Essentials of Corporate Finance

Part 1: Overview of Financial Management 1. Introduction to Financial Management Part 2: Understanding Financial Statements and Cash Flow 2. Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flows 3. Working with Financial Statements Part 3: Valuation of Future Cash Flows 4. Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money 5. Discounted Cash Flow Valuation Part 4: Valuing Stocks and Bonds 6. Interest Rates and Bond Valuation 7. Equity Markets and Stock Valuation Part 5: Capital Budgeting 8. Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria 9. Making Capital Investment Decisions Part 6: Risk and Return 10. Some Lessons from Capital Market History 11. Risk and Return Part 7: Long-Term Financing 12. Cost of Capital 13. Leverage and Capital Structure 14. Dividends and Dividend Policy 15. Raising Capital Part 8: Short-Term Financial Management 16. Short-Term Financial Planning 17. Working Capital Management Part 9: Topics in Business Finance 18. International Aspects of Financial Management Appendices A. Mathematical Tables B. Key Equations C. Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems D. Using the HP-10B and TI BA II Plus Financial Calculators Glossary Name Index Subject Index

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. 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. Bradford D. Jordan is Professor of Finance and Gatton Research Fellow in the Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics at the