Essentials of Corporate Finance (10th Edition)

About the Author

Randolph W. Westerfield is Dean Emeritus and the Charles B. Thornton Professor in Finance Emeritus at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Professor Westerfield 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. 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. Bradford D. Jordan is Visiting Scholar in the Warrington College of Business 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. Professor Jordan has published numerous articles in top journals on issues such as cost of capital, capital structure, and the behavior of security prices. He is a past president of the Southern Finance Association, and he is coauthor of Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management, 9e, a leading investments text, also published by McGraw Hill.

Publisher: McGraw Hill; 10th edition
Publication date: February 11, 2019
Language: English
Page length: 688 pages

Stephen Ross is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley and received his PhD from UC Los Angeles in 1972.

Ross: Essentials Of Corporate Finance 10th Edition PDF readers will learn about how to apply financial theory in real-world situations. It covers topics including capital budgeting, dividend policy, risk analysis, and investment analysis.

Written for both undergraduate and graduate students in the field, Essentials of Corporate Finance includes many examples that provide a framework for solving problems encountered by students in finance courses and provide opportunities for students to assess their understanding before moving on to more difficult material.

Ross presents the material in a straightforward manner and uses numerous worked examples to illustrate concepts. He also includes a chapter on accounting and corporate finance.

The book is aimed at students considering careers in finance. It is also suitable for anyone interested in understanding finance, particularly those who are not skilled in mathematics or physics. Those interested will find that it provides an excellent introduction to the area of corporate finance for students without a strong mathematical background, including students from non-traditional backgrounds such as engineering, business and economics.