What is finance all about? -- Business types and taxation methods -- The value of money over time -- Risk and return -- Valuation methods -- Capital budgeting: preliminary steps -- Fundamentals of capital budgeting: under the conditions of no risk and risk -- Cost of capital -- Capital structure -- Dividend policy -- Options, futures, and swaps -- Leases -- Warrants and convertibles -- Short- and long-term financing -- Financial planning -- Financing working capital -- Financial statements and ratios -- Mergers, investment banking and IPOs -- Basics of international finance -- Financial software and the internet.