Book excerpt: Work more effectively and gauge your progress along the way! This Study Guide is designed to accompany Shapiro’s Foundations of Multinational Financial Management, 5th Edition. It contains detailed chapter outlines and a number of solved questions and problems. Now updated and reorganized, Alan Shapiro's Foundations of Multinational Financial Management, 5th Edition, emphasizes broad concepts and practices, and provides a clear conceptual framework for analyzing key financial decisions in multinational firms. The text treats international financial management as a natural and logical extension of the principles learned in the foundations course in financial management. Thus, it builds on and extends the valuation framework provided by domestic corporate finance to account for dimensions unique to international finance.