Financial management is a management tool for companies, and a science concerned with the study of financial relations between the company and its financial environment - in other words, the study of money flows from the company to the financial market and vice versa.Financial management contains both empirical and theoretical rules.It is paradoxical in that, faced with real phenomena, neither practice nor theory can serve as a means of explanation.The tools of the trade include financial mathematics, statistics, accounting and micro-economic rules.-What is a financial manager?-What are the tasks of a financial manager?-What are the foundations of good financial management?These are the questions answered in this book.