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Lectures: Corporate Finance: Related_web_links
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- Chapter 1 - Finance and the Financial Manager
http://www.financewise.com/
All kinds of finance-related sites
http://www.forbes.com/
News about financial management
http://www.mwsu.edu/
Careers in finance for the finance major and the financial manager
http://www.wiso.gwdg.de/ifbg/finance.mhtml
Links to all kinds of finance sites
- Chapter 2 - Present Value and the Opportunity Cost of Capital
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~wilcoxen/notes/pv.shtml
How to calculate present value
http://www.unb.ca/web/transpo/mynet/mtw21b.htm
How to use an Excel spreadsheet for present value calculations
http://invest-faq.com/
Understanding the concepts of present and future value
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/default.asp
Different interest rates for a variety of purposes, and some calculators
- Chapter 3 - How to Calculate Present Value [Up
 ]
http://www.financenter.com/
Calculators for evaluating financial decisions of all kinds
More calculators, concepts and formulas
- Chapter 4 - The Value of Common Stocks
http://www.ganesha.org/invest/index.html
All kinds of information for evaluating stocks
http://www.nasdaq.com/
Information about Nasdaq traded stocks
http://www.nyse.com/
Learn about stocks on the New York Stock Exchange
http://www.ultra.zacks.com/cgi-bin/UAW/Login-UAW
Valuation information from Zacks
- Chapter 5 - Why Net Present Value Leads to Better Investment
Decisions than Other Criteria
http://www.nacubo.org/
An excellent article showing how capital budgeting is used in
decision making
http://www.windpower.dk/tour/econ/econ.htm
Evaluation of a sample energy-saving project
http://asbdc.ualr.edu/fod/1518.htm
How net present value analysis helps answer business questions
http://egon.cheme.cmu.edu/
Using NPV as an optimizer in trading off pollution impact
- Chapter 6 - Making Investment Decisions with the Net Present
Value Rule [Up ]
http://viking.som.yale.edu/will/finman540/acquira3.htm
A sample case looking at an acquisition
http://fpc.net66.com/
All kinds of information and tools for NPV analysis
http://www.ssinvestor.com/
Evaluating firms on an NPV basis
- Chapter 7 - Introduction to Risk, Return and the Opportunity
Cost of Capital
http://www.ibbotson.com/
Calculating the cost of capital with a risk premium
http://www.financeadvisor.com/coc.htm
Another approach to calculating cost of capital
http://www.virchowkrause.com/
The Economic Value Added approach
http://www.anelda.com/
A good article comparing value added to cash flow and risk
- Chapter 8 - Risk and Return
http://www.barra.com/
BARRA’s equity risk data
http://www.briefing.com/
Historical information on risk and return
http://viking.som.yale.edu/
Interesting topics on risk from Professor Will Goetzmann at Yale
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/data.mhtml
Use this NYU site to download historical data on market risk and
return
http://www.cox.smu.edu/faculty/smacdona/Classes/Fin_management/risk%20and%20return/ppframe.htm
Risk and return in capital markets
http://www.riskview.com/html-inf/home2.mhtml
A great site with many free risk analysis tools
- Chapter 9 - Capital Budgeting and Risk [Up
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http://www.riskmetrics.com/corp/
Forecasts and data for corporate risk measurement
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe/daily/19981214/34855624p.mhtml
Some sources of risk as identified in the Indian market
http://www.victoryrisk.com/
Risk management for corporations
http://members.aol.com/AllenWeb/infosite.htm
Project risk and project financing
http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~bodnarg/
Professor Gordon Bodnar has several excellent papers on risk and
corporate project management
- Chapter 10 - A Project is Not a Black Box
http://bankrupt.com/
What happens to firms that make bad project decisions
http://www.4pm.com/articles/palette.mhtml
Try the on-line demo here to see how good business judgement has
to create the cash flow projections
http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/ba350/project/project.htm
Insights into costing from Professor Campbell Harvey
- Chapter 11 - Where Positive Net Present Values Come From
http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/mke/caplan1.htm
Maximizing present value in information technology projects
http://www.moodys.com/
See the report about value-increasing and value-decreasing factors
within a firm
http://www.sternstewart.com/journal/overview.shtml
Web site for the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/
Tax rules for businesses affecting cash flows can be found here
- Chapter 12 - Making Sure Managers Maximize NPV [Up
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http://www.cfonet.com/
Chief Financial Officer Magazine. Find news on what motivates
managers
http://crcse.business.pitt.edu/
A bibliography of research on motivating managers to maximize
firm value through effective contracting
http://www.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB860677161420803500.htm
A Wall Street Journal feature describing pay linked to Economic
Value Added
- Chapter 13 - Corporate Financing and the Six Lessons of Market
Efficiency
http://www.nightlybusiness.org/
Breaking news affecting business.
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/fortune/
Fortune magazine’s online news.
http://www.businessweek.com/
Business Week Online
http://www.insidewallstreet.com/featured_companies.mhtml
Wall Street Week’s Featured Corporations
- Chapter 14 - An Overview of Corporate Financing
http://www.reportgallery.com/
Annual reports on 1000s of companies on line.
http://profiles.wisi.com/
Detailed information on 18,000 companies
http://www.primark.com/pfid
Financial information on all kinds of companies
http://www.corpfinet.com/
The corporate finance network
http://www.hoovers.com/
Information about corporations and corporate financing
- Chapter 15 - How Corporations Issue Securities [Up
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http://www.standardandpoors.com/ratings/
Standard and Poors Corporation provides information on rating
security issues.
http://www.FreeEDGAR.com/default.htm
Information on registration of new securities offerings
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/current/ipo_rep.htx?source=htx/http2_mw
List of new IPOs
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~fin/resources_education/credit.htm
The changing mix of corporate financing
http://www.investorama.com/story/stocks/proxy
The role of the proxy statement in investor relations
- Chapter 16 - The Dividend Controversy
http://www.barra.com/
BARRA’s dividend analysis and directory
http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/1996/htmljs/UnderstandingFinancials/
Guide to understanding financial data in an annual report from
IBM
http://www.duke.edu/
Professor Campbell Harvey’s notes on dividend policy
http://www.e-analytics.com/splitd.htm
Information about stock dividends during the last year and a discussion
of cash versus stock dividends
http://www.dripcentral.com/
Information about dividend reinvestment plans
- Chapter 17 - Does Debt Policy Matter
http://www.standardandpoors.com/ratings/
Standard and Poors rates firms according to their overall financial
health.
http://www.ganesha.org/invest/index.mhtml
How corporate bond ratings are established
http://www.peerscape.com/
Corporate performance diagnostics
- Chapter 18 - How Much Should a Firm Borrow [Up
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http://www.bondsonline.com/rating.htm
Information on bond ratings from a variety of sources
http://www.fool.com/School/HowtoValueStocks.htm
How investors value firms, and how debt plays a role
- Chapter 19 - Interactions of Investment and Financing Decisions
http://www.vnpartners.com/primer.htm
Venture capital as a source of project financing
http://www.us.deloitte.com/growth
Sources of funding for growth
http://www.fool.com/Features/1996/sp0708a.htm
A look at the balance sheet and how its components are related
http://www.corpmon.com/index.htm
The corporate monitoring project engages you to make sure firms
make good decisions
http://www.v1.com/
View the specialized reports section of this site to see how capital
and investment are interrelated
- Chapter 20 - Spotting and Valuing Options
http://www.cbot.com/
The Chicago Board of Trade has information, simulations, and product
descriptions on options and futures.
http://www.cme.com/
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is a major center for options
and futures trading.
http://commoditytrader.net/
Free information sources center for commodities, options and futures.
http://www.pmpublishing.com/volatility/
This is a web site that analyzes options data from the major commodity
exchanges and includes such things as historical implied volatilities
and volatility skew graphs. It also has a comprehensive online
pricing function.
http://www.numa.com/index.htm
Information about financial derivatives of all kinds
- Chapter 21 - Applications of Option Pricing Theory [Up
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http://www.cisco-futures.com/
Tick data on a variety of contracts, including simulations and
other information.
http://www.fdm.uni-freiburg.de/UK/
Alternative option pricing model.
http://www.fyii.net/software/software.htm
Download demo versions of software tools for calculating option
values and margin account balances.
http://www.puc-rio.br/
The real options approach to valuing projects
- Chapter 22 - Warrants and Convertibles
http://www.stockwarrants.com/
The demo portion of this site shows how to value warrants
http://www.warrants.socgen.com/
Worldwide warrants from Societe General
http://www.convertbond.qpg.com/
Definition of convertible securities and links to sites tracking
convertibles
http://www.ibbotson.com/research/papers/Convertible_Bonds/default.asp
analysis of the performance of convertible bonds relative to other
asset classes
- Chapter 23 - Valuing Debt
http://www.finpipe.com/
See "Valuing Debt" on this page
http://www.investinginbonds.com/
All about bond pricing
http://www.bloomberg.com/
A look at the yield curve, updated daily
http://garnet1.acns.fsu.edu/
Professor Pamela Peterson’s bond value calculator
http://www.fintools.com/mitibdcalc.mhtml
Another bond valuation calculator
- Chapter 24 - The Many Different Kinds of Debt [Up
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http://www.finpipe.com/
See the "Types of Debt" topic for descriptions of many
debt instruments
http://www.bonds-online.com/
A wealth of information about the debt markets
http://www.AshtonAnalytics.com/
Information about the debt markets
http://www.bondmarkets.com/publications/IGCORP/what.htm
Understanding corporate bonds
http://www.bankone.com/commercial/capital
A menu of choices for corporations issuing different kinds of
debt
- Chapter 25 – Leasing
http://www.lsemod.com/
Corporate lease analysis. This product is for sale, but the site
has insightful examples and a free demo.
http://www.leasingcanada.com/
guide to leasing decisions
http://www.onlinewbc.org/
The basics of leasing from the Online Women’s business Center
http://elaonline.com/index.htm
The Equipment Leasing Association
- Chapter 26 - Managing Financial Risk
http://www.utexas.edu/
Risk management lab at the University of Texas
http://www-risklab.erin.utoronto.ca/research.htm
Risk management lab at University of Toronto
http://home.earthlink.net/~green/whatisan.htm
Information about swaps
http://riskmail.lsu.edu/
Discussion and links on the topic of corporate risk management
http://www.stuart.iit.edu/fmtreview/fmtrev2.htm
One company’s approach to making managers manage financial
risk
- Chapter 27 - Managing International Risks [Up
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http://www.cme.com/eurofx/
The Chicago Board of Trade’s information center on managing
European foreign exchange risk with Euro contracts.
http://www.matif.fr/indexN4.htm
MATIF is the French futures and options exchange and offers investors
products such as Stock index, interest rate, foreign exchange,
and commodities. The web site has historical data and statistics
http://www.liffe.com/
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange
(LIFFE) is Europe's premier financial derivatives exchange and
the third largest futures and options exchange in the world.
http://www.florin.com/
Issues in currency risk management
http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Country_risk/couindex.htm
Country risk rankings and risk management
- Chapter 28 - Financial Analysis and Planning
http://www.business.gov/
This site has tax information for businesses as well as sources
for start-ups to get help in financial planning.
http://www.bai.org/banking/right.mhtml
Banking Strategies Magazine has articles about financial analysis
and planning
http://www.hoovers.com/
How investors use financial analysis to value firms
http://www.onlinewbc.org/docs/finance/index.mhtml
Basics of financial analysis, tutorials and tools
- Chapter 29 - Short Term Financial Planning
http://www.businessfinancemag.com/
Business Finance Magazine has resources and software reviews for
financial planning
http://www.toolkit.cch.com/
Financial planning resources of all kinds
http://www.intltreasurer.com/
Information for the treasury manager
http://www.accounting.pro2net.com/
Many short term financial management resources on this page
http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu/ressubj/subject/business/ratio.htm
Financial analysis tools
- Chapter 30 - Credit Decisions [Up
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http://www.creditworthy.com/
Useful tips and online resources for credit management
http://www.dnb.com/
The premier guide to corporate credit decisions
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/scoring.htm
A discussion of the credit scoring process
http://www.nacm.org/
National Association of Credit Management
- Chapter 31 - Cash Management
http://www.sb.gov.bc.ca/smallbus
Guide to preparing a cash flow forecast
http://www.fpsc.com/firstunion/
First Union’s quarterly magazine with a focus on cash management
http://ioma.com/ioma/cfer/
A guide to improving cash management
http://www.nacha.org/
automated collection systems for cash management
- Chapter 32 - Short Term Lending and Borrowing
http://www.edgeonline.com/index.stm?404;http://www.edgeonline.com/btoolbox.asp
Short-term financial management tools
http://www.rmahq.org/Annual_Studies/studies_fr.mhtml
RMA’s guide to evaluating short-term financial decisions
http://www.hsh.com/
Guide to the prime rate
http://www.ibcdata.com/index.mhtml
Short term investment and money fund rates
- Chapter 33 – Mergers [Up
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http://www.mergernetwork.com/
Information about mergers and acquisitions
- Chapter 34 - Control, Governance and Financial Architecture
http://www.corpgov.net/
The Corporate Governance Network
http://www.cfopub.com/html/sitemap.mhtml
Chief Financial Officer magazine
http://www.lens-inc.com/
Active corporate governance strategies
- Chapter 35 - Conclusion - What We Do and Do Not Know About Finance
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/finance/
Downloadable research from the finance faculty at Berkeley
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~fin/
The very extensive site from Ohio State University with research
papers and links to many other sites
http://mba.vanderbilt.edu/fmrc/
Financial markets research center at Vanderbilt University
http://cnnfn.com/
CNN financial news – what’s happening in finance right
now?
http://www.aicpa.org/cefm/index.htm
AICPA’s guide to the "new finance" for financial
managers
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