Stephen Ross is presently the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most widely published authors in finance and economics, Professor Ross is recognized for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research in signaling, agency theory, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, he currently serves as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals. He is a trustee of CalTech, a director of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF), and Freddie Mac. He is also the co-chairman of Roll and Ross Asset Management Corporation.

Part One: Overview of Corporate Finance
Chapter 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance
Chapter 2: Financial Statements, Taxes, and Cash Flow
Part Two: Financial Statements and Long-Term Financial Planning
Chapter 3: Working with Financial Statements
Chapter 4: Long-Term Financial Planning and Growth
Part Three: Valuation of Future Cash Flows
Chapter 5: Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money
Chapter 6: Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
Chapter 7: Interest Rates and Bond Valuation
Chapter 8: Stock Valuation
Part Four: Capital Budgeting
Chapter 9: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
Chapter 10: Making Capital Investment Decisions
Chapter 11: Project Analysis and Evaluation
Part Five: Risk and Return
Chapter 12: Some Lessons From Capital Market History
Chapter 13: Return, Risk, and the Security Market Line
Chapter 14: Options and Corporate Finance
Part Six: Cost of Capital and Long-Term Financial Policy
Chapter 15: Cost of Capital
Chapter 16: Raising Capital
Chapter 17: Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Policy
Chapter 18: Dividends and Dividend Policy
Part Seven: Short-Term Financial Planning and Management
Chapter 19: Short-Term Finance and Planning
Chapter 20: Cash and Liquidity Management
Chapter 21: Credit and Inventory Management
Part Eight: Topics in Corporate Finance
Chapter 22: International Corporate Finance
Alternate Edition also includes:
Chapter 23: Risk Management: An Introduction to Financial Engineering
Chapter 24: Option Valuation
Chapter 25: Mergers and Acquisitions
Chapter 26: Leasing

Includes four additional chapters on more advanced topics such as: Risk Management; An Introduction to Financial Engineering; Option Valuation; and Mergers and Acquisitions, and Leasing.