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 | | Corporate Finance (Irwin Series in Finance) (Irwin Series in Finance) by Stephen A. Ross, Randolphw. Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe ISBN-10: 9780256152296 ISBN-10: 0-256-15229-2 ISBN-13: 9780256152296 ISBN-13: 978-0-256-15229-6 Hardcover 1996-01 Richard D Irwin Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description This leading Corporate Finance text is designed for the first course at the MBA level but is certainly used at many undergraduate programs as well. CORPORATE FINANCE emphasizes the modern fundamentals of the theory of finance. The authors make the theory come to life through the use of contemporary examples, clarity of exposition, and a balanced presentation of theory and practice. The authors consistently use the intuitions of arbitrage, net present value, efficient markets and options throughout the text. The goal of this text is to present corporate finance as the working of a small number of integrated and powerful intuitions. | ||
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Excellent I read a number of books in corporate finance and investments; this book is one of the best. It is more comprehensive than most other corporate finance books. It explains the concepts of finance in a rigorous, but very intuitive way. The explanations are much better than other books I have read. This book will definitely give the reader a solid background in the subject. | ||
Breadth, not depth My take on this text is a little different. I used it in my undergrad intro to corporate finance class, but I didn't find the book too difficult. In fact, I found it too easy. The examples given are all extremely simple and the practice problems are too easy to be good practice for exams. My professor's lecture notes were a far better overview of corporate finance. I think the book is good for looking up a term you've never heard of before, but it skims over everything so you'll never really master the material. Another reviewer said he or she only covered five chapters. My experience was quite different, as my course covered chapters 1-18. Interestingly, some of my classmates have taken Jaffe, one of the text's authors, for introductory corporate finance, and say he was a very dull professor who just pulled out examples from the text for his lectures. | ||
2 types of readers From the reviews posted here, it's clear we have 2 types of reviewers: disgruntled undergrads and pompous grad students (probably at the MBA level from the looks of it). Let's be honest. This is a challenging book. If you are serious about finance, the book will reward you many times over. That I can pretty much guarantee. If you are in finance as part of a cirriculum requirement, this book may become your nemesis. This author finds the book to be comprehensive. | ||
not a good textbook :( this book wastes alot of pages just for margin. not an easy to read book. the whole semester, we only covered 5 chaps, alot of material is not useful for undergraduates. | ||
Great intro finance class textbook I used this book for my undergrad introductory corporate finance class and the structure of the book is just great. The early chapters does a superb job getting across the basics of finance (NPV, IRR), while the later ones give a general look at more complex issues such as dividend policy and corp fin for M&A. | ||