Fundamentals of Corporate Finance - Softcover

A thorough technical revision of the classic Fundamentals of Corporate Finance by Thompson, Christensen, Ross, Westerfield and Jordan.

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.

SPENCER THOMPSON was formerly Professor of Finance, Head of the School Finance and Head of the Department of Accounting and Law at the Queensland University of Technology. He has extensive teaching experience having taught finance at degree, masters and doctorate levels more than twenty years. Prior to his teaching he worked in industry as Managing Director of a group of service companies controlling the day-to-day finance activities for a diverse set of business organizations. In addition he has maintained contact with the senior professional bodies. He has served on several educational committees and been Australian and State President in these organizations. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Queensland with first class honours, the Thomas Brown Prize and the University Medal. His doctoral research looked at the changing characteristics of corporate risk.

MARK CHRISTENSEN has a long standing interest in both applied and theoretical issues in corporate finance. He had had extensive experience teaching all levels of corporate finance at the Queensland University of Technology and for numerous National and International institutes and professional bodies. He has a practical and interactive approach to learning and he helps understanding by developing concepts in a logical and easy to follow manner - this approach flows through to the text. Mark regularly consults in both the private and government sectors in the areas of discounted cash flow analysis, financial management, WACC and beta estimation. His applied research interests also extend to corporate valuation and risk management. He has a keen interest in finance education and regularly speaks to the broader community to further the understanding of corporate finance.

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.