This popular second edition financial management text - a shorter, streamlined version of Brigham's market leader Fundamentals text - again offers students the core topics of financial management with the same detail and depth of coverage but in a two-colour format. The 16-chapter text eliminates full chapters on such advanced topics as hybrid securities and mergers integrating the material where appropriate. Chapter-opening vignettes describe how an actual corporation dealt with the issues introduced in the chapter, bringing real-world relevance to technical topics. Each chapter ends with an integrated case, related to the opening vignette. The cases illustrate specific topics covered in the chapter. Pedagogical features of this edition include marginal annotations referencing the World Wide Web to encourage student knowledge and analysis of technology as it relates to financial management; Global Perspective boxes reflecting pertinent international issues and a dedicated web site. Content changes in the second edition include a more detailed description of EVA and MVA, a more lucid distinction between net cash flow and net income, and additional information on historical returns and the relative performance of stocks and bonds.