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The Tenth Edition continues the tradition of excellence that has earned Fundamentals of Corporate Finance its status as market leader. Every chapter has been updated to provide the most current examples that reflect corporate finance in todays world. The supplements package has been updated and improved, and with the new Excel Master online tool, student and instructor support has never been stronger.
List of contents
Part One: Overview of Corporate Finance Chapter 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance Chapter 2: Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flow Part Two: Financial Statements and Long-Term Financial Planning Chapter 3: Working with Financial Statements Chapter 4: Long-Term Financial Planning and Growth Part Three: Valuation of Future Cash Flows Chapter 5: Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money Chapter 6: Discounted Cash Flow Valuation Chapter 7: Interest Rates and Bond Valuation Chapter 8: Stock Valuation Part Four: Capital Budgeting Chapter 9: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria Chapter 10: Making Capital Investment Decisions Chapter 11: Project Analysis and Evaluation Part Five: Risk and Return Chapter 12: Some Lessons from Capital Market History Chapter 13: Return, Risk, and the Security Market Line Part Six: Cost of Capital and Long-Term Financial Policy Chapter 14: Cost of Capital Chapter 15: Raising Capital Chapter 16: Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Policy Chapter 17: Dividends and Payout Policy Part Seven: Short-Term Financial Planning and Management Chapter 18: Short-Term Finance and Planning Chapter 19: Cash and Liquidity Management Chapter 20: Credit and Inventory Management Part Eight: Topics in Corporate Finance Chapter 21: International Corporate Finance
About the author
Stephen Ross is presently 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 is 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 currently serves as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals. He is a trustee of CalTech, a director of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF), and Freddie Mac. He is also the co-chairman of Roll and Ross Asset Management Corporation. Randoloph W. Westerfield is Dean of the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California and holder of the Robert R. Dockson Dean's Chair of Business Administration. From 1988 to 1993, Professor Westerfield served as the chairman of the School's finance and business economics department and 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 member of the finance faculty for 20 years. His areas of expertise include corporate financial policy, investment management and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and stock market price behavior. Professor Westerfield has served as a member of the Continental Bank trust committee, supervising all activities of the trust department. He has been consultant to a number of corporations, including AT&T, Mobil Oil and Pacific Enterprises, as well as to the United Nations, the U.S. Department of Justice and Labor, and the State of California. Bradford D. Jordan is Professor of Finance and Gatton Research Fellow in the Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. He has a long-standing interest in both applied and theoretical issues in corporate finance, and has extensive experience teaching all levels of corporate finance and financial management policy. Professor Jordan has published numerous articles on issues such as cost of capital, capital structure, and the behavior of security prices.
