Corporate Finance 5e

Part I: Overview
1 Introduction to Corporate Finance
2 Corporate Governance


Part II: Value and Capital Budgeting
3 Financial Statement Analysis 
4 Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
5. How to Value Bonds and Stocks
Appendices Online
6 Net Present Value and Other Investment Rules
7 Making Capital Investment Decisions
8 Risk Analysis, Real Options, and Capital Budgeting


Part III: Risk
9 Risk and Return: Lessons from Market History
10 Risk and Return: The Capital Asset-Pricing Model
11 Factor Models and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory
12 Risk, Cost of Capital, and Capital Budgeting
13 Efficient Capital Markets and Behavioural Finance


Part IV: Long-Term Financing
14 Long Term Financing: An Introduction
15 Equity Financing
16 Debt Financing
17 Leasing


Part V: Capital Structure and Dividend Policy
18 Capital Structure: Basic Concepts
19: Capital Structure: limits to the use of debt
20: Valuation and Capital Budgeting for the Levered Firm
21: Dividends and Other Payouts


Part VI: Options, Futures, and Corporate Finance
22 Options and Corporate Finance
23 Options and Corporate Finance: Extensions and Applications
24 Warrants and Convertibles
25 Financial Risk Management with Derivatives


Part VII: Financial Planning and Short Term Finance
26 Short Term Finance and Planning
27 Short Term Capital Management


Part VIII: Special Topics
28 Mergers and Acquisitions
29 Financial Distress
30 International Corporate Finance

The fifth European edition of Corporate Finance takes an applied approach to cover all the latest research and topic areas important to students taking Finance courses. The new edition provides an international perspective on all areas of corporate finance and has been updated to include discussion on current trends such as the integrated nature of global supply chains, financial risk management, and key regulatory changes impacting the sector. It addresses the impact that FinTech, the climate and geopolitics are having on the development of corporate finance, considers the questions brought about by the global corona virus pandemic, and looks to the future of the industry.  


 Understanding and Application
• Clear, user-friendly style
• Example boxes in every chapter provide hypothetical examples to illustrate theoretical concepts such as cash flow timing, dividend smoothing and differential growth.
• Real World Insight boxes use companies like Apple, Volkswagen and Adidas to show how they have applied corporate finance theories and concepts to their business decisions.
• Chapter links throughout provide quick cross-referencing to show the connections between topics.


Practice and Proficiency
• Mini and Practical cases present scenarios and questions to practice application and learning. 
• Questions and Problems in each chapter, categorised by topic and level of difficulty, allow for rigorous testing of the chapter content.
• Numbered maths equations and key notation boxes listing the variables and acronyms that will be encountered in each chapter, designed to encourage mastery of Maths.
• Exam Questions designed to take 45 minutes and test you on material learned in a more formal exam style.
• Connect® resources include algorithmic questions designed to ensure equations and calculations are not learned by rote but by thorough understanding and practice. 


New to This Edition
• Sustainability in Action boxes draw on issues relating to the environment, society, the economy and climate change to show how corporate finance is so important to the resolution of sustainability challenges. 
• Updated discussions and new sections on sustainable value added, green bonds, dividend policy and share repurchases, Islamic Financing, intangible valuation, and the differential value method.


Available on McGraw Hill’s Connect®, the well-established online learning platform, which features our award-winning adaptive reading experience as well as resources to help faculty and institutions improve student outcomes and course delivery efficiency. To learn more, visit mheducation.co.uk/connect 


David Hillier is Associate Principal and Executive Dean of the University of Strathclyde Business School. A Professor of Finance, David was recognized as being in the top 3 per cent of the most prolific finance researchers in the world over the past 50 years (Heck and Cooley, 2009) and appears regularly in the media as a business commentator. His YouTube channel of finance lectures (professordavidhillier) has attracted nearly half a million views worldwide.


This European edition is originally based on the Corporate Finance text by Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, Jeffrey F. Jaffe, and Bradford D. Jordan.