James C. Van Horne Books

Capturing many of the recent theoretical and practical changes in finance, this book develops a strong understanding of how funds are raised and allocated by today's businesses.Its easy-to-understand, user-friendly manner motivates students toward self-discovery and application. The Tenth Edition's comprehensive coverage enables readers to understand the financial decision-making process and to interpret the impact that financial decisions will have on value creation.

This book aims to provide a conceptual basis for understanding interest rates, interest-rate differentials, financial market equilibrium, risk and risk shifting. Financial risk management is the theme throughout. The text is designed for undergraduate courses in money and capital markets, investments, bond markets, money and banking, financial risk management and financial institutions.

Including many of the recent theoretical and practical changes in finance - as well as the essentials, this text provides an understanding of how funds are raised by a company and how they are allocated. It offers 100 self-correction problems, over 300 questions, and close to 200 regular problems at chapter-ends, as well as an extensive listing of references to original literature sources.