The best-selling Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (FCF) is written with one strongly
held principle' that corporate finance should be developed and taught in terms of a few
integrated, powerful ideas. As such, there are three basic themes that are the central
focus of the book: 1) An emphasis on intuition'underlying ideas are discussed in general
terms and then by way of examples that illustrate in more concrete terms how a financial
manager might proceed in a given situation. 2) A unified valuation approach'net present
value (NPV) is treated as the basic concept underlying corporate finance. Every subject
covered is firmly rooted in valuation, and care is taken to explain how particular
decisions have valuation effects. 3) A managerial focus'the authors emphasize the role of
the financial manager as decision maker, and they stress the need for managerial input and
judgment. The Seventh Edition continues the tradition of excellence that has earned
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance its status as market leader. Every chapter has been
updated to provide the most current examples that reflect corporate finance in today's
world.
Bradford Jordan
Bradford D. Jordan is 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
Randoloph W. Westerfield is Dean of the Marshall School of Business at University of
Southern California and holder of the Robert R. Dockson Dean's Chair of Business
Administration. From 1988 to 1993, Professor Westerfield served as the chairman of the
School's finance and business economics department and the Charles B. Thornton Professor
of Finance. He 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.
His areas of expertise include corporate financial policy, investment management and
analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and stock market price behavior. Professor Westerfield
has served as a member of the Continental Bank trust committee, supervising all activities
of the trust department. He has been consultant to a number of corporations, including
AT&T, Mobil Oil and Pacific Enterprises, as well as to the United Nations, the U.S.
Department of Justice and Labor, and the State of California.
Stephen Ross
Stephen Ross is presently 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 is recognized for his work in
developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and 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 currently serves as an associate editor of several
academic and practitioner journals. He is a trustee of CalTech, a director of the College
Retirement Equity Fund (CREF), and Freddie Mac. He is also the co-chairman of Roll and
Ross Asset Management Corporation.
Table of Contents
Part One: Overview of Corporate Finance
Chapter 1 Introduction to Corporate Finance
Chapter 2 Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flow
Part Two: Financial Statements and Long Term Financial Planning
Chapter 3 Working with Financial Statements
Chapter 4 Long Term Financial Planning and Growth
Part Three: 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 Four: Capital Budgeting
Chapter 9 Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
Chapter 10 Making Captial Investment Decisions
Chapter 11 Project Analysis and Evaluation
Part Five: 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 Six: 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 Seven: 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 Eight: Topics in Corporate Finance
Chapter 22 International Corporate Finance
Chapter 23 Risk Management: An Introduction to Financial Engineering
Chapter 24 Option Valuation
Chapter 25 Mergers and Acquisitions
Chapter 26 Leasing
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