This book is about corporate finance. It focuses on how companies invest in real assets and how they raise the money topay for these invetments. It also provides a boad introduction to the financial landscape, discussing, for the example, the major players in financial markets, the role of financial institutions, and how securities are traded and valued by investors. The book ofers a framework for systematically thinking about most of the important financial problems that both firms and individuals are likely to confont.