Foundations of Finance: The Logic and Practice of Financial Management

• Skill name: FIN500-Principles-of-Finance
• Book: Foundations of Finance: The Logic and Practice of Financial Management, Tenth Edition
• Authors: Arthur J. Keown, John D. Martin, J. William Petty
• Coverage: 17 chapters plus Appendix 3A, Appendix 11A, and Appendix A
• Source length: about 619 pages
• Book type: text
• Depth: study
• Generated: 2026-08-21

How to Use This Skill

1. Classify the question as capital budgeting, capital structure, working capital management, valuation, financial analysis, or international finance.
2. State the decision objective, perspective, currency, timing, risk level, tax assumption, and cash-flow sign convention before calculating.
3. Start with the Core Frameworks below, then open the cited chapter for the full treatment and examples.
4. Prefer incremental, after-tax cash flow and market-based opportunity costs over accounting totals or historical financing rates.
5. Use glossary.md for terminology, patterns.md for repeatable workflows, and cheatsheet.md for a fast decision screen.