Fundamentals of Corporate Finance: WITH Student CD ROM, Powerweb & S&P

Alan Marcus is professor of finance in the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He received his PHD in Economics from MIT in 1981. Professor Marcus recently has been a visiting professor at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration and at MIT's Sloan School of Management and has served as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also established the Chartered Financial Analysts Review Program at Boston College. Professor Marcus has published widely in the fields of capital markets and portfolio management, with an emphasis on applications of futures and options pricing models. His consulting work has ranged from new product development to provision of expert testimony in utility rate proceedings. He also spend two years at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), where he developed models of mortgage pricing and credit risk, and he currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Currency Risk Management Alliance of State Street Bank and Windham Capital Management Boston.

Part One: Introduction<p/>Ch. 1 The Firm and the Financial Manager<p/>Ch. 2 The Financial Environment<p/>Ch. 3 Accounting and Finance<p/>Part Two: Value<p/>Ch. 4 The Time Value of Money<p/>Ch. 5 Valuing Bonds<p/>Ch. 6 Valuing Stocks<p/>Ch. 7 Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria<p/>Ch. 8 Using Discounted Cash-Flow Analysis to Make Investment Decisions<p/>Ch. 9 Project Analysis<p/>Part Three: Risk<p/>Ch. 10 Introduction to Risk, Return, and the Opportunity Cost of Capital<p/>Ch. 11 Risk, Return, and Capital Budgeting<p/>Ch. 12 The Cost of Capital<p/>Part Four: Financing<p/>Ch. 13 An Overview of Corporate Financing<p/>Ch. 14 How Corporations Issue Securities<p/>Part Five: Capital Structure and Dividend Policy<p/>Ch. 15 Debt Policy<p/>Ch. 16 Dividend Policy<p/>Part Six: Financial Planning<p/>Ch. 17 Financial Statement Analysis<p/>Ch. 18 Financial Planning<p/>Ch. 19 Working Capital Management and Short-Term Planning<p/>Part Seven: Short-term Financial Decisions<p/>Ch. 20 Cash and Inventory Management<p/>Ch. 21 Credit Management and Bankruptcy<p/>Part Eight: Selected Topics<p/>Ch. 22 Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Control<p/>Ch. 23 International Financial Management<p/>Ch. 24 Options<p/>Ch. 25 Risk Management<p/>Part Nine: Conclusion<p/>Ch. 26 What We Do and Do Not Know About Finance