Overview

The fourth edition of Corporate Finance takes an applied approach to cover all the latest research and topic areas important to students taking Finance courses. The new edition provides an international perspective on all areas of corporate finance and has been updated to include discussion on current trends such as the rise of populism and trade barriers on international finance, the advent of Financial Technology, and key regulatory changes impacting the sector.  Understanding and Application •Clear, user-friendly style •Example boxes in every chapter provide hypothetical examples to illustrate theoretical concepts such as cash flow timing, dividend smoothing and differential growth. •Real World Insight boxes use real companies like Siemens, Avast and Adidas to show how they have applied corporate finance theories and concepts to their businesses and business decisions. •Chapter links in the margin provide quick cross-referencing to show students the connections between topics. Practice and Proficiency •Mini and Practical cases present scenarios and questions to practice applying what you have learnt.  •Rigorous testing: between 30 and 40 Questions and Problems per chapter are categorised by topic and level of difficulty. •Numbered maths equations and key notation boxes listing the variables and acronyms that will be encountered in each chapter, designed to encourage mastery of Maths. •Exam Questions designed to take 45 minutes and test you on material learned in a more formal exam style. •Connect® resources include algorithmic questions designed to ensure equations and calculations are not learned by rote but by thorough understanding and practice  New to This Edition •Updated discussions on peer-to-peer trading, cash flow forecasting methods, import/export partners and additional investment appraisal methods •Updated chapters on corporate governance to reflect global changes, efficient markets and mergers and acquisition to reflect new research, financial distress to reflect new data with discussion on trends and insolvencies and fully updated chapter on Leasing to reflect new IFRS standards •New section on Modified Internal Rate of Return and Margin of Safety in Investment Appraisal, Net Asset Value, Islamic Financing, and alternatives to CAPM to reflect research developments • NEW: This edition has now been updated with 8 new videos that covers a worked example from the text and each video has associated concept check questions. The videos are now available on Connect® and cover: • Chapter 1 & 2: Introduction to Finance and Corporate Governance  • Chapter 5: Long-Term Financing • Chapter 6: Investment Appraisal • Chapter 9 & 10: Risk and Return • Chapter 15 and 16: Equity and Debt Valuation  • Chapter 20: Advanced Capital Budgeting • Chapter 21: Dividends • Chapter 22: Options David Hillier is Associate Principal and Executive Dean of the University of Strathclyde Business School. A Professor of Finance, David was recognized as being in the top 3 per cent of the most prolific finance researchers in the world over the past 50 years (Heck and Cooley, 2009) and appears regularly in the media as a business commentator. 

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Author:   David Hillier ,  Stephen Ross ,  Randolph Westerfield ,  Jeffrey Jaffe
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd
Edition:   4th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 26.00cm
Weight:   1.491kg
ISBN:  

9781526848086

ISBN 10:   1526848082
Publication Date:   29 January 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Replaced By:   1526849917
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Overview 1 Introduction to Corporate Finance 2 Corporate Governance Part II: Value and Capital Budgeting 3 Financial Statement Analysis  4 Discounted Cash Flow Valuation 5. How to Value Bonds and Stocks Appendices Online 6 Net Present Value and Other Investment Rules 7 Making Capital Investment Decisions 8 Risk Analysis, Real Options, and Capital Budgeting Part III: Risk 9 Risk and Return: Lessons from Market History 10 Risk and Return: The Capital Asset-Pricing Model 11 Factor Models and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory 12 Risk, Cost of Capital, and Capital Budgeting 13 Efficient Capital Markets and Behavioural Finance Part IV: Long-Term Financing 14 Long Term Financing: An Introduction 15 Equity Financing 16 Debt Financing 17 Leasing Part V: Capital Structure and Dividend Policy 18 Capital Structure: Basic Concepts 19: Capital Structure: limits to the use of debt 20: Valuation and Capital Budgeting for the Levered Firm 21: Dividends and Other Payouts 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 Financial Risk Management with Derivatives Part VII: Financial Planning and Short Term Finance 26 Short Term Finance and Planning 27 Short Term Capital Management Part VIII: Special Topics 28 Mergers and Acquisitions 29 Financial Distress 30 International Corporate Finance

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David Hillier is Professor of Finance at the University of Strathclyde, teaches regularly in development programs for executives and has taught courses for a wide variety of professional clients, including the World Bank and the National Health Service in the UK. It is part of the editorial board of several international journals of finance. Stephen A. Ross was the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial 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, along with 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 also served as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals, and was a trustee of CalTech. Randolph W. Westerfield is Dean Emeritus of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and is the Charles B. Thornton Professor of Finance Emeritus. Professor Westerfield 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. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Oaktree Capital Mutual Funds. His areas of expertise include corporate financial policy, investment management, and stock market price behavior. Jeffrey F. Jaffe has been a frequent contributor to finance and economic literature in such journals as the Quarterly Economic Journal, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Financial Economics, and The Financial Analysts Journal. His best-known work concerns insider trading, where he showed both that corporate insiders earn abnormal profits from their trades and that regulation has little effect on these profits. He has also made contributions concerning initial public offerings, the regulation of utilities, the behavior of market makers, the fluctuation of gold prices, the theoretical effect of inflation on the interest rate, the empirical effect of inflation on capital asset prices, the relationship between small-capitalization stocks and the January effect, and the capital structure decision. Bradford D. Jordan is Visiting Scholar at the University of Florida. He previously held the duPont Endowed Chair in Banking and Financial Services at the University of Kentucky, where he was department chair for many years. He specializes in corporate finance and securities valuation. He has published numerous articles in leading finance journals, and he has received a variety of research awards, including the Fama/DFA Award in 2010.Dr. Jordan is coauthor of Corporate Finance 13e, Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications 7e, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 13e, and Essentials of Corporate Finance 1le, which collectively are the most widely used business finance textbooks in the world, along with Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management 10e, a popular investments text.

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