Corporate Finance examines fundamental concepts of finance and the key skills required for good financial management of corporations. It introduces financial concepts and issues that provide the necessary guidelines to solve corporate finance problems and evaluates some of the important theories in modern finance to provide a substantial grounding in the discipline, including in preparing students for more advanced studies in finance. In Corporate Finance, valuation principles are central in the consideration of the financial managers in investment and financing decisions in corporations. Additionally, a comprehensive understanding of risk and return is central in Corporate Finance, which provides the financial manager of a corporation with a theoretic foundation to make optimal corporate finance decisions.