Ivo Welch, Corporate Finance: 4th Edition, 2017
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The pdf version that you can download below has a gray watermark image (that the printed version on lulu does not). This is deliberate and will not change. It is a (very small) incentive in favor of the printed version.
The book should have so few errata that we can list them here.
- Introduction General MFE
- Part I: Value and Capital Budgeting General MFE
- Present Value General MFE
- Stock and Bond Valuation: Annuities and Perpetuities General MFE
- A First Encounter with Capital Budgeting Rules General MFE
- Time-Varying Rates of Return and the Yield Curve General MFE
- Uncertainty, Default, and Risk General MFE
- Errata: p. 117, replace 'higher' with 'the same' in Do lenders and creditors end up with higher average rates of return?
- Part II: Risk and Return General MFE
- A First Look at Investments General MFE
- Investor Choice: Risk and Reward General MFE
- Benchmarked Costs of Capital General MFE
- Errata: p.206, Geometric or Arithmetic Cash Flows and Benchmarks?: 40% in the example is a standard deviation, not a variance.
- The Capital Asset Pricing Model General MFE
- Errata: p.237, EOC Q10.27. Replaces 7% with $1,000.
- Part III: Market Efficiency General MFE
- Market Imperfections General MFE
- Perfect and Efficient Markets, and Classical and Behavioral Finance General MFE
- Capital Budgeting Applications and Pitfalls General MFE
- Part IV: Real-World Applications General MFE
- From Financial Statements to Economic Cash Flows General MFE
- Valuation from Comparables and Financial Ratios General MFE
- Part V: Capital Structure and Payout Patterns General MFE
- Corporate Claims General MFE
- Capital Structure in a Perfect Market General MFE
- Taxes and Capital Structure General MFE
- More Imperfect-Market Capital Structure General MFE
- Equity Payouts: Dividends and Share Repurchases General MFE
- Part VI: Projecting the Future General MFE
- Pro Forma Financial Statements and the PepsiCo Case General MFE with a humorous take
For instructor flexibility sake, important chapters like options and derivatives, international finance, corporate governance, etc., will be available in the same pdf format, but not in the printed version. The companion is not yet updated to v4, much less edited or organized. It has appendixes for chapters 3,5,8,9,12,13,17,18,21; and chapters on [22] capital structure changes; [23] empirical capital structure patterns; [24] investment banks and M&A; [25] corporate governance; and [26] international finance; and [27] Options and Risk Management.
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Ivo Welch, UCLA, 2017-.