Essentials of corporate finance / Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, and Bradford D. Jordan

Table of contents

Part 1: Overview of Financial Management
1. Introduction to Financial Management


Part 2: Understanding Financial Statements and Cash Flow
2. Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flows
3. Working with Financial Statements

Part 3: Valuation of Future Cash Flows
4. Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money
5. Discounted Cash Flow Valuation

Part 4: Valuing Stocks and Bonds
6. Interest Rates and Bond Valuation
7. Equity Markets and Stock Valuation

Part 5: Capital Budgeting
8. Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
9. Making Capital Investment Decisions

Part 6: Risk and Return
10. Some Lessons from Capital Market History
11. Risk and Return Part 7: Long-Term Financing
12. Cost of Capital
13. Leverage and Capital Structure
14. Dividends and Dividend Policy
15. Raising Capital

Part 7: Long term financing
The cost of capital
the cost of equity
the cost of debt and preferred stock
e.tc

Part 8: Short-Term Financial Management
16. Short-Term Financial Planning
17. Working Capital Management

Part 9: Topics in Business Finance
18. International Aspects of Financial Management
Appendices
A. Mathematical Tables
B. Key Equations
C. Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems
D. Using the HP-10B and TI BA II Plus Financial Calculators

Includes bibliographical references and indexes