Applied Corporate Finance

Aswath Damodaran, distinguished author, Professor of Finance, and David Margolis, Teaching Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business, have 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Foundations

Chapter 2 The Objective in Decision Making

Chapter 3 The Basics of Risk

Chapter 4 Risk Measurement and Hurdle Rates in Practice

Chapter 5 Measuring Return on Investments

Chapter 6 Project Interactions, Side Costs, and Side Benefits

Chapter 7 Capital Structure: Overview of the Financing Decision

Chapter 8 Capital Structure: The Optimal Financial Mix

Chapter 9 Capital Structure: The Financing Details

Chapter 10 Dividend Policy

Chapter 11 Analyzing Cash Returned to Stockholders

Chapter 12 Valuation: Principles and Practice

Appendix 1 Basic Statistics

Appendix 2 Financial Statements

Appendix 3 Time Value of Money

Appendix 4 Option Pricing

About the Author

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.