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
What's New
New Mini-Cases are located at the end of most of the book's parts. These cases focus on company situations that reflect important corporate finance topics. Each case presents a new scenario, data, and a dilemma. Several questions at the end of each case require students to synthesize the material they should have learned from the chapters in that part.
Chapter One includes significantly more coverage of corporate governance and its importance to the practice and study of finance.
Every chapter has been evaluated and revised to provide the most up to date information and current, examples. This provides relevance and interest for both students and instructors.
All End of Chapter questions have been rewritten to provide users of the text with brand new homework assignments. The end of chapter questions are abundant and of extremely high quality. Also, they are labeled by difficulty level.
New Homework Manager Packaging Option! This exciting new web-based program will help your students learn corporate finance by duplicating problems from each chapter in the textbook and by providing automatic grading and feedback to both students and instructors. Instructors have great flexibility by controlling the rules and policies for assignments, which can range from self-study sessions to homework sessions to proctored exams. Homework Manager can also be set in “algorithmic” mode to present students with new data each time an assignment is worked, so they can work on fresh problems with the same structure until they master the concept. Immediate scoring and feedback helps guide and optimize student learning. Instructors can assign problems and have them automatically graded—a great time saver! The 5th edition Test Bank is also included in Homework Manager for online testing and grading. Homework Manager is available packaged with Essentials of Corporate Finance for an additional $5.
New “One Pass” Packaging Option! This packaging option combines all the great features of Homework Manager, along with access to an online version of Essentials of Corporate Finance, linked to additional study features, so that students can easily refer back to the text for review and guidance. Also free with One Pass is access to McGraw-Hill's PowerWeb – a unique online resource providing high quality, peer-reviewed content for your course; including up-to-date articles from leading periodicals and journals, current news, weekly updates with assessment, interactive exercises, Web research guide, study tips, and much more! One Pass is available for an additional $10.
New “Study Tips” section begins each chapter. These tips are then revisited at the end of each chapter to reinforce the key chapter concepts and priorities.
All “Reality Bytes” boxes have been updated to provide instructors and students with the most current information available. The chapter opening vignettes and in-text examples have also been thoroughly updated for a modern presentation.
Improved instructor resources, including more detailed, expanded solutions. All solutions are provided in worked-out, Excel, and calculator formats. There is also a new algorithmic test bank. This computerized test bank uses algorithms that allow you to generate different numerical values for quantitative problems. If you'd like to use an exam more than once, now you can just change the numbers. This means you can keep the same problem structure but use new numbers every time you give a midterm. Or you could give each student his or her own unique version of an exam. The program will also generate solutions for each new version of an exam you create.
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