Through this book, one can make their first acquaintance with concepts related to making financial decisions and the four basic principles of financial science.

Primary concepts: Principles of finance, companies and financial markets, understanding financial statements, taxes and cash flows, financial analysis, measuring corporate performance, time value of money.

Basic concepts: Time value of money, multiple cash flows and rates.

Introduction to the concepts of risk and return: History of financial market returns, risk and return.

Theory of capital markets: Valuation of debt and interest rates, stock valuation, criteria for making investment decisions, forecasting cash flows, risk analysis of cash flows from an investment project, cost of capital, capital structure policy, dividend policy, forecasting and planning of financial decisions, working capital management, international finance, corporate risk management.

With the above, one can understand the basic tools and fundamental principles on which the science of finance is based.