Description
Written for the MBA or undergraduate first course in finance, as well as follow-on courses, this textbook provides a clear, accessible, and thorough explanation of the principles of finance; how they connect to real-world practice and how they are used to solve problems. Structured around ten unifying principles representing the core tenets of the science, this book imparts basic financial concepts irrespective of the institutional framework, ensuring that students learn about finance in a way that is applicable both now and into the future. Pedagogical features include learning objectives and major takeaways, applications in the world of business, numerous worked examples, key equation boxes highlighting the most important financial equations, quick check questions with solutions, key finance terms with a detailed glossary, and more than 380 homework problems. Online resources include a solutions manual, detailed instructor manual to adapt the book to your course, lectures slides and a 800 question text bank for instructors.
An introductory, principles-based finance textbook with a flexible modular structure, and clear explanation of content.
About the Author
Zvi Bodie is Professor Emeritus at Boston University where he was the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management. He has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School (1992-94) and MIT Sloan School of Management (2008-9). Among his many published books and textbooks is the best-selling Investments textbook with Alex Kane and Alan Marcus. Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and John and Natty McArthur University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Merton received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997 for a new method to determine the value of derivatives. Richard T. Thakor is an Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management. He is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering (LFE), and is a Research Affiliate at the WFA Center for Finance and Accounting Research (WFA-CFAR) at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published numerous academic articles in top economics, management, and finance journals, and has won multiple teaching awards.
Book Information
ISBN 9781108833813
Author Zvi Bodie
Format Hardback
Page Count 750
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
An introductory, principles-based finance textbook with a flexible modular structure, and clear explanation of content.
About the Author
Zvi Bodie is Professor Emeritus at Boston University where he was the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management. He has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School (1992-94) and MIT Sloan School of Management (2008-9). Among his many published books and textbooks is the best-selling Investments textbook with Alex Kane and Alan Marcus. Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and John and Natty McArthur University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Merton received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997 for a new method to determine the value of derivatives. Richard T. Thakor is an Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management. He is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering (LFE), and is a Research Affiliate at the WFA Center for Finance and Accounting Research (WFA-CFAR) at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published numerous academic articles in top economics, management, and finance journals, and has won multiple teaching awards.
Book Information
ISBN 9781108833813
Author Zvi Bodie
Format Hardback
Page Count 750
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
