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Chapter 1 An Overview of Financial Management

To find information about different finance careers, go to www.careers-in-finance.com. This web site provides information about different finance areas and recommends different books about jobs in finance.

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Chapter 3 Analysis of Financial Statements

To find information about a company quickly, link to www.reuters.com. Here you can find company snapshots, stock price quotes and share information, key ratios, and comparative ratios.

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Chapter 3 Analysis of Financial Statements

Students might want to refer to AAIIs educational web site at www.aaii.com. The site provides information on investing basics, financial planning, portfolio management, and the like, so that individuals can manage their own assets more effectively.

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Chapter 6 Interest Rates

Students should go to www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates to find current interest rates in the United States as well as in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Japan, and Great Britain.

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Chapter 6 Interest Rates

The home page for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System can be found at www.federalreserve.gov. You can access general information about the Federal Reserve, including press releases, speeches, and monetary policy.

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Chapter 7 Risk and Rates of Return

Kenneth Frenchs web site http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/index.html is an excellent resource for information regarding factors related to stock returns.

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Chapter 8 Time Value of Money

Excellent retirement calculators are available at www.ssa.gov and www.choosetosave.org/calculators. These calculators allow you to input hypothetical retirement savings information; the program then shows if current retirement savings will be sufficient to meet retirement needs.

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Chapter 10 Stocks and Their Valuation

Key trends in the securities industry are listed and explained at www.sifma.org/research/statistics/key_industry_trends.html.

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Chapter 15 Capital Structure and Leverage

Two video clips of Steve Walsh, Assistant Treasurer at JCPenney, talking about capital structure are available at http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/clips.htm. The first clip on capital structure discusses the cost of capital and debt, while the second clip discusses the optimal capital structure as seen by JCPenney relative to capital structure theory as seen by Modigliani/Miller.

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Chapter 16 Distributions to Shareholders: Dividends and Share Repurchases

Up-to-date information about changes in stock splits and stock repurchases is now just a few clicks away. A good place to get started is The Online Investor at www.theonlineinvestor.com. The Online Investors home page includes recent stock repurchase and stock split announcements at Buybacks and Stock Splits.

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Chapter 18 Derivatives and Risk Management

The Chicago Board of Trade has an excellent web site at www.cmegroup.com. Make sure you check out the wealth of information on the history and operations of the exchange by clicking on About CME Group.

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Chapter 18 Derivatives and Risk Management

You can obtain information for a specific companys call and put options at http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/options. Just type the firms ticker symbol and click Go. Shaded options are in the money.

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Chapter 19 Multinational Financial Management

For a listing of world currencies, currency symbols, and their regimes, go to the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business Pacific Exchange Rate Service web site, at http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/currencies.html.

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Chapter 19 Multinational Financial Management

For up-to-date currency quotations on the web, visit two popular sites: www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies/fxc.html and http://finance.yahoo.com/currency.

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Chapter 21 Mergers and Acquisitions

A video clip entitled T. Boone Pickens on White Knights, which discusses mergers and takeovers, is available at Ohio State Universitys web site at www.cob.ohio-state.edu/fin/clips.htm. The clip requires a QuickTime video player for Windows or Macintosh (which you can download for free at www.apple.com/quicktime). One caveat is that the video clip is in excess of 5 MB in size and therefore should be accessed only with a fast Internet connection.

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Chapter 21 Mergers and Acquisitions

To see Fortunes ranking of leading private equity firms, go to http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0702/gallery.powerlist.fortune/index.html.

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