Corporate Finance (5th Edition) [(USA) Stephen A. Ross]

Author: Stephen A. Ross, William Westerfield, Jeffrey F. Jaffe
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: This book is an excellent choice for students of MBA and related programs studying corporate finance. It is divided into seven parts: Introduction, Value and Capital Budgeting, Risk, Capital Structure and Dividend Policy, Long-Term Financing, Financial Planning and Short-Term Financing, and Special Topics. The structure is clear, the language is fluent, and it includes 25% of the book's content as real-life cases, making it engaging to read. This book is a highly popular textbook in U.S. universities and has been revised to its fifth edition. It explains the basic principles of corporate finance from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It mainly covers:
- Overview
- Value and Capital Budgeting
- Risk
- Capital Structure and Dividend Policy
- Long-Term Financing
- Options, Futures, and Corporate Finance
- Financial Planning and Short-Term Financing
- Special Topics
The content spans various fields such as financial statements and cash flows, financial markets and net present value, bond and stock pricing methods, returns and risk, capital asset pricing model, arbitrage pricing theory, corporate financing decisions and efficient markets, capital structure, long-term financing, dividend policy, long-term liabilities, options and corporate finance, warrants and convertible bonds, leasing, derivative instruments and hedging risk, corporate financial models and long-term planning, cash management, credit management, mergers and acquisitions, financial distress, and international corporate finance. The book is comprehensive, with simple and easy-to-understand theories, along with numerous examples and case analyses. It is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students of finance or financial studies, MBA students, researchers, and practitioners in the financial field.