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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 4/c/e
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 4/e
Stephen A. Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Randolph W. Westerfield, University of Southern California
Bradford D. Jordan, University of Kentucky
Gordon S. Roberts, York University


Full Table of Contents

Part I: Overview of Corporate Finance
     
Chapter 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance
    1.1  Corporate Finance and the Financial Manager
    What Is Corporate Finance?
    The Financial Manager
    Financial Management Decisions
    1.2  Forms of Business Organization
    Sole Proprietorship
    Partnership
    Corporation
    1.3  The Goal of Financial Management
    Possible Goals
    The Goal of Financial Management
    A More General Goal
    1.4  The Agency Problem and Control of the Corporation
    Agency Relationships
    Management Goals
    Do Managers Act in the Shareholders' Interests?
    1.5  Financial Markets and the Corporation
    Cash Flows to and from the Firm
    Money versus Capital Markets
    Primary versus Secondary Markets
    1.6  Financial Institutions
    1.7  Trends in Financial Markets and Financial Management
    1.8  Outline of the Text
    1.9  Summary and Conclusions
     
Chapter 2: Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flow
    2.1  The Balance Sheet
    Assets: The Left-Hand Side
    Liabilities and Owners' Equity: The Right-Hand Side
    Net Working Capital
    Liquidity
    Debt versus Equity
    Market Value versus Book Value
    2.2  The Income Statement
    GAAP and the Income Statement
    Non-Cash Items
    Time and Costs
    2.3  Cash Flow
    Cash Flow from Assets
    Cash Flow to Creditors and Shareholders
    Net Capital Spending
    Change in NWC and Cash Flow from Assets
    2.4  Taxes
    Individual Tax Rates
    Average versus Marginal Tax Rates
    Taxes on Investment Income
    Corporate Taxes
    Taxable Income
    Capital Gains and Carry-forward and Carry-back
    2.5  Capital Cost Allowance
    Asset Purchases and Sales
    2.6  Summary and Conclusions
 

Part II: Financial Statements and Long-Term Financial Planning
     
Chapter 3: Working with Financial Statements
    3.1  Cash Flow and Financial Statements: A Closer Look
    Sources and Uses of Cash
    The Statement of Changes in Financial Position
    3.2  Standardized Financial Statements
    Common-Size Statements
    Common-Base-Year Financial Statements: Trend Analysis
    3.3  Ratio Analysis
    Short-Term Solvency or Liquidity Measures
    Other Liquidity Ratios
    Long-Term Solvency Measures
    Asset Management, or Turnover, Measures
    Profitability Measures
    Market Value Measures
    3.4  The Du Pont Identity
    3.5  Using Financial Statement Information
    Why Evaluate Financial Statements?
    Choosing a Benchmark
    Problems with Financial Statement Analysis
    3.6  Summary and Conclusions
     
Chapter 4: Long-Term Financial Planning and Corporate Growth
    4.1  What Is Financial Planning?
    Growth as a Financial Management Goal
    Dimensions of Financial Planning
    What Can Planning Accomplish?
    4.2  Financial Planning Models: A First Look
    A Financial Planning Model: The Ingredients
    A Simple Financial Planning Model
    4.3  The Percentage of Sales Approach
    An Illustration of the Percentage of Sales Approach
    4.4  External Financing and Growth
    EFN and Growth
    Internal Growth Rate
    Financial Policy and Growth
    Determinants of Growth
    4.5  Some Caveats on Financial Planning Models
    4.6  Summary and Conclusions
    App 4A  A Financial Planning Model for the Hoffman Company
    App 4B  Derivation of the Sustainable Growth Formula
 

Part III: Valuation of Future Cash Flows
     
Chapter 5: Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money
    5.1  Future Value and Compounding
    Investing for a Single Period
    Investing for More than One Period
    A Note on Compound Growth
    5.2  Present Value and Discounting
    The Single Period Case
    Present Values for Multiple Periods
    5.3  More on Present and Future Values
    Present versus Future Value
    Determining the Discount Rate
    Finding the Number of Periods
    5.4  Summary and Conclusions
     
Chapter 6: Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
    6.1  Future and Present Values of Multiple Cash Flows
    Future Value with Multiple Cash Flows
    Present Value with Multiple Cash Flows
    A Note on Cash Flow Timing
    6.2  Valuing Level Cash Flows: Annuities and Perpetuities
    Present Value for Annuity Cash Flows
    Future Value for Annuities
    A Note on Annuities Due
    Perpetuities
    Growing Perpetuities
    Growing Annuity
    6.3  Comparing Rates: The Effect of Compounding
    Effective Annual Rates and Compounding
    Calculating and Comparing Effective Annual Rates
    Mortgages
    EARs and APRs
    Taking It to the Limit: A Note on Continuous Compounding
    6.4  Loan Types and Loan Amortization
    Pure Discount Loans
    Interest-Only Loans
    Amortized Loans
    6.5  Summary and Conclusions
    App 6A  Proof of Annuity Present Value Formula
     
Chapter 7: Interest Rates and Bond Valuation
    7.1  Bonds and Bond Valuation
    Bond Features and Prices
    Bond Values and Yields
    Interest Rate Risk
    Finding the Yield to Maturity
    7.2  More on Bond Features
    Is it Debt or Equity?
    Long-Term Debt: The Basics
    The Indenture
    7.3  Bond Ratings
    7.4  Some Different Types of Bonds
    Financial Engineering
    Stripped Bonds
    Floating-Rate Bonds
    Other Types of Bonds
    7.5  Bond Markets
    How Bonds are Bought and Sold
    Bond Price Reporting
    7.6  Inflation and Interest Rates
    Real versus Nominal Rates
    The Fisher Effect
    7.7  Determinants of Bond Yields
    The Term Structure of Interest Rates
    Bond Yields and the Yield Curve: Putting It All Together
    Conclusion
    7.8  Summary and Conclusions
    App 7A  On Duration
    App 7B  Financial Calculators and Bond Analysis
    App 7C  Callable Bonds and Bond Refunding
     
Chapter 8: Stock Valuation
    8.1  Common Stock Valuation
    Common Stock Cash Flows
    Common Stock Valuation: Some Special Cases
    Changing the Growth Rate
    Components of the Required Return
    8.2  Common Stock Features
    Shareholders' Rights
    Dividends
    Classes of Stock
    8.3  Preferred Stock Features
    Stated Value
    Cumulative and Non-Cumulative Dividends
    Is Preferred Stock Really Debt?
    Preferred Stock and Taxes
    Beyond Taxes
    8.4  Stock Market Reporting
    Growth Opportunities
    Application: The Price Earnings Ratio
    8.5  Summary and Conclusions
    App 8A  Corporate Voting
 

Part IV: Capital Budgeting
     
Chapter 9: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
    9.1  Net Present Value
    The Basic Idea
    Estimating Net Present Value
    9.2  The Payback Rule
    Defining the Rule
    Analyzing the Payback Period Rule
    Redeeming Qualities
    Summary of the Rule
    The Discounted Payback Rule
    9.3  The Average Accounting Return
    Analyzing the Average Accounting Return Method
    9.4  The Internal Rate of Return
    Problems with the IRR
    Redeeming Qualities of the IRR
    9.5  The Profitability Index
    9.6  The Practice of Capital Budgeting
    9.7  Summary and Conclusions
     
Chapter 10: Making Capital Investment Decisions
    10.1  Project Cash Flows: A First Look
    Relevant Cash Flows
    The Stand-Alone Principle
    10.2  Incremental Cash Flows
    Sunk Costs
    Opportunity Costs
    Side Effects
    Net Working Capital
    Financing Costs
    Inflation
    Government Intervention
    Other Issues
    10.3  Pro Forma Financial Statements and Project Cash Flows
    Getting Started: Pro Forma Financial Statements
    Project Cash Flows
    Project Total Cash Flow and Value
    10.4  More on Project Cash Flow
    A Closer Look at Net Working Capital
    Depreciation and Capital Cost Allowance
    An Example: The Majestic Mulch and Compost Company (MMCC)
    10.5  Alternative Definitions of Operating Cash Flow
    The Bottom-Up Approach
    The Top-Down Approach
    The Tax Shield Approach
    Conclusion
    10.6  Applying the Tax Shield Approach to the Majestic Mulch and Compost Company Project
    Present Value of the Tax Shield on CCA
    Salvage Value versus UCC
    10.7  Some Special Cases of Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
    Evaluating Cost-Cutting Proposals
    Replacing an Asset
    Evaluating Equipment with Different Lives
    Setting the Bid Price
    10.8  Summary and Conclusions
    App 10A  More on Inflation and Capital Budgeting
    App 10B  Capital Budgeting with Spreadsheets
     
Chapter 11: Project Analysis and Evaluation
    11.1  Evaluating NPV Estimates
    The Basic Problem
    Projected versus Actual Cash Flows
    Forecasting Risk
    Sources of Value
    11.2  Scenario and Other What-If Analyses
    Getting Started
    Scenario Analysis
    Sensitivity Analysis
    Simulation Analysis
    11.3  Break-Even Analysis
    Fixed and Variable Costs
    Accounting Break-Even
    Accounting Break-Even: A Closer Look
    Uses for the Accounting Break-Even
    11.4  Operating Cash Flow, Sales Volume, and Break-Even
    Accounting Break-Even and Cash Flow
    Sales Volume and Operating Cash Flow
    Cash Flow and Financial Break-Even Points
    11.5  Operating Leverage
    The Basic Idea
    Implications of Operating Leverage
    Measuring Operating Leverage
    Operating Leverage and Break-Even
    11.6  Additional Considerations in Captial Budgeting
    Managerial Options
    Capital Rationing
    11.7  Summary and Conclusions
 

Part V: Risk and Return
     
Chapter 12: Some Lessons from Capital Market History
    12.1  Returns
    Dollar Returns
    Percentage Returns
    12.2  The Historical Record
    A First Look
    A Closer Look
    12.3  Average Returns: The First Lesson
    Calculating Average Returns
    Average Returns: The Historical Record
    Risk Premiums
    The First Lesson
    12.4  The Variability of Returns: The Second Lesson
    Frequency Distributions and Variability
    The Historical Variance and Standard Deviation
    The Historical Record
    Normal Distribution
    The Second Lesson
    Using Capital Market History
    12.5  Capital Market Efficiency
    Price Behaviour in an Efficient Market
    The Efficient Markets Hypothesis
    Market Efficiency—Forms and Evidence
    12.6  Summary and Conclusions
     
Chapter 13: Return, Risk, and the Security Market Line
    13.1  Expected Returns and Variances
    Expected Return
    Calculating the Variance
    13.2  Portfolios
    Portfolio Weights
    Portfolio Expected Returns
    Portfolio Variance
    Portfolio Standard Deviation and Diversification
    Diversification and the Efficient Set
    13.3  Announcements, Surprises, and Expected Returns
    Expected and Unexpected Returns
    Announcements and News
    13.4  Risk: Systematic and Unsystematic
    Systematic and Unsystematic Risk
    Systematic and Unsystematic Components of Return
    13.5  Diversification and Portfolio Risk
    The Effect of Diversification: Another Lesson from Market History
    The Principle of Diversification
    Diversification and Unsystematic Risk
    Diversification and Systematic Risk
    Risk and the Sensible Investor
    13.6  Systematic Risk and Beta
    The Systematic Risk Principle
    Measuring Systematic Risk
    Portfolio Betas
    13.7  The Security Market Line
    Beta and the Risk Premium
    Calculating Beta
    The Security Market Line
    13.8  The SML and the Cost of Capital: A Preview
    The Basic Idea
    The Cost of Capital
    13.9  Arbitrage Pricing Theory
    13.10  Summary and Conclusions
    App 13A  Derivation of the Capital Asset Pricing Model
 

Part VI: Cost of Capital and Long-Term Financial Policy
     
Chapter 14: Cost of Capital
    14.1  The Cost of Capital: Some Preliminaries
    Required Return versus Cost of Capital
    Financial Policy and Cost of Capital
    14.2  The Cost of Equity
    The Dividend Growth Model Approach
    The SML Approach
    The Cost of Equity in Rate Hearings
    14.3  The Costs of Debt and Preferred Stock
    The Cost of Debt
    The Cost of Preferred Stock
    14.4  The Weighted Average Cost of Capital
    The Capital Structure Weights
    Taxes and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital
    Solving the Warehouse Problem and Similar Capital Budgeting Problems
    Performance Evaluation: Another Use of the WACC
    14.5  Divisional and Project Costs of Capital
    The SML and the WACC
    Divisional Cost of Capital
    The Pure Play Approach
    The Subjective Approach
    14.6  Flotation Costs and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital
    The Basic Approach
    Flotation Costs and NPV
    14.7  Calculating WACC for Bombardier
    Estimating Financing Proportions
    Market Value Weights for Bombardier
    Cost of Debt
    Cost of Preferred Stock
    Cost of Common Stock
    Dividend Valuation Model Growth Rate
    CAPM
    Bombardier's WACC
    14.8  Summary and Conclusions
    App 14A  Adjusted Present Value
     
Chapter 15: Raising Capital
    15.1  The Financing Life Cycle of a Firm: Early-Stage Financing and Venture Capital
    Venture Capital
    Some Venture Capital Realities
    Choosing a Venture Capitalist
    15.2  The Public Issue
    15.3  The Basic Procedure for a New Issue
    Securities Registration
    15.4  The Cash Offer
    Types of Underwriting
    Bought Deal
    The Selling Period
    The Overallotment Option
    The Investment Dealers
    The Offering Price and Underpricing
    The Decision to Go Public
    Pricing IPOs
    Why Does Underpricing Exist?
    15.5  New Equity Sales and the Value of the Firm
    15.6  The Costs of Issuing Securities
    IPOs in Practice: The Case of Air Canada
    15.7  Rights
    The Mechanics of a Rights Offering
    Number of Rights Needed to Purchase a Share
    The Value of a Right
    Theoretical Value of a Right
    Ex Rights
    Value of Rights After Ex-Rights Date
    The Underwriting Arrangements
    Effects on Shareholders
    Cost of Rights Offerings
    15.8  Dilution
    Dilution of Proportionate Ownership
    Dilution of Value: Book versus Market Values
    15.9  Issuing Long-Term Debt
    15.10  Summary and Conclusions
     
Chapter 16: Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Policy
    16.1  The Capital Structure Question
    Firm Value and Stock Value: An Example
    Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital
    16.2  The Effect of Financial Leverage
    The Basics of Financial Leverage
    Corporate Borrowing and Homemade Leverage
    16.3  Capital Structure and the Cost of Equity Capital
    M&M Proposition I: The Pie Model
    The Cost of Equity and Financial Leverage: M&M Proposition II
    Business and Financial Risk
    16.4  M&M Propositions I and II with Corporate Taxes
    The Interest Tax Shield
    Taxes and M&M Proposition I
    Taxes, the WACC, and Proposition II
    16.5  Bankruptcy Costs
    Direct Bankruptcy Costs
    Indirect Bankruptcy Costs
    Agency Costs of Equity
    16.6  Optimal Capital Structure
    The Static Theory of Capital Structure
    Optimal Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital
    Optimal Capital Structure: A Recap
    Capital Structure: Some Managerial Recommendations
    16.7  The Pie Again
    The Extended Pie Model
    Marketed Claims versus Non-Marketed Claims
    16.8  Observed Capital Structures
    16.9  Long-Term Financing under Financial Distress and Bankruptcy
    Liquidation and Reorganization
    Agreements to Avoid Bankruptcy
    16.10  Summary and Conclusions
    App 16A  Capital Structure and Personal Taxes
     
Chapter 17: Dividends and Dividend Policy
    17.1  Cash Dividends and Dividend Payment
    Cash Dividends
    Standard Method of Cash Dividend Payment
    Dividend Payment: A Chronology
    More on the Ex-Dividend Date
    17.2  Does Dividend Policy Matter?
    An Illustration of the Irrelevance of Dividend Policy
    17.3  Real-World Factors Favouring a Low Payout
    Taxes
    Some Evidence on Dividends and Taxes in Canada
    Flotation Costs
    Dividend Restrictions
    17.4  Real-World Factors Favouring a High Payout
    Desire for Current Income
    Uncertainty Resolution
    Tax and Legal Benefits from High Dividends
    Conclusion
    17.5  A Resolution of Real-World Factors?
    Information Content of Dividends
    Dividend Signalling in Practice
    The Clientele Effect
    17.6  Establishing a Dividend Policy
    Residual Dividend Approach
    Dividend Stability
    A Compromise Dividend Policy
    17.7  Stock Repurchase: An Alternative to Cash Dividends
    Cash Dividends versus Repurchase
    Real-World Considerations in a Repurchase
    Share Repurchase and EPS
    17.8  Stock Dividends and Stock Splits
    Some Details on Stock Splits and Stock Dividends
    Value of Stock Splits and Stock Dividends
    Reverse Splits
    17.9  Summary and Conclusions
 

Part VII: Short-Term Financial Planning and Management
     
Chapter 18: Short-Term Finance and Planning
    18.1  Tracing Cash and Net Working Capital
    18.2  The Operating Cycle and the Cash Cycle
    Defining the Operating and Cash Cycles
    Calculating the Operating and Cash Cycles
    Interpreting the Cash Cycle
    18.3  Some Aspects of Short-Term Financial Policy
    The Size of the Firm's Investment in Current Assets
    Alternative Financing Policies for Current Assets
    Financial Policy
    Which Is Best?
    Current Assets and Liabilities in Practice
    18.4  The Cash Budget
    Sales and Cash Collections
    Cash Outflows
    The Cash Balance
    18.5  A Short-Term Financial Plan
    Short-Term Planning and Risk
    18.6  Short-Term Borrowing
    Operating Loans
    Letters of Credit
    Secured Loans
    Factoring
    Securitized Receivables—A Financial Innovation
    Inventory Loans
    Trade Credit
    Money Market Financing
    18.7  Summary and Conclusions
     
Chapter 19: Cash and Liquidity Management
    19.1  Reasons for Holding Cash
    Speculative and Precautionary Motives
    The Transaction Motive
    Costs of Holding Cash
    Cash Management versus Liquidity Management
    19.2  Determining the Target Cash Balance
    The Basic Idea
    Other Factors Influencing the Target Cash Balance
    19.3  Understanding Float
    Disbursement Float
    Collection Float and Net Float
    Float Management
    Accelerating Collections
    Over-the-Counter Collections
    Controlling Disbursements
    19.4  Investing Idle Cash
    Temporary Cash Surpluses
    Characteristics of Short-Term Securities
    Some Different Types of Money Market Securities
    19.5  Summary and Conclusions
    App 19A  Cash Management Models
     
Chapter 20: Credit and Inventory Management
    20.1  Credit and Receivables
    Components of Credit Policy
    The Cash Flows from Granting Credit
    The Investment in Receivables
    20.2  Terms of the Sale
    Why Trade Credit Exists
    The Basic Form
    The Credit Period
    Cash Discounts
    Credit Instruments
    20.3  Analyzing Credit Policy
    Credit Policy Effects
    Evaluating a Proposed Credit Policy
    20.4  Optimal Credit Policy
    The Total Credit Cost Curve
    Organizing the Credit Function
    20.5  Credit Analysis
    When Should Credit Be Granted?
    Credit Information
    Credit Evaluation and Scoring
    20.6  Collection Policy
    Monitoring Receivables
    Collection Effort
    Credit Management in Practice
    20.7  Inventory Management
    The Financial Manager and Inventory Policy
    Inventory Types
    Inventory Costs
    20.8  Inventory Management Techniques
    The ABC Approach
    The Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) Model
    Extensions to the EOQ Model
    Managing Derived-Demand Inventories
    Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
    Just-in-Time Inventory
    20.9  Summary and Conclusions
    App 20A  More on Credit Policy Analysis
 

Part VIII: Topics in Corporate Finance
     
Chapter 21: International Corporate Finance
    21.1  Terminology
    21.2  Foreign Exchange Markets and Exchange Rates
    Exchange Rates
    Types of Transactions
    21.3  Purchasing Power Parity
    Absolute Purchasing Power Parity
    Relative Purchasing Power Parity
    Currency Appreciation and Depreciation
    21.4  Interest Rate Parity, Unbiased Forward Rates, and the International Fisher Effect
    Covered Interest Arbitrage
    Interest Rate Parity (IRP)
    Forward Rates and Future Spot Rates
    Putting It All Together
    21.5  International Capital Budgeting
    Method 1: The Home Currency Approach
    Method 2: The Foreign Currency Approach
    Unremitted Cash Flows
    21.6  Financing International Projects
    The Cost of Capital for International Firms
    International Diversification and Investors
    Sources of Short- and Intermediate-Term Financing
    21.7  Exchange Rate Risk
    Short-Run Exposure
    Long-Run Exposure
    Translation Exposure
    Managing Exchange Rate Risk
    21.8  Political Risk
    21.9  Summary and Conclusions
     
Chapter 22: Leasing
    22.1  Leases and Lease Types
    Leasing versus Buying
    Operating Leases
    Financial Leases
    22.2  Accounting and Leasing
    22.3  Taxes and Leases
    22.4  The Cash Flows from Leasing
    The Incremental Cash Flows
    22.5  Lease or Buy?
    A Preliminary Analysis
    NPV Analysis
    A Misconception
    22.6  A Leasing Paradox
    Resolving the Paradox
    Leasing and Capital Budgeting
    22.7  Reasons for Leasing
    Good Reasons for Leasing
    Bad Reasons for Leasing
    Leasing Decisions in Practice
    22.8  Summary and Conclusions
     
Chapter 23: Mergers and Acquisitions
    23.1  The Legal Forms of Acquisitions
    Merger or Consolidation
    Acquisition of Stock
    Acquisition of Assets
    Acquisition Classifications
    A Note on Takeovers
    23.2  Taxes and Acquisitions
    Determinants of Tax Status
    Taxable versus Tax-Free Acquisitions
    23.3  Accounting for Acquisitions
    The Purchase Method
    Pooling of Interests
    Which Is Better: Purchase or Pooling of Interests?
    23.4  Gains from Acquisition
    Synergy
    Revenue Enhancement
    Cost Reductions
    Tax Gains
    Changing Capital Requirements
    Avoiding Mistakes
    A Note on Inefficient Management
    The Negative Side of Takeovers
    23.5  Some Financial Side Effects of Acquisitions
    EPS Growth
    Diversification
    23.6  The Cost of an Acquisition
    Case I: Cash Acquisition
    Case II: Stock Acquisition
    Cash versus Common Stock
    23.7  Defensive Tactics
    The Control Block and the Corporate Charter
    Repurchase/Standstill Agreements
    Exclusionary Offers and Non-Voting Stock
    Poison Pills and Share Rights Plans
    Going Private and Leveraged Buyouts
    LBOs to Date: The Record
    Other Defensive Devices
    23.8  Some Evidence on Acquisitions
    23.9  Summary and Conclusions
 

Part IX: Derivative Securities and Corporate Finance
     
Chapter 24: Risk Management: An Introduction to Financial Engineering
    24.1  Hedging and Price Volatility
    Price Volatility: A Historical Perspective
    Interest Rate Volatility
    Exchange Rate Volatility
    Commodity Price Volatility
    The Impact of Financial Risk: The U.S. Savings and Loan Industry
    24.2  Managing Financial Risk
    The Risk Profile
    Reducing Risk Exposure
    Hedging Short-Run Exposure
    Cash Flow Hedging: A Cautionary Note
    Hedging Long-Term Exposure
    Conclusion
    24.3  Hedging with Forward Contracts
    Forward Contracts: The Basics
    The Payoff Profile
    Hedging with Forwards
    24.4  Hedging with Futures Contracts
    Trading in Futures
    Futures Exchanges
    Hedging with Futures
    24.5  Hedging with Swap Contracts
    Currency Swaps
    Interest Rate Swaps
    Commodity Swaps
    The Swap Dealer
    Interest Rate Swaps: An Example
    24.6  Hedging with Option Contracts
    Option Terminology
    Options versus Forwards
    Option Payoff Profiles
    Option Hedging
    Hedging Commodity Price Risk with Options
    Hedging Exchange Rate Risk with Options
    Hedging Interest Rate Risk with Options
    24.7  Summary and Conclusions
     
Chapter 25: Options and Corporate Securities
    25.1  Options: The Basics
    Puts and Calls
    Stock Option Quotations
    Option Payoffs
    Put Payoffs
    Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities (LEAPS)
    25.2  Fundamentals of Option Valuation
    Value of a Call Option at Expiration
    The Upper and Lower Bounds on a Call Option's Value
    A Simple Model: Part I
    Four Factors Determining Option Values
    25.3  Valuing a Call Option
    A Simple Model: Part II
    The Fifth Factor
    A Closer Look
    25.4  Equity as a Call Option on the Firm's Assets
    Case I: The Debt Is Risk-Free
    Case II: The Debt Is Risky
    25.5  Warrants
    The Difference between Warrants and Call Options
    Warrants and the Value of the Firm
    25.6  Convertible Bonds
    Features of a Convertible Bond
    Value of a Convertible Bond
    25.7  Reasons for Issuing Warrants and Convertibles
    The Free Lunch Story
    The Expensive Lunch Story
    A Reconciliation
    25.8  Other Options
    The Call Provision on a Bond
    Put Bonds
    The Overallotment Option
    Insurance and Loan Guarantees
    Managerial Options
    25.9  Summary and Conclusions
    App 25A  The Black–Scholes Option Pricing Model
 

    Glossary
    Appendix A: Mathematical Tables
    Appendix B: Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems
    Equation Index
    Name Index
    Subject Index





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