Randolph W. Westerfield is Dean Emeritus of the University of Southern Californias Marshall School of Business and is the Charles B. Thornton Professor of Finance Emeritus. Professor Westerfield came to USC from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was the chairman of the finance department and member of the finance faculty for 20 years. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Oaktree Capital Mutual Funds. His areas of expertise include corporate financial policy, investment management, and stock market price behavior. Bradford D. Jordan is Visiting Scholar at the University of Florida. He previously held the duPont Endowed Chair in Banking and Financial Services at the University of Kentucky, where he was department chair for many years. He specializes in corporate finance and securities valuation. He has published numerous articles in leading finance journals, and he has received a variety of research awards, including the Fama/DFA Award in 2010.Dr. Jordan is coauthor of Corporate Finance 13e, Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications 7e, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 13e, and Essentials of Corporate Finance 1le, which collectively are the most widely used business finance textbooks in the world, along with Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management 10e, a popular investments text.