A Comprehensive Look at How Corporations Balance Financing and Risk from Two of Today's Most Popular and Influential Finance Writers
Today's corporation has an unprecedented number of avenues for financing its operations. At the same time, the specter of risk is always in the background, ready to extract a heavy toll from any executive who overlooks or disregards its long shadow.
Financing and Risk Management addresses the many ways in which corporations raise capital as they manage the concurrent risk. Filled with information and ideas that are both thought provoking and functional, it provides an indispensable look into the theory and mechanics of financing and risk, including:

How, why, and when a firm should assume debt, while keeping that debt from working against it
Financial techniques for hedging against omnipresent domestic and international risks
Strategies for creating shareholder value through integrated investment and operating programs
Through six editions, Brealey and Myers' classic textbook Principles of Corporate Finance has become renowned for presenting in-depth discussions of financial theory and practice in an engaging and lively style. The Brealey & Myers on Corporate Finance series brings this classic text into the business environment, providing time-pressed professionals with a more focused format while retaining the timeless guidance and inherent readability of the original

"It is hard enough getting New York cab drivers to give you change for a $20 bill; try asking them to split a Treasury bill."--From Chapter Eighteen

Financing and Risk Management belies the notion that corporate finance texts must be dull. This handbook for practicing professional combines in-depth finance information and methodology with dynamic and often humorous writing as it focuses on the many issues professionals face as they take on questions of financing.