Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications ISE - Jordan, Bradford

Résumé :

PART ONE: OVERVIEW

Chapter One: Introduction to Corporate Finance

Chapter Two: Financial Statements and Cash Flow

Chapter Three: Financial Statements Analysis and FinancialModels

PART TWO: VALUATION AND CAPITAL BUDGETING

Chapter Four: Discounted Cash Flow Valuation

Chapter Five: Interest Rates and Bond Valuation

Chapter Six: Stock Valuation

Chapter Seven: Net Present Value and Other Investment Rules

Chapter Eight: Making Capital Investment Decisions

Chapter Nine: Risk Analysis, Real Options, and CapitalBudgeting

PART THREE: RISK AND RETURN

Chapter Ten: Risk and Return: Lessons from Market History

Chapter Eleven: Return and Risk: The Capital Asset PricingModel (CAPM)

Chapter Twelve: Risk, Cost of Capital, and Valuation

PART FOUR: CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND DIVIDEND POLICY

Chapter Thirteen: Efficient Capital Markets and BehavioralChallenges

Chapter Fourteen: Capital Structure: Basic Concepts

Chapter Fifteen: Capital Structure: Limits to the Use ofDebt

Chapter Sixteen: Dividends and Other Payouts

PART FIVE: SPECIAL TOPICS

Chapter Seventeen: Options and Corporate Finance

Chapter Eighteen: Short-Term Finance and Planning

Chapter Nineteen: Raising Capital

Chapter Twenty: International Corporate Finance

Chapter Twenty-One: Mergers and Acquisitions (web only)

APPENDIXES

A: Mathematical Tables

B: Solutions to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems

C: Using the HP 10B and TI BA II Plus FinancialCalculators

D: Key Equations

Biographie:
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....

Sommaire:
Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications wasdeveloped for the graduate (MBA) level as a concise, up-to-date, andto-the-point product, the majority of which can be realistically covered in asingle term or course.? To achieve theobjective of reaching out to the many different types of students and thevarying course settings, corporate finance is distilled down to its core, whilemaintaining a decidedly modern approach. Purely theoretical issues aredownplayed, and the use of extensive and elaborate calculations is minimized toillustrate points that are either intuitively obvious or of limited practicaluse. The goal was to focus on what students really need to carry away from aprinciples course. A balance is struck by introducing and covering theessentials, while leaving more specialized topics to follow-up courses. Netpresent value is treated as the underlying and unifying concept in corporatefinance. Every subject covered is firmly rooted in valuation, and care is takenthroughout to explain how particular decisions have valuation effects. Also,the role of the financial manager as decision maker is emphasized, and the needfor managerial input and judgment is stressed....