《公司理财精要》是美国金融协会前主席、著名金融/财务学者斯蒂芬·罗斯及其团队的一部财务管理名著，内容清晰简洁、通俗易懂，深受广大读者的好评。全书共分为九编18章，精选了财务管理入门、财务报表和现金流、未来现金流量的价值确定、股票与债券定价、资本预算、风险与收益、长期融资、短期理财等方面的核心内容；围绕公司理财的整体框架，运用现代财务管理的核心概念，系统且有效地传达了公司理财的基本理论、基本方法和实务技能。《公司理财精要》双语教学版作为双语教材，对英文版的重点内容、生词术语等进行了翻译和注释。
适读人群 ：公司理财精要》双语教学版可作为财务管理双语课程教材，也可作为市场营销、运营管理、会计专业以及MBA学生的双语参考教材，又可为财务专业的初学者和非财务人员提供参考。
1.《公司理财精要》是一本受到广泛好评的公司理财课程的基础教材。2.清晰简单、通俗易懂是《公司理财精要》的一大特色，读者几乎不需要任何财务和会计背景知识，都能顺利步入财务管理的知识殿堂。3.《公司理财精要》中丰富多样的学习辅助材料将是您教学和学习的有力工具。
when we first wrote Essentials of Corporate Finance, we thought there might be a small niche for a briefer book that really focused on what students with widely varying backgrounds and interests needed to carry away from an introductory finance course. We were wrong. There was a huge niche! What we learned is that our text closely matches the needs of instructors and faculty at hundreds of schools across the country. As a result, the growth we have experienced through the first six editions of Essentials has far exceeded anything we thought possible.
Wwith the seventh edition of Essentials of Corporate Finance, we have continued to refine our focus on our target audience, which is the undergraduate student taking a core course in business or corporate finance. This can be a tough course to teach. One reason is that the class is usually required of all business students, so it is not uncommon for a majority of the students to be nonfi -nance majors. In fact, this may be the only finance course many of them will ever have. With this in mind, our goal in Essentials is to convey the most important concepts and principles at a level that is approachable for the widest possible audience.
To achieve our goal, we have worked to distill the subject down to its bare essentials(hence, the name of this book), while retaining a decidedly modern approach to finance. We have always maintained that the subject of corporate finance can be viewed as the working of a few very powerful intuitions. We also think that understanding the “why” is just as important, if not more so, than understanding the “how,” especially in an introductory course. Based on the gratifying market feedback we have received from our previous editions, as well as from our other text, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (now in its ninth edition), many of you agree.
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By design, this book is not encyclopedic. As the table of contents indicates, we have a total of 18 chapters. Chapter length is about 30 pages, so the text is aimed squarely at a single-term course, and most of the book can be realistically covered in a typical semester or quarter. Writing a book for a one-term course necessarily means some picking and choosing, with regard to both topics and depth of coverage. Throughout, we strike a balance by introducing and covering the essentials (there’s that word again!) while leaving some more specialized topics to follow-up courses.
TThe other things we have always stressed, and have continued to improve with this edition, are readability and pedagogy. Essentials is written in a relaxed, conversational style that invites the students to join in the learning process rather than being a passive information absorber. We have found that this approach dramatically increases students’ willingness to read and learn on their own. Between larger and larger class sizes and the ever-growing demands on faculty time, we think this is an essential (!) feature for a text in an introductory course.
TThroughout the development of this book, we have continued to take a hard look at what is truly relevant and useful. In doing so, we have worked to downplay purely theoretical issues and minimize the use of extensive and elaborate calculations to illustrate points that are either intuitively obvious or of limited practical use.
AAs a result of this process, three basic themes emerge as our central focus in writing Essentials of Corporate Finance:
AAn Emphasis on Intuition We always try to separate and explain the principles at work on a commonsense, intuitive level before launching into any specifics. The underlying ideas are discussed first in very general terms and then by way of examples that illustrate in more concrete terms how a financial manager might proceed in a given situation.
A A Unified Valuation Approach We treat net present value (NPV) as the basic concept underlying corporate finance. Many texts stop well short of consistently integrating this important principle. The most basic and important notion, that NPV represents the excess of market value over cost, often is lost in an overly mechanical approach that emphasizes computation at the expense of comprehension. In contrast, every subject we cover is firmly rooted in valuation, and care is taken throughout to explain how particular decisions have valuation effects.
A A Managerial Focus Students shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that financial management concerns management. We emphasize the role of the financial manager as decision maker, and we stress the need for managerial input and judgment. We consciously avoid “black box” approaches to finance, and, where appropriate, the approximate, pragmatic nature of financial analysis is made explicit, possible pitfalls are described, and limitations are discussed.
TToday, as we prepare to once again enter the market, our goal is to stick with and build on the principles that have brought us this far. However, based on an enormous amount of feedback we have received from you and your colleagues, we have made this edition and its package even more flexible than previous editions. We offer flexibility in coverage and pedagogy by providing a wide variety of features in the book to help students to learn about corporate finance. We also provide flexibility in package options by offering the most extensive collection of teaching, learning, and technology aids of any corporate finance text. Whether you use just the textbook, or the book in conjunction with other products, we believe you will find a combination with this edition that will meet your current as well as your changing needs.
Stephen A. Ross
Randolph W. Westerfield
Bradford D. Jordan
斯蒂芬·罗斯，当今世界上非常具有影响力的金融学家，因其创立了套利定价理论而举世闻名。斯蒂芬·罗斯先生是麻省理工学院斯隆管理学院财务经济学教授，在财务和经济领域著述颇为丰富。罗斯教授以他在发展套利价格理论上所做的工作，以及通过研究信息折射理论，斯权定价，利率期限结构理论和其他诸多领域所做出的大理贡献，成为备受称道的著名学者。罗斯曾任美国金融协会主席，现在担任数学术期利和实务杂志的副主编。他还是CalTech的受托人，大学退休股权基金和GenRe公司的董事。此外，还在兼任Roll and Ross资产管理公司的联席主席。
在美国，高管的薪酬一直是个热点问题，人们普遍认为CEO 的薪酬已经增长到过高的水平了（至少在某些情况下是这样）。作为回应，美国众议院于2007 年4 月通过了一项“股东决定薪酬”（say on pay）的立法草案，要求公司允许股东对高管薪酬进行投票表决，但并非强制性的。（请注意，该法案只适用于公司，不适用于针对美国众议院议员的“选民决定薪酬”。）
具体来说，这项措施使股东有权决定是否通过公司的高管薪酬方案。由于该法案不具有强制约束力，因此股东不具有否决薪酬方案的权力，该法案也没有对高管薪酬加以限制。事实上，在国会介入该法案之前，有些公司就已经开始允许股东决定高管的薪酬了。例如，2008 年5 月5 日，以人们所熟知的鸭子形象（spokesduck）深入人心的美国家庭人寿保险公司（Aflac）进行了美国首例股东对高管薪酬的投票表决。
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