This book is the students' manual which accompanies the fourth edition of the UK's most consistently successful text on investment appraisal. Introduction, Traditional methods of investment appraisal, The single-period investment-consumption decision model, The discounted cash flow approach, Net present value and internal rate of return, Project appraisal cash flows, Capital market imperfections, Risk and expected return, Portfolio theory, The capital asset pricing model, Traditional approaches to risk, The cost of company capital, The weighted average cost of capital, The capital structure decision in a no-tax world, Capital structure in a world with tax, The capital structure decision in practice, Investment in financing decision interactions, Overseas capital investments, The dividend decision.