This book is primarily written for the undergraduate corporate finance course, which may also be called financial management or business finance. This is usually a first course in finance curriculum except in the rare case survey style course is available. This text is written with one strongly held principle that corporate finance should be developed and taught in terms of few integrated powerful ideas. Such as, 1. Emphasis on institution. 2. A unified valuation approach. 3. Managerial focus.Table of Contents: PART I: OVERVIEW OF CORPORATE FINANCE Chapter 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance Chapter 2: Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flow PART II: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND LONG-TERM FINANCIAL PLANNING Chapter 3: Working with Financial Statements Chapter 4: Long-Term Financial Planning and Growth PART III: VALUATION OF FUTURE CASH FLOWS Chapter 5: Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money Chapter 6: Discounted Cash Flow Valuation Chapter 7: Interest Rates and Bond Valuation Chapter 8: Stock Valuation PART IV: CAPITAL BUDGETING Chapter 9: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria Chapter 10: Making Capital Investment Decisions Chapter 11: Project Analysis and Evaluation PART V: RISK AND RETURN Chapter 12: Some Lessons from Capital Market History Chapter 13: Return, Risk, and the Security Market Line Chapter 14: Options and Corporate Finance PART VI: COST OF CAPITAL AND LONG-TERM FINANCIAL POLICY Chapter 15: Cost of Capital Chapter 16: Raising Capital Chapter 17: Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Policy Chapter 18: Dividends and Dividend Policy PART VII: SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT Chapter 19: Short-Term Finance and Planning Chapter 20: Cash and Liquidity Management Chapter 21: Credit and Inventory Management PART VIII: TOPICS IN CORPORATE FINANCE Chapter 22: International Corporate Finance