Fundamentals of Corporate Finance ISE

Richard A. Brealey - Emeritus Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is the former president of the European Finance Association and a former director of the American Finance Association. He is a fellow of the British Academy and has served as a special adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England and director of a number of financial institutions. Other books written by Professor Brealey include Introduction to Risk and Return from Common Stocks. Stewart C. Myers - Emeritus Professor of Financial Economics at MITs Sloan School of Management. He is past president of the American Finance Association, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a principal of the Brattle Group Inc., and a retired director of Entergy Corporation. His research is primarily concerned with the valuation of real and financial assets, corporate financial policy, and financial aspects of government regulation of business. He is the author of influential research papers on many topics, including adjusted present value, rate of return regulation, pricing and capital allocation in insurance, real options, and moral hazard and information issues in capital structure decisions. Alan Marcus is the Mario J. Gabelli Professor of Finance in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He received his PhD in economics from MIT. Professor Marcus has been a visiting professor at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration and at MIT's Sloan School of Management and has served as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Marcus has published widely in the fields of capital markets and portfolio management. He also spent two years at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), where he developed models of mortgage pricing and credit risk. He currently serves on the Research Foundation Advisory Board of the CFA Institute.

Part 1 Introduction
1 Goals and Governance of the Corporation
2 Financial Markets and Institutions
3 Accounting and Finance
4 Measuring Corporate Performance
Part 2 Value
5 The Time Value of Money
6 Valuing Bonds
7 Valuing Stocks
8 Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
9 Using Discounted Cash-Flow Analysis to Make Investment Decisions
10 Project Analysis
Part 3 Risk
11 Introduction to Risk, Return, and the Opportunity Cost of Capital
12 Risk, Return, and Capital Budgeting
13 The Weighted-Average Cost of Capital and Company Valuation
Part 4 Financing
14 Introduction to Corporate Financing
15 How Corporations Raise Venture Capital and Issue Securities
Part 5 Debt and Payout Policy
16 Debt Policy
17 Payout Policy
Part 6 Financial Analysis and Planning
18 Long-Term Financial Planning
19 Short-Term Financial Planning
20 Working Capital Management
Part 7 Special Topics
21 Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Control
22 International Financial Management
23 Options
24 Risk Management
Part 8 Conclusion
25 What We Do and Do Not Know about Finance