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List of Examples | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis | |
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Introduction to Accounting | |
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Importance of Accounting | |
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Financial Accounting Statements | |
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Uses and Limitations | |
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Case Application | |
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Francis v. United Jersey Bank (Part I) | |
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Balance Sheet | |
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Balance Sheet Equation | |
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Assets and Liabilities | |
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Equity | |
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Historical Cost and Market Value | |
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How the Balance Sheet Works | |
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Working Capital and Capital Assets | |
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McDonald's Balance Sheet | |
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Case Application | |
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Francis v. United Jersey Bank (Part II) | |
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United States v. Simon | |
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Klang v. Smith's Food & Drug Centers | |
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Income Statement | |
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Income Statement Equation | |
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Accrual Accounting | |
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How the Income Statement Works | |
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Depreciation and Amortization | |
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Capitalized Costs | |
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McDonald's Income Statement | |
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Case Application | |
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In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation | |
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Cash Flow Statement | |
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"Cash is King" | |
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Cash Flow from Operations | |
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Cash Flow from Investing | |
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Cash Flow from Financing | |
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Putting the Cash Flows Together | |
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McDonald's Cash Flow Statement | |
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Case Application | |
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Smith v. Van Gorkom (Part I) | |
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In re Enron Corp. Securities, Derivative & "ERISA" Litigation | |
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Financial Statement Analysis | |
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Profitability Analyses | |
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Margin analyses | |
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Return on assets and equity (ROA and ROE) | |
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Earnings per share (EPS) | |
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Liquidity | |
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Solvency | |
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Case Application | |
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Ryder Move Management, Inc. v. United States | |
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Creating Financial Statements | |
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Interconnections of Financial Statements | |
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T-Accounts, Debits and Credits | |
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Auditing and Certified Financial Statements | |
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McDonald's Auditor Opinion and Reports on Internal Controls | |
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Case Application 109SEC v. World-Wide Coin Investments, Ltd. | |
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Principles of Finance and Valuation | |
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Time Value of Money | |
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What Is Finance? | |
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Time Value of Money | |
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Future value | |
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Present value | |
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Annuity | |
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Perpetuity formula | |
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Using time value tables | |
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Internal Rate of Return | |
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What's the Point? | |
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Case Application | |
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O'Shea v. Riverway Towing Co. | |
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Risk and Return | |
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Risk Aversion | |
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Risk | |
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Return | |
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Diversification of Risk | |
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Case Application | |
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Joy v. North | |
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Credit Lyonnais Bank Nederland, N.V. v. Pathe Comm'n Corp. | |
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Valuation | |
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Conceptualizing the Value of a Firm | |
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Liquidation value | |
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Market value | |
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Market cap versus firm value | |
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Theoretical value | |
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Cost of Capital (or What Is R?) | |
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Cost of debt | |
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Cost of equity and CAPM | |
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Weighted average cost of capital | |
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Theoretical Valuation Based on Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) | |
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Free cash flow | |
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Discounting free cash flow | |
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Market-Based Valuation and Multiples Analysis | |
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Market cap multiples | |
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Firm value multiples | |
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Using multiples to value companies | |
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The Law of One Price and Arbitrage | |
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Comment on Valuation Analysis | |
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Case Application | |
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Tri-Continental Corp. v. Battye | |
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Agranoffv. Miller | |
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Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc. | |
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Economics of the Firm | |
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Efficiency | |
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Efficiency defined | |
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Limited liability of shareholders | |
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Business judgment rule | |
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Efficiency of Firm Structure | |
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Reason why firms exist | |
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Separation of ownership and control | |
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Agency cost | |
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Capital Structure | |
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Capital structure irrelevance (and relevance) | |
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Agency cost and the role of debt | |
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Leverage buyout (LBO) and debt financing | |
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Conflict between creditors and equityholders | |
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Case Application | |
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Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. RJR Nabisco Inc. | |
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Graham v. Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. | |
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Financial Instruments and Capital Markets | |
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Financial Instruments I (Debt and Equity) | |
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Financial Instruments | |
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Debt | |
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Types of debt | |
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Common terms and issues | |
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Bond pricing and yield to maturity | |
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Securitization | |
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Preferred Stock | |
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Hybrid nature of preferred stock | |
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Common terms and issues | |
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Common Stock | |
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Common terms | |
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Typical transactions | |
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Case Application | |
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S.E.C. v. W.J. Howey Co. | |
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Sharon Steel Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. | |
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Financial Instruments II (Derivatives) | |
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Options | |
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Call option | |
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Put option | |
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Derivatives, as zero sum transactions | |
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Forward and Futures Contracts | |
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Hedging | |
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Put-Call Parity | |
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Valuing Options and the Black-Scholes Formula | |
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Determinants of option value | |
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Principle of Black-Scholes | |
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Case Application | |
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Brane v. Roth | |
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High River L.P. v. Mylan Labs., Inc. | |
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Capital Markets | |
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Capital Markets | |
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Primary and secondary markets | |
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Equity markets | |
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Debt markets | |
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Derivatives, currency, and commodities markets | |
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Major Participants in the Capital Markets | |
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Issuers and investors | |
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Exchanges and trading platforms | |
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Investment banks | |
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Credit rating agencies, accountants and lawyers | |
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Regulators | |
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Efficient Capital Market Hypothesis (ECMH) | |
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Case Application | |
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In re Bear Stearns Cos., Securities, Derivative & ERISA Litigation | |
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Kamin v. American Express | |
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Basic, Inc. v. Levinson | |
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West v. Prudential Securities Inc. | |
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Corporate Transactions | |
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Capital Raising | |
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Reasons for capital raising | |
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Public and private offerings | |
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Capital raising process and the lawyer role | |
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Mergers and Acquisitions | |
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What is M&A? | |
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Rationale for M&A | |
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Accretion and dilution | |
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M&A process and the lawyer's role | |
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Restructuring | |
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Case Application | |
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Escott v. BarChris Construction Corp. | |
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Smith v. Van Gorkom (Part II) | |
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Katz v. Oak Industries, Inc. | |
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Glossary | |