Fundamentals of corporate finance / Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, University of Southern California, Emeritus, Bradford D. Jordan, University of Florida.

Includes index.

PART 1: OVERVIEW OF CORPORATE FINANCE
1 Introduction to Corporate Finance
2 Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flow

PART 2: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND LONG-TERM FINANCIAL PLANNING
3 Working with Financial Statements
4 Long-Term Financial Planning and Growth

PART 3: VALUATION OF FUTURE CASH FLOWS
5 Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money
6 Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
7 Interest Rates and Bond Valuation
8 Stock Valuation

PART 4: CAPITAL BUDGETING
9 Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
10 Making Capital Investment Decisions
11 Project Analysis and Evaluation

PART 5: RISK AND RETURN
12 Some Lessons from Capital Market History
13 Return, Risk, and the Security Market Line

PART 6: COST OF CAPITAL AND LONG-TERM FINANCIAL POLICY
14 Cost of Capital
15 Raising Capital
16 Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Policy
17 Dividends and Payout Policy

PART 7: SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
18 Short-Term Finance and Planning
19 Cash and Liquidity Management
20 Credit and Inventory Management

PART 8: TOPICS IN CORPORATE FINANCE
21 International Corporate Finance
22 Behavioral Finance Implications for Financial Management
23 Enterprise Risk Management
24 Options and Corporate Finance
25 Option Valuation
26 Mergers and Acquisitions
27 Leasing

"This book was designed and developed explicitly for a first course in business or corporate finance, for both finance majors and non-majors alike. In terms of background or prerequisites, the book is nearly self-contained, assuming some familiarity with basic algebra and accounting concepts, while still reviewing important accounting principles very early on. The organization of this text has been developed to give instructors the flexibility they need. The following grid presents, for each chapter, some of the most significant features as well as a few selected chapter highlights of the 2024 Release of Fundamentals of Corporate Finance. Of course, in every chapter, opening vignettes, boxed features, in-chapter illustrated examples using real companies, and end-of-chapter material have been thoroughly updated as well"-- Provided by publisher.

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About the Author
Stephen Ross

Stephen A. Ross was 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 finance and economics. Professor Ross is recognized for his work in developing the arbitrage pricing theory, along with 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, and was a trustee of CalTech.



Randolph Westerfield

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 Emeritus. Professor Westerfield 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. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Oaktree Capital Mutual Funds. His areas of expertise include corporate financial policy, investment management, and stock market price behavior.

Bradford Jordan

Bradford D. Jordan is Visiting Scholar at the University of Florida. He previously held the duPont Endowed Chair in Banking and Financial Services at the University of Kentucky, where he was department chair for many years. He specializes in corporate finance and securities valuation. He has published numerous articles in leading finance journals, and he has received a variety of research awards, including the Fama/DFA Award in 2010.

Dr. Jordan is coauthor of Corporate Finance 13e, Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications 7e, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 13e, and Essentials of Corporate Finance 1le, which collectively are the most widely used business finance textbooks in the world, along with Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management 10e, a popular investments text.