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Authors: Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield and Jeffrey Jaffe

ISBN: 978-0-07-310590-1

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Corporate Finance is a 926 page textbook designed for an introductory course at the undergraduate level.  The text consists of 31 chapters divided into 8 parts, as follows: Part 1 (overview – chapters 1 through 3), Part II (valuation and capital budgeting – chapters 4 through 8), Part III (risk – chapters 9 through 12), Part IV (capital structure and dividend policy – chapters 13 through 18), Part V (long-term financing – chapters 19 through 21), Part VI (options, futures, and corporate finance – chapters 22 through 25), Part VII (short-term finance – chapters 26 through 28), and Part VIII (special topics – chapters 29 through 31).  A brief author biography and preface are included at the beginning of the text.  Appendices and an index are include at the end of the text. 

I first used an earlier edition of this text in the mid-1980s, when lecturing at the University of Arizona.  I used a later edition of this text in the summer of 1996, while teaching at the University of New Brunswick in St. John (Canada).  I selected this latest edition of the Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe Corporate Finance text, after a review of alternatives, for a course by the same name for Penn Foster, Inc.

As one might expect of a text in its eighth edition, this text is well-developed, well-organized, and no errors were detected.  I found it to be complete and yet parsimonious in its coverage of the material.  This text has my highest possible recommendation, both as a text for the coverage of Corporate Finance at the undergraduate (or graduate MBA) level, and as a possible desk or library reference book.