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The second Europe, Middle East and Africa edition of this text combines the 40-year heritage of Brigham´s expertise in international financial management with Fox´s professional experience in the field. Financial Management: Theory and Practice equips students with a solid understanding of essential theoretical concepts as well as practical tools to assess and implement effective financial decisions. The unifying theme is corporate valuation and its relevance to financial decisions--ensuring students comprehend the details and the big picture. Chapters proceed from fundamentals to strategic finance, linking recent events to the role of finance in business and to your personal lives.

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Part I: The Company and its Reporting Environment
1. Central Concepts in Finance and Financial Management
2. Understanding Financial Statements Part 1: The Overall Structure
3. Understanding Financial Statements Part 2: Analysing and Managing the Accounts
Part II: Fixed Income Securities: An Introduction to Valuation
4. The Time Value of Money
5. Bonds and Bond Management
Part III: Shares and Derivatives
6. Risk and Return
7. Market Efficiency and Behavioural Finance: understanding share price behaviour
8. Valuation of Shares and Companies
9. Financial Derivatives and Applications in Corporate Finance
Part IV: Projects and their Valuation
10. Project Cost of Capital
11. Capital Budgeting: Evaluation of Cash Flows
Part V: Corporate Governance Issues
12. Agency Conflicts and Corporate Governance
13. Enterprise Risk Management
14. Islamic Finance
15. Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Liquidation
Part VI: Financial Decisions
16. Distributions to Shareholders: Dividends and Repurchases17. Capital Structure Decisions
18. Public and Private Financing: Initial Offerings, Seasoned Offerings and Investment Banks
19. Other finance: leases, preference shares, warrants and convertibles
20. Mergers and Corporate Control
Part VII: The International Financial Environment
21. Multinational Financial Management

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