Thanks for visiting my pages at the Glendale Community College web site. You can learn here about the Business Administration and Oceanography classes that I teach here, and my other professional interests (e.g.,  Financial Economics, Resource Economics, Physical Geology, Environmental Geology etc.). These pages, and the links therein, will also give you information about globalization, outsourcing, rational exhuberance, earthquakes, particularly the seismicity in Southern California, volcanism, plate tectonism, El Nino, global climate change, atmospheric and ocean circulation, energy and other earth resources, and the related environmental issues.

Poorna Pal, MS MBA Ph.D. Glendale Community College Phone: (818)240-1000 x 5517 ppal@glendale.edu Office: SG-152 Office Hours: MWTTh: 3.15 - 5.15 PM (SG-152) or by appointment with your questions

		Intermediate Financial Management by Eugene F. Brigham, Phillip R. Daves (South-Western, 2009; ISBN: 0324594690, 9780324594690)

Chapters from my Book Access these chapters from my book Wealth Forever: The Analytics of Stock Markets (by Sarkis  Khoury, Poorna Pal, Chunsheng Zhou, and John Karayan: World Scientific, Singapore, Sept 2003): Chapter 3: The Performance History of U.S. Equity Markets Chapter 4: The Performance Relative to Other Instruments and Markets Chapter 5: Balancing Risks and Returns: Three Theoretical Insights Chapter 6: Valuing the Equities, the Firms and the Market	Some MS Excel Models/Exercises:
	Present Value, Future Value Chapter 1 Worksheet	Chapter 1: Overview of financial management Chapter 2: Risk and Return: Part I. Chapter 3: Risk and Return: Part II. Chapter 4: Bond Valuation. Chapter 5: Basic Stock Valuation. Also try the following: Discounted Cash Flow Valuation (Aswath Damodaran) MSFT Valuation Report Discounted cash flow analysis explained Chapter 11: Corporate Value and Value-Based Management. Chapter 27: Multinational Financial Management.

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An Overview of Financial Management

Chapter 2:

1. An Overview of Financial Management.
2. Risk and Return: Part I.
3. Risk and Return: Part II.
4. Bond Valuation.
5. Basic Stock Valuation.
6. Financial Options.
7. Accounting for Financial Management.
8. Analysis of Financial Statements.
9. Financial Planning and Forecasting Financial Statements.
10. Determining the Cost of Capital.
11. Corporate Value and Value-Based Management.
12. Capital Budgeting: Decision Criteria.
13. Capital Budgeting: Estimating Cash Flows and Analyzing Risk.
14. Real Options.
15. Capital Structure Decisions: Part I.
16. Capital Structure Decisions: Part II.
17. Distributions to Shareholders: Dividends and Repurchases.
18. Initial Public Offerings, Investment Banking, and Financial Restructuring.
19. Lease Financing.
20. Hybrid Financing: Preferred Stock, Warrants, and Convertibles.
21. Working Capital Management.
22. Providing and Obtaining Credit.
23. Other Topics in Working Capital Management.
24. Derivatives and Risk Management.
25. Bankruptcy, Reorganization, and Liquidation.
26. Mergers, LBOs, Divestitures, and Holding Companies.
27. Multinational Financial Management.
 

WEB CHAPTERS.
28. Time Value of Money.
29. Basic Financial Tools: A Review.
30. Pension Plan Management.
31. Financial Management in Not-for-Profit Businesses.

Part I: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS.
1. An Overview of Financial Management.
2. Risk and Return: Part I.
3. Risk and Return: Part II.
4. Bond Valuation.
5. Basic Stock Valuation.
6. Financial Options.
7. Accounting for Financial Management.
8. Analysis of Financial Statements.
Part II: Corporate Valuation.
9. Financial Planning and Forecasting Financial Statements.
10. Determining the Cost of Capital.
11. Corporate Value and Value-Based Management.
Part III: PROJECT VALUATION.
12. Capital Budgeting: Decision Criteria.
13. Capital Budgeting: Estimating Cash Flows and Analyzing Risk.
14. Real Options.
Part IV: STRATEGIC FINANCING DECISIONS.
15. Capital Structure Decisions: Part I.
16. Capital Structure Decisions: Part II.
17. Distributions to Shareholders: Dividends and Repurchases.
Part V: TACTICAL FINANCING DECISIONS.
18. Initial Public Offerings, Investment Banking, and Financial Restructuring.
19. Lease Financing.
20. Hybrid Financing: Preferred Stock, Warrants, and Convertibles.
Part VI: WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT.
21. Working Capital Management.
22. Providing and Obtaining Credit.
23. Other Topics in Working Capital Management.
Part VII: SPECIAL TOPICS.
24. Derivatives and Risk Management.
25. Bankruptcy, Reorganization, and Liquidation.
26. Mergers, LBOs, Divestitures, and Holding Companies.
27. Multinational Financial Management.
WEB CHAPTERS.
28. Time Value of Money.
29. Basic Financial Tools: A Review.
30. Pension Plan Management.
31. Financial Management in Not-for-Profit Businesses.