Applied Corporate Finance

Damodaran, Aswath

4. Edition January 2015
656 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-118-80893-1

John Wiley & Sons

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Aswath Damodaran, distinguished author, Professor of Finance, and David Margolis, Teaching Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business, has delivered the newest edition of Applied Corporate Finance. This readable text provides the practical advice students and practitioners need rather than a sole concentration on debate theory, assumptions, or models.
Like no other text of its kind, Applied Corporate Finance, 4th Edition applies corporate finance to real companies. It now contains six real-world core companies to study and follow. Business decisions are classified for students into three groups: investment, financing, and dividend decisions.

1 The Foundations
2 The Objective in Decision Making
3 The Basics of Risk
4 Risk Measurement and Hurdle Rates in Practice
5 Measuring Return on Investments
6 Project Interactions, Side Costs, and Side Benefits
7 Capital Structure: Overview of the Financing Decision
8 Capital Structure: The Optimal Financial Mix
9 Capital Structure: The Financing Details
10 Dividend Policy
11 Analyzing Cash Returned To Stockholders
12 Valuation: Principles and Practice

ASWATH DAMODARAN is Professor of Finance at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He has been the recipient of numerous awards for outstanding teaching, including the NYU university-wide Distinguished Teaching Award, and was named one of the nation's top business school teachers by Business Week in 1994. In addition, Damodaran teaches training courses in corporate finance and valuation at many leading investment banks. His publications include Damodaran on Valuation; Investment Valuation; Corporate Finance; Investment Management; and Applied Corporate Finance, all published by Wiley, and The Dark Side of Valuation.

A. Damodaran, Stern School of Business, New York University