TY - BOOK AU - Stephen A Ross; AU - Stephen A Ross; ED - Randolph Westerfield; ED - Bradford D Jordan TI - Essentials of corporate finance SN - 9780072340525 AV - HG4026 .R676 PY - 2001/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill, KW - Corporations -- KW - Finance. N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Overview of financial management. -- Introduction to financial management -- Understanding financial statements and cash flow. -- Financial statements, taxes, and cash flow -- Working with financial statements -- Valuation of future cash flows. -- Introduction to valuation: the time value of money -- Discounted cash flow valuation -- Valuing stocks and bonds. -- Interest rates and bond valuation -- Equity markets and stock valuation -- Capital budgeting. -- Net present value and other investment critieria -- Making capital investment decisions -- Risk and return. -- Some lessons from capital market history -- Risk and return -- Long-term financing. -- Cost of capital -- Leverage and capital structure -- Dividends and dividend policy -- Raising capital -- Short-term financial management. -- Short-term financial planning -- Working capital management -- Topics in business finance. -- 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 ER -