Proven Pedagogical Framework
We have developed several distinctive features throughout the book to aid student learning. The pedagogical features included in our text are as follows:
• END-OF-CHAPTER ETHICS CASES
Ethics is an important topic in finance and this text addresses ethical issues in several ways. In Chapter 1, we introduce a framework for consideration of ethical issues in corporate finance. Many ethical issues can be analyzed in the context of informational asymmetry between parties to a transaction, conflicts of interest, breaches of confidentiality, and breaches of fiduciary duty (principal-agent relationships); we highlight examples of such analyses throughout the text. In addition, six ethics cases are included throughout this book in order to help students better understand how to analyze ethical dilemmas in the context of the framework. Real company examples are presented, including timeless cases about Arthur Anderson and Martha Stewart's scandal involving ImClone, and more timely topics such as the subprime mortgage crisis and the advent of sustainable living ...
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