Customer Review: The book provides a good introduction to financial concepts. It clearly exlains, in a progressive fashion, the concepts that form the basis of financial analysis and pricing.
It would be a great book if it was slighly less expensive.
Customer Review: This book is a P.O.S. The explanations are poor and confusing, results of calculations are used with no reference to the formulas (which are discussed many chapters later), I frequently find myself referring to other works for clarity, even on subjects I know well. Profs use this piece of trash... more info
Customer Review: 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?
Customer Review: I used this textbook for one of my graduate level finance classes, and I just loved the book! It's very well-written, and covers all the basic premises of finance (PV, FV, etc), and then goes on to more advanced stuff (Equity and Fixed Income Valuation, etc). The textbook requires some knowledge of... more info
Customer Review: Practice problems are the best way to learn Financial Managment, and this book is useful because it not only gives the answers, but provides step-by-step solutions that walk you through the problem. HOWEVER, the sample problems are littered with editing mistakes which will waste you valuable... more info
