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

Contents:

Part I: Overview. 1. Introduction to corporate finance
2. Financial statements and cash flow
3. Financial statements analysis and financial models

Part II: Valuation and capital budgeting.
4. Discounted cash flow valuation
5. Net present value and other investment rules
6. Making capital investment decisions
7. Risk analysis, real options, and capital budgeting
8. Interest rates and bond valuation
9. Stock valuation

Part III: Risk.
10. Risk and return: lessons from market history
11. Return and risk: the capital asset pricing model (CAPM)
12. An alternative view of risk and return: the arbitrage pricing theory
13. Risk, cost of capital, and valuation

Part IV: Capital structure and dividend policy.
14. Efficient capital markets and behavioral challenges
15. Long-term financing: an introduction
16. Capital structure: basic concepts
17. Capital structure: limits to the use of debt
18. Valuation and capital budgeting for the levered firm
19. Dividends and other payouts

Part V: Long-term financing.
20. Raising capital
21. Leasing

Part VI: Options, futures, and corporate finance
22. Options and corporate finance
23. Options and corporate finance: extensions and applications
24. Warrants and convertibles
25. Derivatives and hedging risk

Part VII: Short-term finance.
26. Short-term finance and planning
27. Cash management
28. Credit and inventory management

Part VIII: Special topics.
29. Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
30. Financial distress
31. International corporate finance.

Includes index