TY - BOOK AU - Mayo,Herbert B. TI - Basic finance: an introduction to institutions, management and investments SN - 9789814653060 U1 - 332 Tenth edition KW - management and investments N1 - Includes index; An introduction to basic finance -- The role of financial markets and financial markets and financial intermediaries -- Investment banking -- Securities markets -- The federal reserve -- International currency flows -- The time value of money -- Risk and its management -- Analysis of financial statements -- Forms of business and corporate taxation -- Break-even analysis and the payback period -- Leverage -- Cost of capital -- Capital budgeting -- Forecasting -- Cash budgeting -- Management of current assets -- Management of short-term liabilities -- Intermediate-term debt and leasing -- The features of stock -- Stock valuation -- The features of long-term debt-- bonds -- Bond Pricing and yields -- Preferred stock -- Convertible securities -- Investment returns -- Investment companies -- Options: puts and calls -- Futures and swaps ER -