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Instructor Edition
Fundamentals of Investments, 4/e

Bradford D. Jordan, University of Kentucky
Thomas W. Miller, Jr., Saint Louis University

ISBN: 0073027219
Copyright year: 2008

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Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM

ISBN 0-07-325740-0

The Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM contains the following assets:

Instructor’s Manual, prepared by Thomas W. Miller Jr., St. Louis University Developed to clearly outline the chapter material as well as provide extra teaching support, the first section of the Instructor’s Manual includes an annotated outline of each chapter with suggested Web sites, references to PowerPoint slides, teaching tips, additional examples, and current events references. The second section contains complete worked-out solutions for the end-of-chapter questions and problems, prepared by Joe Smolira, Belmont University.

Test Bank, prepared by Kay Johnson , Penn State–Erie

With almost 1,500 questions, this Test Bank, in Microsoft Word, provides a variety of question formats (true-false, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and problems) and levels of difficulty to meet any instructor’s testing needs.

Computerized Test Bank (Windows) This computerized version of the Test Bank utilizes McGraw-Hill’s EZ Test testing software to quickly create customized exams. This user-friendly program allows instructors to sort questions by format, edit existing questions or add new ones; and scramble questions for multiple versions of the same test.

PowerPoint Presentation, prepared by Thomas W. Miller Jr. , St. Louis University More than 300 full-color slides of images and tables from the text, lecture outlines, and additional examples and data are available with this product.

Videos ISBN 0-07-326175-0 (DVD format)

The McGraw-Hill/Irwin series of finance videos are 10-minute case studies on topics such as Financial Markets, Stocks, Bonds, Portfolio Management, Derivatives, and Going Public.

Digital Solutions

Online Learning Center (OLC): Online Support at www.mhhe.com/jm4e

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 they can choose to have answers pop up as they finish each question. Questions were prepared by Kay Johnson, Penn State–Erie.

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.

Other Features

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, Instructor’s PowerPoint, Excel Template Solutions, Video clips,

Video projects and questions, and teaching notes to Investments Online. OLCs can be delivered in multiple ways—through the textbook Web site (www.mhhe.com/jm4e) through PageOut (see Packages below), or within a course management system like Blackboard, WebCT, TopClass, or eCollege. Ask your campus representative for more details.

Investments Online

As part of the OLC, instructors and students will also have access to Investments Online, found on the opening page. Investments Online is an exclusive Web tool from McGraw-Hill/Irwin. For each of the 18 key investment topics, 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.

PageOut at www.pageout.net

Free to adopters, this Web page generation software is designed to help you create your own course Web site, without all of the hassle. In just a few minutes, even the most novice computer user can have a functioning course Web site. Simply type your material into the template provided and PageOut instantly converts it to HTML. Next, choose your favorite of three easy-to-navigate designs and your class Web home page is created, complete with online syllabus, lecture notes, and bookmarks. You can even include a separate instructor page and an assignment page.

PageOut offers enhanced point-and-click features, including a Syllabus Page that applies a real-world link to original text material, an automatic grade book, and a discussion board where you and your students can exchange questions and post announcements. Ask your campus representative to show you a demo.

Options Available for Purchase and Packaging

You may also package either version of the text with a variety of other learning tools that are available for your students.

Stock-Trak Portfolio Stimulation

Give your students investment management experience! McGraw-Hill/Irwin has partnered with Stock-Trak and is providing a free subscription to the Stock-Trak Portfolio Simulation for one semester with the purchase of every new copy of Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management, Fourth Edition by Jordan and Miller. Stock-Trak gives students $500,000 and allows them to trade stocks, options, futures, bonds, mutual funds, and international stocks—no other simulation offers all these types of securities! More than 600 professors have used this service, and around 30,000 college students each semester participate. Instructors receive reports every week. All trades are done on the Web at www.stocktrak.com/cj. See this site for more information or use the Stock-Trak card inside the envelope bound into this text. Stock-Trak exercises are available on the book Web site, www.mhhe.com/jm4e.

Standard & Poor's Educational Version of Market Insight

McGraw-Hill/Irwin and the Institutional Market Services division of Standard & Poor's are pleased to announce an exclusive partnership that offers instructors and students free access to the educational version of Standard & Poor's Market Insight with each new textbook. The Educational Version of Market Insight is a rich online resource that provides six years of fundamental financial data for more than 1,000 companies in the database.

S&P - specific problems can be found at the end of almost all chapters in this text. For more details, please see the bound-in card inside the front cover of this text, or visit www.mhhe.com/edumarketinsight.

Ready Notes

ISBN-10: 0-07-326172-6

This innovative student supplement provides students with an inexpensive note-taking system that contains a reduced copy of every slide in the PowerPoint Presentation System. With a copy of each slide in front of them, students can listen and record your comments about each point instead of hurriedly copying the slide into their notebooks. Ask your McGraw-Hill/Irwin representative about packaging options.

The Wall Street Journal

If you order this package, your students can subscribe to The Wall Street Journal —both print and online versions—for 15 weeks at a specially priced rate of $20.00 in addition to the price of the text. Students will receive a “How to Use the WSJ ” handbook plus a card explaining how to start the subscription to both versions.

BusinessWeek

Your students can subscribe to 15 weeks of BusinessWeek for a specially priced rate of $8.25 in addition to the price of the text. Students will receive a pass-code card shrinkwrapped with their new text. The card directs students to a Web site where they enter the code and then gain access to BusinessWeek’s registration page to enter address info and set up their print and online subscription.

Financial Times

Your students can subscribe to the Financial Times for 15 weeks at a specially priced rate of $10 in addition to the price of the text by ordering this special package. Students will receive a subscription card shrink-wrapped with their new text to fill in and send to the Financial Times to start receiving their subscription. Instructors, once you order, make sure you contact your sales representative to receive a complimentary one-year subscription.

Finance and Investments Using The Wall Street Journal, by Peter R. Crabb, Northwest Nazarene University

ISBN-10: 0-07-282936-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-07-282936-5

If you want to integrate The Wall Street Journal into your class, this product is perfect for you! This test teaches students to evaluate and apply information from The Wall Street Journal by presenting three main steps—an overview of the finance/investments topic; a group of exercises based on data or an article that is printed in the workbook; and a group of exercises based on data or an article that is in a current edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Contact your sales representative for a special packaging price.

Corrado-Jordan Fundamentals of Investments 3e

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