Author Description

Finance is the new language of the modern world. No matter what your profession, it is impossible to survive in today’s world without a minimal knowledge of money and finance. “Introduction to Finance: A Self-Help Workbook” helps to educate self-motivated individuals in the fundamentals of finance. The workbook will assist students in preparing for financial exams, those taking courses in finance, and anyone looking to increase their knowledge of finance. This finance basics book is a reference textbook that empowers the reader with finance literacy, knowledge of financial management, and corporate finance fundamentals. It is a guide to understanding what is money anyways, and serves as a basic finance and investing book including business valuation. The book illustrates financial principles with numerous real-world examples and case studies to make complex issues easy to understand. It covers topics based on curriculum from the top business schools around the world; these range from stocks, bonds, risk and return, cash flow valuation, cost of capital, investment, and financial decisions, and much more. The book should appeal to a wide variety of individuals and promote a better understanding of finance as it contains a total of 874 problems including 406 solved examples, 389 exercises with answers, and 79 real-world applications.