"This book introduces corporate finance to first-year students in business schools. Basic subjects such as marketing, human resources and finance are fundamental to the learning of a business manager. A book on these subjects must emphasize learning that is conceptual in nature and, at the same time, application oriented. This book attempts to achieve this in a manner that is comprehensive and shorn of complexity. It examines the practice of finance without diluting theory and conceptual knowledge. Corporate finance is necessarily quantitative in nature, and the book duly places emphasis on that aspect. It ensures the primacy of ideas and concepts, utilizing numbers as supportive elements. Grounded in fundamental concepts, it is application oriented with global, real-world examples and contains corporate snippets and insights aiding the understanding of theoretical frameworks"--