Corporate finance / Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, and Jeffrey Jaffe.

CONTENTS

PART 1: OVERVIEW
introduction to corporate finance
accounting statements and cash flow

PART II: VALUE AND CAPITAL BUDGETING
financial markets and net present value
Net present value
How to value bonds and stocks
Some alternative investment rules
Net present value and capital budgeting
Strategy and analysis in using net present value

PART III: RISK
capital market theory: an overview
Return and risk: The capital-asset pricing model
An alternative view of risk and return: an arbitrage pricing theory
Risk, cost of capital, and capital budgeting

PART IV: CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND DIVIDEND POLICY
Corporate-financing decisions and efficient capital markets
Long term financing: an introduction
Capital structure: Limits to the use of debt
Valuation and capital budgeting for the levered firm
Dividend policy: why does it matter?

PART V: LONG-TERM FINANCING
Issuing securities to the public
long term debt
leasing

PART VI: OPTIONS, FUTURES AND CORPORATE FINANCE
options and corporate finance: basic concepts
options and corporate finance: extensions and applications
warrants and convertibles
derivatives and hedging risk

PART VII: FINANCIAL PLANNING AND SHORT-TERM FINANCE
Corporate financial models and long-term planning
short-term finance and planning
cash management

PART VIII: SPECIAL TOPICS
Mergers and acquisitions
financial distress
international corporate finance

Includes bibliographical references and index.