Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 658.15 EAN: 9780324259681 ISBN: 0324259689 Label: South-Western College Pub Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1024 Publication Date: March 12, 2004 Publisher: South-Western College Pub Sales Rank: 97260 Studio: South-Western College Pub
Product DescriptionThis text remains the only text in the market that presents a balance of financial theory and applications. The authors maintain the same four goals as with the first edition: helping learners to make good financial decisions, providing a solid text for the introductory MBA course, motivating learners by demonstrating finance is relevant and interesting, and presenting the material clearly.
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Rating: - Definitely not for self study
The exercises could be improved upon. The book needs a good teacher/instructor in order to "come alive" - not a book for self-study. But then again, which Finance book is?
Rating: - Since New Edition is available - not used much now
although I got one in good shape. Did not get the CD i was promised.
Rating: - First, they should learn to write sentences!
This book falls into the category of professors who know the material, but just can't communicate it. I can tell it was written on a schedule...sloppy wording, confusing definitions, and unintuitive examples and explanations. This information isn't that tough to understand...poor writing makes it so.
Here's a paragraph defining WACC, p.11.
Financial managers also must make finance decisions relating to how to finance the firm. In particular, what mix of debt and equity should ... Read More
Rating: - finance student
I felt that the book was good. Some of the concepts could have been explained in better detail. I notice that on a lot of the chapters the authors repeated some of the material more than once. Some chapters need more practice problems like in chapter 5. This book explains the basic and fundamental concepts good but does not explained the difficult concepts good. Overall, this book was good.
Rating: - Not a good book to learn from
This book's explanations were poor at best. It utilized undefined terms, and had a weak glossary/index.
Explanations of financial formulas were sorely lacking, and the organization of these formulas so that one could ever find them wasn't even attempted.
- Definitely not for self study
- First, they should learn to write sentences!
