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 Flow 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 Appendix A. Mathematical Tables Appendix B. Key Equations Appendix C. Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems Appendix D. Using the HP-10B and TI BA II Plus Financial Calculators
The late Stephen A. Ross was 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 was
known for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory as
well as his substantial contributions to the discipline through his
research on 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 various academic and practitioner
journals. He was a trustee of CalTech.
Randolph W. Westerfield is Dean Emeritus and the Charles B.
Thornton Professor in Finance Emeritus at the University of
Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Professor
Westerfield came to USC from the Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, where he was the chairman of the finance department
and a 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 in the Warrington College of
Business 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. Professor Jordan has published numerous articles in top
journals on issues such as cost of capital, capital structure, and
the behavior of security prices. He is a past president of the
Southern Finance Association, and he is coauthor of Fundamentals of
Investments: Valuation and Management, 9e, a leading investments
text, also published by McGraw Hill.
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