Stephen A. Ross,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Randolph W. Westerfield,
University of Southern California Bradford D. Jordan,
University of Kentucky, Lexington
ISBN: 0072946733 Copyright year: 2007
Feature Summary
Brief calculator tutorials, called Calculator Hints, are provided in relevant chapters to help students learn or brush up on their financial calculator skills. There is an appendix (D) with instructions for using the HP-10B and TI BA II Plus Financial Calculators. Spreadsheet Strategies are also included to help students with their Excel spreadsheet skills. This feature appears in self-contained sections and shows students how to set up spreadsheets to analyze common financial problems—a vital part of every business student's education!
Numerous Internet features, including “Work the Web” boxes that show students how to research financial issues using the web and how to use the information they find to make business decisions. Web Exercises are in the end of chapter materials, and require students to use the Internet to solve the problem. Web annotations, located in the margins within chapters, specifically accompany text material and provide students and instructors with a quick way to check for current and additional information using the Internet.
Excellent Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/rwj, includes Self-Study Software that allows students to test their knowledge of one or several chapters by using questions written specifically for the textbook. There are 75-100 questions per chapter. The site also includes new PowerPoint narrated specifically for students. Each chapter's slides follow the chapter topics and provide steps and explanations using real-life examples. A quick click on each slide will “talk through” its contents for a richer learning experience. There are also new Interactive FinSims that highlight a key concept and simulate how to solve it, asking students to input certain variables. This hands-on approach reinforces the most important corporate finance topics. Excel Templates that correspond with many end of chapter problems are also provided, along with self-grading quizzes, links to Corporate Finance Online questions, Finance Around the World problems, timely articles, and much more to help master the essentials of corporate finance.
Incorporates a concept building approach to learning. Chapter sections are intentionally kept short to promote a step-by-step, building block approach to learning. Each section is followed by a series of short concept questions that highlight the key ideas just presented before moving on to new material. Also, the crucial topic of the time value of money is covered in two chapters, allowing for a patient, building block approach. This is a hallmark of the highly successful Ross, Westerfield, Jordan textbooks.
Highlighted concepts, found throughout the text, are important ideas pulled out and presented in a shaded box. They signal to students that this material is important for their understanding. This is vital, since many students have difficulty prioritizing the most important concepts.
Numbered Examples are extensively integrated into the chapters. These examples provide detailed applications and illustrations of the material in a step-by-step format. Each example is completely self-contained so that students don't have to search for additional information. These are valuable learning aids because they provide both detail and explanation.
Chapter-Opening Vignettes with Functional Integration Links—each chapter begins with a recent real-world event to introduce students to the chapter concepts. Since many non-finance majors use this text, a brief paragraph linking the vignette and chapter concepts to majors in marketing, management, and accounting is included.
Every chapter ends with a set of Critical Thinking Questions that challenge students to apply the concepts they have learned from the real-world examples in the chapter to new situations.
Pedagogical use of color—this learning tool uses color in an extensive and largely self-evident role that alerts students to the relationship between numbers in a discussion and an accompanying table or figure. The use of color is defined in the end sheets for quick reference.
Summary Tables succinctly restate key principles, results, and equations. They appear whenever it is useful to emphasize and summarize a group of related topics.
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2007 McGraw-Hill Higher Education