Program Objectives.
Upon completion of this program, students will acquire professional in-demand skills and will be able to:

• Read and explain the significance of financial statements concerning a company's financial condition.
• Value a corporation's major financial instruments.
• Explain the significance of such concepts as short-term assets and liabilities, working capital policies, and management of cash and receivables.
• Evaluate long-term investments under conditions of certainty and uncertainty.

Principles of Managerial Finance
by Chad J. Zutter, Scott B. Smart
Pearson
13th or 16th edition

About the authors
Chad J. Zutter is the Joseph P. and Angela A. Campolo Faculty Fellow and a Professor of finance at the University of Pittsburgh. His papers have been cited in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court and in consultation with companies such as Google and Intel. He has also won teaching awards at Indiana University and the University of Pittsburgh. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University.
Scott B. Smart is a finance professor and the Fettig/Whirlpool Finance Faculty Fellow at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Dr. Smart received his B.B.A. from Baylor University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research focuses primarily on applied corporate finance topics and has been published in journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Management, and others. Winner of more than a dozen teaching awards, Dr. Smart has been listed multiple times as a top business school teacher by Business Week.

About the Publisher
Pearson is the world's largest education company. Although Pearson generates approximately 60 percent of its sales in North America, it operates in more than 70 countries. In 2019 Pearson announced it would begin the process of phasing out the publishing of printed textbooks, in a plan to move into a more digital-first strategy. The company reportedly envisions students relying more on e-textbooks, which would be updated frequently.