Bradford D. Jordan is Professor of Finance and holder of the Richard W. and Janis H. Furst Endowed Chair in Finance at the University of Kentucky. Randolph W. Westerfield is Dean Emeritus of the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and is the Charles B. Thornton Professor in Finance. Stephen A. Ross is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Corporate Finance, by Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe and Jordan was written to convey the most important corporate finance concepts and applications as a level that is approachable to the widest possible audience. The concise format, managerial context and design, and student-friendly writing style are key attributes in this text. We took the best from RWJ Fundamentals and RWJ Corporate to create a book that fits an underserved need in the market. RWJJ Core Principles strikes a balance by introducing and covering the essentials, while leaving more specialized topics to follow-up courses. This text distills the subject of corporate finance down to its core, while also maintaining a deciding modern approach. The well-respected author team is known for their clear, accessible presentation of material that makes this text an excellent teaching tool.
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| Overview | |
| Introduction to Corporate Finance | |
| Financial Statements and Cash Flow3 | |
| Valuation and Capital Budgeting | |
| Discounted Cash Flow Valuation | |
| Interest Rates and Bonds Valuation | |
| Stock Valuation and the Stock Markets | |
| Net Present Value and Other Investment Rules | |
| Capital Budgeting | |
| Risk Analysis, Real Options, and Capital Budgeting | |
| Risk and Return | |
| Capital Markets: An Overview of Risk and Return | |
| Return, Risk, and the Security Market Line | |
| Risk and the Cost of Capital | |
| Capital Structure and Dividend Policy | |
| Corporate Financing Decisions and Efficient Capital Markets | |
| Capital Structure: Basic Concepts | |
| Capital Structure: Limits to the User of Debt | |
| Dividend and Payout Policy | |
| Special Topics | |
| Options and Corporate Finance | |
| Short-Term Finance and Planning | |
| Mergers and Acquisitions | |
| International Corporate Finance | |
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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.
