This new text by the same authors of the well-known text Management of Company Finance, provides an introductory grounding in both the theory and practice of financial management and its relevance to the real world business environment. The text provides the same clarity of explanation and wealth of practice questions for which the advanced text is renowned, but avoids going into the same depth of mathematical detail and rigor demanded by specialist finance students. It is the ideal text for students studying basic financial management on modular, semester-length or MBA courses.