privately-financed infrastructure projects; how all these issues are dealt with in the financing agreements

Financial Management Principles and Practice, second edition is fundamentally designed to serve as an introduction to the study of Financial Management for students, Financial professionals, teachers and managers. The developments in the capital market and the new avenues available to tackle the traditional financial constraints have placed the present day finance manager in a situation to learn new skills and constantly update knowledge to take financial decision in a competitive environment, develop a familiarity with the analytical techniques and understand the theories of modern finance. Financial Management Principles and Practice is designed as a comprehensive and analytical treatise to fill the gaps. l The book seeks to build and develop familiarity with the analytical techniques in financial decision making in the competitive world. l This book covers the requirement for discussion to help Practitioners, managers, Financial professionals, academicians and students reason out Financial Management issues for themselves and thus be better prepared when making real-world investment decisions.l The book is structured in such a way that it can be used in both semester as well as trimester patterns of various MBA, M.Com, PGDM, PGP, PG Courses of all major universities, CA, CS, CFA, CWA, CPA of Professional and autonomous institutions.l It provides complete clarity in a simple style, which will help the students in easy understanding.l Discussion as well as mind stretching questions at the end of each chapter to stimulate financial decision making.l Concepts are explained with a number of illustrations and diagrams for clear understanding of subject matter. l The strong point of the book is its easy readability and clear explanation as well as extensive use of Case Study's and Project Works (more then 27 cases) which have been included in many chapters for Class discussion, EDP and FDP.DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THIS EDITION:v Provides complete clarity in a simple style v 628 Solved Problemsv 259 Unsolved Problemsv Seven new chapters included v 399 Review questions (theoretical questions)v 212 Fill in the blanks with answersv 101 True or false questions with answers v 26 case study's for class discussion v Discussion as well as mind stretching questions at the end of each chapter to stimulate financial decision making

Endorsed by the Chartered Banker Institute as core reading for one of the modules leading to the Institute's professional qualifications and chartered status, Commercial Lending supports readers that wish to develop their ability to analyze the creditworthiness of a customer and their business in the context of the current economic climate, future market and sector expectations. Commercial Lending uses a series of practical exercises and case studies, and provides the tools needed for the reader to understand and appraise a customer's business strategy. This will then enable the reader to provide appropriate funding solutions to meet the commercial needs of customers while reflecting the bank's risk appetite. These tools include: how to assess the performance and creditworthiness of a business; how to critically evaluate the robustness of cash flow; and how to undertake sensitivity analysis to quantify sustainable debt repayment capacity. This practical text will present a critical analysis of financial and non-financial information to help readers identify key risks inherent in the customer's lending proposition. Readers will go on to propose suitable funding solutions that mitigate risk and meet the needs of customer and bank. Online supporting resources include a glossary and updates to regulation in the UK. All law and legislation used throughout the book (Chapters 1, 6 and 9) is either UK or English law. Readers outside the UK are recommended to check the appropriate legislation in their country. The currency used throughout the book is UK Sterling (denominated by £ symbol) and where working examples are used (particularly in Chapters 2 and 3) readers can substitute their own currency by using the appropriate exchange rate for their own country.