Essentials of Corporate Finance | 
| Authors: Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W Westerfield, Bradford D Jordan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 14601
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Pages: 656
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0073405132
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.15
EAN: 9780073405131
ASIN: 0073405132
Publication Date: September 21, 2007
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Product Description
Essentials of Corporate Finance, 6/e by Ross, Westerfield, and Jordan is written to convey the most important concepts and principles of corporate finance at a level that is approachable for a wide audience. The authors retain their modern approach to finance, but have distilled the subject down to the essential topics in 18 chapters. They believe that understanding the “why” is just as important, if not more so, than understanding the “how,” especially in an introductory course. Three basic themes emerge as their central focus:
1. An emphasis on intuition—separate and explain the principles at work on a common sense, intuitive level before launching into specifics. Underlying ideas are discussed first in general terms, then followed by specific examples that illustrate in more concrete terms how a financial manager might proceed in a given situation.
2. A unified valuation approach—Net Present Value is treated as the basic concept underlying corporate finance. Every subject the authors cover is firmly rooted in valuation, and care is taken to explain how decisions have valuation effects.
3. A managerial focus—Students learn that financial management concerns management. The role of financial manager as decision maker is emphasized and they stress the need for managerial input and judgment.
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 ok, but... January 15, 1998
21 out of 26 found this review helpful
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.
 a sorry college level text book November 6, 2006
Christopher W. Rainey (Houston, TX)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is required for a Finance course. This is one of the worst college level textbooks I have ever been exposed to. I am taking this course as a requirement for a 3rd college degree so I have bought a few textbooks.
There are answers to every other problem and not one explanation as to how the answer was derived. Oh wait!!!, you can buy the accompanying student workbook and there are some semi-explanations there.
If this book is intended to be a teaching tool it has failed. The authors deserve an F and should reconsider themselves as "professors" or educators.
My university will hear about this total waste of money.
Authors (of this book), educators and others: feel free to contact me and I will elaborate. I will also offer suggestions and solutions to better present the material where this textbook fails. [...]
Horrible Book October 9, 2006
Kenneth Yu (Seattle, WA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 Not sure why someone rated it poorly June 1, 2007
C. Dye (Idaho Falls, ID USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Minimally helpful text May 16, 2006
T. Love (Massachusetts)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Don't be excited about this book's small size and light weight, the text needs more examples to support you while doing homework. Breif chapter explantions caused me to nearly fail my class. Was NOT a gret book, in fact many students complained to the Dean regarding this book. Good luck.
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