Recommend me a good corp fin book
In college for my corp fin class I used essentials of corporate finance by Ross Westerfield Jordan (http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Corporate-Financ…) and it served me really well. I stupidly sold this book as soon as the class ended because I was strapped for cash. It's not that expensive on amazon and I plan on buying it because I need to revise for interviews but if someone here can recommend me something better I'll just buy that instead.
Thanks!!
My school uses Corporate Finance by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo. It's a pretty solid book, very detailed. I recommend it.
Agreed. Using it or a finance class right now.
I'm using the citigroup principles of corporate finance. Really basic, but i feel it does the job.
Brealey, Myers, Allen: Principles of Corporate Finance Hull: Options, futures and derivatives
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Hey Il Cavaliere, are you Italian?
The Pearl book is a great read for somebody new to valuation. http://www.amazon.com/Investment-Banking-Valuation-Leveraged-Acquisitio…
[quote=vanillathunder12]The Pearl book is a great read for somebody new to valuation. http://www.amazon.com/Investment-Banking-Valuation-Leveraged-Acquisitio…]
Amazing book bc of its practicality.
Vernimmen, Dallochio, Quiry: Corporate Finance Theory and Practice.
One of the most well written I've come across.
The Pearl Book is good, but it bores me to dealth and the templates kind of suck. I know it is way more expensive than the book, but I have to say that getting the excel/basic and advanced modeling courses for BIWS was one of the best decisions I ever made.
And BTW, here is a great site with all the free videos on finance you can ask for--it is basically NYU Stern's valuation and corp fin classes and all the materials, exams, quizzes, etc.
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/
Corporate Finance: A Valuation Approach by Simon Benninga ,Oded Sarig , looking for download link .
Intermediate Corp Fin Textbook (Originally Posted: 12/25/2009)
I'm looking for a well written, intermediate level corporate finance textbook. I used Eugene F. Brigham's Fundamental's of Financial Management, Concise 5th Edition, for my ugrad corporate finance class, but it was too elementary. I'm looking for one that would cover all the "traditional" topics - working capital, security valuation, WACC, Capital Budgeting - as well as M&A. I'd like to relearn some things, but on higher level than my ugrad text, as well as get a more thorough explaination of M&A (which modeling courses don't provide).
I found the Intermediate version of my undergrad text (link below) BUT all the reviews are bad. Anyone got a suggestion? Thanks. http://www.Amazon.com/Intermediate-Financial-Management-Thomson-ONE/dp/0324594690/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261765197&sr=8-1
I like the Principals of corporate finance by Ross, Westerfied and Jordan.
I found it to be awesome and it has all the things you're looking for. The new edition is pretty pricey at $208 but the previous edition can be picked up for $20 from Half.com.
^^ USe the above - good book - its used by most Corp Fin classes
Textbooks on corp finance - do you reommend them and should I get one (Originally Posted: 12/07/2006)
My school (a semi-target Liberal Arts) offers very few corp finance classes and I kind of want to learn more before I start my analyst gig. Is it a good idea to pick up a textbook and read up on valuation etc., or is it pointless? I m taking a pretty light load next semester so I will have plenty of time to party and have fun, and reading up some finance doesn't sound that bad of an idea. IS there anything you would recommend? Thanks in advance and good luck!
Not to be a total dick, but just fuckin' do it. What is some guy on a website telling you to "read a book" going to do? Just read it, learn the shit, know what a fuckin' WACC is and move on. The more you know, they better prepped you'll be to do a job. End of story.
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I most likely will. I was asking for recommendations.
Go to www.google.com, search "corporate finance valuation books", hit enter, click link, read reviews, purchase book.
Like a lot of people out here already know I assume, I think you'd like Aswath Damodaran's website ( http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/ ) as well as his pretty thorough book, "Investment Valuation: tools & techniques for determining the value of any asset" (Wiley Finance editions). This guy is NYU MBA corp fin guru.
This website is very useful as a student for finding info for case studies, such as WC / sales by industry, levered betas, and pretty much whatever you want. The book is also very useful for interview prep about DCF, relative valuation, etc... And it gives you a good idea on how to make reasonable valuation assumptions I think.
But it is a fairly "advanced" (though not a PhD rocket science book either). If you don't know much about corp fin, I reckon you could buy "corporate finance" ( Brealey / Myers / Allen, McGraw Hill editions ), used @ a number of top MBA schools, as an introduction.
I think they're helpful, especially Inv Valuation. And they're insightful & interesting readings anyway!
As The King puts it, and I seriously believe in that too, you'd better know your shit.
Go with Brealey / Myers or Jaffe. Used both in undergrad, they were useful.
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