Fundamentals of Corporate Finance - Hardcover

Hillier, David; Clacher, Iain; Ross, Stephen A.; Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair In Bus. Admin., Randolph W.; Jordan Professor, Bradford D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0077178238 ISBN 13: 9780077178239

Publisher: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2017

Synopsis

The exciting new third edition of Fundamentals of Corporate Finance uses a unique problem solvingapproach and student friendly writing style to bring to life modern-day coreprinciples covered in Corporate Finance courses. It has been fully updated toreflect the most current and topical trends and developments in CorporateFinance.

Key features of this new edition include:

New Real World Insights use well-knowninternational companies such as Uber, Elringklinger GB, Apple, Google andAdidas, as well as drawing on world events, to show how companies put CorporateFinance into practice and how real world events affect their corporate financedecisions.

New coverage inthe International Corporate Finance chapter on Islamic finance.

Updated BehaviouralFinance chapter has been enhanced by new coverage in the subject area.

Updated examples which use hypotheticalexamples to take students step-by-step through concepts in a clear and coherentmanner to help their understanding and learning.

The extensive end of chapter content has been updated withmany brandnew practice questions and problems, organized by level of difficulty.

New to thisedition is SmartBook with integratedlearning resources. When engaged with SmartBook’s adaptive reading experience,students are guided towards textbook content that has the maximum learningimpact every time they study. This creates an entirely personalized learningexperience for each individual student. The learning resources reinforceimportant concepts at precise moment they need help. 

About this title

About the Author:

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 Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stephen A. Ross was 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 was widely 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 also served as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals. He was a trustee of CalTech. He died suddenly in March of 2017.

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. He came to USC from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was the chairman of the finance department and a member of the finance faculty for 20 years.

Bradford D. Jordan is Professor of Finance and holder of the Richard W. and Janis H. Furst Endowed Chair in Finance at the University of Kentucky. He has a longstanding interest in both applied and theoretical issues in corporate finance and has extensive experience teaching all levels of corporate finance and financial management policy. 

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0077178238
• ISBN 13: 9780077178239
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3