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Essentials of Corporate Finance, 5/e

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

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Online Learning Center (OLC):
Online Support at www.mhhe.com/rwj.
The Online Learning Center (OLC) contains FREE access to additional Web-based study and teaching aids created for this text, such as:

Student Support

  • Updated! Self-Study Software
    With the new self-study program, students can test their knowledge of one chapter or a number of chapters by using self-grading questions written specifically for this text. There are at least 100 questions per chapter. Students can set a timer function to simulate a test environment, or can also choose to have answers pop up as they finish each question. Questions were prepared by Kay Johnson, Penn State–Erie.
  • New! Narrated PowerPoint Examples
    Created by Kay Johnson, Penn State–Erie, exclusively for students. Each chapter's slides follow the chapter topics and provide steps and explanations showing how to solve key problems. Knowing that each student learns differently, a quick click on each slide will “talk through” its contents with you!
  • New! Interactive FinSims
    Created by Eric Sandburg, Interactive Media, each module highlights a key concept of the book and simulates how to solve its problems; asking the student to input certain variables. This hands-on approach guides students through difficult and important corporate finance topics.
  • Excel Templates
    Corresponding to most end-of-chapter problems, each template allows the student to work through the problem using Excel, reinforcing each concept. Each end-of-chapter problem with a template is indicated by an Excel icon in the margin beside it.
  • Be sure to check out the other helpful features found on the OLC including: key-term flashcards, links to Corporate Finance Online study problems, and Finance around the World.

Teaching Support
Along with having access to all of the same material your students can view on the book's OLC, you also have password protected access to the Instructor's Manual, Solutions to end-of-chapter problems and Excel, Instructor's PowerPoint, Excel Template Solutions, Video clips, Video projects and questions, and teaching notes to Corporate Finance Online.

OLCs can be delivered in multiple ways—through the textbook Web site (www.mhhe.com/rwj), through PageOut (see Packages below), or within a course management system like Blackboard, WebCT, TopClass, and eCollege. Ask your campus representative for more details.

Corporate Finance Online
As part of this OLC, instructors and students will also have access to Corporate Finance Online, found on the opening page. Corporate Finance Online is an exclusive Web tool from McGraw-Hill/Irwin. The site provides over 54 exercises for 27 key corporate finance topics, allowing students to complete challenging exercises and discussion questions that draw on recent articles, company reports, government data, and other Web-based resources. For instructors, there are also password-protected teaching notes to assist with classroom integration of the material.

McGraw-Hill Investments Trader
Students receive free access to this Web-based portfolio simulation with a hypothetical $100,000 brokerage account to buy and sell stocks and mutual funds. Students can use the real data found at this site in conjunction with the chapters on investments. They can also compete against other students around the United States. Please click on the corresponding link found in the OLC for more details. This site is powered by Stock-Trak, the leading provider of investment simulation services to the academic community.

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