Essentials of Corporate Finance (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Est) [Hardcover]

Stephen A. Ross (Author), George D. Manning (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072510765 | ISBN-13: 978-0072510768 | Publication Date: January 2004 | Edition: 4th

The Interactive Computing Series is the visual, interactive way to develop and apply software skills. This skills based approach coupled with its illustrated, 2 page-spread design is ideal for the introductory CIS course, the self-paced course or students in non-traditional education settings. The book has an eLearning session for students, which is a web-based, interactive study guide tied to each chapter of this text. Calculator sections following applicable examples show students how to solve problems using financial calculators. Professors will hopefully be able to spend less class time teaching students calculator keystrokes and more time teaching finance with this feature. The end-of-chapter questions have been doubled in this edition. Since many students in an introductory finance course are not finance majors, the authors use the chapter-opening vignettes to explain relevance to other areas of business (marketing, accounting, management). Spreadsheet sections following applicable examples show students how to solve problems using spreadsheets. Since spreadsheets are a main tool in business, it is important that students understand the basics of spreadsheet analysis.

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About the Author

Stephen A. Ross Sloan School of Management, Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stephen A. Ross is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Randolph W. Westerfield Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California 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. Bradford D. Jordan Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky 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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 592 pages
• Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill; 4th edition (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072510765
• ISBN-13: 978-0072510768
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,044,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Horrible Book, October 9, 2006

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This review is from: Essentials of Corporate Finance (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Est) (Hardcover)

The only great thing about this book is its small size and thats about it. The text doesn't do a very good job of explaining the ideas and concepts. Say you are given certain parts of an equation it doesn't really show you how to use to components to solve for the right number. Instead it gives you a wonderful GENERAL overview of an idea that is minimal in explanation. I'm almost at the point of flipping out because the lack of explanations and I'm only on Chapter 2.

29 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars ok, but..., January 15, 1998

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This review is from: Essentials of Corporate Finance (Irwin Series in Finance) (Hardcover)

i think that the guide that came with my book, which shows pictures of the slides that professors are supposed to use was completely usless, if you have to purchase this book for a class, try and get a used copy. It is not worth the price you have to pay. There is another book by Breyli and Meyers titles Corporate Finance which is much more comprehensive and much better.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not sure why someone rated it poorly, June 1, 2007

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C. Dye "MBA Someday" (Idaho Falls, ID USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essentials of Corporate Finance (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Est) (Hardcover)

I'm an MBA student with quite a number of courses finished. I'm over half way through the finance course that uses this book and have found it to be written very well. The example problems are great, and the explanations are thorough. Our professor did make available the answers to the questions at the back of the book and used the powerpoints developed by the author. All in all the only drawback I could find was cost (as usual with college texts). As a side note, several students did use the 4th edition in our class with the permission of the instructor and did just fine.