Includes bibliographical references.

Chapter 1. The nature and aims of business -- Chapter 2. Planning a business enterprise -- Chapter 3. Forms of organization -- Chapter 4. Corporate form of business organization -- 5. Business corporation - management and control -- Chapter 6. Capitalizing a corporate business -- Chapter 7. Raising new permanent capital -- Chapter 8. Raising capital through corporate bonds -- Chapter 9. Lease or rent decisions -- Chapter 10. Financing business needs -- Chapter 11. Important documents used in business transactions -- Chapter 12. Extinction of bonded indebtedness -- Chapter 13. Business policies -- Chapter 14. Investment of funds -- Chapter 15. Business combinations -- Chapter 16. Credit and credit management -- Chapter 17. Business risk -- Chapter 18. Recapitulation and readjustment -- Chapter 19. Business failures, reorganization and dissolution.

Of all types of financial activity confronting top management, perhaps the most important as well as challenging today is the arrangement of ready access funds for purposes of providing the lubricating oil essential to its operations.