Contents: 1. The time value of money; 2. Introduction to capital budgeting; 3. Deriving the weighted average cost of capital (WACC); 4. An accounting primer; 5. Financial planning models; 6. DCF valuation with financial models; 7. What is risk ? 8. Statistics chapter; 9. Portfolio returns – The efficient frontier; 10. The CAPM and SML; 11. The CAPM with 3 or more assets; 12. Using SML and WACC; 13. Efficient markets – some general principles of security valuation; 14. Stock valuation 1; 15. Valuing procter & gamble; 16. Capital structure and valuation; 17. Capital structure, empirical evidence; 18. Dividend policy and firm valuation; 19. Introduction to options; 20. Facts about option prices; 21. The black-scholes formula; 22. Excel introduction; 23. Charts and graphs in excel; 24. Functions in excel; 25. Data tables; 26. Using goal seek and solver; 27. Index.