Corporate Finance, by Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe, and Jordan, was
written for the corporate finance course at the MBA level and the
intermediate course in many undergraduate programs. The text emphasizes
the modern fundamentals of the theory of finance while providing
contemporary examples to make the theory come to life. The authors aim
to present corporate finance as the working of a small number of
integrated and powerful intuitions rather than a collection of unrelated
topics. They develop the central concepts of modern finance: arbitrage,
net present value, efficient markets, agency theory, options, and the
trade-off between risk and return, and use them to explain corporate
finance with a balance of theory and application. The 13th edition also
welcomes a special contributor, Professor Kelly Shue of Yale University.