Introduction --- Part I. Information and Methodology for Financial Analysis. 2. Accounting Information, Regression Analysis, and Financial Management -- 3. Discriminant Analysis and Factor Analysis: Theory and Method -- 4. Application of Discriminant Analysis and Factor Analysis in Financial Management -- 5. Determination and Applications of Normal and Real Rates-of-Reform in Financial Analysis --- Part II. Alternative Financial Theories and Cost of Capital. 6. Valuation and Capital Structure: A Review and Integration -- 7. Risk Estimation and Diversification -- 8. Risk and Return Trade-Off Analysis -- 9. Options and Option Strategies -- 10. Option Pricing Theory and Firm Valuation --- Part III. Capital Budgeting and Leasing Decisions. 11. Alternative Cost of Capital Analysis and Estimation -- 12. Capital Budgeting Under Certainty -- 13. Capital Budgeting Under Uncertainty -- 14. Leasing: Practices and Theoretical Developments --- Part IV. Corporate Policies and Their Interrelationships. 15. Mergers: Theory and Evidence -- 16. Dividend Policy and Empirical Evidence -- 17. Interaction of Financing, Investment and Dividend Policies --- Part V. Financial Planning and Forecasting. 18. Short-Term Financial Analysis and Planning -- 19. Credit Management -- 20. Cash, Marketable Securities, and Inventory Management -- 21. Long-Range Financial Planning -- A Linear-Programming Modeling Approach -- 23. Simultaneous-Equation Models for Financial Planning -- 24. Time-Series: Analysis, Model, and Forecasting -- 25. Econometric approach to Financial Analysis, Planning, and Forecasting.