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The Wall Street MBA: Your Personal Crash Course in Corporate Finance
by Reuben Advani
from McGraw-Hill
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Excellent Book!!!! 
I liked the style of the author which is very down to earth. He discusses a lot of topics related to the Corporate Finances subject in a very practical and informal way. Even he tells a little about the reality of the "street knowledge" and "street disasters" of the past which I appreciate. Most of the time other books only answer the "what" question but do not answer the "why" question. The author goes into that detail which is critical to learn to make decisions in the real world. I found excellent... more info
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Well Written Introduction
Chapter 1 of this book is called Accounting Basics. It starts out:
Q: What's the definition of an accountant?
A: Someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand.
That sort of tells you the tone of the book.
From then on Chapter 1 is indeed on accounting. But he tries to put in enough humor to enable you to keep your eyes open. He reports on enough history (mostly of frauds), and enough of the real life options in accounting (what the tax man wants vs.... more info
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Excellent Resource
This book is an excellent resource for anyone wanting an intelligent but very readable (even entertaining, at times) presentation of finance principles from the simple to the complex. I am a corporate attorney for a Fortune 100 company, and I've already recommended this useful tool to a number of my colleagues.
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Rougher than one ply TP 
I ought this book hoping for just a tincy weency amount of enlightenment regarding finance. What I recieved was nothing short of a spectacular failure. I can honestly say that there is not even a remote possibility that you will learn anything from this 'novel' save the knowledge that there are some true nincompoops in this world.
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