Description
This casebook provides real-world applications addressing the financial decisions that
manager's face at entrepreneurial and mid-size companies.
Contents
SECTION 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS.
Case 1: KHF Corporation.
Case 2: Community Memorial Hospital.
Case 3: Bill Thurmond Pig Farm.
SECTION 2. TIME VALUE/VALUATION.
Case 4: Retirement Planning: Robert and Linda Trudeau.
Case 5: Pearson Corporation.
SECTION 3. BOND AND STOCK VALUATION.
Case 6: Simplified Networking, Incorporated.
Case 7: FinSim Modeling, Incorporated.
Case 8: Fred Alberts, Rookie.
SECTION 4. CAPITAL BUDGETING DECISIONS.
Case 9: Performance Boating Products, Inc.
Case 10: Bentley Custom Ceramics.
Case 11: Lehmann Container Corporation.
Case 12: Working Computers, Inc.
Case 13: Automotive Specialties, Inc.
SECTION 5. LEVERAGE AND RISK.
Case 14: Gilad Publishing Company.
SECTION 6. COST OF CAPITAL.
Case 15: Scope City, Incorporated (A).
Case 16: Scope City, Incorporated (B).
Case 18: Puredell Distribution, Inc.
SECTION 7. WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT.
Case 18: NCI Corporation.
Case 19: McGhee Corporation.
SECTION 8. RISK AND RETURN.
Case 20: Labeltech Corporation.
Case 21: Roth Financial Advisors.
Case 22: Sound Advice.
Case 23: Risky Business.
SECTION 9. ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE.
Case 24: Custom Lumber, Inc.
SECTION 10. BANKING CREDIT DECISIONS.
Case 25: Jonesville Candy Company.
SECTION 11. DIVIDEND POLICY.
Case 26: Haveloche Corporation.
216 pages, Paperback
Author
Dr. Robert Stretcher is a finance professor at Sam Houston State University. He has 20
years of teaching experience in finance. He is president of the Institute of Finance Case
Research and managing editor of the Journal of Finance Case Research. Professor Stretcher
is among the foremost scholars involved in case teaching and research, and has published
numerous articles in these areas, as well as a wide variety of other finance areas.
Professor Stretcher's PhD is in finance and monetary theory from the University of
Tennessee.
Dr. Timothy B. Michael is a finance professor at The University of Houston-Clear Lake. He
has 13 years of teaching experience in finance. He serves as an associate editor of the
Journal of Finance Case Research. Professor Michael has served as a casewriting consultant
for several published works. Professor Michael's PhD is from the University of South
Carolina, where he received outstanding teaching accolades.