Our basic objective in writing Modern Corporate Finance: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Value Creation is to make accessible to students and practitioners alike the practical implications for mangers of the exciting new theoretical and empiritcal breakthroughs in financial economics. The book is written to help the reader understand how and why finace matters, regardless of whether the reader intends to pursue a carrer in finance. We have tried to motivate the non-finance major by illustrating the application of financial analysis and reasoning to problems faced by executives in marketing, operations, and personnel. It is intended fo managers and other professionals enrolled in executive MBA and evening MBAS programs as well as other executive education programs but is equally suitable for use by first year MBA students taking their introductory corporate finance course.

Althought the book relies on material covered in economics, accunting, and statistics courses, it is self-contained so that prior knowledge of those areas is useful but not essential. The only real prerequisites are algebra and an interest in understanding how the world works.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Evaluating a Firm's Financial Condition
Chapter 3 Financial Planning and Funds Forecating
Chapter 4 Foundations of Valuation: Time Value of Money
Chapter 5 Bond and Stock Valution
Chapter 6 Risk and return
Chapter 7 Options and Corporate Finance
Chapter 8 Evaluation of Investment Projects
Chapter 9 The Art and Science of estimating Project Cash Flows
Chrpter 10 Establishing Value for Shareholders
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