Principles of Finance

Introduction

 * What is Finance
 * History
 * Branches of Finance
 * Prerequisites
 * How to use this book?

Chapter 1 The Basics

 * An Overview on Money
 * Principle of Relative Valuation
 * Role of a CFO and Finance Managers
 * Is Accounting and Finance one and the same?

Chapter Financial Markets and Institutions

 * Stock Markets
 * Bond Markets
 * Money Markets
 * Derivatives Markets
 * Foreign Exchange Markets
 * Determinants of Interest Rates
 * The Federal Reserve System
 * Commercial Banks
 * Regulation of Commercial Banks

Chapter 2 The Time Value of Money

 * Introduction to Time Value of Money
 * The concept of returns
 * The Present Value of Money, Net Present Value and Discounting
 * The Opportunity Cost of Capital
 * The effect of compounding and Future Value
 * Summary

Chapter 3 Applications of Time Value of Money

 * How to make Investment Decisions?
 * All about Perpetuities
 * Annuity
 * Summary

Chapter 4 Bonds

 * Rate of Returns: Varying and Annualized
 * The Yield Curve
 * Valuing Bonds
 * The Yield to Market Curve
 * Advanced Concepts of Bonds
 * Summary

Chapter 5 Risk and Return

 * What is Risk?
 * Types of Risk
 * Risk Management
 * Summary

Chapter 6 Corporate Finance

 * Weighted Average Cost of Capital
 * Beta and its Uses
 * Return on Equity
 * Modigliani & Miller
 * Project Valuation
 * Growth Opportunity
 * Computation or Table Lookup

Chapter 7 Portfolio Theory

 * Efficient-Market Hypothesis
 * Modern Portfolio Theory
 * Capital Asset Pricing Model
 * Arbitrage pricing theory
 * Correlation Among Securities
 * Optimal Market Portfolio
 * Summary

Minor Contributions

 * Venkatesh Sridhar
 * Patrick Felton
 * Numerous Wikipedia authors whose work was copied here.