TY - BOOK AU - Copeland,Thomas E. AU - Weston,J.Fred TI - Financial theory and corporate policy SN - 0201106485 : AV - HG4011 .C833 1988 U1 - 658.1'5 22 PY - 1988/// CY - Reading, Mass. PB - Addison-Wesley KW - Finance KW - Corporations N1 - Includes bibliographies and indexes N2 - In this edition the authors provides a concise, unified treatment of finance, combining theory, empirical evidence, and applications. Recent major contributions in financial literature are discussed and all current literature is summarized. The book provides MBA and doctoral students with an excellent bridge to prevailing scholarship in finance. Two new chapters discuss futures markets and financial applications for the corporate financial officer, including pension fund management, debt defeasance, hedging strategies, executive compensation, and interest rate swaps. The fundamentals of discounting, management of cash flows, capital budgeting, utility theory, portfolio theory, the CAPM, APM, and OPM, capital structure, the cost of capital, dividend policy, leasing, international finance, and mergers and acquisitions are integrated into the modern theory of finance. A Student Solutions Manual (//10649) giving answers to end-of-chapter problems is also available ER -