Essentials of Corporate Finance / Edition 9

by Bradford D. Jordan Professor, Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin.

Overview

Essentials of Corporate Finance by Ross, Westerfield, and Jordan is written to convey the most important concepts and principles of corporate finance at a level that is approachable for a wide audience. The authors retain their modern approach to finance, but have distilled the subject down to the essential topics in 18 chapters. They believe that understanding the “why” is just as important, if not more so, than understanding the “how,” especially in an introductory course.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781259277214
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date:	02/26/2016
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	688
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Bradford D. Jordan is Professor of Finance and holder of the Richard W. and Janis H. Furst Endowed Chair in Finance at the University of Kentucky. He has a longstanding interest in both applied and theoretical issues in corporate finance and has extensive experience teaching all levels of corporate finance and financial management policy.

STEPHEN A. ROSS  Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen A. Ross was the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most widely published authors in finance and economics, Professor Ross was widely recognized for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research in signaling, agency theory, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, he also served as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals. He was a trustee of CalTech. He died suddenly in March of 2017.

Randolph W.Westerfield is Dean Emeritus of the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and is the Charles B. Thornton Professor of Finance. He came to USC from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was the chairman of the finance department and a member of the finance faculty for 20 years.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Overview of Financial Management
1. Introduction to Financial Management
Part 2: Understanding Financial Statements and Cash Flow
2. Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flow
3. Working with Financial Statements
Part 3: Valuation of Future Cash Flows
4. Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money
5. Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
Part 4: Valuing Stocks and Bonds
6. Interest Rates and Bond Valuation
7. Equity Markets and Stock Valuation
Part 5: Capital Budgeting
8. Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
9. Making Capital Investment Decisions
Part 6: Risk and Return
10. Some Lessons from Capital Market History
11. Risk and Return
Part 7: Long-Term Financing
12. Cost of Capital
13. Leverage and Capital Structure
14. Dividends and Dividend Policy
15. Raising Capital
Part 8: Short-Term Financial Management
16. Short-Term Financial Planning
17. Working Capital Management
Part 9: Topics in Business Finance
18. International Aspects of Financial Management
Appendix A. Mathematical Tables
Appendix B. Key Equations
Appendix C. Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems
Appendix D. Using the HP-10B and TI BA II Plus Financial Calculators