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Fundamentals of Investing plus MyFinanceLab Student Access Kit and OTIS Student Access Kit, 10/E
Lawrence J. Gitman, San Diego State University
Michael D. Joehnk, Arizona State University

ISBN-10: 0321489381
ISBN-13: 9780321489388

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Cloth Package; 720 pp
Published: 06/28/2007
Status: Instock

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Fundamentals of Investing helps students make informed investment decisions in their personal and professional lives by providing a solid foundation of core concepts and tools. Gitman and Joehnk use practical, hands-on applications to introduce the topics and techniques used by both personal investors and money managers. The authors integrate a consistent framework based on learning goals to keep students focused on what is most important in each chapter. Students leave the course with the necessary information for developing, implementing, and monitoring a successful investment program.

Each new student copy comes with prepaid access to MyFinanceLab, an online learning and assessment system, and OTIS, the Online Trading and Investment Simulator, which allows students to buy and sell securities using real-world market data. For more information, visit MyFinanceLab and OTIS.

The Learning Goal System frames each chapter, giving students a clear roadmap through a tightly woven structure that links to each header, the end-of-chapter summary, discussion questions, problems, and cases.
The friendly and engaging writing style helps students learn the material the first time, and review the material before exams.
A flexible chapter structure allows professors to easily integrate the text into their syllabi. The first section describes the overall investment environment. The second section presents conceptual tools needed by investors—the concepts of risk and return and the basics of portfolio construction. Then each of the popular investment vehicles—common stocks, bonds, preferred stocks, convertible securities, and mutual funds—is addressed. A chapter on how to apply these concepts to administer a personal portfolio follows, culminating in a section on derivative securities, options, and futures.
A rich variety of built-in learning aids help students apply their new investments tools:
- Investing in Action boxes describe investing situations or events, demonstrating the book’s concepts at work in the real world of investing.
- Ethics Boxes provide real-life scenarios in the investments world that focus on ethical issues.
- Investor Facts sidebars give interesting statistics or cite unusual investment experiences, rounding out the reader’s knowledge of the field.
- Key Equations are called out in shaded boxes, drawing students’ attention to the most important mathematical relationships.
- Calculator Keystrokes help students learn how to use financial calculators.
- Hot Links direct students to Web sites related to topics presented in the text and reinforce the use of the Internet in the investments world.
- Concepts in Review questions at the end of each section allow students to test their understanding of each section before moving on in the chapter.
- The Summary revisits the Learning Goals, concisely presenting the important take-aways in each chapter.
A diverse array of problem types lets the instructor decide how to assess students. Select questions and problems can be completed online in MyFinanceLab.

Discussion Questions require students to apply the tools and techniques of the chapter to investment information they have obtained and make recommendations to potential investors.
Problems offer additional review opportunities and are keyed to the Learning Goals.
Case Problems—two per chapter—encourage students to use critical-thinking skills to apply techniques presented in the chapter, evaluate alternatives, and make recommendations to an investor.
Excel^® with Spreadsheets end-of-chapter exercises ask students to solve financial problems and make decisions using spreadsheets.
OTIS, the Online Trading and Investment Simulator, makes the student a virtual fund manager through direct experience in a portfolio management. This online experience is further enhanced by the Tenth Edition’s end-of-chapter exercises and hands-on practice opportunities. For more information, visit OTIS.

Select end-of-chapter questions and problems can now be completed in MyFinanceLab, an online assessment system that accompanies the Tenth Edition. MyFinanceLab is designed to enablestudents to identify their weak spots and receive tutorial help to master those areas. Students get more out of each assessment, and professors can assign problem sets online without needing to grade them. For more information, visit MyFinanceLab.
By streamlining the presentation, the Tenth Edition focuses students on the most important concepts while offering complementary learning extensions in online chapters and supplementary material.
The time value of money is covered in a new appendix to Chapter 4, Risk and Return.
Updated discussions include corporate ethics scandals, the post-9/11 investment environment in both the stock and bond markets, and the long recovery from the 2000–2002 bear market.
Expanded discussion on the Nasdaq market and increased coverage of mutual funds.
Content throughout is updated for currency, including chapter openers and boxed material.
OTIS exercises have been expanded so each chapter ends with a question requiring the student to practice their investing skills.
Additional HotLinks and Ethics in Investing boxes have been added.
Extensions to chapter material are provided in Web enhancements on the text’s Companion Website and are available within MyFinanceLab.
A list of key terms with page references is added to the end-of-chapter material to quickly locate the term and context within the chapter.

PART ONE: PREPARING TO INVEST
Chapter 1: The Investment Environment
Investments and the Investment Process
Investment Vehicles
Making Investment Plans
Meeting Liquidity Needs: Investing in Short-Term Vehicles

Chapter 2: Markets and Transactions
Securities Markets
Globalization of Securities Markets
Trading Hours and Regulation of Securities Markets
Basic Types of Securities Transactions

Chapter 3: Investment Information and Securities Transactions
Online Investing
Types and Sources of Investment Information
Understanding Market Averages and Indexes
Making Securities Transactions
Investment Advisers and Investment Clubs

PART TWO: IMPORTANT CONCEPTUAL TOOLS
Chapter 4: Return and Risk
The Concept of Return
Measuring Return
Risk: The Other Side of the Coin

Chapter 5: Modern Portfolio Concepts
Principles of Portfolio Planning
The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
Traditional Versus Modern Portfolio Management

PART THREE: INVESTING IN COMMON STOCKS
Chapter 6: Common Stocks
What Stocks Have to Offer
Basic Characteristics of Common Stock
Common Stock Dividends
Types and Uses of Common Stock

Chapter 7: Analyzing Common Stocks
Security Analysis
Economic Analysis
Industry Analysis
Fundamental Analysis

Chapter 8: Stock Valuation
Valuation: Obtaining a Standard of Performance
Stock Valuation Models

Chapter 9: Technical Analysis, Market Efficiency, and Behavioral Finance
Technical Analysis
Random Walks and Efficient Markets
Behavioral Finance: A Challenge to the Efficient Market Hypothesis

PART FOUR: INVESTING IN FIXED-INCOME SECURITIES
Chapter 10: Fixed-Income Securities
Why Invest in Bonds?
Essential Features of a Bond
The Market for Debt Securities
Convertible Securities

Chapter 11: Bond Valuation
The Behavior of Market Interest Rates
The Pricing of Bonds
Measures of Yield and Return
Duration and Immunization
Bond Investment Strategies

PART FIVE: PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Chapter 12: Mutual Funds: Professionally Managed Portfolios
The Mutual Fund Concept
Types of Funds and Services
Investing in Mutual Funds

Chapter 13: Managing Your Own Portfolios
Constructing a Portfolio Using an Asset Allocation Scheme
Evaluating the Performance of Individual Investments
Assessing Portfolio Performance
Timing Transactions

PART SIX: DERIVATIVE SECURITIES
Chapter 14: Options: Puts and Calls
Put and Call Options
Options Pricing and Trading
Stock-Index and Other Types of Options

Chapter 15: Commodities and Financial Futures
The Futures Market
Financial Futures

Appendix A: Financial Tables
Glossary
Index

Online Chapters at the Companion Website
Chapter 16: Investing in Preferred Stocks
Chapter 17: Tax-Advantaged Investments
Chapter 18: Real Estate and Other Tangible Investments

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Computerized Test Bank for Fundamentals of Investing, 10/E
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