Fundamentals of Investing 3rd edition (3e)

Lawrence Gitman, San Diego State University
Michael Joehnk, Arizona State University
Roger H.  Juchau, University of Western Sydney
Donald G. Ross, Australian Catholic University
Sue  Wright, Macquarie University
Title Fundamentals of Investing 3rd edition
Edition 3rd
ISBN 9781442532885
ISBN 10 1442532882
Published 23/08/2011
Published by Pearson Australia
Pages
Format Paper Book With Pin
In stock
 
Total Price $135.95 Add to Cart
Description
“What are the best investments for me?”...   “What about risk?”... “Do I need professional help with my investments and can I afford it?”
 
Mastering the language, concepts, vehicles and strategies of investing can be challenging. Fundamentals of Investing shows how to make informed investment decisions, understand the risks inherent in investing and how to confidently shape a sound investment strategy.
 
Fundamentals of Investing 3rd edition is completely updated and introduces core concepts and tools used by Australian investors, providing a firm understanding of the fundamental principles of investments.  Focusing on both individual securities and portfolios, students learn how to develop, implement and monitor investment goals after considering the risk and return of both markets and investment vehicles.
 
Fundamentals of Investing is suitable for introductory investments courses offered at university undergraduate or post-graduate level, as well as colleges, professional certification programs and continuing education courses.
 
 
Fundamentals of Investing can be packaged with MyFinanceLab, a fully integrated online homework and tutorial system.  MyFinanceLab offers flexible instructor tools, including:
  • easy-to-use homework manager for test, quiz or homework assignments,
  • automatic grading
  • powerful online Gradebook.
Students can take pre-loaded Sample Tests for each chapter and their results generate an individualised Study Plan that helps focus and maximise their study time. Students will find ample opportunities to solve problems.  
 
Also available in MyFinanceLab are two complete chapters from previous editions: ‘Investing in Preference Shares’ and ‘Real Estate and Other Tangible Investments’. Please visit www.pearson.com.au/myfinancelab for more information.
 
‘I LOVED MyFinanceLab. I have taken this course twice now and I passed the mid-semester exam for the first time because I was able to practise with MyFinanceLab.’
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Table of contents
PART ONE Preparing to Invest
1 The Investment Environment
2 Markets and Transactions
3 Investment Information and Securities Transactions
 
PART TWO Important Conceptual Tools
4 Return and Risk
4A The Time Value of Money
5 Modern Portfolio Concepts
 
PART THREE Investing in Shares
6 Shares
7 Analysing Shares
8 Share Valuation
9 Technical Analysis, Market Efficiency and Behavioural Finance
 
PART FOUR Investing in Fixed-Income Securities
10 Fixed-Income Securities
11 Bond Valuation
 
PART FIVE Portfolio Management
12 Managed Funds: Professionally Managed Portfolios
13 Managing Your Own Portfolio
 
PART SIX Derivative Securities
14 Options: Puts and Calls
15 Commodities and Financial Futures
 
Appendix A Financial Tables A-1
Index I-1
Credits C-1
 
WEB CHAPTERS
(at www.pearson.com.au/myfinancelab or www.pearson.com.au/9781442532885)
16 Investing in Preference Shares 525
17 Real Estate and Other Tangible Investments
New to this edition
  • New! Four colour user-friendly presentation.
  • New! Investor Facts boxes have been added to each chapter, as well as many others that have been updated from the second edition.
  • New! Ethics in Investing boxes are included in many chapters.
  • New! chapter on Technical Analysis, Market Efficiency and Behavioural Finance.
  • Expanded coverage of behavioural finance in many chapters including Chapter 9.
  • Updated! Every chapter opener has been revised or replaced.
  • New! Key terms table at the end of each chapter
  • Websites and references have been updated, as have the questions, problems and cases.
  • New! Excel with Spreadsheets applications are included in the chapter-end problems.
  • Chapters on Investing in Preference Shares and Real Estate and Other Tangible Investments are now available online.

 

Features & benefits
  • Up-to-date coverage. Various issues and developments constantly reshape financial markets and investment vehicles. Virtually all topics in this book take into account changes in the investment environment.
  • All real-world data, text, tables and figures have been updated.
  • Comprehensive and integrated learning system. Learning Goals at the beginning of each chapter are the central feature of this proven teaching/learning system. Each Learning Goal is tied by a special icon to the associated first-level heading in the text, and these goals are restated and reviewed, point by point, at the chapters end. To support these Learning Goals, Concepts in Review questions appear at the end of each section of the chapter. These review questions allow students to test their understanding of each section before moving on to the next section of the chapter.
  • Globalisation. Fundamentals of Investing 3e continues to stress the global aspects of investing, allowing students to explore the global dimensions of the subject.
    Topics covered include growing importance of international markets, investing in foreign securities (indirectly or directly), international investment performance, and the risk of investing internationally. In later chapters, popular international investment opportunities and strategies are described as part of the coverage of each specific type of investment vehicle.

  • Calculator Keystrokes. At appropriate spots in the text the student will find sections on the use of financial calculators, with marginal calculator graphics that show the inputs and functions to be used.

Author biography
Roger H. Juchau is Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Management at the University of Western Sydney (UWS). He has also held academic posts at Lincoln
University, Macquarie University, Nepean CAE and the Queensland Institute of Technology, and was Commonwealth Foundation Fellow at the University of the South
Pacific. Professor Juchau is a graduate of the University of NSW, Queensland and Sussex Universities and a Fellow of the CPA Australia and the NZ Institute of
Management. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Davis, and the Wye College, University of London. Roger initiated and led the development of
accounting programs at UWS, South Pacific, Nepean and Lincoln. He has contributed to professional and academic literature through textbook writing, research monographs
and professional and academic papers.
 
Donald G. Ross is Professor of Finance in the Faculty of Business at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney, where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate
coursework, and doctoral students in the areas of accounting for decision making, financial management, investments and funds management, and new venture
financing. He has also held academic positions at Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, the University of Western Sydney and St Francis
Xavier University, as well as short-term visiting appointments at universities in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region. Don is an active researcher, with texts,
book chapters, journal articles and case studies published on a wide variety of topics in finance and accounting.
Sue Wright is an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Macquarie University. Her research interests include corporate governance, earnings
management, corporate performance measurement, financial reporting, business valuation and analysis, and business education. She has taught investments, corporate
finance and financial statement analysis, and supervises a number of PhD students and honours students.
Target audience
Audience: 3rd year undergraduate or post-graduate introductory investments courses offered at universities, as well as colleges, professional certification programs and continuing education courses.
 
Student supplements

Fundamentals of Investing MyFinanceLab without eBook

    By Gitman, Juchau, Wright, Ross
    ISBN 9781442533219 / ISBN 10 1442533218
    Published 13/08/2011
    Published by P.Ed Australia
    Format Digital Access Code
 

Fundamentals of Investing MyFinanceLab eBook Upgrade Access Code

    By Gitman, Juchau, Wright, Ross
    ISBN 9781442533226 / ISBN 10 1442533226
    Published 13/08/2011
    Published by P.Ed Australia
    Format Digital Access Code
 

Fundamentals of Investing MyFinanceLab With eBook Digital Access Code

    By Gitman, Juchau, Wright, Ross
    ISBN 9781442533233 / ISBN 10 1442533234
    Published 13/08/2011
    Published by P.Ed Australia
    Format Digital Access Code
 
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