Fundamentals Of Corporate Finance

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Key Features New chapter on Options & Corporate FinanceReal Option is a hot topic & this text contains Most of up-to-date treatement available at the introductory level. Greater emphassi on internet Serves variety of course formart from traditional undergradute course to executive MBA programme too. S&P Market insight problems each chapter contains 2-3 end of chapter problem. Contains an all new case book prepared by James DeMello of western michigan university each case is about 3-4 pages long. About The Author Bradford Jordan 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. Randolph Westerfield Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Randolph W. Westerfi eld is Dean Emeritus of the University of Southern California?s Marshall School of Business and is the Charles B. Thornton Professor of Finance. Professor Westerfi eld came to USC from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was the chairman of the fi nance department and member of the fi nance faculty for 20 years. He is a member of several public company boards of directors, including Health Management Associates, Inc., William Lyon Homes, and the Nicholas Applegate Growth Fund. His areas of expertise include corporate fi nancial policy, investment management, and stock market price behavior. Stephen Ross Loan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stephenv A. Ross is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most widely published authors in fi nance and economics, Professor Ross is recognized for his work in developing the arbitrage pricing theory, as well as for having made 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 and Freddie Mac Table Of Contents PART I: OVERVIEW OF CORPORATE FINANCE Chapter 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance Chapter 2: Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flow PART II: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND LONG-TERM FINANCIAL PLANNING Chapter 3: Working with Financial Statements Chapter 4: Long-Term Financial Planning and Growth PART III: 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 IV: CAPITAL BUDGETING Chapter 9: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria Chapter 10: Making Capital Investment Decisions Chapter 11: Project Analysis and Evaluation PART V: RISK AND RETURN Chapter 12: Some Lessons from Capital Market History Chapter 13: Return, Risk, and the Security Market Line Chapter 14: Options and Corporate Finance PART VI: COST OF CAPITAL AND LONG-TERM FINANCIAL POLICY Chapter 15: Cost of Capital Chapter 16: Raising Capital Chapter 17: Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Policy Chapter 18: Dividends and Dividend Policy PART VII: SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT Chapter 19: Short-Term Finance and Planning Chapter 20: Cash and Liquidity Management Chapter 21: Credit and Inventory Management PART VIII: TOPICS IN CORPORATE FINANCE Chapter 22: International Corporate Finance