Now in its 7th edition, "Business Finance" is an essential introduction to financial decision making in businesses. Taking a user's perspective it explores the type of investments a business should make and how they should be financed, and successfully blends the theoretical, analytical and practical aspects of finance and investment. This new edition of "Business Finance" has a real-world flavour, exploring the theories surrounding financial decision making and relating these theories to what happens in the real world. Key Features include: an extensive range of real world examples; solid theoretical underpinning in an easily accessible form; excellent blend of theory and practice offering a comprehensive insight into the decision making process within finance and investment; exploration into, and explanation of, any divergence between theory and practice; comprehensive coverage of the latest international issues; improved pedagogy, including a brand new four- colour design; fully updated supplements for lecturers (featuring cases with solutions, progress tests, tutorial questions and powerpoints) and students (revision questions, multiple choice questions and weblinks). "Business Finance" is suitable for undergraduates in accounting and finance and for those on finance and financial management courses. It is also appropriate for postgraduate students with an option in accounting and finance and will be highly useful for professional accounting students.Computational problems, are graded from basic to advanced, giving the opportunity for further study.