Fundamentals of Corporate Finance: 2024 Release ISE

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 W. Westerfield is Dean Emeritus of the University of Southern Californias 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 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.

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