This up-to-date and comprehensive title covers the entire field of corporate finance, including the recent changes stemming from the Dodd-Frank Act. In addition to discussing accounting and valuation concepts, it provides extensive coverage of the legal and financial underpinnings of debt securities, preferred and common stock, derivative instruments, and business combinations. It also provides sample valuation problems, answers, and explanations. Written in "plain English," the work is particularly useful, requiring no business background.