Hi Everyone,
I was just wondering if there are really any key differences between the Investment Banking book (Pearl) and the Focus Notes the authors created? Are the notes just more to the point and tell you how things are done, while excluding the reasoning behind it?
Is it better to just go through the focus notes and have them on deck all the time just to refer to?
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