The fifth edition of ESSENTIALS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT continues to provide students with a focused understanding of today’s corporate finance and financial management. This market-leading text offers a unique balance of clear concepts, contemporary theory, and practical applications in order to help students understand the concepts and reasons behind corporate budgeting, financing, working capital decision making, forecasting, valuation, and the time value of money. It has been updated to include discussions of several major events such as the coronavirus pandemic’s dramatic transformation of the world economy, and the important influences of increased globalization and changing technology.