Teaching the readers how to manage their personal finances, this book concentrates on the fundamentals and underlying principles of personal finance, rather than focusing on equations and specific tools that are more easily forgotten....

This casebook covers all major decision making areas of financial management with 57 cases based on actual situations. New to the third edition are cases involving risk-adjusted discount rates, the use of simulation in a capital budgeting setting, the capital asset pricing model, and small business valuation....

KEY BENEFIT: Through the presentation of the Ten Fundamental Principles of Personal Finance, this text empowers readers with the knowledge they need to successfully make and carry out a plan for their own financial future....