Fundamentals of Corporate Finance with Connect Access Card - Hardcover

Ross Franco Modigliani Professor Of Financial Economics Professor, Stephen A.; Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair In Bus. Admin., Randolph W; Jordan Professor, Bradford D; Roberts Professor, Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1259066681 ISBN 13: 9781259066689

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2013

Synopsis

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (FCF) is written with one strongly held principle - that corporate finance should be developed and taught in terms of a few integrated, powerful ideas. As such, there are three basic themes that are the central focus of the book:

1. An emphasis on intuition - underlying ideas are discussed in general terms and then by way of examples that illustrate in more concrete terms how a financial manager might proceed in a given situation.

2. A unified valuation approach - net present value (NPV) is treated as the basic concept underlying corporate finance. Every subject covered is firmly rooted in valuation, and care is taken to explain how particular decisions have valuation effects.

3. A managerial focus - the authors emphasize the role of the financial manager as decision maker, and they stress the need for managerial input and judgment.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen A. Ross is 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 signalling, 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 and 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.

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.

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.

Gordon Roberts is Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Professor of Financial Services at the Schulich School of Business, York University. A winner of numerous teaching awards, his extensive experience includes finance classes for undergraduate and MBA students, as well as executives. Professor Roberts conducts research in corporate finance and banking. He serves on the editorial boards of several Canadian and international academic journals. Professor Roberts has been a consultant to a number of organizations, including the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Canada Investment and Savings, as well as the Debt Management Office of New Zealand. He has appeared as an expert witness on utility rates of return and capital structures in regulatory hearings in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1259066681
• ISBN 13: 9781259066689
• Binding: Hardcover