Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach: A Focused Approach
By Michael C. Ehrhardt, Eugene F. Brigham, Michael B. McDonald
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Ehrhardt/Brigham/McDonald’s “Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach,” 9th Edition helps you emphasize key corporate finance concepts, skills, and technological applications that are critical to M.B.A. students’ success in today’s workplace.
Delivering comprehensive coverage of essential topics, this updated edition’s streamlined approach is ideal for a one-semester course. Students explore the latest financial developments, while engaging with various real-world examples that show how to maximize a firm’s value in the modern marketplace. Hands-on applications and step-by-step instructions strengthen student mastery of features and functions in Excel. Each chapter includes multiple AI applications in finance, helping guide students through responsible AI use and highlighting the important role critical thinking plays in the process. This edition’s MindTap course features customizable, interactive content and course management tools to help you simplify your teaching and support student success.
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Ehrhardt/Brigham/McDonald’s “Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach,” 9th Edition helps you emphasize key corporate finance concepts, skills, and technological applications that are critical to M.B.A. students’ success in today’s workplace.
Delivering comprehensive coverage of essential topics, this updated edition’s streamlined approach is ideal for a one-semester course. Students explore the latest financial developments, while engaging with various real-world examples that show how to maximize a firm’s value in the modern marketplace. Hands-on applications and step-by-step instructions strengthen student mastery of features and functions in Excel. Each chapter includes multiple AI applications in finance, helping guide students through responsible AI use and highlighting the important role critical thinking plays in the process. This edition’s MindTap course features customizable, interactive content and course management tools to help you simplify your teaching and support student success.
This edition’s engaging and easy-to-understand presentation helps students quickly grasp concepts and master financial tools, freeing up valuable time for you and them.
Excel Tool Kits strengthen students’ proficiency in using spreadsheets, while screen captures help them connect written problem-solving explanations to actual calculations.
End-of-chapter spreadsheet problems guide students through building a model, while minimizing data entry — with answers appearing in color-coded cells for easier grading.
Table of contents
Part I: The Company and Its Environment.
- 1. An Overview of Financial Management and the Financial Environment.
- 2. Financial Statements, Cash Flow, and Taxes.
- 3. Analysis of Financial Statements.
Part II: Fixed Income Securities.
- 4. Time Value of Money.
- 5. Bonds, Bond Valuation, and Interest Rates.
Part III: Stocks and Options.
- 6. Risk, Return, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model.
- 7. Corporate Valuation, Stock Valuation, and Stock Market Equilibrium.
- 8. Financial Options and Applications in Corporate Finance.
Part IV: Projects and Their Valuation.
- 9. The Cost of Capital.
- 10. The Basics of Capital Budgeting: Evaluating Cash Flows.
- 11. Cash Flow Estimation and Risk Analysis.
Part V: Corporate Valuation and Governance.
- 12. Financial Planning and Forecasting Financial Statements.
- 13. Corporate Valuation, Value-Based Management and Corporate Governance.
Part VI: Cash Distributions and Capital Structure.
- 14. Distributions to Shareholders: Dividends and Repurchases.
- 15. Capital Structure Decisions.
Part VII: Managing Global Operations.
- 16. Working Capital Management.
- 17. Multinational Financial Management.
- 18. FinTech.
Appendixes.
- A. Solutions to Self-Test Problems.
- B. Answers to End-of-Chapter Problems.
- C. Selected Equations and Data.
- D. Values of the Areas under the Standard Normal Distribution Function.
Glossary.
- Name Index.
- Subject Index.
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