Finance: Investments

This book provides students from universities and universities of applied sciences, as well as participants in continuing education courses, with a comprehensive and easily understandable introduction to the financial market theories of capital investment. It covers the fundamentals of portfolio management, the most important investment instruments, and the methods for their analysis and evaluation. Each chapter consists of an introduction, the main teaching content, a summary, exercises and solutions, Microsoft Excel applications, and a bibliography. The book is practice-oriented, as the exercises included primarily contain real examples, and at the end of the chapters, the Microsoft Excel applications are listed, which enable the implementation of the finance concepts presented in the chapter.