Corporate Finance
Boost Student Career Readiness with FMI's Financial Modeling Course
With McGraw Hill Connect for Finance in Canada, students get all the powerful learning tools you know and trust — auto-graded assignments, interactive content, robust analytics, and more. Now, they also receive exclusive access to the Foundations in Financial Modeling course from the Financial Modeling Institute (FMI), a professional credentialing course typically valued at $270 — included at no additional cost.
This introductory course equips students with essential financial modeling skills, including building pro-forma statements, projecting growth, and mastering Excel for career readiness.
The program includes 12 hours of video instruction, a multiple-choice exam, and a personalized digital badge upon completion. Designed by industry experts, it bridges the gap between academic learning and employer expectations, preparing students for roles in investment banking, corporate finance, private equity, and aligns curriculum of the CFA Program Financial Modeling Practical Skills Module (PSM), and more.
This partnership reflects McGraw Hill’s commitment to enhancing student success by integrating practical, industry-relevant skills into academic resources—all at no additional cost to students using McGraw Hill Connect!
Empowering Students with Industry Ready Skills
Tom Holloway, finance professor at the University of Calgary and Canadian Author of Ross, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 12th edition, has taught over 800 students annually in the core second-year finance course. For the past three years, Professor Tom Holloway has utilized McGraw Hill Connect, and for the last two years, he has incorporated the FMI Foundations in Financial Modeling module.
Professor Holloway emphasizes that the FMI Foundations program has addressed a critical gap between academic learning and employer expectations. It equips students with essential financial modeling skills, such as building pro-forma statements, projecting growth, and understanding Excel interactions—skills highly valued in fields like investment banking, corporate finance, and private equity. Holloway notes that over 99% of his students complete the program, despite its rigor, because they recognize its significant career benefits. Many students proudly display their FMI credentials on LinkedIn, showcasing their readiness for industry demands.
Holloway states, “Our experiment with FMI Foundations was motivated by an identified gap between what we were delivering to employers and their expectations. The small number of students that taught themselves financial modeling in Excel were in high demand.”
He highlights the value of the McGraw Hill partnership, which makes the FMI program accessible at no cost to students. Holloway believes this initiative seamlessly integrates practical skills into academic courses, preparing students for success in the finance industry.
PART ONE Overview
1. Introduction to Corporate Finance
Appendix 1A Taxes
Appendix 1B Finance Professional Careers (Available on Connect)
2. Accounting Statements and Cash Flow
Appendix 2A Financial Statement Analysis
Appendix 2B Statement of Cash Flows
3. Financial Planning and Growth
PART TWO Value and Capital Budgeting
4. Financial Markets and Net Present Value: First Principles of Finance
5. The Time Value of Money
Appendix 5A Using Financial Calculators (Available on Connect)
6. How to Value Bonds and Stocks
Appendix 6A The Term Structure of Interest Rates
7. Net Present Value and Other Investment Rules
8. Net Present Value and Capital Budgeting
Appendix 8A Capital Cost Allowance
Appendix 8B Derivation of the Present Value of the Capital Cost Allowance Tax Shield Formula
9. Risk Analysis, Real Options, and Capital Budgeting
PART THREE Risk
10. Risk and Return: Lessons From Market History
Appendix 10A The U.S. Equity Risk Premium:
Historical and International Perspectives (Available on Connect)
11. Risk and Return: The Capital Asset Pricing Model
Appendix 11A Is Beta Dead? (Available on Connect)
12. An Alternative View of Risk and Return: The Arbitrage Pricing Theory
13. Risk, Return, and Capital Budgeting
Appendix 13A Economic Value Added and the Measurement of Financial Performance
PART FOUR Capital Structure and Dividend Policy
14. Corporate Financing Decisions and Efficient Capital Markets
15. Long-Term Financing: An Introduction
16. Capital Structure: Basic Concepts
17. Capital Structure: Limits to the Use of Debt
Appendix 17A Some Useful Formulas of Financial Structure (Available on Connect)
Appendix 17B The Miller Model and the Graduated Income Tax (Available on Connect)
18. Valuation and Capital Budgeting for the Levered Firm
Appendix 18A The Adjusted Present Value Approach to Valuing Leveraged Buyouts (Available on Connect)
19. Dividends and Other Payouts
PART FIVE Long-Term Financing
20. Issuing Equity Securities to the Public
21. Long-Term Debt
22. Leasing
Appendix 22A Adjusted Present Value Approach to Leasing (Available on Connect)
PART SIX Options, Futures, and Corporate Finance
23. Options and Corporate Finance: Basic Concepts
24. Options and Corporate Finance: Extensions and Applications
25. Warrants and Convertibles
26. Derivatives and Hedging Risk
PART SEVEN Financial Planning and Short-Term Finance
27. Short-Term Finance and Planning
28. Cash Management
29. Credit Management
Appendix 29A Inventory Management (Available on Connect)
PART EIGHT Special Topics
30. Mergers and Acquisitions
31. Financial Distress
Appendix 31A Predicting Corporate Bankruptcy: The Z-Score Model (Available on Connect)
32. International Corporate Finance
Appendix A: Mathematical Tables (Available on Connect)
Appendix B: Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems (Available on Connect)
Emphasizing modern fundamentals of the theory of finance, Corporate Finance, Tenth Canadian Edition, presents corporate finance as the collaboration of a small number of integrated and powerful institutions. Ross develops the central concepts of modern finance: arbitrage, net present value, efficient markets, agency theory, options, and the trade-off between risk and return, and uses them to explain corporate finance with a balance of theory and application.
The Tenth Canadian Edition has been thoroughly updated to include current examples, mini-cases and problem material that will help students understand and apply the material.
Meeting you and your students where you are.
Using a personalized approach to teaching and learning, Connect is powered by adaptive technologies so your students learn more efficiently, retain more and achieve better outcomes and you can provide the engagement and expertise for more ‘aha’ moments.
Emphasizing modern fundamentals of the theory of finance, Corporate Finance, Tenth Canadian Edition, presents corporate finance as the collaboration of a small number of integrated and powerful institutions. Ross develops the central concepts of modern finance: arbitrage, net present value, efficient markets, agency theory, options, and the trade-off between risk and return, and uses them to explain corporate finance with a balance of theory and application.
The Tenth Canadian Edition has been thoroughly updated to include current examples, mini-cases and problem material that will help students understand and apply the material.
Meeting you and your students where you are.
Using a personalized approach to teaching and learning, Connect is powered by adaptive technologies so your students learn more efficiently, retain more and achieve better outcomes and you can provide the engagement and expertise for more ‘aha’ moments.
CURRENCY. Enhanced coverage of business sustainability through examples on green bonds and green projects. New and recent Canadian examples on mortgages, bond and equity securities issuance, stock options, and warrants have been added. In addition, new spreadsheet applications for calculating bond prices, NPV, and IRR have been introduced.
RELEVANCE. Enhanced coverage of Fintech and emerging business trends through examples on Bitcoin and Artificial Intelligence. This edition includes revised examples on cryptocurrency and AI technology investments, as well as examination of the recent high-profile governance issue at OpenAI. Expanded discussion of corporate governance throughout the text, particularly in Chapters 1, 15, and 19.
NEW SUSTAINABLE FINANCE COVERAGE. Examples include greater coverage of green bonds and their recent development in the global bond market, and new green project investments in Canada highlighted, including SK Ecoplant Co.’s recent expansion of a green hydrogen project in Newfoundland.
New AI Reader. McGraw Hill's AI Reader provides students with an embedded AI learning tool that promotes active reading to drive meaningful engagements and conceptual understanding of course content, not just rote memorization. AI Reader allows instructors to maintain control over how students are using AI in their courses, with trusted materials and guardrails.
Tableau Dashboard Activities. Tableau Dashboard Activities allow students to explore live Tableau dashboards directly within Connect and include auto-graded questions focused on both calculations and analysis. Students can check their understanding and apply what they are learning within the framework of analytics and critical thinking
MARKET LEADERSHIP. Ross, Corporate Finance leads the market in Canada due to trusted content, wealth of end-of-chapter problem material, and innovative Connect technology.
CURRENCY. Corporate Finance includes up-to-date discussions of the credit crisis, new research and examples of real-world challenges as they relate to the financial changes that have impacted the world.
REAL WORLD RELEVANCE. Each chapter begins with an Executive Summary featuring real company examples. In addition, the In Their Own Words boxes consisting of articles written by distinguished scholars or practitioners on key topics, are located throughout the chapters.
WEALTH OF PROBLEM MATERIAL. Corporate Finance offers rich examples and a wealth of problem material that challenges and engages students helping them to develop problem solving skills.
MINI-CASES. Located in most chapters, the Minicases apply what is learned in a number of chapters to a real-world scenario. After presenting the facts, the case gives students guidance in rationalizing a sound business decision.
STEP-BY-STEP EXAMPLES. Separate called-out examples are integrated throughout the chapters. Each example illustrates an intuitive or mathematical application in a step-by-step format. There is enough detail in the explanations that students don’t have to look elsewhere for additional information.
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