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Corporate Finance Demystified
by Troy Adair
from McGraw-Hill

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• A sometimes helpful supplement to other sources
  This book attempts to cover, more or less, the content of a typical introductory course in corporate/managerial finance. While the cover claims to "cover all key concepts of corporate finance" and that it contains "clear discussion of all the complex issues," it fails on both counts. Most, but not all, key concepts are covered, and due to the length of the book, many of the more complicated concepts only have a page or two devoted to them. The book assumes that one already has a basic knowledge of... more info

• Good Supplement but No Substitute
  I found the book to be worth the money as a supplement, but it did not replace the texbook for my class in corporate finance. Most helpful were the problems at the end of each chapter.

• Good for review of the topic
  I am reviewing Corporate Finance, which I first took a year ago, in preparation for an advanced course that I will soon take. This book is good for my purposes. It is concise and clear, yet still often takes the time to explain, elaborate, and interpret information. However, the presentation is a little bit too concise for an initial presentation, and there are some typos in the quizzes and examples--better proofreading is needed. If you're looking for a fuller explanation, I have found that the textbooks... more info

• MYSTIFIED not demystified
  I am a very experience small business person. I picked up this text to obtain an overview of more advanced corporate finance as a precursor to more intensive study. I found the text failed for my purposes.
  While the text is promoted as a self-teaching guide, this is not, in my opinion a beginner book. I ended chapters more confused than when I started (NOT due to the complexity of the material or my inability but due to the poor text). For example, there is no glossary to quickly look-up new terms as... more info

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