Cornelius Cash is former Associate Dean and Business Faculty at American InterContinental University (AIU), Atlanta Campus. He has won many awards including the Distinguished Faculty in Student Success and Faculty of the Year Awards. He has earned a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree from California Southern University, Costa Mesa, CA (2013), a Post-Master's Certificate in General Business from Northcentral University (2012), and a Master's in Business Administration with a specialization in Finance from Loyola University, Chicago (1999). In addition, he holds an MS in Health Care Management (2004) and MS in Technology Management (2002) from Mercer University, Atlanta, GA. Over the past 14 years he has taught undergraduate and graduate level Finance courses including: Financial Management, Capital Budgeting, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Corporate Finance, and Maximizing Shareholders Wealth. He has also taught Health Care Finance, Sports Finance and Health Care Economics courses. This is the first distribution of the HowtoTEX Series being developed by Dr. Cash for a new generation of technology based, accelerated classes being offered by institutions of higher learning in both the traditional and proprietary academic arenas. This comprehensive, how-to, book can be used as a primary guide to analyzing basic financial management problems using an innovative approach he calls the "line method." Enjoy using this book as a primary resource in understanding applied finance and recommend it to qualitative thinkers and others who are faced with learning finance personally, professionally or as novice Finance students.