Table of Contents

Part 1: Overview Of Financial Management
Chapter 1 Introduction to financial management
Part 2: Understanding Financial Statements & Cash Flows
Chapter 2 Financial Statements, taxes and cash flow
Chapter 3 Working with Financial Statements
Part 3: Valuation Of Future Cash Flows
Chapter 4 Introduction to valuation: the time value of money
Chapter 5 Discounted cash flow valuation
Part 4: Valuing Stocks & Bonds
Chapter 6 Interest rates, bill and bond valuation
Chapter 7 Equity markets & share valuation
Part 5: Capital Budgeting
Chapter 8 Net present value and other investment criteria
Chapter 9 Making capital investment decisions
Part 6: Risk & Return
Chapter 10 Some lessons from capital market history
Chapter 11 Risk & Return
Part 7: Long-Term Financing
Chapter 12 Cost of capital
Chapter 13 Leverage & capital structure
Chapter 14 Dividends & dividend policy
Chapter 15 Raising Capital
Part 8: Short-Term Financial Management
Chapter 16 Short-term financial planning
Chapter 17 Working capital management
Part Nine: Topics In Business Finance
Chapter 18 International aspects of financial management

About the Author

The late Stephen A. Ross was the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most widely published authors in finance and economics, Professor Ross was known for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory as well as his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research on signaling, agency theory, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, he also served as an associate editor of various academic and practitioner journals. He was a trustee of CalTech. 





Rowan Trayler is a senior lecturer in the School of Finance and Economics at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and the Director of the Master of Business in Finance. He has over 20 years’ experience teaching introductory finance courses to both undergraduate and postgraduate students at UTS. His experience includes teaching small group, executive MBA classes to large mass lectures for first year undergraduate finance students. He has also been a visiting lecturer at several universities in the United States and has conducted a number of in-house finance courses for non-finance executives.
Rowan has extensive experience in the banking and finance industry and has a several international publications to his name in these areas. He was a member of the New South Wales state committee of the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance from 2000 to 2005.
His teaching philosophy is closely aligned to the writing style of the Ross text and this Australian adaptation has incorporated that style. Rowan has a straightforward and well-designed approach to teaching introductory finance courses which students appreciate, and he is keen to embrace new technologies in teaching including web-based resources.