Stephen A. Ross - Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

The McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate

Stephen A. Ross

Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Consulting Editor

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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance Eighth Edition

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Eleventh Edition

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Theory of Interest
Third Edition

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Corporate Finance
Tenth Edition

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FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE FINANCE, ELEVENTH EDITION

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Ross, Stephen A.

Fundamentals of corporate finance / Stephen A. Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Randolph W. Westerfield, University of Southern California, Bradford D. Jordan, University of Kentucky. -- Eleventh Edition.

pages cm. -- (The McGraw-Hill/Irwin series in finance, insurance, and real estate)

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-07-786170-4 (alk. paper)

1. Corporations--Finance. I. Westerfield, Randolph W. II. Jordan, Bradford D. III. Title.

HG4026.R677 2016

658.15--dc23

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