Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

David Hillier is Professor of Finance at the University of Strathclyde, teaches regularly in development programs for executives and has taught courses for a wide variety of professional clients, including the World Bank and the National Health Service in the UK. It is part of the editorial board of several international journals of finance. The late 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 known for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory as well as his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research on 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 various academic and practitioner journals. He was a trustee of CalTech.  Randolph W. Westerfield is Dean Emeritus and the Charles B. Thornton Professor in Finance Emeritus at the University of Southern Californias Marshall School of Business. Professor Westerfield 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. 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 D. Jordan is Visiting Scholar in the Warrington College of Business 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. Professor Jordan has published numerous articles in top journals on issues such as cost of capital, capital structure, and the behavior of security prices. He is a past president of the Southern Finance Association, and he is coauthor of Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management, 9e, a leading investments text, also published by McGraw Hill.

Part I: Overviewof Corporate Finance

1. Introduction toCorporate Finance

2. CorporateGovernance

3. FinancialAnalysis and Planning

 

Part II: Valuationof Future Cash Flows

4. Introduction toValuation: The Time Value of Money

5. Discounted CashFlow Valuation

6. Bond Valuation

7. Equity Valuation

 

Part III: CapitalBudgeting

8.Net PresentValue and Other Investment Criteria

9. Making CapitalInvestment Decisions

10. ProjectAnalysis and Evaluation

 

Part IV: Risk andReturn

11. Some Lessonsfrom Recent Capital Market History

12. Return, Risk,and the Security Market

 

Part V: Cost ofCapital and Long-Term Financial Policy

13. Cost of Capital

14. Raising Capital

15. FinancialLeverage and Capital Structure Policy

16. Dividends andPayout Policy

 

Part VI: Topics inCorporate Finance

17. Short-TermFinancial Planning and Management

18. InternationalCorporate Finance

19. BehaviouralFinance

20. Financial RiskManagement

21. Options andCorporate Finance

22. Mergers &Acquisitions