Dauds on Finance & Derivatives is a useful reference for all finance practitioners and students. The discipline of finance is forever evolving as it endeavours to keep abreast of present-day financial realities. As regulations continue tighten, the rules to address and hopefully avoid the many modern-day financial scandals and to address the issue of corporate governance, which is closely tied to ethics, has become increasingly relevant.

This first edition includes the topics of: 

• Corporate governance and agency
• Forms of corporate financing
• Financial instrument valuation principles
• Basics of capital budgeting and investment appraisal
• Fundamentals of bond valuations
• Measuring and managing interest rate risk
• Yield to maturity
• Capital asset pricing model
• Equity valuation
• Capital market efficiency
• Returning capital to shareholders
• Business combinations (mergers and acquisitions)
• Capital structure
• Financial statement analysis and the fundamental of derivative instruments including exchange-traded derivatives
• Over-the-counter (otc) derivatives
• The various types of derivatives, their uses, pricing, and credit derivative

About the author:

Cornwell Dauds is a practising lawyer. His practice areas include tax law, competition law and commercial law. He is a member of the South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA). He holds qualifications in law, tax, finance, and accounting, as well as the designation Professional Tax Specialist (SA). He was educated in South Africa and pursued postgraduate studies at Harvard Law School in the USA, London School of Economics, and the University of Leicester in the UK. He has written extensively in his fields of interest, which include tax law, competition law, financial derivatives, and finance generally.

This first edition includes the topics of: 

• Corporate governance and agency
• Forms of corporate financing
• Financial instrument valuation principles
• Basics of capital budgeting and investment appraisal
• Fundamentals of bond valuations
• Measuring and managing interest rate risk
• Yield to maturity
• Capital asset pricing model
• Equity valuation
• Capital market efficiency
• Returning capital to shareholders
• Business combinations (mergers and acquisitions)
• Capital structure
• Financial statement analysis and the fundamental of derivative instruments including exchange-traded derivatives
• Over-the-counter (otc) derivatives
• The various types of derivatives, their uses, pricing, and credit derivative