Written by Jeannette Switzer, Dalhousie University, is a valuable resource that provides students with an overview and additional review problems for each chapter. Each chapter begins with Chapter Highlights followed by discussion of key concepts and examples to illustrate them. A fill-in-the-blank test help reinforce the key concepts. Each chapter closes with a number of problems with worked-out solutions.
Student Study CD-ROM
Packaged free with every new copy of the book. This CD-ROM for students contains many features to help students learn corporate finance:
Financial Analysis Spreadsheet Templates
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 S. Roberts is Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Professor of Financial Services at the Schulich School of Business, York University. His extensive teaching experience includes finance classes for undergraduate and MBA students, managers, and bankers. Professor Roberts conducts research on duration models for bond portfolio management, 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 Office of the Utilities Consumer Advocate, Alberta, and the Debt Management Office of New Zealand.
