MANAGERIAL
FINANCE
TWELFTH
EDITION
LAWRENCE J. GITMAN
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
PEARSON
Prentice
Hall
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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