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PRINCIPLES OF MANAGERIAL FINANCE
PRINCIPLES OF

MANAGERIAL
FINANCE
TWELFTH

EDITION

LAWRENCE J. GITMAN
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY

PEARSON

Prentice
Hall
Boston San Francisco New York
London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore Madrid
Mexico City Munich Paris Cape Town Hong Kong Montreal

Contents
Preface

xxxi

Revised Content

xxxiii

Supplements to the Twelfth Edition
Acknowledgments
To the Student

xxxvii

xl

xliii

Part One

Introduction to Managerial Finance 1

Chapter 1
The Role and Environment of Managerial
Finance
page 2

1.1 Finance and Business
What Is Finance? 4

1.4

Major Areas and Opportunities in Finance 4
Legal Forms of Business
Organization 5
Why Study Managerial Finance?
Review Questions 9

Financial Institutions 22
Financial Markets 23
The Relationship between
Institutions and Markets
The Money Market 23
The Capital Market 24

1.2

Starbucks—A Taste for Growth page 3

The Managerial
Finance Function

9

Organization of the Finance
Function 10
Relationship to Economics 10
Relationship to Accounting 11
Primary Activities of the
Financial Manager 13
Review Questions 13
1.3
Goal of t h e F i r m 13
Maximize Profit? 14
Maximize Shareholder Wealth 15
Corporate Governance 16
The Role of Business Ethics 17

Financial Institutions and Markets 22

IN PRACTICE Focus on Practice:
Berkshire Hathaway-Can Büffet Be
Replaced? 28

Review Questions
1.5

Business Taxes

Ordinary Income
Capital Gains

29

31

Review Questions
Summary

32

32

Self-Test Problem

34

Warm-Up Exercises
Problems

34

35

I N PRACTICE Focus on Ethics:
Ethics at HP

Spreadsheet Exercise

19

Group Exercise
Web Exercise

xiv

29

Chapter 1 Case: Assessing the Goal of Sports
Products, Inc. 38

The Agency Issue 19
Review Questions 21

23

40
41

39

29

CONTENTS

Chapter 2
Financial
Statements and Analysis page 42

2.1

The Stockholders'
Report 44

2.6

The Letter to Stockholders
The Four Key Financial
Statements 44

44

IN PRACTICE Focus on Ethics: Back to
School on Ethics 45

Notes to the Financial
Statements 51

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