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"The Essentials of Corporate Finance" 9th Edition is a globally popular textbook on corporate finance. It reconstructs the basic framework of corporate finance with a unique perspective and comprehensive and powerful concepts. The book focuses on the main theme of value assessment centered around NPV analysis, closely integrating the needs of financial practice, and selecting core content on basic concepts and ideas of corporate finance, financial statements and long-term financial planning, future cash flow estimation, capital budgeting, risk and return, cost of capital and long-term financial policies, short-term financial planning and management, international corporate finance, etc. The author conveys the basic concepts, methods, and practical skills of corporate finance in a plain language, supplemented with rich examples systematically, concisely, and effectively.
The book is divided into 8 parts, totaling 31 chapters, covering all issues of corporate financial management, including asset pricing. The structure of the chapters is very ingenious, with rigorous logic, novel content, abundant data, easy to teach and learn. It is suitable as a textbook for MBA, undergraduate, and graduate students majoring in finance management and financial management in business schools, as well as a must-read masterpiece or reference book for finance and investment professionals, university teachers, and researchers.
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Stephen A. Ross is a professor of finance and economics at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As one of the world's most prolific financial economists, Professor Ross is known for his developed "arbitrage pricing theory" and has made outstanding contributions in research areas such as signal theory, agency theory, option pricing, and interest rate term structure. He served as president of the American Finance Association, deputy editor of many academic and practical journals, and trustee of the California Teachers' Retirement Foundation (CalTech). He passed away suddenly in March 2017.
Randolph W. Westerfield is currently the Honorary Dean of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Charles B. Thornton Professor of Finance. He previously taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for 20 years and served as the head of the finance department. He is also a board member of Oaktree Capital Mutual Fund. His academic expertise includes corporate financial policy, investment management, and stock market price behavior.
Bradford D. Jordan is currently a professor of finance at the University of Kentucky and the Foster Family Endowed Chief Finance Professor. He has long been devoted to the application and theoretical research of corporate finance and has rich teaching experience in corporate finance and financial management policy courses. Professor Jordan's writings mainly focus on areas such as cost of capital, capital structure, and securities price behavior. He is also a former president of the Southern Finance Association and a co-author of the investment textbook "Fundamentals of Investment: Valuation and Management".
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