STUART A. McCRARY is a Principal at Chicago Partners, a division of Navigant Consulting, Inc. He is a trader and portfolio manager who specializes in traditional and alternative investments, quantitative valuation, risk management, and financial software. Prior to joining Chicago Partners, McCrary was president of Frontier Asset Management, managing a market-neutral hedge fund. He also held positions with Fenchurch Capital Management as a senior options trader and CS First Boston as vice president and market maker of over-the-counter options. Prior to that, McCrary was a vice president with the Securities Groups and a portfolio manager with Comerica Bank. McCrary has published three previous books with Wiley: Mastering Financial Accounting Essentials, How to Create and Manage a Hedge Fund, and Hedge Fund Course.

An essential guide to corporate finance
Understanding corporate finance is a necessity for financialpractitioners who struggle every day to find the right balancebetween maximizing corporate value and reducing a firm's financialrisk.
Divided into two comprehensive parts, Mastering CorporateFinance Essentials presents the material by example, using anextended scenario involving a new business formation. In Part One,present and future value mathematics are introduced followed by anumber of applications using the tools. In Part Two, statistics asapplied to finance are examined, with detailed discussions ofstandard deviations, correlations, and how they impactdiversification.
* Through theory and real-world examples this book provides asolid grounding in corporate finance
* Other titles by Stuart McCrary include: Mastering FinancialAccounting Essentials, How to Create and Manage a Hedge Fund,and Hedge Fund Course
* Covers the essential elements of this field, from traditionalcapital budgeting concepts and methods of valuing investmentprojects under uncertainty to the importance of "real-options" inthe decision-making process
This reliable resource offers a hands-on approach to corporatefinance that will allow you to gain a solid understanding of thisdiscipline.