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Showing posts with label Corporate Finance. Show all posts

Monday, September 23, 2013

Essentials of Corporate Finance, 8th Edition, Stephen Ross



The integrated solutions for Ross’s Essentials of Corporate Finance have been specifically designed to help improve student performance, meaning that students are prepared for and engaged in class, and they can successfully solve problems and analyze the results. McGraw-Hill’s adaptive learning component, LearnSmart, provides assignable modules that help students master chapter core concepts and come to class more prepared. In addition, resources within Connect Plus help students solve financial problems and apply what they've learned. Ross Essentials’ succinct coverage, managerial focus, and strong end-of-chapter content combine with a complete digital solution to help your students achieve higher outcomes in the course.

About the Author
Stephen Ross is presently 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 signaling, 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, 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.

Randoloph W. Westerfield is Dean of the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California and holder of the Robert R. Dockson Dean’s Chair of Business Administration. From 1988 to 1993, Professor Westerfield served as the chairman of the School’s finance and business economics department and 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 member of the finance faculty for 20 years. His areas of expertise include corporate financial policy, investment management and analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and stock market price behavior. Professor Westerfield has served as a member of the Continental Bank trust committee, supervising all activities of the trust department. He has been consultant to a number of corporations, including AT&T, Mobil Oil and Pacific Enterprises, as well as to the United Nations, the U.S. Department of Justice and Labor, and the State of California.

Bradford D. Jordan is Professor of Finance and Gatton Research Fellow in the Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. He has a long-standing interest in both applied and theoretical issues in corporate finance, and has extensive experience teaching all levels of corporate finance and financial management policy. Professor Jordan has published numerous articles on issues such as cost of capital, capital structure, and the behavior of security prices.

Product Details :
  • Hardcover: 688 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 8 edition (January 23, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0078034752
  • ISBN-13: 978-0078034756
  • Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 8 x 9.8 inches

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Friday, September 20, 2013

Introduction to Corporate Finance: What Companies Do, 3rd Edition, John Graham



Get closer to finance as it's actually practiced today with the powerful approach from award-winning authors John Graham and Scott Smart found in INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE FINANCE: WHAT COMPANIES DO, 3E. Theoretically sound yet practically relevant, INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE FINANCE, 3E integrates examples throughout to emphasize the roles of financial managers and CFOs and show how financial management actually works in today's real companies. This book's accessible, inviting approach gives finance majors the solid foundation they need while remaining relevant to the large number of non-majors in your course. Timely real examples and the latest material on the recent financial crisis, innovative online learning tools, and an integrated approach enable you to keep students of varying degrees of ability both motivated and involved. New author John Graham, one of the most prolific and widely cited scholars in finance today, brings new emphasis to connecting real-life corporate finance to everyday life.

About the Author
John Graham is the D. Richard Mead Professor of Finance at Duke University where he also serves as the Director of the CFO Global Business Outlook survey. He is coeditor of the Journal of Finance and has published more than four dozen scholarly articles in journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and many others. His papers have won multiple research awards, including the Jensen Prize for the best corporate finance paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics and the Brattle prize for the best corporate finance paper in the Journal of Finance. Professor Graham is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Vice President of the Western Finance Association, and been recognized for outstanding teaching and faculty contributions at Duke and the University of Utah.

Dr. Scott B. Smart is the Whirlpool Finance Faculty Fellow at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has published articles in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Accounting Review, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Business Week, and other major newspapers and periodicals. Dr. Smart holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and has been recognized as a master teacher, winning more than a dozen teaching awards. Some of his many consulting clients include Intel and Unext.

Product Details :
  • Hardcover: 736 pages
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning; 3 edition (November 23, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1111222282
  • ISBN-13: 978-1111222284
  • Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 8.6 x 10.9 inches

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