Essentials of Corporate Finance: 2025 Release ISE

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. 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 Emeritus. Professor Westerfield 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. 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 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. He specializes in corporate finance and securities valuation. He has published numerous articles in leading finance journals, and he has received a variety of research awards, including the Fama/DFA Award in 2010.Dr. Jordan is coauthor of Corporate Finance 13e, Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications 7e, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 13e, and Essentials of Corporate Finance 1le, which collectively are the most widely used business finance textbooks in the world, along with Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management 10e, a popular investments text.

• PART ONE: OVERVIEW OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENTChapter 1: Introduction to Financial Management PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND CASH FLOW Chapter 2: Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flow Chapter 3: Working with Financial Statements PART THREE: VALUATION OF FUTURE CASH FLOWSChapter 4: Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money Chapter 5: Discounted Cash Flow Valuation PART FOUR: VALUING STOCKS AND BONDS Chapter 6: Interest Rates and Bond Valuation Chapter 7: Equity Markets and Stock Valuation PART FIVE: CAPITAL BUDGETINGChapter 8: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria Chapter 9: Making Capital Investment Decisions PART SIX: RISK AND RETURNChapter 10: Some Lessons from Capital Market History Chapter 11: Risk and Return PART SEVEN: LONG-TERM FINANCING Chapter 12: Cost of Capital Chapter 13: Leverage and Capital Structure Chapter 14: Dividends and Dividend Policy Chapter 15: Raising Capital PART EIGHT: SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Chapter 16: Short-Term Financial Planning Chapter 17: Working Capital Management PART NINE: TOPICS IN BUSINESS FINANCE Chapter 18: International Aspects of Financial ManagementAPPENDICES 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