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Foundations of Financial Management, 11/e

Stanley Block, Texas Christian University
Geoffrey Hirt, DePaul University

What's New

Includes new content related to corporate governance and ethics, and the impact of new legislation affecting financial reporting. Chapter 1 provides coverage of the scandals at Enron, Arthur Andersen, Global Crossing, and others. Chapter 2 discusses the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, along with the implications for finance. These are current and very important topics for today's business students.
Each new copy of the text includes access to Standard & Poor's Educational Version of Market Insight, a rich online resource that provides six years of financial data, along with industry trends, stock reports, and much more, for over 500 top companies. Relevant chapters contain end of chapter problems that use this data (powered by S & P's COMPUSTAT® database) to gain a better understanding of practical business situations.
Includes the most current coverage, including the impact of the Tax Relief Act of 2003 on dividend policy (see Ch. 18) and the bursting of the stock market bubble in the early 2000s. This topic, in addition, to the continued internationalization of the financial markets is thoroughly covered in chapter 14.
Chapter 12 includes new coverage of Modified Internal Rate of Return, an important new measure of return as part of the capital budgeting decision process. This coverage is included in response to market feedback
Expanded Internet presence, including new coverage on the impact of the Internet on Working Capital in Chapter 7, where the authors cover the trend to B2B online transactions along with its impact on lower current asset requirements. Throughout the text, there are many Internet applications including helpful websites, web exercises, and the new S & P problems described above.
More comprehensive problems have been added to provide more challenging problems. Comprehensive problems, indicated with a red side-bar, integrate and require the application of several financial concepts into one problem. Not only are there more within the book, but there are also more comprehensive problems included in chapters 2, 3, and 8 of the instructor's manual.

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