Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications

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. He has a longstanding interest in both applied and theoretical issues in corporate finance and has extensive experience teaching all levels of corporate finance and financial management policy. Jeffrey F. Jaffe has been a frequent contributor to finance and economic literature in such journals as the Quarterly Economic Journal, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Financial Economics, and The Financial Analysts Journal . His best-known work concerns insider trading, where he showed both that corporate insiders earn abnormal profits from their trades and that regulation has little effect on these profits. He has also made contributions concerning initial public offerings, the regulation of utilities, the behavior of market makers, the fluctuation of gold prices, the theoretical effect of inflation on the interest rate, the empirical effect of inflation on capital asset prices, the relationship between small-capitalization stocks and the January effect, and the capital structure decision. Randolph W.Westerfield is Dean Emeritus of the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and is 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 a member of the finance faculty for 20 years. 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.

• Part I Overview1Introduction to Corporate Finance2Financial Statements and Cash Flow3Financial Statements Analysis and Financial Models Part IIValuation and Capital Budgeting4Discounted Cash Flow Valuation5Interest Rates and Bond Valuation6Stock Valuation7Net Present Value and Other Investment Rules8Making Capital Investment Decisions9Risk Analysis, Real Options, and Capital Budgeting Part IIIRisk and Return10Risk and Return: Lessons from Market History11Return and Risk: The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)12Risk, Cost of Capital, and Valuation Part IVCapital Structure and Dividend Policy13Efficient Capital Markets and Behavioral Challenges14Capital Structure: Basic Concepts15Capital Structure: Limits to the Use of Debt16Dividends and Other Payouts Part VSpecial Topics17Options and Corporate Finance18Short-Term Finance and Planning19Raising Capital20International Corporate Finance21 Mergers and Acquisitions (web only)