Corporate finance is an area of treasury management where financial theory and practical applications merge in the process of allocating financial resources. There are a number of magazines and newsletters dealing with corporate finance accessible on the Web. Treasurers will also find dozens of investment bank sites.

Free corporate finance and valuation spreadsheets
Provided by Professor of Finance and David Margolis Teaching Fellow at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

How to Read a Financial Report
A helpful booklet by Merrill Lynch.

IBM's Guide to Understanding Financials
An excellent introduction to reading the financial statements in a company's annual report.

Types of Bank Loans

Senior Loan Officer Survey
Survey of changes in the standards and terms of the banks' lending and the state of business and household demand for loans.

Structured Finance
Structured Finance Definition (Wikipedia)
List of structured finance publications from Securitization.net

Virtual Finance Library
The Virtual Library is from Ohio State's Department of Finance. The information contained on these pages is provided for free. The information and links are well categorized.

Ratios and Formulas in Customer Financial Analysis
The most widely used financial analysis technique is ratio analysis, the analysis of relationships between two or more line items on the financial statement. Financial ratios are usually expressed in percentage or times. Generally, financial ratios are calculated for the purpose of evaluating aspects of a company's operations.

Syndicated Loan Lead Arranger Tables
provided by Loan Pricing Corporation

CFO Magazine
This site provides access to CFO magazine. You can access the archives and search past articles for specific topics and also check out a wide range of resources of interest to treasury managers. The site also has information on CFO-sponsored conferences and on-line discussions on treasury topics.

Treasury & Risk Management Magazine
Access past articles and get information on conferences on treasury topics.

Financial Times
The Financial Times is a leading international English language business newspaper which aims to provide readers with the best source of global business information, analysis and comment. Content is free but first time users are required to register.

Mergers and Acquisitions Primer
Basics from Investopedia.com

Journal of Finance
The Journal of Finance is the journal of The American Finance Association. Abstracts of articles from the current as well as past issues are available.

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance
Published since 1988, this highly regarded quarterly translates the best of current academic research into a form that is accessible and useful to senior corporate executives. Published in conjunction with Morgan Stanley, the Journal covers a range of topics, including financial innovations, restructuring, core competencies and global competition, corporate governance and relationship investing,and capital management. The current issue is available as a free resource (in PDF format), all other materials are available for a fee.

Business Management
The main site of The Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) offers a wide range of information and services to business managers. There is a special corporate financial management page. Visitors to the site can also search archives of IOMA publications for topics of interest.

FinanceTech
Part of the Information Week media network and parent to Bank Systems and Technology magazine.

Newsletters
This is the CMS Internet Catalogue of Finance Industry newsletters, management reports and market surveys. Listed on this site are titles from leading publishers specializing in finance, financial markets, risk, treasury, and related areas with subscription information. There is a search facility.

Current Financial Services News Stories
Financial services industry related news organized by Yahoo.

FINWeb
FINWeb is a financial economics web site. The primary objective of FINWeb is to list Internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance-related topics.

Investment Banks
There are dozens of investment bank sites on the Web. Most offer brief descriptions of their services and information about the investment bank. A few offer research reports and economic forecasts, but usually only for registered clients. It's a good idea to review each of your current providers to see how they present themselves.

Banc of America Securities
BMO Capital Markets
Brown, Brothers Harriman & Co.
CIBC World Markets
Citigroup Smith Barney
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs
ING
Merrill Lynch
Morgan Stanley
J.P. Morgan
Piper Jaffray
Royal Bank of Canada
TD Securities
UBS Investment Bank
Wachovia

Investment Bank Index

Futures Magazine
Established in 1972, Futures magazine is the oldest and largest circulation publication serving the derivatives industry. Since its start the magazine has grown to cover not only the futures markets, but options, forex and stock markets as well. It is distributed world wide and covers not only all markets, but all geographical centers, with correspondents both in Europe and Asia.

Public Companies with Financials Listed on the Web
The web is an excellent vehicle to distribute a company's financials to investors and other interested parties.

Hedging Pre-Issue Pricing Risk for Fixed-Rate Debt
The Bank of Montreal

Preparing a Cash Flow Forecast
A nice "how-to" tutorial. Note: this is a Canadian site, so some financial terms and definitions may differ somewhat from U.S. usage.